On 27 December 2013 08:16, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/26/2013 1:46 AM, LizR wrote: > >> Interesting, at a brief skim they appear to be suggesting that phenomena >> like quantum erasure involve rewriting the past, or words to that >> effect.....or have I got that wrong? >> > > Yeah, it's sort of like Wheeler's "No event is a real event until it's an > observed event." They're saying the observation *writes*, not rewrites, > the past. But we don't want to leave conscious observation as a mystery; > we know that "observation" by any macroscopic recorder is sufficient to fix > the events. I think this can be accommodated in Bruno's theory by looking > at it, not as changing or rewriting the past, but as post-selecting the > past from the infinite threads of computation. >
It can also be explained by allowing that quantum objects don't have a built in arrow of time, but can be influenced by future or past events. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
