{"id":16991,"date":"2014-04-26T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16991"},"modified":"2014-04-26T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T11:47:03","slug":"new-quantum-theory-could-explain-the-flow-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/04\/26\/new-quantum-theory-could-explain-the-flow-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wired<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Wired.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/04\/quantum-theory-flow-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, physicists are unmasking a more fundamental source for the arrow of time: Energy disperses and objects equilibrate, they say, because of the way elementary particles become intertwined when they interact \u2014 a strange effect called \u201cquantum entanglement.\u201d<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s really going on is things are becoming more correlated with each other,\u201d Lloyd recalls realizing. \u201cThe arrow of time is an arrow of increasing correlations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea, presented in his 1988 doctoral thesis, fell on deaf ears. When he submitted it to a journal, he was told that there was \u201cno physics in this paper.\u201d Quantum information theory \u201cwas profoundly unpopular\u201d at the time, Lloyd said, and questions about time\u2019s arrow \u201cwere for crackpots and Nobel laureates who have gone soft in the head.\u201d he remembers one physicist telling him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was darn close to driving a taxicab,\u201d Lloyd said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have read books about quantum entanglement, and I still struggle with some aspects of the idea. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I did drive a taxicab for a week while I was suffering from Sophomore slump during my MIT career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has the article New Quantum Theory Could Explain the Flow of Time. Now, physicists are unmasking a more fundamental source for the arrow of time: Energy disperses and objects equilibrate, they say, because of the way elementary particles become intertwined when they interact \u2014 a strange effect called \u201cquantum entanglement.\u201d . . . \u201cWhat\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16993,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16991\/revisions\/16993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}