Future holds key to quantum physics — Obama awards National Medal of Science to Aharonov The National Medal of Science
As reported in USAToday, Yakir Aharanov of Chapman University was in Washington D.C. to collect a National Medal of Science this past week:
“The future is affecting the past—all the time, on the quantum level—allowing physicists to effectively select the future they want their particles to have, within limits, and amplifying the results for a desired outcome.”
“I really believe we are close to a second revolution in physics as big as the one a century ago," Yakir Aharonov says. "I feel we are only beginning to free existing quantum theory and to do so, we must think of time in another way.”
“I really believe we are close to a second revolution in physics as big as the one a century ago," Yakir Aharonov says. "I feel we are only beginning to free existing quantum theory and to do so, we must think of time in another way.”
JA Wheeler, and Ben Schumacher have said something similar. I understand having present or future actions influence the past is an obvious assumption and one that follows from some interpretations of quantum but there may be other interpretations but they may be just as weird as influencing the past.
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