Apologies for all the questions, but clarification is required.
How so?
So ? Are you suggesting that the fundamentals of quantum field theory are likely to change to make those fantasies possible?
It is already happening, it just isn't mainstream yet.
But yes.
"Elementary quantum mechanics is elementary" - tautology is tautologous.
Indeed. But, I think people forget how young quantum mechanics is - how elementary it is - and they hear quantum and think the highest possible paradigm of scientific possibility. It is just the beginning, and a lot has been changed since 1935.
Movies, therefore grants? Are you sure that's how it works?
Let's keep the context: in order for a movie to posit their fantasies, they need to have a measure of scientific truth(iness) to them. Real scientists are often hired to consult scripts, providing possible (not necessarily real) options that would work with the plot.
Gene Roddenberry hired top level physicists for Star Trek, and one of his consultant noted for creating the equation that determines the number of species in a galaxy actually made several drafts of the mathematics used to determine this on the show.
And, during this time similar military projects were created that exploited the possibility and practicality of these fantasies. Some of these projects are declassified. That, of course, is just in the States.
So, no movies don't equate to grant money, but art imitates life. Someone with enough money can privately fund scientists in order to indulge their fantasies no matter how fantastic - and they do. Public and government grant money is a small percentage of grant money compared to private interests.
OK; and what was name of that particular path you studied?
I could have gone into cracking CTCs and quantum superposition, but I chose to go into quantum chromodynamics instead. If I had actually gone that route I may have been on a team that worked to debunk the paradox of backward time travel in the late 2000s.
Can you be more specific?
On the magic? A contextual extrapolation may be different in the form of an analogy:
600 years ago, if you told someone that you could manipulate the flow of electrons and produce light without fire, you would be considered a magician or demonic ally possessed. 400+ years ago, you were considered "woo woo, heretical, silly, stupid, and downright demonic" if you suggested that little living organisms caused most all illnesses in the human body. 40 years ago, you would lose your reputation, and possibly even have scholarly articles pulled if you went against the status quo, and suggested many ulcers are caused by the H. pylori bacteria, and not stress or spicy food.
Right now, with quantum mechanics, we are at another stage of witch trial in which the impossible is impossible to the contemporary population (including scientists) because that is the status quo.
"Magic" like dark matter manipulation, reverse direction CTCs, and EM remote viewing will be as obviously possible as light switches - as soon as the physics convinces people it isn't magic, but nature.
Yes. Autocorrected by mistake.
Even living entities that don't have brains to think with?
Every living entity can think; human arrogance and perceived intelligence
totems intelligence and consciousness on very crude, rudimentary categories (like the reflection self-aware test.) In reality, we do not know whether or not an ant, or protozoa has any more or less "consciousness" and ability to think than we do. We just assume so based on size, activity, behavior, and other factors
calibrated to the measure of our own rubric for consciousness and cognition. So, yes even protozoa may reason and have a sense of "morality." We see this in the animal kingdom all the time - interspecies care for example implies compassion, which implies thinking, which implies consciousness.
Are you sure it's possible to have knowledge of the future ? What do you mean by 'the collapse of time' ?
Yes it is possible to have knowledge of the future - with variable precision and accuracy. Magic(k)ians - dark magicians - have practiced divination and Oracle reads f or thousands of years with commendable precision and accuracy. Prophets have done this throughout time. Persons claiming enlightenment have been shown to have measures of precognition. There exists people with psionic abilities that have been used by the CIA and government in their remote viewing programs - fighting against Russia's and China''s own remote viewing program. Physics has caught up to the "soothsayers, oracles, prophets and enlightened," in one of the most fantastic mainstream ways of providing insight on the possibility of backward CTC travel - despite what the early "fathers" of special relativity and QM adamantly spoke against.
