When your boss applies maximum time-pressure by saying “I want your results yesterday,” consider lining up a couple of lasers to get the job done. Next, as demonstrated by scientists at the University of Toronto, gather up rubidium atoms and chill them to near absolute zero. Then take some shots with your lasers and take your time from the subsequent reversal. It’s all laid out by experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud.
“It took a positive amount of time, but our experiment observing that photons can make atoms seem to spend a *negative* amount of time in the excited state is up!”
– Aephraim Steinberg, a physicist at the University of Toronto
For an easier 5-minute readout from Scientific American, see this 9/30/24 post: Evidence of ‘Negative Time’ Found in Quantum Physics Experiment.
Next on the agenda for making your work easier is to capture some negative energy. Soon, thanks to advancements in physics, you will be getting jobs done yesterday with no effort whatsoever!