How Time Can Flow Backward, Why Poisonous Pufferfish Are Delicious, and Undersea Cables

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn about a quantum theory that says time can flow backward; why the Internet relies on huge undersea cables; and why people eat pufferfish, even though they’re incredibly poisonous.

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

This Quantum Theory Says Time Can Flow Backward — https://curiosity.im/2DOW2VZ
The Internet Relies on Huge Undersea Cables — And They're Vulnerable — https://curiosity.im/2Di9FvG
Pufferfish Are Incredibly Poisonous, So Why Do People Eat Them? — https://curiosity.im/2DPWQKv

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got a jam-packed podcast from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:06.2	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.2	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.2	Today you learn about a quantum theory that says that time can flow backward, why the internet relies on huge undersea cables, and why people eat puffer fish, even though they're incredibly poisonous.
0:19.0	What's satisfy some curiosity on the poison-free curiosity daily.
0:23.0	Hey Cody, know what we haven't talked about in a while?
0:25.8	Quantum physics.
0:27.0	Oh boy.
0:28.0	Did you know there's a quantum theory that says that time can flow backward?
0:32.0	I mean, I'm fine talking about quantum physics anytime it involves explaining how time travel
0:36.3	might actually be a thing.
0:37.6	Totally.
0:38.6	Although, it probably won't be for us.
0:41.0	Oh.
0:42.0	It's just quantum me. But it might be and that's why this is
0:45.3	exciting science. Definitely. So like we've talked about on this podcast
0:49.5	before, quantum physics throws all the rules of classical physics out the window.
0:54.1	And if a handful of physicists are right, quantum particles can affect the past
0:58.9	just as easily as they affect the future.
1:01.3	It's a theory known as quantum retro causality. So one of the
1:05.6	weirdest things about quantum physics is a principle called superposition. It
1:09.8	says that a particle exists in multiple states at once until it's measured.
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