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You can see a clock running backwards in time

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-02-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

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 isn't 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 isn't what you necessarily get.

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@article{arxiv.2008.08689,
  title  = {You can see a clock running backwards in time},
  author = {M. B. Paranjape},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.08689},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures, 2020 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition Honourable Mention

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