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Quantum Experiment Shows How Time Doesn t Exist As We Think It Does (Mind-Altering)
July 20, 2015 by Arjun Walia. 149 comments.
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We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to
explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics
. In reality, it contains the only mystery. Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate of
the twentieth century (Radin, Dean. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences In
A Quantum Reality. New York, Paraview Pocket Books, 2006)
The concept of time is a weird one, and the world of quantum physics is even weird
er. There is no shortage of observed phenomena which defy our understanding of l
ogic, bringing into play thoughts, feelings, emotions
consciousness itself, and
a post-materialist view of the universe. This fact is no better illustrated than
by the classic double slit experiment, which has been used by physicists (repea
tedly) to explore the role of consciousness and its role in shaping/affecting ph
ysical reality. (source) The dominant role of a physical material (Newtonian) un
iverse was dropped the second quantum mechanics entered into the equation and sh
ook up the very foundation of science, as it continues to do today.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from conscio
usness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, every
thing that we regard as existing, postulating consciousness.
Max Planck, theore
tical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1918
There is another groundbreaking, weird experiment that also has tremendous impli
cations for understanding the nature of our reality, more specifically, the natu
re of what we call time.
It s known as the delayed-choice experiment, or quantum eraser,
ed a modified version of the double slit experiment.

and it can be consider

To understand the delayed choice experiment, you have to understand the quantum
double slit experiment.
In this experiment, tiny bits of matter (photons, electrons, or any atomic-sized
object) are shot towards a screen that has two slits in it. On the other side o
f the screen, a high tech video camera records where each photon lands. When sci

entists close one slit, the camera will show us an expected pattern, as seen in
the video below. But when both slits are opened, an interference pattern emerges
t
hey begin to act like waves. This doesn t mean that atomic objects are observed as
a wave (even though it recently has been observed as a wave), they just act tha
t way. It means that each photon individually goes through both slits at the sam
e time and interferes with itself, but it also goes through one slit, and it goe
s through the other. Furthermore, it goes through neither of them. The single pi
ece of matter becomes a wave of potentials, expressing itself in the form of multi
ple possibilities, and this is why we get the interference pattern.
How can a single piece of matter exist and express itself in multiple states, wi
thout any physical properties, until it is measured or observed? Furthermore, how do
es it choose which path, out of multiple possibilities, it will take?
Then, when an observer decides to measure and look at which slit the piece of matt
er goes through, the wave of potential paths collapses into one single path. The p
article goes from becoming, again, a wave of potentials into one particle taking a
single route. It s as if the particle knows it s being watched. The observer has so
me sort of effect on the behavior of the particle.
You can view a visual demonstration/explanation of the double slit experiment he
re.
This quantum uncertainty is defined as the ability, according to the quantum mech
anic laws that govern subatomic affairs, of a particle like an electron to exist
in a murky state of possibility to be anywhere, everywhere or nowhere at all
un
til clicked into substantiality by a laboratory detector or an eyeball. (New York
Times)
According to physicist Andrew Truscott, lead researcher from a study published b
y the Australian National University, the experiment suggests that reality does n
ot exist unless we are looking at it. It suggests that we are living in a hologra
phic-type of universe. (source)
Delayed Choice/Quantum Eraser/Time
So, how is all of this information relevant to the concept of time? Just as the
double slit experiment illustrates how factors associated with consciousness col
lapse the quantum wave function (a piece of matter existing in multiple potentia
l states) into a single piece of matter with defined physical properties (no lon
ger a wave, all those potential states collapsed into one), the delayed choice e
xperiment illustrates how what happens in the present can change what happens(ed
) in the past. It also shows how time can go backwards, how cause and effect can
be reversed, and how the future caused the past.
Like the quantum double slit experiment, the delayed choice/quantum eraser has b
een demonstrated and repeated time and time again. For example, Physicists at Th
e Australian National University (ANU) have conducted John Wheeler s delayed-choic
e thought experiment, the findings were recently published in the journal Nature
Physics. (source)
In 2007 (Science 315, 966, 2007), scientists in France shot photons into an appa
ratus and showed that their actions could retroactively change something which h
ad already happened.
If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single
system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects mimic not only instantaneous a
ction-at-a-distance, but also, as seen here, influence of future actions on past
events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded.
Asher Peres, pio
neer in quantum information theory (source)(source)(source)

The list literally goes on and on, and was first brought to the forefront by Joh
n Wheeler, in 1978, which is why I am going to end this article with his explana
tion of the delayed choice experiment. He believed that this experiment was best
explained on a cosmic scale.
Cosmic Scale Explanation
He asks us to imagine a star emitting a photon billions of years ago, heading in
the direction of planet Earth. In between, there is a galaxy. As a result of wh
at s known as gravitational lensing, the light will have to bend around the galaxy i
n order to reach Earth, so it has to take one of two paths, go left or go right.
Billions of years later, if one decides to set up an apparatus to catch the photo
n, the resulting pattern would be (as explained above in the double slit experim
ent) an interference pattern. This demonstrates that the photon took one way, an
d it took the other way.
One could also choose to peek at the incoming photon, setting up a telescope on ea
ch side of the galaxy to determine which side the photon took to reach Earth. Th
e very act of measuring or watching which way the photon comes in means it can onl
y come in from one side. The pattern will no longer be an interference pattern r
epresenting multiple possiblities, but a single clump pattern showing one way.
What does this mean? It means how we choose to measure now affects what direction
the photon took billions of years ago. Our choice in the present moment affected
what had already happened in the past .
This makes absolutely no sense, which is a common phenomenon when it comes to qu
antum physics. Regardless of our ability make sense of it, it s real.
This experiment also suggests that quantum entanglement (which has also been ver
ified, read more about that here) exists regardless of time. Meaning two bits of
matter can actually be entangled, again, in time.
Time as we measure it and know it, doesn t really exist.
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