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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Evidence for advanced causation.
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:47:54 GMT
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- Some one just e-mailed me asking for evidence that creation from the future
- is not a matter of faith but a scientic conjecture subject to falsification
- according to the Popper test. Briefly, impressionistically the clues - and
- they are only clues that appeal to our Sherlock Holmes bent:
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- 1. the fact that there is a universe at all with all the cosmic coincidences
- needed for life see Fred Hoyle The Intelligent Universe and Barrow and
- Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.
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- 2. Wheeler's choice expt, Aspect's experiment, Wheeler-Feynman classical EM,
- Cramer's transactional interpretation of QM. Aharonov's double time QM and
- time machines, Kip Thorne's traversable wormhole time machines in GR,
- legends of prophecy, subjective precognitive experiences, feelings of Divine
- Inspiration felt universally by all poets, artists, great scientists etc.
- - how's that for a start - all clues in a great mystery .
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- Finally, we have seen in the course of the discussion here in the past few
- months that while I was wrong that standard QM permits quantum connection
- communication of the "quantum eraser" type in which
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- VV+HH -> V(V+H)
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- so that light initially unpolarized for one local detector is controllably
- polarized by tweaking the twin detector system (transmitter - which can be
- in time like future of receiver detection event). Nevertheless, a minimal
- generalization of standard quantum mechanics to permit off-diagonal non-
- unitarity does permit this transformation in a way that still conserved the
- locally detectable probabibilites. That si, it appears tentatively that
- while unitarity is a sufficient condition to conserve quantum probability it
- is not necessary - a weaker condition will work. The next question is
- whether Nature implements such a non-unitary time evolution - is it a
- property of complex chaotic macro-quantum systems in the nonlinear regime
- far from thermal equilibrium for example?
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