Hysteron proteron

[Dave Monroe]

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/aug/03/can-the-future-affect-the-past

http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6224

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteron_proteron

Another technique that may be worth mentioning is Pynchon's extensive
use of the hysteron proteron -- a literary trope involving retrograde
motion, regression, or a reversal of cause and effect. At many times
in the story events are described in reverse order, a literary
slight-of-hand that works to pry our linear concept of Time from its
stubborn entrenchment. Journeys are imagined moving in reverse,
objects are mentally disassembled, and films occasionally run
backward. This tendency for reversal reaches its greatest
manifestation in the fall of the Rocket itself -- the fact that the
sound of its descent comes after its faster-than-sound impact is an
idea that stimulates an interesting variety of emotional responses in
the novel's many protagonists.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_grintro.html