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I'm just trying to get a feel for how seriously this theory is being considered these days.
For those not familar with it, here's a somewhat okay laymans description:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future/article_view?searchterm=Tollaksen&b_start:int=0
Also, mentioned in that article are some experiments done with weak measurements that supposedly give some credibility to the idea that the future can effect the present (with a boat load of caveats, however)
I've noticed there are plenty of articles on Arxiv dealing with this as well.
So, a couple questions:
(1) Is this theory indeed finally being taken seriously? (Aharanov came up with it like 40 years ago!)
(2) Since, in some sense, it is a reformulation of quantum mechanics, what are the ramifications for QFT?
(3) Has any other experiments or work been done that validates the theory, other than the above mentioned one in the article
Thanks!
dm4b
For those not familar with it, here's a somewhat okay laymans description:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future/article_view?searchterm=Tollaksen&b_start:int=0
Also, mentioned in that article are some experiments done with weak measurements that supposedly give some credibility to the idea that the future can effect the present (with a boat load of caveats, however)
I've noticed there are plenty of articles on Arxiv dealing with this as well.
So, a couple questions:
(1) Is this theory indeed finally being taken seriously? (Aharanov came up with it like 40 years ago!)
(2) Since, in some sense, it is a reformulation of quantum mechanics, what are the ramifications for QFT?
(3) Has any other experiments or work been done that validates the theory, other than the above mentioned one in the article
Thanks!
dm4b