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Re:Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory by amoruso on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:59AM (#14710895)
John Cramer has been pointing this out for years (since the 1980s I think):

"The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Nonlocality"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00039

Also, Bell's inequality shows the state vector is nonlocal, and and that implies causality violation in relativity.

Third, quantum information theory has retrocausality in the form of negative entropy:

"Negative entropy in quantum information theory"

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9610005

Too many things pointing in the same direction. This is the right way to look at it.

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Re:Physicists provide support for retrocausal quantum theory by BoiledCabbage on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:47AM (#14716134)
What happened to John Cramer?

He hit the popular science media as he was leading up to his modified delayed-choice quantum eraser for retro-causality. According to him that was a supposed paradox meaning the result of the experiment was going to have to give a result that conflicted with our theories and thus give an avenue for new discover (ie allow us to use a test that doesn't match our model).

It's been a decade and no results were ever discussed. That seems bizarre to me.

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