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Reversed time randomness

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-30 3:01

So assuming the viewpoint of traveling backwards through time, what happens to the random events of quantum physics? I'm thinking that stuff like radioactive decay would be a predictable event, in that you'd see the particle/ray colliding with the nucleus, popping it a place up on the decay chain.
Are there any events that are deterministic forward-time that would look non-deterministic in reverse-time? Maybe the ejection of matter from black holes?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-30 3:15

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Name: 4tran 2008-08-31 3:58

>>1
You mean matter falling into black holes, rather then ejection from black holes?

>>2
Forgot your sage

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-31 14:41

>>2
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>>3
Well, it would be ejection if you traveled backwards in time. It would be absorbing Hawking radiation.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-07 12:54

Do some reading on something called "Time's Arrow" and Entropy.
Not to be insulting, but you seem to only have a very loose grasp on some basic concepts. I'd recommend a book called "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene, for a start (http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Space-Texture-Reality/dp/0375412883).

Long story short, in quantum physics, the same "randomness" that prevents you from knowing the future also keeps you from knowing the past. This is why we don't (and probably can't) know what happened during or before the first 1x10^-35 seconds of the universe following the Big Bang.

Oh, and a time-reversed black hole is known as a white hole. If a black hole is in equilibrium (no Hawking radiation), it would look and behave exactly the same going in both directions in Time. If it is not in equilibrium, a white hole still exerts a normal gravity field, except matter is repelled from the event horizon at the speed of light instead of getting sucked in. Remember that gravity is acceleration and vice versa. Acceleration is distance over time over time, or d/(t^2), so a negative sign on t is irrelevant. The only difference between a black hole and a white hole is the behavior at the event horizon. Oh, and the Hawking radiation of a black hole is the emission of a white hole.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-07 17:16

>>5
but you seem to only have a very loose grasp on some basic concepts.
Right, that's why I'm posting this on /sci/ instead of presenting it on some big shot conference. No insult perceived.

Actually Hawking radiation was kind of what got me thinking, I read some theories where particles and antiparticles were seen as the same particle, but in opposite directions in time, so I thought about some kind of reversed rule of information flow that would prevent them from bringing back information about the future. I guess Time's Arrow is something akin to that, with entropy (More accurately, it says that life will perceive time as going in the direction of increased entropy or something like that, right?).

Thanks for your answers, as you said I'm not too hot on this stuff. I'd heard about white holes, but only as some kind of theoretical 'other end' of a black hole, reading up now.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-07 19:29

Can't be done. You're black.

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