Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider?

[Helen Reyes]

Bech Nielsen and Masao Ninomiya are making a sophisticated kind of joke, but with a real question embedded in it. They're questioning the whole cause-and-effect model, not merely positing future causation. Negentropy is an old concept but in recent years there has been a lot more talk about faster-than-light quantum phenomena and the possibility information can travel backward through time.