Short Story 93: Procreation

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 07 Oct 2014, 21:06 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:06:56 -0700
Subject: (urth) Short Story 93: Procreation
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Wherever the interview is, Wolfe is quite correct; in quantum mechanics a
particle travelling in one direction in time is the same thing as its
antiparticle travelling in the other direction in time. In the QM universe,
time's arrow seems not to apply...any given event can happen in either
direction. But decoherence gives us a meaningful entropy and so a
unidirectional time...

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wolfe makes the same statement in Seven American Nights about the
> forward/backward temporal nature of protons and electrons but I think the
> interview is cited at the bottom of that write up... Will check.
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 7, 2014, Robert Pirkola <rpirkola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Marc Aramini wrote: "Gott?s science would be particularly interesting to
>> Wolfe, because he explores the possibility of time travel, and even states
>> in an interview: 'Certainly in the subatomic world, particles called
>> positrons look like they might actually be electrons traveling backward in
>> time.'"
>>
>> What interview are you quoting from?
>>
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