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Episode 65: Causality, Time and the Experiment Paradox with Michal Eckstein

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Are You Burning Down a Library?

If you burn down a library, which did happen in the history and shamefully, it's not something that we can do. At least from the viewpoint of quantum mechanics it's still there somewhere maybe in the air. And then we have looking at this experiment products that there is no definite outcome, never have. So what is going on? Either you say that the committee didn't really take any decision, it was all predetermined by the past because,. well, the star that you're looking at this week was a few million years ago, okay? Or otherwiseyou say: "The information about this decision was nowhere in the universe"

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