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Huffington Post: Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn’t Set in Stone.

“More recently (Science 315, 966, 2007), scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus, and showed that what they did could retroactively change something that had already happened. As the photons passed a fork in the apparatus, they had to decide whether to behave like particles or waves when they hit a beam splitter. Later on - well after the photons passed the fork - the experimenter could randomly switch a second beam splitter on and off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle actually did at the fork in the past. At that moment, the experimenter chose his history.” From this moment on, I’m choosing a different history.  Thank you, science!

08/20/10 • 12:29 PM • ScholarlyScience • No Comments

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