The Future of… 7 – Thoughts on Time
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Future of…
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/06/15
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Jacobsen: Maybe, we’ve been thinking about time the wrong way then.
Rosner: How are you thinking about time?
Jacobsen: When we take time, we take a number line with integers, so you can go positive and negative. In Newtonian Mechanics, or Classical Mechanics, you can go backwards or forwards and it won’t make a difference. You’re at T=0, and can move from there.
In quantum mechanics, there is a different backwards if you go forwards or backwards. Maybe, the proper representation is sets of paths where even the past is another possible path.
Rosner: Yea! Okay, I think that’s the right way to think about it.
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