David Breecker wrote: > If I remember correctly (caveat: it's been 20 years, and I barely > understood it then), Feynman's "Quantum Chromodynamics" said many > things work well backwards, and there is no absolute forwards. Or > something like that. > > But perhaps more interesting to this thread, I'm reading a > well-researched novel (Richard Power's "Echo Maker") dealing with > neuropathological syndromes, and it makes reference to one in which > cause and effect are reversed in the mind of the sufferer. > > Does anyone know what this syndrome is? > db > > On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Orlando Leibovitz wrote: > >> Orlando Leibovitz here. The October-December issue of What Is >> Enlightenment magazine contains an article about the Big Bang that >> discusses the concept of events preceding their cause...retrocausality. >> It states that "Richard Feynman even offered mathematical proofs of how >> certain properities of physics work just as well backward as forward in >> time". See the attachments for the work of John Cramer at the University >> of Washington. Best to all. >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc. > Santa Fe: 505-690-2335 > Abiquiu: 505-685-4891 > www.BreeckerAssociates.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org David,
I read Powers' book when it came out last year (for those of you who don't know his work, this gifted novelist is a MacArthur Fellow who channels his characters), and the protagonist is a victim of "Capgrass Syndrome" , the inability to recognize those close to you, as the result of a brain injury. But I don't remember any specific reference to reversing cause and effect. Merle ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
