{"id":14511,"date":"2018-03-02T08:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2018-03-02T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:21:29","slug":"word-of-the-day-327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-327\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Retrocausality<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This idea that the future can influence the present, and that the present can influence the past, is known as retrocausality. It has been around for a while without ever catching on \u2013 and for good reason, because we never see effects happen before their causes in everyday life. But now, a fresh twist on a deep tension in the foundations of quantum theory suggests that we may have no choice but to think again. <em>[\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23731652-800-quantum-time-machine-how-the-future-can-change-what-happens-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blast from the future<\/a>,&#8221; <span class=\"author\">Adam Becker<\/span>, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (17 February 2018, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retrocausality: This idea that the future can influence the present, and that the present can influence the past, is known as retrocausality. It has been around for a while without ever catching on \u2013 and for good reason, because we never see effects happen before their causes in everyday life. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-327\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}