time reversal

This post is written in response to the contest I posted on my Twitter feed earlier today: SciencePunk challenge: give me two unrelated topics and I will attempt to write a blog post combining them. Your time starts now. Of several excellent and perplexing replies, I decided to seize the gauntlet thrown down by Martin of The Lay Scientist blog: @SciencePunk Pigs, and the flu. No? Oh alright... erm... Mars and cheese. So here it is Martin! * * * If you heard the words "time reversal technology" you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a plot point from the new Star Trek movie. Yet across the…