The Quantum
Just a thought: what if the problem behind non-locality was actually a consequence of backwards time-travel?
Here's how I'm thinking about this: we have to set boundary conditions for any eigensolutions to a system - for instance, in a particle in a box we get a host of discrete solutions given zero boundary conditions - and so, what if all these collapsed quantum wavefunctions were just a product of the future boundary conditions? I measure a particle at point A in time, and at some future space-time measure it to be B, and in the meantime it waves around like some string?
Don't we describe standing waves in terms of two propagating waves in space - one forwards, one backwards? Would time not act analogously?
I have to think about this more. This would in fact give rise to the superposition of all possible paths as described by QFT....
Back to work. (Statistical update: working for Ray Laflamme, working on 5-qubit quantum state purification protocols in liquid state NMR - about to run my first test tomorrow. My kittens are a year old and adorable. I love my boyfriend very much. Applying to the bigass grad schools is a bitch (suck it, GREs). Running a marathon in May. Pretty much haven't seen any of my friends this year - I miss you all desperately. Feeling busy and smiley!)
Here's how I'm thinking about this: we have to set boundary conditions for any eigensolutions to a system - for instance, in a particle in a box we get a host of discrete solutions given zero boundary conditions - and so, what if all these collapsed quantum wavefunctions were just a product of the future boundary conditions? I measure a particle at point A in time, and at some future space-time measure it to be B, and in the meantime it waves around like some string?
Don't we describe standing waves in terms of two propagating waves in space - one forwards, one backwards? Would time not act analogously?
I have to think about this more. This would in fact give rise to the superposition of all possible paths as described by QFT....
Back to work. (Statistical update: working for Ray Laflamme, working on 5-qubit quantum state purification protocols in liquid state NMR - about to run my first test tomorrow. My kittens are a year old and adorable. I love my boyfriend very much. Applying to the bigass grad schools is a bitch (suck it, GREs). Running a marathon in May. Pretty much haven't seen any of my friends this year - I miss you all desperately. Feeling busy and smiley!)