Physicists find evidence of "negative time" in photons

thought of this in response (roomtemp superconducter);

A number of studies found that copper(I) sulfide contamination common to the synthesis process could closely replicate the observations that inspired the initial preprints

pretty generous phrasing there…“inspired”.

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is that you, stoklasa?

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I for one would welcome the discovery of blutachyons and postitons.

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Finally, TENET makes sense!

reverse-explosion-tenet

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Nonsense. What you want is to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

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All of them, but especially the one from Denver.

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Yeah, that’s never going to happen.

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You’re right. TENET will never make sense.

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If you can’t beat 'em, confuse 'em.

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Wait, since photons are traveling the speed of light, doesn’t that mean the NO time passes for them? So no passage of time either positive or negative. Of course quantum mechanics gets even stranger than usual when you try to mix it with relativistic effects so who knows?

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For what it is worth, this is referring to time as measured by an outside observer, not the photons themselves. Though do note the constant you are thinking about is the speed of light in vacuum – in media light slows down depending on their refractive index.

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Am I the only one giddy about this being the key to unlocking warp drive?

My wife watching Memento, “I’m so confused.”
Me watching Tenet, “Where the hell are the Advil?”

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My understanding is that a warp drive likely would involve generating a gravitational field powerful enough to bend space in front of and behind a space ship. Basically making an artificial black hole, and if such a thing was ever to be built we’ll likely be long dead :stuck_out_tongue:

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Time traveling particles? Kewl! Said the ghost of Werner Heisenberg.

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Well, if this phenomenon can be reproduced and scaled, could it be exploited to induce a vehicle surface local event horizon? Sure this is uninformed dreaming, but my understanding of Relativity as it runs into asymptotes at event horizons makes this phenomenon look like it might be able to press us into a regime in which the conditions that support Relativity are no longer valid, and therefore exploitable to get around the Relativity imposed limits.

newton watching GIF

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