The possibility of transgressing the linearity of time has been a fundamental issue of science fiction and other classes of literature, where you dream of returning to an event to change it or take a look at what the future brings. But recently something strange happened that overcame fantasies, scientists detected for the first time in history the negative time, which goes from the future towards the past.
The desire to alter the course of time
One of many people’s great wishes is to alter the course of timebecause there are times when it would be preferable to happen quickly, while in others it would be much better than its passage was as slow as possible. Unfortunately, or fortunately, this has been impossible until now, and all the events of yesterday remain there, immovable, and the future is uncertain.
That yearning has generated books and films that explore the possibilities offered by hypothetical temporal alteration that would allow the story of the story to be fixed or prepared for the situations that are yet to come. But there is still hope, because researchers made an interesting finding, for the first time detected in history the negative time, which goes from the future towards the past.
The mystery of negative time detection
The detection of negative time could revolutionize the way that important physical magnitude is conceived. This finding was made by a team of researchers from the University of Toronto through a -based experiment Quantum mechanics, which highlighted a strange behavior by certain particles At the subatomic level, which was far from being something that could be expected from them.
The trial consisted of subjecting a cloud of Rubidio atoms, previously cooled up to a temperature close to 0 ° C with the purpose of highlighting their quantum characteristics, to the action of the photons. When performing the test in these cold conditions, what is sought is that the movement of the light particles is slowed, in what is called a temporary delay, but what they observed was unexpected.
For what they wanted to study was how long the cloud of atoms took to absorb and expel the photons, but instead, they found that, instead of happening in that way, the phenomenon was carried out in reverse, the corpuscles of light were expelled outward and subsequently entered. This way of acting could be interpreted as an investment of the normal temporal line.
This is not intended to say that it is possible to make trips to the past or the future (as they say with these scars of the universe), but that it is one of those strange things that happen With quantum mechanics, which are usually totally different from what is usually expected according to the normal parameters of physics. The negative time of this experiment has created many questions, so you need to continue in study.
This research offers unknowns and new possibilities
The study that allowed to detect the negative time opens a great field of research to understand how it is possible that a phenomenon occurs with those characteristics at the quantum level. On the other hand, too offers great possibilities for the development of new technologies such as quantum computingwhich has the potential to provide solutions to numerous problems of high complexity.
In conclusion, a team of researchers conducted a quantum mechanics experiment that gave an unexpected result, because they were going to determine the time between the entrance and expulsion of some photons from an atomic cloud. But they found that the light corpuscles were expelled and then entered, thus achieving the detection of negative time (as happened with the discovery of tachyion).
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