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View SchemaQuantum Theory Looks at Time Travel
| Authors | Daniel M. Greenberger, Karl Svozil |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0506027 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506027 |
| DOI | 10.1007/3-540-26669-0_4 |
Abstract
We introduce a quantum mechanical model of time travel which includes two figurative beam splitters in order to induce feedback to earlier times. This leads to a unique solution to the paradox where one could kill one's grandfather in that once the future has unfolded, it cannot change the past, and so the past becomes deterministic. On the other hand, looking forwards towards the future is completely probabilistic. This resolves the classical paradox in a philosophically satisfying manner.
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