It is one of the most astonishing results of physics: when a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state with almost perfect precision.
Gas particles, for example, chaotically swirling around in a container, will return almost exactly to their starting positions after some time. This “Poincaré Recurrence Theorem” is the foundation of modern chaos theory. For decades, scientists have investigated how this theorem can be applied to the world of quantum physics. Recently, researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) successfully demonstrated a kind of “Poincaré recurrence” in a multi-particle quantum system. The results have been published in the journal Science. (1)
The world moves in cycles.
What is, will once be again.
What is not, never was.
The world moves in cycles.
But not great cycles.
Take a step back and look again.
We are spinning on a single point.
Fierce dancers we are.
Balancing on nothingness…
