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You can see a clock running backwards in time

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 نشر من قبل M. B. Paranjape
 تاريخ النشر 2020
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The epitome of acausal or anti-chronological behaviour would be to see a clock running backwards in time. In this essay we point out that this is indeed possible, but there is no problem with causality. What you see isnt what is really happening. Locally, causality is always respected. However our observation should be cause for pause to astronomers and cosmologists, who strictly observe events occurring at very large distances or very long ago and certainly not locally. It can be that what you see isnt what you necessarily get.


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