'Time Reflections' Finally Observed by Physicists After Decades of Searching

Science Alert ^ | 14 March 2023 | By MIKE MCRAE

[Red Badger]

Time Ping!.......................

[al baby]

By the way the clock in my truck is correct again in 6 months or so it will be an hour off again

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s about time.

[Red Badger]

[Jewbacca]

Soon to be called racist.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It’s about time.

There's a blast from the past.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6JcXMqYBv0

[Wuli]

Yes, at the extremely super super low energy level of quantum-level events, “time reflections” can be observed, but much of what happens at the quantum level remains at the quantum level.

Quit looking for a time machine. You are not a quantum level entity.

[Red Badger]

Just gotta get that ‘Flux Capacitor’ thingy working....................

[tet68]

“Our experiment shows that it is possible to add time interfaces into the mix, extending the degrees of freedom to manipulate waves.”

No worries, the government will soon put a stop to any
extended freedom. It’s probably some kind of
threat to Our Democracy.

[Az Joe]

A time machine will and can never be invented. I know this because no one from the future has ever come back here.

[Red Badger]

Why would they want to?.........................

[lefty-lie-spy]

This article leaves out WAY too much information to be useable. It mentions “reflections” in space, which take time to propagate, but doesn’t say anything about reflections in time. Much theoretical science is extremely complicated and unintuitive, but it’s even more useless to non scientists when “science writers” try to distill it. I get the concept, but this article does it no justice. That said, I also won’t understand the theoretical analysis of the original paper anyway, but I suspect it’s just an “observation” that seems to maybe lead to another related thing and helps the eggheads publish stuff. I’ll wait for the practical application.

[Az Joe]

Mere, overwhelming curiosity

[aquila48]

I read the whole thing and have no idea of what I read.

[Boogieman]

“Change the medium a wave is traveling through quickly enough, in just the right way, and the temporal component of the wave will change with it.”

I guess it makes sense, because if an EM wave is moving through a vacuum, it essentially has no time component. Only when it travels through a medium does it slow down enough for that to happen.

[TangoLimaSierra]

I read the whole thing and have no idea of what I read.

Well, I read only half before I realized I had no idea of what I read.

I must be smarter than you.

[aquila48]

“I must be smarter than you.”

LOL. You probably are. Or maybe just less of an optimist.

I kept thinking, maybe if I read a bit more I’ll find out what it’s all about. Given how awfully written most science article are nowdays, I should have known better.

On the plus side, there was no obligatory mention of the “climate emergency” or “social justice” or “pronouns”.