Breaking Math Podcast

47: Blast to the Past (Retrocausality)


Listen Later

Time is something that everyone has an idea of, but is hard to describe. Roughly, the arrow of time is the same as the arrow of causality. However, what happens when that is not the case? It is so often the case in our experience that this possibility brings not only scientific and mathematic, but ontological difficulties. So what is retrocausality? What are closed timelike curves? And how does this all relate to entanglement?

This episode is distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. For more information, visit CreativeCommons.org.


[Featuring: Sofía Baca, Gabriel Hesch]

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Breaking Math PodcastBy Gabriel Hesch and Autumn Phaneuf

  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4
  • 4

4

324 ratings


More shows like Breaking Math Podcast

View all
Science Friday by Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Science Friday

6,051 Listeners

Nature Podcast by Springer Nature Limited

Nature Podcast

757 Listeners

Science Magazine Podcast by Science Magazine

Science Magazine Podcast

808 Listeners

StarTalk Radio by Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio

14,020 Listeners

Universe Today Podcast by Fraser Cain

Universe Today Podcast

535 Listeners

Ask a Spaceman! by Paul M. Sutter

Ask a Spaceman!

804 Listeners

Quanta Science Podcast by Quanta Magazine

Quanta Science Podcast

450 Listeners

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating by Big Bang Productions Inc.

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

1,027 Listeners

Physics World Weekly Podcast by Physics World

Physics World Weekly Podcast

75 Listeners

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll | Wondery

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4,100 Listeners

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe by iHeartPodcasts

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

2,280 Listeners

The Supermassive Podcast by The Royal Astronomical Society

The Supermassive Podcast

285 Listeners

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal by Theories of Everything

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

447 Listeners

Why This Universe? by Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman

Why This Universe?

329 Listeners

The Joy of Why by Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

The Joy of Why

481 Listeners