Does either chance or accident exist?: Re: Anti-thesis


  1. diracophile

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Top 1.   Dec 1, 2005 7:07 AM

» diracophile - Re: Anti-thesis

In response to Anti-thesis posted by dancooper:

Putting aside all the philosophical implications, what also interests me is that in describing a particle as being equivalent to its anti-particle traveling "backwards" in time, the a-particle is often described as coming from the future. But the a-part really isn't coming from the future. It departed its point of origin in the past, just like the particle did. Both particles then advance in our familiar direction of time until they coincide at the time and place we are making the measurement. I don't know enough physics to properly equate this situation to a pair of normal particles whose quantum states are intertwined or co-mingled. Also, if parallel universes exist, do they really affect this debate about cause and effect at all, or do they only extend the "frozen tableu" without making it any less frozen?

-- posted by diracophile


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