Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect

Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect by yarg on Saturday March 13, 2021 @04:38PM (#26450227)

I've thought about similar things, it seems to me to be a sort of retroactive causality.

It seems to me that there will be mutually exclusive states of reality existing in different spatial contexts; it's only at the meeting of light cones that the contradiction is reconciled (the likelihood of superposition mutex events is zero).

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Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect by yarg on Saturday March 13, 2021 @07:16PM (#26451497)

I left out the reason that I think that this is important - it eliminates "spooky action at a distance".

There's a fundamental equivalency there in terms of the consequences of the events - you can never outrun the light-cone of the remote event to reach any illegal states.

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Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect by ravi-delia on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:31AM (#26453043)

I love reading more computer sciency takes on physics because they always give the distinct impression of God patching together a universe that juuuust barely works. Just something about the phrasing of it is delightful.

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Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect by rpz on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:13PM (#26452751)

Still a pretty spooky action if you ask me

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Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect by yarg on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:16PM (#26471705)

Sure, in a creepy time erasing histories that were hitherto possible kinda way - but not in an event notification hopping gallactic distances without any form of medium kinda way.

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Re:Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect by matt123456789 on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:24AM (#26456142)

I think you’ve just described quantum decoherence.

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