Quantum histories get all tangled up

Tracing a particle’s past requires multiple chronologies, physicists say

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TEMPORAL FORK  When there’s a fork in the road, nature may take Yogi Berra’s advice and take it. A new experiment suggests that reality can split into multiple intertwined timelines, a phenomenon termed “entangled histories.”

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