One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea - that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards.
Now keep in mind, this kind of backwards time travel isn't the sort that would allow you to go back in time and consciously change the present, sorry to say.
A pair of physicists from the US and Canada took a closer look at some basic assumptions in quantum theory and decided unless we discovered time necessarily ran one way, measurements made to a particle could echo back in time as well as forward.
"There is not, to my knowledge, a generally agreed upon interpretation of quantum theory that recovers the whole theory and exploits this idea. It is more of an idea for an interpretation at the moment, so I think that other physicists are rightly sceptical, and the onus is on us to flesh out the idea."
In any case, the idea of anything trickling backwards in time might not be an appealing one, but let's face it, when it comes to phenomena like entanglement, nearly any explanation is going to sound downright insane.
This is still just in the realm of extreme "what-ifs" scenarios but it's very fascinating to think about. Between this and the quantum entanglement where a group of Chinese researchers were successful in interacting with two photons, the Star Trek world is coming up reaaaal soon.
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