Dan said:

> Let me answer that question with another question: which slit did the
> photon go through? :-) The real answer to that question is what I
> consider the real answer to this question.

I'm not sure about that. The interesting behaviour of Young's Slits
comes down to how we have to add amplitudes for experimentally
indistinguishable histories. A better example of the failure of
classical notions of the causal structure of spacetime would be
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type experiments. (Although I suppose that's an
example of the breakdown of classical ideas of causality itself - the
link between entangled particles is something stronger than causal
disconnection but weaker than full causal connectiton.)

> One doesn't have to assume determanism to give this answer, BTW. One
> can simply assume that spacetime is a limited concept, inadaquate for
> the job.

It's interesting that it's possible to build things like temporal
paradoxes even without time travel in deterministic universes, because
in such universes the past and future are implicitly contained within
the present. For example, imagine a box with a light that can be either
red or green and a prediction machine that uses the time-evolution
rules to predict the colour of the light one minute in the future. Now
wire the box to the prediction machine so that it switches the colour
of the light to be exactly opposite to that predicted.

Rich, who often used to daydream about quantum mechanics emerging
naturally from general relativity with time machines.

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