Teleportation in Time
One of the spookiest phenomenon of the quantum world is entanglement, where two particles can become so deeply linked that they share the same fate—the behaviour of one immediately influences the other, even if they’re separated in space. Quantum entanglement has helped create uncrackable codes, build ultrafast computers and transmit huge amounts of information using only a few atoms—and now, Jay Olson and Timothy Ralph at the University of Queensland, Australia, have mathematically described how entanglement could bind particles not only through space, but also through time. It isn’t yet clear how it can be tested, but it’s a strangely intuitive conclusion. The idea originated from a simplified view of the universe, consisting of one dimension of space (x-axis) and one dimension of time (t-axis), where there are points of symmetry in the past and future, and for a quantum “message” to be sent, the particle must be symmetric in time. For this reason, the process is called “teleportation in time.” Olson says that “it’s not time travel as you would ordinarily think of it, where it’s like, poof! you’re in the future—but you get to skip the intervening time.”
I cannot tell you how much I dig quantum entanglement as a phenomenon. It makes my science brain go wild, my inner romantic swoon, and the part of me that wishes to be a god leap for joy with hopefulness.