SUPERPOSITIONING – RETROCAUSATION
Naw, I’m not referring to the latest in political propagandizing, but to the second half of an emerging Unified Field Theory looking at the smallest of the small: Quantum Physics. A key question in Quantum Physics remains the nature of superposition—”the peculiar circumstance in which particles seem to be in two or more places or states at once.”
Continuing, Philip Ball in his 21 May 2018 Scientific American article entitled Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think – A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions, Israeli and Japanese scientists “proposed an experiment that could finally…say something for sure about the nature of this puzzling phenomenon…Their experiment was designed to enable scientists to sneak a glance at where an object—in this case a particle of light, called a photon—actually resides when it is placed in a superposition.”
According to the principal of two-state-vector formalism (TSVF), “quantum events are in some sense determined by quantum states not just in the past—but also in the future. That is, the TSVF assumes quantum mechanics works the same way both forward and backward in time. From this perspective, causes can seem to propagate backward in time, occurring after their effects: a phenomenon called retrocausation.”
Assuming retrocausation, one should be able to postselect a particle’s state at any instant retrospectively, up to and including the moment of actual measurement. The oddness is that it appears as if the measurer—by choosing to look for a particular outcome in a particular location—causes that outcome to happen. Eh? Are we talking back to the Future here? If based on past financial experience, I look at a future date on Wall Street where my investments are supposed to pay off, they will, simply because by looking I cause it to happen? Only if the pay off is so small as to be negligible in the non-quantum world. Shucks!
However, quantum researchers are ready to state with certainty something about the location of a particle in a superposition at a series of different points in time—before any actual measurement has been made. That is, one can predict exactly where and when a quantum “chain of causality” will occur. This isn’t back to the future, but real Futuring, exactly what my new book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is all about! You guessed it, SCI-FU (science-based futuring) rather than mere science fantasy or fiction.
The Edge of Madness
Back in the Quantum world, this causes flickering — an ever changing existence in space-time that is actually a series of events in which a particle’s presence in one place is replaced by its existence in the another location. Not so weird when stated this way, though, as the researchers’ eventually state, “although the traditional ‘two places at once’ view of superposition might seem odd enough, ‘it’s possible a superposition is [simply] a collection of states that are even crazier.” Ha! The very edge of madness!
Continuing, Philip Ball in his 21 May 2018 Scientific American article entitled Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think – A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions, Israeli and Japanese scientists “proposed an experiment that could finally…say something for sure about the nature of this puzzling phenomenon…Their experiment was designed to enable scientists to sneak a glance at where an object—in this case a particle of light, called a photon—actually resides when it is placed in a superposition.”
According to the principal of two-state-vector formalism (TSVF), “quantum events are in some sense determined by quantum states not just in the past—but also in the future. That is, the TSVF assumes quantum mechanics works the same way both forward and backward in time. From this perspective, causes can seem to propagate backward in time, occurring after their effects: a phenomenon called retrocausation.”
Assuming retrocausation, one should be able to postselect a particle’s state at any instant retrospectively, up to and including the moment of actual measurement. The oddness is that it appears as if the measurer—by choosing to look for a particular outcome in a particular location—causes that outcome to happen. Eh? Are we talking back to the Future here? If based on past financial experience, I look at a future date on Wall Street where my investments are supposed to pay off, they will, simply because by looking I cause it to happen? Only if the pay off is so small as to be negligible in the non-quantum world. Shucks!
However, quantum researchers are ready to state with certainty something about the location of a particle in a superposition at a series of different points in time—before any actual measurement has been made. That is, one can predict exactly where and when a quantum “chain of causality” will occur. This isn’t back to the future, but real Futuring, exactly what my new book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is all about! You guessed it, SCI-FU (science-based futuring) rather than mere science fantasy or fiction.
The Edge of Madness
Back in the Quantum world, this causes flickering — an ever changing existence in space-time that is actually a series of events in which a particle’s presence in one place is replaced by its existence in the another location. Not so weird when stated this way, though, as the researchers’ eventually state, “although the traditional ‘two places at once’ view of superposition might seem odd enough, ‘it’s possible a superposition is [simply] a collection of states that are even crazier.” Ha! The very edge of madness!
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