The Quantum

[nurice]

Just a thought: what if the problem behind non-locality was actually a consequence of backwards time-travel

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[vinas]

Remember Philosophy.

[mporter]

This is an idea with a considerable heritage, but no-one has ever demonstrated that it can work, to the degree of exactness that, say, Bohmian mechanics possesses. Some people you might look up: Costa de Beauregard, Huw Price, Mark Hadley. John Cramer's transactional interpretation has the appearance of being a backwards-in-time theory too, but when you look at his actual technical papers, you find he's still using the quantum framework of complex-valued probability amplitudes (rather than 0-to-1 real-valued probabilities) which I think is one of the things that needs explaining in QM. - You might also want to look up the "Feynman checkerboard model" of an electron in 1 space dimension - I think it switches stochastically between 4 modes of travel - left and forward in time, right and forward in time, left and backward in time, right and backward in time - and you get back the Dirac equation. But again, I think he's using probability amplitudes, and not just probabilities, and the aim (in my opinion) should include the derivation of