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by Dylan16807 5045 days ago
Could you be more condescending?

More seriously, explain to me how making the wave travel backwards isn't the same as changing the sign of t. Wave movement is linearly based on t.

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Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about particle waves, or wave functions of particles, not a function which satisfies the wave equation (a photon happens to satisfy the wave function, but I'm trying to be general here) and with frequency, I mean energy. Try changing the sign of t in Schrodinger equation and see if it simply amounts to changing the sign of your momentum vector or not.
I guess not. I had an impression of you talking about particles from the start of your comment, but then you went into "read about waves" and said to make a plot, which made it sound like you were talking about basic math. I only understand a few of the effects of altering time on physics so I'll shut up.