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How Time Can Run Backwards ⚡ экспресс

Original: "The time qubit"
· Yakov Bloch
arXiv:2511.07220 · 2025-11-10 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics
In the quantum world, the arrow of time behaves like a coin: it can land on heads and tails at the same time.
Abstract

Quantum systems can exist in a superposition of evolving forward and backward in time. A spin in a magnetic field (a quantum clock) can behave this way. This is realized in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with opposite fields: interference of forward and backward paths emerges. Bell-like tests of temporal coherence become possible. In relativistic Dirac theory, time behaves as a qubit, and particles and antiparticles as poles of a temporal Bloch sphere.

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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 is rigorous math: time uncertainty follows the same rules as bits in a quantum computer.

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.

Scientists
Emmy NoetherJacob BekensteinStephen HawkingLudwig BoltzmannAlbert EinsteinRobert H. Dicke
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entropy spacetime curvature Standard Model
Laws
second law of thermodynamicsNoether's theoremBekenstein-Hawking entropyBoltzmann distributionfirst law of thermodynamicsequivalence principle
Original: arXiv:2511.07220 · CC BY · bridge42worlds