{"id":97607,"date":"2019-10-19T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/can-scientists-reverse-time-with-a-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2019-10-19T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:22:44","slug":"can-scientists-reverse-time-with-a-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/can-scientists-reverse-time-with-a-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Can scientists reverse time with a quantum computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-scientists-reverse-time-with-a-quantum-computer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is getting messy. Like a glass shattering to pieces or a single wave crashing onto the shore, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/08\/24\/the-arrow-of-time-still-a-puzzle\/#.XIkk_hNKhTY\">universe\u2019s messiness can only move in one direction<\/a> \u2013 toward more chaos and disorder. But scientists think that, at least for a single electron or the simplest quantum computer, they may be able to turn back time, and restore order to chaos. This doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ll be visiting with dinosaurs or Napoleon any time soon, but for physicists, the idea that time can run backward at all is still a pretty big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the universe\u2019s trend toward disorder is a fundamental law: the second law of thermodynamics. It says more formally that any system can only move from more to less ordered, and that the chaos or disorder of a system \u2013 its entropy \u2013 can never decrease. But an international team of scientists led by researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology think they may have discovered a loophole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is getting messy. Like a glass shattering to pieces or a single wave crashing onto the shore, the universe\u2019s messiness can only move in one direction \u2013 toward more chaos and disorder. But scientists think that, at least for a single electron or the simplest quantum computer, they may be able to turn [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1496,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-law","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97607","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}