
Huw Price on Backward Causation
Philosophy Bites
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The Possibility of Backward Causation in Quantum Mechanics
The idea that in the future I can affect what will happen in the past sounds like something out of Doctor Who. But it makes better sense than any other proposal for some of the weird things that happen in quantum mechanics, he says. There's a deep tension between relativity and quantum mechanics because of the way in which quantum mechanics seems to bring in spooky actions at a distance. One of the great attractions of the backward causation models is that they seem to have the potential to get rid of those.
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