Hey Lynda...

I pretty sure it is not just me, but most men are firmly convinced that females have the unique ability to turn back time to something we did years ago... And, correct it, and often!!... :))

Not kidding...

: .......... Just Kidding about the Tardis :-)
: Lynda
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: By Andrew Griffin

: Scientists have reversed the direction of time with a quantum
: computer.

: The breakthrough study seems to contradict basic laws of

: physics and could alter our understanding of the processes
: governing the universe.

: In a development that also represents a major advance in our
: understanding of quantum computers, by using electrons and
: the strange world of quantum mechanics researchers were
: able to turn back time in an experiment that can be likened
: to causing a broken rack of pool balls to go back into
: place.

: Anyone watching the computer would see the event as if time
: had turned backwards.

: The researchers – from the Moscow Institute of Physics and
: Technology (MIPT) and helped by colleagues in Switzerland
: and the US – expect the technique to improve, becoming more
: reliable and precise with time.

: Lead researcher Dr Gordey Lesovik, who heads the Laboratory of
: the Physics of Quantum Information at the MIPT, said: “We
: have artificially created a state that evolves in a
: direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of
: time.”

: The “time machine” described in the journal Scientific Reports
: consists of a rudimentary quantum computer made up of
: electron “qubits”.

: A qubit is a unit of information described by a “one”, a
: “zero”, or a mixed “superposition” of both states.

: In the experiment, an “evolution program” was launched which
: caused the qubits to become an increasingly complex
: changing pattern of zeros and ones.

: During this process, order was lost – just as it is when the
: pool balls are struck and scattered with a cue.

: But then another program modified the state of the quantum
: computer in such a way that it evolved “backwards”, from
: chaos to order.