{"id":197000,"date":"2024-10-04T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment"},"modified":"2024-10-04T01:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T06:23:59","slug":"evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of \u2018Negative Time\u2019 Found in Quantum Physics Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evidence-of-negative-time-found-in-quantum-physics-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/manon-bischoff\/\">Manon Bischoff<\/a> &amp; <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/jeanna-bryner\/\">Jeanna Bryner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum physicists are familiar with wonky, seemingly nonsensical phenomena: atoms and molecules sometimes act as particles, sometimes as waves; particles can be connected to one another by a \u201cspooky action at a distance,\u201d even over great distances; and quantum objects can detach themselves from their properties like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/a-new-quantum-cheshire-cat-thought-experiment-is-out-of-the-box\/\">Cheshire Cat from <i>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/i><\/a> detaches itself from its grin. Now researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have revealed another oddball quantum outcome: photons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/light-is-how-astronomers-read-the-story-of-the-universe\/\">wave-particles of light<\/a>, can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of chilled atoms. In other words, photons can seem to exit a material before entering it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time. By Manon Bischoff &amp; Jeanna Bryner Quantum physicists are familiar with wonky, seemingly nonsensical phenomena: atoms and molecules sometimes act as particles, sometimes as waves; particles can be connected to one another by a \u201cspooky action [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197000","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}