Time may be an illusion created by quantum entanglement

Where does time come from?

Quality Stock / Alamy

Time may not be a fundamental element of our physical reality. New calculations add credence to the idea that it emerges from quantum entanglement, in which two objects are so inextricably linked that disturbing one disrupts the other, no matter how distant they are.

“For centuries, time has entered physics as an essential ingredient that is not to be questioned. It is so deeply rooted in our conception of reality that people thought that a definition of time was not…

Sign up to our weekly newsletter

Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!
We’ll also keep you up to date with New Scientist
events and special offers.

Sign up

Note: This article have been indexed to our site. We do not claim legitimacy, ownership or copyright of any of the content above. To see the article at original source Click Here

Related Posts
Mysteries of Stephen Hawking's doodle-filled blackboard may finally be solved thumbnail

Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s doodle-filled blackboard may finally be solved

Home News Hawking's blackboard is filled with doodles, in-jokes and half-finished equations scrawled by friends and fellow physicists in 1980. (Image credit: Isidora Bojovic/Science Museum Group)A new museum exhibit hopes to uncover the secrets behind the doodles, in-jokes and coded messages on a blackboard that legendary physicist Stephen Hawking kept untouched for more than 35…
Read More
Why You Should Film Yourself Cleaning, According to Reddit thumbnail

Why You Should Film Yourself Cleaning, According to Reddit

If you’re struggling to find the motivation to clean your home, you can turn to specific methods, inspiration, and checklists—or you can look within yourself. Well, maybe not within yourself, but at yourself. One Redditor suggests filming a time-lapse of yourself as you go, and here’s why. “It can be very satisfying and motivational to watch
Read More
How to Go Live on Instagram thumbnail

How to Go Live on Instagram

With Instagram’s Go Live option, you can start a video broadcast of yourself and let people on this platform watch and interact with it. We’ll show you how to do this on your iPhone, iPad, and Android phone. When you go live, Instagram notifies some of your followers so they can watch your broadcast. They…
Read More
Fish fertilize corals and seagrasses, but not the way you think thumbnail

Fish fertilize corals and seagrasses, but not the way you think

Credit: Sean Mattson Fish are like underwater gardeners, fertilizing the coral reefs, kelp forests and seagrasses where they reside. Their fertilizer of choice—their own pee. But, fish communities are facing many changes. Warming oceans mean tropical fish can venture into areas they couldn't before when the waters were cooler. And then there are the human…
Read More
Examining how animal swarms respond to threats thumbnail

Examining how animal swarms respond to threats

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A herd of antelope feeds peacefully on a meadow. Suddenly, a lion shows up, and the herd flees. But how do they manage to do so collectively? Konstanz physicist Chun-Jen Chen and Professor Clemens Bechinger, a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior," asked themselves…
Read More
How Mars lost its oceans thumbnail

How Mars lost its oceans

It has long been known that Mars once had oceans due in part to a protective magnetic field similar to Earth's. However, the magnetic field disappeared, and new research may finally be able to explain why. Researchers recreated conditions expected in the core of Mars billions of years ago and found that the behavior of…
Read More
Index Of News
Total
0
Share