[SmashMonkey]

Remember one of the Granite Hunter documents about the Vishnans' ability to interact with their past timestream?

Apparently there's some real world basis for it: "Physicists Demonstrate How Time Can Seem To Run Backward, and the Future Can Affect the Past"

[General Battuta]

What an interesting devalopment.

[qwadtep]

Causality is really tricky because you can't observe it directly, only by correlating events with other time-irreversible phenomena. It's entirely possible that cause and effect can occur in reverse, or even simultaneously, but I'd caution against forming any particular conclusions unless you have a doctorate in the field.

What an interesting devalopment.

It's quite a brahmatic revelation, isn't it?

[Cyborg17]

I just don't see away around it.  If they have managed to do what they claim, then, logically, what other result can you come to?  I'm just glad this seems to have some consistency with quantum entanglement. 

Perhaps this is the next step to see more fundamental truths about the universe.  We need a good way to explain the fact that quantum mechanics seem to work without causality.

[Klaustrophobia]

The article seems quite lengthy, and it's late for me.  Maybe tomorrow someone can tell me if it's worth reading, or yet another case of journalist sensationalism grossly overstating, misunderstanding, or misrepresenting science.

[Celendil]

It's worth reading, and not only is the result of the experiment itself interesting, how they managed to do it from a technical point of view is fascinating. Plus, yay Australian science!

As far as the possibility that time is only linear because of our observation of it, that's not a new concept though, it's been around in one form or another for at least the last 40 or 50 years.

[Bobboau]

I just don't see away around it.  If they have managed to do what they claim, then, logically, what other result can you come to?

that the particles never leave superposition, but that they merely entangle with each other. that our observation of the particle is merely us becoming entangled with them. that the particles, including the ones making up our bodies and minds, or that could, are existing in all possible states that the could simultaneously, but that our perception of them is only that of the state that matches with the set of states that make up all of the entangled particles that make up our minds.