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To: LibWhacker
So cause and effect and the forward motion of time breaks down at the quantum level?

Sounds like dangerous place.

7 posted on 05/28/2015 6:18:37 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

I was watching the Science Channel last week and it was explained thusly: The past must be consistent with the future. Therefore the future affects the past in that sense. The Universe will necessarily end in a particular way (the Big Crunch, the Big Rip, etc.), and whatever happens in the past must be consistent that ending. Similarly, you cannot go back in time and kill your own father when he was a little boy. You know he exists in the future and the past must be consistent with that. Therefore, you could not kill him in the past. The future affects the past.


18 posted on 05/28/2015 6:39:55 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: The Cajun
So cause and effect and the forward motion of time breaks down at the quantum level?

No, and also, No.

The experimenter is engaged in an exaggeration that ultimately invalidates what he's said. There is nothing new in what has been done, and, as pointed out already, the result was completely predicted by the great American physicist, John Archibald Wheeler.

20 posted on 05/28/2015 6:42:29 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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