THE PHYSICS OF RETROCAUSATION AND TIME SYMMETRY - Daniel Sheehan PHD - #60

Can time symmetry in physics, combined with exceptional violations of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and the “quantum handshake” transactional interpretation of Quantum mechanics, open up main stream physics to the possibility of retro-causation? Could it help to explain the many paradoxes left open in modern physics? and is there experimental evidence for it?

Today we have the extraordinary possibility of retro-causation to get our heads around: the apparently impossible phenomenon of events in the present causing changes in the past, or future events having an effect in the present depending on how you want to look at it. Today we’ll be approaching this topic via the context of time symmetry in physics. As far back as 1947 French quantum physicist Olivier Costa de Beauregard, began to question the usual interpretation of time in quantum mechanics, intuiting that something was missing from the model for the many paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics to remain unexplained. And then, with others get on board over the years, in the 80’s, John G Kramer, agreed that the missing ingredient was found in time symmetry and he proposed a ‘quantum handshake’ between the waves passing forward and backward in time at the moment of collapse; in this Transactional Interpretation of quantum mechanics, Kramer claimed he had solved the paradoxes.

My guest today has put together this research, a re-interpretation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics based on violations where Entropy exceptionally does not hold, and theorisation about quantum correlates to consciousness to create a new theory of retro-causation, which he thinks can be tested. He is Daniel Sheehan, Author and Professor of Physics at the University of San Diego, specialist in plasma physics, violations of the 2nd Law thermodynamics and Retro-causation. He is the founder the Quantum Retro-causation symposia that met at The University of San Diego.

What we discuss:
00:00 Intro.
09:00 Time dilation: the twin paradox.
12:20 Time symmetry: reversible time functions in physics equations.
13:20 Violations of the 2nd Law, the Entropic arrow of time.
18:20 Wheeler’s bizarre altered double slit experiment.
23:15 Wheeler’s ‘Participatory Universe’.
26:00 The history of retro-causation research.
29:15 Bergmann and Lebowitz ‘Two-State Vector Formalism’ theory 1964
31:00 Kramer’s “Quantum Handshake” Transactional interpretation of QM.
35:30 Sheehan’s theory of retrocausation.
36:45 The assumption of quantum processes acting in the brain.
39:00 Issues with quantum consciousness hypotheses.
42:00 Macroscopic quantum systems.
50:00 Precognitive retro-causation experiments: Graff & Cyrus
51:45 Triple blind experiments - blind ‘even to the universe’.
55:00 Is the subject finding out what actually happened important to the result?
57:00 Emotional charge in the future, influencing the past.
59:00 Are some events in the future already fixed?
01:01:30 Global Consciousness aggregate effects in physical systems.
01:02:30 Time symmetry allows the transmission into the past of important.
01:05:00 Wider science reception of such a paradigm shifting ideas as retro-causation.
01:05:00 Getting over our Second law biology habits.

References:
Vladislav Capek & Daniel P. Sheehan, “Challenges to The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment”.
Stephen Wolfram, “Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics”
John Wheeler - Altered double double slit “Delayed Choice” experiment.
Bergmann and Lebowitz ‘Two-State Vector Formalism’ theory 1964
Kramer’s “Transactional interpretation”
Quantum biology episode
Dale E Graff, Patricia S. Cyrus, ‘Perceiving the future news: Evidence for retrocausation’ Paper
Global Consciousness project at Princeton, Roger Nelson.

“The question is more important than the answer”, author unknown.
“Order is a state of mind, not a state of matter” On Entropy, Daniel Sheehan.

[neilhopwoodsjugband]

My experiences heavily suggest that whenever you act on information about the future it's the equivalent of measuring/interacting with a wave/particle, so you cannot use future information to then erase the future information. This also can be seen as a means to preserve causality, despite interacting with future information. In short, this means that you could not have learned about your brother's accident and then used that information to avoid the event. Some events can have degrees of freedom to influence how the events evolve, but many events do not (such as sudden, quick accidents). In the case where there are no degrees of freedom you can STILL get future information, BUT, it will be vague and thus lack the utility to avoid whatever event the information is about. I call this Passive Precognition. Nature seems to judge that you would prefer some information rather than no information, despite its lack of utility. That's what you appear to have received, Dr. Sheehan. I did email on this topic this week. Thanks and good luck.

[zeideerskine]

Doctor Daniel Sheehan the physicist should really have a spiritual discussion with Doctor Daniel Sheehan the lawyer on multidimensional reality intrusions formerly known as UFOs. That would be immensely fascinating especially as far as the subject of synchronicity is concerned.

[KaliFissure]

I suggest that Time is a compactified dimension one single Planck second in size.
This is why there is no motion in time.
This is why there are energetic limits of lambda and event horizon.
This is why the closure/ reconnection happens at event horizons.
This is why there is conservation at all. Because we are closed in the present moment.

Using Kuramoto synchrony we can evolve a hyperplane of the present with matter on one side and antimatter on the other.

Though in fact, since when we push particles beyond infinity they invert, these two regions of matter and antimatter must in fact be connected.
At event horizons.

[wjcroft]

IONS research director, Dr. Dean Radin, did a groundbreaking series of EEG experiments involving retro-causation. They termed it 'presentiment'. Replicated in many labs.

[HaHa-gyvg]

The present in the interference pattern caused by the collision of the past and the future.

[Bombbashable]

I'm halfway through and I really hope he explains how he thinks the future was shown to him. I've had this happen to me and that has sent me on an endless search for how it could be

[jonathanedwardgibson]

If the beam of light travels a light year before the slot-screen shutters shut, how does this ‘change history’ along the travel path when it only resolves at very end?

[rhyothemisprinceps]

I used to work at USD and had met Dr Sheehan many years ago. I think he may have told me the story about his precognitive experience. So perhaps I already asked him why he thinks that his brother's death could have been avoided since wouldn't the same problem occur as with time travel - the consistency paradox? I have had a number of precognitive experiences - they seem useless, tbh.

[christopherweston]

Don't confuse history with the past. History can be revised the past is the present after it has been destroyed .

[iddo]

For a profound in depth explanation on retro-causation, consciousness and quantum mechanics see ‘A Brief Guide To Life, Consciousness And Other Quantum Wackiness’ by I A Gill

[markwrede]

So chill your perishables in the oven, and cook meals in the fridge.

[jozincarnate]

Lol so ignore Bell's locality, shhhh don't talk about it, But Retrocausality but the retro results I had seen were a misread of the experiment results!

The quantum Eraser experiment results were:

Bob isn’t really rewriting the past. He’s filtering Alice’s results in a way that’s difficult to follow because it’s after the fact, it’s essentially using a coincidence counter, and it’s not any random two-way choice but a decision to maintain or lose the correlation.

But some very interesting ideas here, might lead to some exciting times! ⌛⏱⏳⏰