Can the Future Leak Into the Present?

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Can the Future Leak Into the Present?
Putting Time in a (Leaky) Bottle

By Sharon Begley
Newsweek

July 30, 2007 issue - You can tell a lot about a subject by who its muses and mascots are. Neuroscience has philosophers who wax profound about the mind, geology has intrepid explorers and subatomic physics has ... Alice in Wonderland. "Curiouser and curiouser," as Alice said, also describes the subatomic, or quantum, world. With age, this centenarian (quantum physics is 107 years old) has gotten more bizarre.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19875410/site/newsweek/

Anyone who thinks physics is boring should read this.

 

[jayem]

Anyone who thinks physics is boring should read this.

Very intriguing indeed.

But the title about the future affecting the present is a bit misleading. AFAIK, all these weird quantum effects only pertain to subatomic particles. At the macroscopic level, where we actually live, QM collapses into ordinary physics.

Or so I thought.

 

[pgp_protector]

Very intriguing indeed.

But the title about the future affecting the present is a bit misleading. AFAIK, all these weird quantum effects only pertain to subatomic particles. At the macroscopic level, where we actually live, QM collapses into ordinary physics.

Or so I thought.

Yea, but it's only random chance that it "collapses" into ordinary physics

 

[cyberfugue]

Yea, but it's only random chance that it "collapses" into ordinary physics

Exactly the point of the article. Physicists really don't like the idea that particles only decide what to do when they "realize" they're being observed.

I like Einstein's quote about quantum physics - 'Spooky action at a distance'.

 

[Billnew]

Ok, now I get it.

Future global warming is leaking into our present.
Can we patch it? I got spackle?