{"id":160255,"date":"2023-03-14T12:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/time-reflections-finally-observed-by-physicists-after-decades-of-searching"},"modified":"2023-03-14T12:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:22:18","slug":"time-reflections-finally-observed-by-physicists-after-decades-of-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/time-reflections-finally-observed-by-physicists-after-decades-of-searching","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time Reflections\u2019 Finally Observed by Physicists After Decades of Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-reflections-finally-observed-by-physicists-after-decades-of-searching2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walk through a maze of mirrors, you\u2019ll soon come face to face with yourself. Your nose meets your nose, your fingertips touch at their phantom twins, stopped abruptly by a boundary of glass.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, a reflection needs no explanation. The collision of light with the mirror\u2019s surface is almost intuitive, its rays set on a new path through space with the same ease as a ball bouncing off a wall.<\/p>\n<p>For over <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/TMTT.1958.1124533\">sixty years<\/a>, however, physicists have considered a subtly different kind of reflection. One that occurs not through the three dimensions of space, but in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk through a maze of mirrors, you\u2019ll soon come face to face with yourself. Your nose meets your nose, your fingertips touch at their phantom twins, stopped abruptly by a boundary of glass. Most of the time, a reflection needs no explanation. The collision of light with the mirror\u2019s surface is almost intuitive, its rays [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}