Backward Causation and the EPR Paradox

1998/10/21 by W. R. Wharton, William R. Wharton, Wharton, William R.
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Origins and Evolution of Life #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9810060

13 pages, submitted to American Journal of Physics

arxiv created 1998/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Backward causation in which future events affect the past is formalized in a way consistent with Special Relativity and shown to restore locality to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. It can explain the correlations of the EPR paradox without using hidden variables. It also restores time-symmetry to microphysics. Quantum Mechanics has the right properties to allow for backward causation. The new model is probably untestable experimentally but it has profound philosophical implications concerning reality.

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