{"id":90713,"date":"2019-05-14T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/researchers-successfully-sent-a-simulated-elementary-particle-back-in-time"},"modified":"2019-05-14T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:42:26","slug":"researchers-successfully-sent-a-simulated-elementary-particle-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/researchers-successfully-sent-a-simulated-elementary-particle-back-in-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers successfully sent a simulated elementary particle back in time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-successfully-sent-a-simulated-elementary-particle-back-in-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results are fascinating and spur the imagination, but don\u2019t start investing in flux capacitors yet. This experiment also shows us that sending even a simulated particle back in time requires serious outside manipulation. To create such an external force to manipulate even one physical particle\u2019s quantum waves is well beyond our abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demonstrate that time-reversing even ONE quantum particle is an unsurmountable task for nature alone,\u201d study author Vinokur wrote to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/08\/science\/quantum-physics-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the <em>New York Times<\/em> in an email<\/a> [emphasis original]. \u201cThe system comprising two particles is even more irreversible, let alone the eggs \u2014 comprising billions of particles \u2014 we break to prepare an omelet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/03\/190314092802.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release from the Department of Energy<\/a> notes that for the \u201ctimeline required for [an external force] to spontaneously appear and properly manipulate the quantum waves\u201d to appear in nature and unscramble an egg \u201cwould extend longer than that of the universe itself.\u201d In other words, this technology remains bound to quantum computation. Subatomic spas that literally turn back the clock aren\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/surprising-science\/particle-time-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are fascinating and spur the imagination, but don\u2019t start investing in flux capacitors yet. This experiment also shows us that sending even a simulated particle back in time requires serious outside manipulation. To create such an external force to manipulate even one physical particle\u2019s quantum waves is well beyond our abilities. \u201cWe demonstrate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90713","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}