Since you first started learning about the world, you’ve known that cause leads to effect. Everything that’s ever happened to or near you has reiterated this point, making it seem like a fundamental ...

Does time have a direction? You’d think so. When you pour cream into coffee, it swirls around and paints your cup o’ joe a lighter brown—the cream doesn’t tend to funnel itself out of your coffee and ...

Could something in the future alter the past, so that effect came before cause? Does quantum mechanics truly allow this, as ...

(Phys.org)—Although there are many counterintuitive ideas in quantum theory, the idea that influences can travel backwards in time (from the future to the past) is generally not one of them. However, ...

In grammar, we learn about the past, present, and future tenses from an early age. This shapes our understanding of time as a one-way arrow. Eggs break, but don’t un-break; we grow older, but never ...

Science is stranger than sci-fi is proven again as an idea to explain some core concepts of quantum mechanics, is leading to a theory of the future affecting the past writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. A ...

In the quantum world, our intuitive grasp of past, present and future may not apply. Richard Fisher explores the discombobulating concepts of "negative time" and "retrocausality". Tony Soprano is ...

Huw Price has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. Ken Wharton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...

The early morning winter mist only enhances the mystical ambience that envelops the atmosphere on my morning walk up the hill. Silhouettes of trees and the visible landscape are bathed in the serene ...

In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the universe works. Many look at those ...