
In 1978, physicist John Archibald Wheeler posed a question that has never stopped haunting the scientific community. He imagined a photon emitted by a distant quasar billions of years ago — and demonstrated that an astronomer's choice of measurement today determines that photon's behavior in the past. The future reached back and organized the past. Wheeler called this the delayed-choice experiment, and he meant it literally. In this episode I take you through the full scientific landscape of retrocausality — the hypothesis that effects can precede their causes, that the future can influence the past — and reveals why it may be the most important scientific concept that almost no one in the general population has heard of.The evidence is staggering and converging from every direction. Leifer and Pusey's 2017 paper proving quantum theory requires retrocausality if you maintain locality and realism. Huw Price at Cambridge demonstrating the fundamental equations of physics are already...
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