Intuition: The future drives the present, the now
WHAT IF
Relationship- the person you meet for the first time and have this overwhelming feeling you've met before, or even worse, you think it's your soulmate? But in the Quantum world, your future tells you you will be together. And when the present/NOW arrives later into the once-past/now-future, you wonder why you're with this person.
This can happen for years, holding on to an idea.
There isn't any love involved—just the herd instinct.
A sculptor says he sees the face inside the block and then chips away. A musician takes less than ten minutes to write a song. An artist sees the complete painting before the artist paints.
What if the energy of the future drives the present?
What if millions of people are singing a song together, creating the energy for the musician to write the music?
So where would the beginning of art begin?
The past, the present, and the future are all at once - one time.
Theoretical physicists have been developing a new theory demonstrating an exact link between asymmetry and our perception of time's direction - something Stephen Hawking called "the psychological arrow of time." In a nutshell, this theory claims physical laws will remain the same if we run time backward.
"Quantum theory has been formulated based on asymmetric concepts that reflect that we can know the past and are interested in predicting the future. But the concept of probability is independent of time," said Ognyan Oreshkov of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Standard quantum theory (as well as classical physics and the odd philosopher) says that present choices can only influence the future, not the past, a principle called ‘causality.’ However, the proposed new theory treats both causality and the psychological arrow of time as mere constraints on the information available at different times. It suggests we should adopt measurements that depend not only on the past but also on variables in the future.
It is conceivable, for instance, that in some parts of the universe, causality might be violated. If this principle were applied on a large scale, this could mean some very weird ideas: for example, your making tea in the present could be influenced by the event of your mug smashing in the future. Douglas Adams would be proud.
"Quantum theory has been formulated based on asymmetric concepts that reflect that we can know the past and are interested in predicting the future. But the concept of probability is independent of time," said Ognyan Oreshkov of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Standard quantum theory (as well as classical physics and the odd philosopher) says that present choices can only influence the future, not the past, a principle called ‘causality.’ However, the proposed new theory treats both causality and the psychological arrow of time as mere constraints on the information available at different times. It suggests we should adopt measurements that depend not only on the past but also on variables in the future.
It is conceivable, for instance, that in some parts of the universe, causality might be violated. If this principle were applied on a large scale, this could mean some very weird ideas: for example, your making tea in the present could be influenced by the event of your mug smashing in the future. Douglas Adams would be proud.