{"id":70775,"date":"2017-07-10T09:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/basic-assumptions-of-physics-might-require-the-future-to-influence-the-past"},"modified":"2017-07-20T21:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T04:40:36","slug":"basic-assumptions-of-physics-might-require-the-future-to-influence-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/basic-assumptions-of-physics-might-require-the-future-to-influence-the-past","title":{"rendered":"Basic Assumptions of Physics Might Require the Future to Influence the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/basic-assumptions-of-physics-might-require-the-future-to-influence-the-past.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most well-accepted physical theories makes no logical sense. Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the smallest possible spaces, forces our human brains to accept some really wacky, uncomfortable realities. Maybe we live in a world where certain observations can force our universe to branch into multiple ones. Or maybe actions in the present influence things earlier in time.<\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists did some thinking, and realized this latter idea, called retrocausality, is a consequence of certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, and therefore, certain interpretations of the nature of reality. Their new paper is more of a \u201cwhat-if,\u201d an initial look at how to make some of those quantum mechanical interpretations work. Some people I asked thought the work was important, some thought it didn\u2019t matter. Others felt the authors\u2019 interpretation of quantum mechanics avoids the problems posed by the new paper. But no matter what, quantum mechanics will force us to make some uncomfortable conclusions about the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/basic-assumptions-of-physics-might-require-the-future-t-1796730487?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Gizmodo_facebook\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/basic-assumptions-of-physics-might-requir...o_facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most well-accepted physical theories makes no logical sense. Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the smallest possible spaces, forces our human brains to accept some really wacky, uncomfortable realities. Maybe we live in a world where certain observations can force our universe to branch into multiple ones. Or maybe actions in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70775","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70783,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70775\/revisions\/70783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}