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Originally Posted by renormalised
so long as the equations are obeyed and the fundamental laws are reversible (which is believed to be the case), then a cause in the future tense can have consequences in the past.
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Almost Carl!
If you take a measurement after an event has elapsed, you cannot project the outcome back to the start of the event by deterministic devolution. You must literally insert parameters by hand - which can only be known after the event has occurred and been measured (thus preserving the future) - into the mathematics to allow that to happen. Likewise, an event starting point cannot give us a realistic answer simply by allowing the event to evolve according to deterministic laws…the history vectors do not match the destiny vectors.
This means that two experiments setup to be exactly the same, can and do evolve separate outcomes; they are never the same! How can two identical particles with identical states and values evolve differently???
As Einstein alluded to, perhaps there really is a hidden variable which we are yet to see. Although Bell showed this not to be the case, he wanted it to be true…perhaps in time this will be revised. Perhaps the LHC may find something which sheds light on the argument...perhaps it will find jack.
Both men believed that something may reside between the particles and within the space (Damn, we're almost back to relativity again).
Cheers
Mark