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...
Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel: Daniel M. Greenberger and Karl Svozil, arXiv:quant-ph/0506027v2D. M. Greenberger, K. Svozil, Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel. Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?, Eds. Elitzur, A., Dolev, S. & Kolenda, N., Springer Verlag, Berlin (2005)....
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....
Then try this one on for size. 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 on...
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...
application of agreed and tested principles of quantum mechanics and relativity, falsification will have implications for those principles. Confirmation will have implications for attosecond physics, quantum computing and communications, and quantum gravity....
• The oversized magenta bear on Quantum’s top deck has been named Felicia by the crew. At a travel agent forum, one agent said she doesn’t know how to explain it to clients and wondered why it was there. “Why not?” Fain replied. “The bear is a little bit ridiculous and cer...
It is a computing technique based on the principles of quantum mechanics; characterized by the phenomena like — superposition, entanglement, interference, multiverse, tunneling, etc. It further establishes that a quantum computer stores, transmits and processes the information encoded in a system utili...