Time, Causality, and Probability in Quantum Mechanics: Assessing Retrocausal Explanations in Light of Recent Experiments KU Leuven
Ingrained in our scientific mindset is the temporal arrow of causality — the idea that causation is time-asymmetric such that causes precede their effects temporally. In recent years, however, due in large part to the puzzles of quantum mechanics, scientists as renowned as John Wheeler, George Ellis and Yakir Aharonov have toyed with the idea that causality might be a two-headed arrow, and that choices made now might influence what has ...