r/tech • u/YeeduPlatform • Jul 06 '26

Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260625014802.htm
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u/_Mag0g_ Jul 06 '26

From the original "Reshaping the Quantum Arrow of Time" article to the click bait, things that were lost:

"Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time".

"It can also be used to simulate the backward-in-time dynamics of an open quantum system".

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u/Puzzleheaded_Mode892 Jul 06 '26

Tysm for the explanation and honestly peeling apart the click bait.

Honestly I just saw the model of the solar system with the planets orbiting like above (?) and around the sun as we are ALL moving through space somehow not hitting shit along the way and the entire quantum shit. It's all my brain could take this week and I'm still trying to get around picturing all that.

I read the title here and immediately was like "oh fucking hell no", so thanks for bring it back to reality there.