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Quantum Mechanics
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Is there such a thing as retro-causality or precognition for particles? Can a particle go back in time, or know beforehand, concerning its ‘which way’ path?
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In earlier articles we have discussed that the crux of the battle to define QM centers about the “wave function” question. In other words, what exactly passes through the “double slits” on the way to the measurement screen?
There are two primary camps of position here:
(1) those who say that particles, “hard little bee-bees”, so to speak, enter the slits; as opposed to
(2) mere “probable particles,” mathematical construct.
Those of the first camp, essentially, cast themselves as materialists and believe in particles as the hard-edged building blocks of the universe. As such, they have difficulty rationally explaining the Double Slit without resorting to fantastic claims of “the particle goes back in time” or “the particle knew in advance,” virtually imbued with psychic powers and consciousness, to effect its so-called mysterious result at the measurement screen. But this interpretation is ad hoc nonsense and constitutes a willingness to “say anything” in order to rescue a materialistic paradigm. A statement that a particle possessed pre-knowledge with a kind of sentience is bunk and a fairy-tale. In no other context would materialists sanction powers of psychic ability - except when their metapardigm is facing an Alamo.
The second group offers explanation more in line with “consciousness, not matter, as bedrock of reality.” This was the view of so many of the early quantum fathers.
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