The experimenters are working on a quantum scale billions of times smaller than everyday events, and rather than claiming to change the past, they say that their experiment "mimics" the effect of turning time's arrow around.
No, there have been a whole host of benefits changes, ranging from a cap on the amount of benefits than can be claimed, to changes in the way housing benefit and disability allowances are calculated.
These days even the ephemeral messaging app creators claim to change the world by changing the way we communicate.
"The so-called New Right never claimed to change the world," Alain de Benoist wrote to me.
Plenty of other elements can claim to change, and even determine, overall meaning: dialogue, acting, design, camerawork, editing and music, to name only six.
There is real appreciation in some quarters that the community has a magazine which attempts to bring the issues to the people... I can't claim to change people's lives but I try to engage the community..
He also insisted on the benefits of conversion therapy (therapy that claims to change one's sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual).
Mercer has said he was motivated to run in part by a proposed state law to curtail paid "conversion therapy," which claims to change a person's sexual orientation.
Yet one rival thinks Trump will pull out before Iowa, reluctant to risk a loser's speech while claiming to have changed the political landscape.
A month later he leaves, claiming to have been changed completely.
