Retroactive spanking

A spanking you give to your adult offspring after you find out something atrocious they did as a child.

Bobby jr. may be 40 now but he still needs a retroactive spanking for taking his papaws truck and trading it for Pokémon cards.

by 1Bigreg64 June 3, 2025

Retromanticist

Someone with a love of things (art, literature, clothes, architecture, etc) that are old-school, traditional, vintage, or simply charmingly old-fashioned.

It can include a love for any past era... be it the Tudor age, the Victorian era, or the 1980s.

A portmanteau of retro and romanticist.

"So are you an old fogey, conservative, reactionary, or what?"
"I'm simply a retromanticist, m'lady."

by Buffo Buff January 14, 2026

Hypothesis of Retrocausality

A speculative framework proposing that retrocausality—future events influencing the past—is a real physical phenomenon, not just a mathematical curiosity. The Hypothesis of Retrocausality suggests that time's arrow is not fundamental but emergent, and that at deeper levels, causation flows both ways. This could resolve quantum paradoxes (like wavefunction collapse), explain non-locality, and even open possibilities for time-symmetric physics. The hypothesis is not yet proven, but it offers a elegant way to think about quantum mechanics: the future and past are in dialogue, each shaping the other. It's a radical reimagining of causality itself.

Hypothesis of Retrocausality "Entanglement seems to connect particles across time as well as space. Retrocausality hypothesis says: maybe the future measurement influences the past preparation. Not spooky action at a distance, but spooky action across time. The universe might be a four-dimensional block where past and future are equally real—and equally causal."

by Dumuabzu March 6, 2026