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This Quantum Theory Predicts That The Future Might Be Influencing The Past

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https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-phy...ocausality

EXCERPT: . . . What Einstein called "spooky" action at a distance could theoretically be evidence of retrocausality, which is the particle equivalent of you getting a stomach ache today thanks to tomorrow's bad lunch. [...] If two particles are connected in space at some point, measuring a property of one of them instantly sets the value for the other, no matter where in the Universe it has moved to. This 'entanglement' has been tested over and over again in light of Bell's theorem, plugging loopholes that might show they are really interacting on a local level in some way, in spite of what seems to be a distance. But if causality ran backwards, it would mean a particle could carry the action of its measurement back in time to when it was entangled, affecting its partner. No faster-than-light messages needed. That's the hypothesis Leifer and Pusey were going by....

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Syne Offline
Retrocausality seems to eternally capture the imagination of sci-fi dorks...and their wishful thinking that it has any bearing on reality.
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(Jun 18, 2018 05:17 AM)Syne Wrote: Retrocausality seems to eternally capture the imagination of sci-fi dorks...and their wishful thinking that it has any bearing on reality.

Your skepticism seems unjustified. Why do you claim retrocausality is a false reality?

The reversal of reality in time has conditions which can be met with the existence of time loops. A circular dynamic in which ends are everywhere immanent in nature. The phenomenon of time loops enables spacetime to assume backwards Euclidean paths. Where points connect starting and ending.
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Of course it seems unjustified to someone who accepts time loops uncritically. The standard of evidence is simply not met to justify claims of retrocausality, especially when there are many, empirically equivalent interpretations. Parsimony alone rules out jumping to the conclusion of retrocausality.
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