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in which he showed that closed time loops are consistent with quantum mechanics. This sounds like it means time travel is no problem, but there’s a catch. Deutsch’s proposition relies on superposition, which you’ve already heard about in that piece on the quantum retcon. But what this ...
Well, with that tried and tested movie plot device: time travel. Plus a surprising amount of scientific jargon thrown in, including quantum mechanics, Deutsch propositions, eigenvalues and inverted Möbius strips. But don’t think that everything you hear during the movie was crea...
Same idea with Many Worlds. You just keep using the physical laws we know about, and you end up with the MWI. Other interpretations of quantum mechanics tend to need a lot of very weird physical laws that violate other, well-established laws....
Another interpretation of quantum mechanics is Hugh Everett’s many worlds hypothesis, which posits that everything that could happen has and does, in an infinite number of universes. Every time you make a decision, the universe splits in two, with you in one branch and an alternative you ...
the famous double-slit experiment, which demonstrated that a single electron could travel in two paths and create an interference pattern with itself. This experiment validated the wave/particle duality concept, a key concept in quantum mechanics that will also play an important role in this review...
“We found that the notion of chaos in classical physics and in quantum mechanics must be understood differently,” says Sinitsyn. If we want to take these findings to their logical conclusion, the argument could be made thatBack to the Futurerepresents time travel through classical physics, whil...
While there are ways to give position and momentum a meaning in terms of operators on (rigged) Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics, this cannot be carried over to time and energy. This was concerning to researchers in quantum mechanics early on, as the time-energy uncertainty relations proved ...
While there are ways to give position and momentum a meaning in terms of operators on (rigged) Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics, this cannot be carried over to time and energy. This was concerning to researchers in quantum mechanics early on, as the time-energy uncertainty relations proved ...
quantum mechanicsPrimer by Shane Carruth Two friends, who perform scientific experiments as a hobby, accidentally discover a means of time travel. If anybody has read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, you will know the workings of the Time Traveller’s time machine is never properly technically...