Russian scientists have created a "time machine" capable of sending tiny particles back into the past

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have created "a time machine"that moves tiny particles a fraction of second to the past.

The scientists collaborated with colleagues from the United States and Switzerland to devise a way to restore the state of a computer. quantum in the past. And they also calculated the probability that a electron in the interstellar space spontaneously return to your recent past.

"This is the first in a series of articles that discuss the possibility of violating Second law of thermodynamics. This law is closely linked to the notion of arrow of time which postulates the direction of time in one direction from the past to the future"explained the director of the study, Gordey Lesovik, who heads the MIPT quantum physics laboratory.

To understand the event, scientists have made the badogy of a game of billiards in which the balls are electron substitutes. What's going on is that after that hit the bullets, these are scattered in a way which should be fortuitous, according to the laws of physics. However, the researchers managed to get them to acquire their original order using a special quantum computer.

Your "time machine" is composed of "cubits", a quantum system with two states and which can be arbitrarily manipulated. These are units of information that can be stored in an electron.

According to scientists, as part of the experiment, they launched a program that has "cubits"has become a model change more and more complex. During this process, he lost l & # 39; orderjust like when the billiard balls are hit and they disperse.

Then another program changed the state of the quantum computer so that it goes back or, as they claim, "from chaos to order"For a spectator, the fact that the the particles come back to their point of origin generates the impression that you go back in time.

"We artificially created a state that moves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time"said Lesovik.

Regarding the other investigations, the Russian stated that he described for the first time a local perpetual motion of the second type. Then, in December, they published a document that badyzes the violation of the second law through a device called "Maxwell's demon"Finally, the third article addresses the same problem from another angle, which corresponds to the above-mentioned experience.