Here’s our best explanation of John Clauser, Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger’s Nobel-winning discovery — If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Yes but not the kind of sound you anticipate. In fact it can, and probably will, be something entirely different. A heady concept to be certain, and Daniel Garisto lays out the rest of those details where devils like to live. In keeping with deep questions, Why Does Time Go Forwards Not Backwards? Many large-scale actions seem normal and intuitive, something rolling downhill and hot things cooling down, but getting a close look at infinitesimally small levels there really is no difference. But what about time, a concept seemingly abstract which reigns over the physical world? Martha Henriques speaks with some of the top experts on the arrow of time who explain why time is such a weird, wibbly-wobbly concept. For others, time is far more concrete. For example People With Calendar Synaesthesia Can Literally See Time. While it may be a mere shadow of how Doctor Manhattan and Doctor Who perceive time, it’s a remarkably weird superpower to present. Taking advantage of my bully pulpit at The Anomalist, dig this flashback episode of The Hidden Brain where Shankar Vedantam talks with linguist Lera Boroditsky about how the passage of time tends to align with the direction of one’s writing. Such a concept begs the question, how do speakers of Guugu Yimithirr perceive movement through time? (CS)
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