The subject of quantum foundations typically evokes archaic themes in Physics, such as the measurement problem and the “paradoxes” of weak values. In this talk, I will try to counter this view, by reporting on my group’s progress on some recent and unconventional topics in quantum foundations. We will start our journey with the classification of physical theories according to the correlations that they can generate between space-like separated events. As we will see, even at this raw level of description, there is a large difference between living in a classical, a quantum or a supra-quantum world. I will also comment on our recent experimental proposal to refute real-number quantum physics through a Bell-type experiment. Extending the black-box characterizations of classical and quantum physics to scenarios with many separate labs will require us to tackle several open problems in statistical physics. The interaction between quantum foundations and many-body physics will not only produce new heuristics to minimize condensed matter Hamiltonians, but also new ideas to test quantum theory at the mesoscopic scale. I will conclude the talk with the topic of time translation. As I will show, there exist non-relativistic scattering processes that, when successful, reverse, slow down or accelerate the natural dynamics of any quantum system present in the scattering region. Remarkably, this time translation effect is universal, i.e., it is independent of the Hamiltonian of the target systems or the way those interact with the scattered particles: a weaker interaction just translates into a lower probability of success. These scattering processes thus embody the notion, explored in science-fiction, of a remote control that rewinds and fast-forwards, not VHS tapes, but reality itself.