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#ScientificAmerican: In the Quantum Realm, Time’s Arrow Might Fly in Two Directions.
❛❛ the researchers’ work suggests that two time’s arrows, rather than one, are a spontaneous feature of an open #quantum system.
The new work adds to some interesting questions about what #physicists deem relevant in their #studies of #time. ❜❜
https://www.ScientificAmerican.com/article/does-time-work-differently-in-the-quantum-realm/ 2025 Feb 27 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
@KronoMoon Interesting. It feels like a lot of this boils down to the way we do maths. "The numbers say", "the mathematics suggests".
We could be getting a false impression simply because of the way we understand numbers.
Another alien race might have a science built on irrational numbers being the focus, rather than whole numbers, simply because there are so many more of them. Or imaginary numbers, or something we've never thought of. Time might look totally different.
@KronoMoon Two positive numbers multiplied give a positive number result. Two negative numbers multiplied also give a positive result. I wonder if that gives an inherent bias in one direction to our science that might not exist if we didn't all first learn, and tend to think with, whole numbers and simple fractions being the basic building block of our models.
@KronoMoon The quantum universe, modelled with an avoidance of simple numbers and a preference for irrational ones as being more nuanced and complex could yield wildly different insights to a mind tuned to read it!
The laws of physics themselves could look very different to that mind. Particularly things like time.
@TeeCeeGee
There's been a debate for decades between quantum physicists and a smaller number of quantum philosophers like David Albert — we've shared a couple of his youtubes recently.
There is pressure on students to *not* try to actually visualize what is actually happening (because it's impossible?) but to focus on the numbers. Measurements & predictions.
Gaps and disagreements in the knowledge are common. This gives us hope that Time Travel could be a real thing, until proven otherwise.
@KronoMoon I can totally understand that approach, as it prevents the picturing of quantum components as tiny, classical objects, which they definitely aren't, as that leads to enormous difficulties in understanding. But I worry that it creates vast blind spots in the process. Our potential to understand becomes constrained by our mathematics in more ways than we realise.
@KronoMoon We're all waiting for the next paradigm shift in physics. Einstein's was a new perspective on the numbers we had. I think the next one might be a new perspective on numbers themselves.