{"id":160315,"date":"2023-03-15T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/to-save-physics-experts-suggest-we-need-to-assume-the-future-can-affect-the-past"},"modified":"2023-03-15T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:24:21","slug":"to-save-physics-experts-suggest-we-need-to-assume-the-future-can-affect-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/to-save-physics-experts-suggest-we-need-to-assume-the-future-can-affect-the-past","title":{"rendered":"To Save Physics, Experts Suggest We Need to Assume The Future Can Affect The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-save-physics-experts-suggest-we-need-to-assume-the-future-can-affect-the-past2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nobel-prize-physicists-share-prize-for-insights-into-the-spooky-world-of-quantum-mechanics-191884\">physics Nobel prize<\/a> was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the Universe works.<\/p>\n<p>Many look at those experiments and conclude that they challenge \u201clocality\u201d \u2013 the intuition that distant objects need a physical mediator to interact. And indeed, a mysterious connection between distant particles would be one way to explain these experimental results.<\/p>\n<p>Others instead think the experiments challenge \u201crealism\u201d \u2013 the intuition that there\u2019s an objective state of affairs underlying our experience. After all, the experiments are only difficult to explain if our measurements are thought to correspond to something real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the Universe works. Many look at those experiments and conclude that they challenge \u201clocality\u201d \u2013 the intuition that distant objects need a physical mediator to interact. And indeed, a mysterious [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}