WTF is Quantum Retrocausality? (ft. Physics Girl)

What if the future influences the past? It could, according to this new quantum theory.

Special thanks to Dianna from Physics Girl for her help with this episode! If you haven’t yet, go check out her channel. She’s awesome.    / physicswoman  

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Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory, in which the future influences the past
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-physici...
“Recently some physicists have been looking into this idea, called ‘retrocausality,’ because it can potentially resolve some long-standing puzzles in quantum physics.“

The Quantum Mechanics of Fate
http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/the-qua...
“Physicists as renowned as John Wheeler, Richard Feynman, Dennis Sciama, and Yakir Aharonov have speculated that causality is a two-headed arrow and the future might influence the past.”

Scientists Finally Prove Strange Quantum Physics Idea Einstein Hated
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-finall...
“That concept is also known as entanglement, and it’s what allows particles that have once interacted to share a connection regardless of the separation between them.”

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Written by: Victoria Barrios