From: *dlb* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 1:49:27 PM UTC+2, Bruce wrote: From: *dlb* <[email protected]>On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 11:20:49 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: *The single event outcome in this world is certain. We measure it. Those in the other worlds are speculative at best, and DO give human beings the power to create worlds. By choosing to do this or that quantum experiment, worlds are created! I'll ask you the same question I asked Clark, which he has yet to answer. If you find mathematics to be the Gospel for truth, why don't we observe advanced waves predicted by Maxwell's equations? AG * In short – interaction with the instrument of observation or some other absorber in the environment masks advanced waves:The hidden arrow of electromagnetic radiation: unmasking advanced waves <http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/13505>The Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory which postulated the equality of advanced and retarded waves in every electromagnetic interaction was shown to be non viable many years ago. Even Wheeler and Feynman abandoned the project. Cramer's retrocausality account of quantum mechanics has been falsified by the non-observation of the requisite advanced waves. BruceAccording to Kastner, Wheeler was later advocating it again in 2003, and TI is still perfectly viable: http://www.ijqf.org/archives/4794 <http://www.ijqf.org/archives/4794>
Kastner is one of the lone advocates for the transactional interpretation. What new insight does she offer for the resurrection of the Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory? I think Zeh has kill this fairly comprehensively in his book "The Physical Basis of the Direction of Time". The TI has never been viable because there is no evidence for advanced waves or the so-called "offer waves", and there is no dynamical basis for the properties that such waves are assumed to possess -- it all boils down to a particular magic.
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