{"id":206373,"date":"2025-02-13T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/physicists-uncover-evidence-of-two-arrows-of-time-emerging-from-the-quantum-realm"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:09:14","slug":"physicists-uncover-evidence-of-two-arrows-of-time-emerging-from-the-quantum-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/physicists-uncover-evidence-of-two-arrows-of-time-emerging-from-the-quantum-realm","title":{"rendered":"Physicists uncover evidence of two arrows of time emerging from the quantum realm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-uncover-evidence-of-two-arrows-of-time-emerging-from-the-quantum-realm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction\u2014from past to future\u2014time could flow forward or backwards due to processes taking place at the quantum level. This is the thought-provoking discovery made by researchers at the University of Surrey, as a new study reveals that opposing arrows of time can theoretically emerge from certain quantum systems.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, scientists have puzzled over the arrow of time\u2014the idea that time flows irreversibly from past to future. While this seems obvious in our experienced reality, the underlying laws of physics do not inherently favor a single direction. Whether time moves forward or backwards, the equations remain the same.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Andrea Rocco, Associate Professor in Physics and Mathematical Biology at the University of Surrey and lead author of the study, said, One way to explain this is when you look at a process like spilled milk spreading across a table, it\u2019s clear that time is moving forward. But if you were to play that in reverse, like a movie, you\u2019d immediately know something was wrong\u2014it would be hard to believe milk could just gather back into a glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction\u2014from past to future\u2014time could flow forward or backwards due to processes taking place at the quantum level. This is the thought-provoking discovery made by researchers at the University of Surrey, as a new study reveals that opposing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206373","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}