Thursday, 8 September 2016

Creating a mirror image wave with a jolt


Creating a mirror image wave with a jolt
A time-reversed wave is a mirror image of a wave that travels the exact opposite path of the wave that it is a reflection of, back to the first wave's point of origin. Creating these time-reversed waves has required unique antennas but now a group of researchers has done so simply by physically jolting the water container.

Paper:
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys3810.html
Video credit: Emmanuel Fort

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5 comments:

  1. So we only need to jolt realty in the 4th dimension just right to go back in time! (Sorry, just imagining the click bait headline this might get at io9 😁 )

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  2. Hudson Ansley I guess you could also make an audio waves experiment analogy shaking a box. I still wonder, how to use this to reverse time, cause things that need to be reversed, are not a simple round wavefront, travelling to symmetrically opposite directions from a point.

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  3. Hudson Ansley and, if you have ideas how to reverse time,... I see retrieving information from the past as a problem (infty.xyz/g/61/en). Past, present, future - exists. How to organize information in such a way we have meaningful access to all of that?

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  4. Mindey I.​ If Elon Musk is right, just run the simulation backwards

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  5. Hudson Ansley the question is "how". I already seem to have an explanation of the origin of the universe ( how a computer game could have arisen from nothingness: goo.gl/u5P83u ), and so, in principle, I think one could start simulating a new one. However, it seems we don't know our time-location in the current one.

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