How Time Can Run Backwards ✎ express
We’re used to time flowing only forward. But quantum laws let it become like a coin showing heads and tails at once.
Take a particle with its own spin — its intrinsic rotation. In a magnetic field, it spins like a top. Send this particle through a device where two opposing magnetic flows fight each other — and it will start moving into the future and the past at the same time.
This trick isn’t just mental play. The Dirac equation , which describes an electron, originally linked [tag:spacetime_curvature]spacetime with the particle’s internal rotation. Look at it differently — and it becomes clear: matter and antimatter are just the ‘heads’ and ‘tails’ of the arrow of time on an invisible sphere. What’s more, scientists are preparing a test where ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’ become quantum entangled. In one of the probable branches of reality, a broken cup will glue itself back together — we just rarely peek at that side.
If you picture time as a quantum coin, then in one of the realities, a broken cup really does reassemble — we just never see that side.
This quantum game with time is reminiscent of ‘Tenet’: there, characters used the reverse flow of seconds, and here, nature itself may live in both directions at once.