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Does The Future Really Affect the Past?The New Revolution in Physics, Cosmology & Consciousness

Talk at the Savile Club, London UK April 21, 2015

Jack Sarfatti

Now don’t you go right past

you mustn’t drive too fast

The future affects the past

Space time continuum, Space time continuum

Who knows where we’re from …

Excerpt from fellow Savilian Richard Fordham’s song composed especially for this occasion

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past.”

Burnt Norton Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsowkvhFns

The Important Big Picture

Problems How do we unify Einstein’s general relativity of the

gravitational field with the quantum field theory of the electro-weak and strong forces?

Is time travel to the past through wormhole stargates possible?

See Cal Tech’s Kip Thorne’s movie Interstellar for example where this question is explored in a “science-faction” pop way.

What is consciousness? How can we explain our self-awareness in a scientific way? This is David Chalmer’s “hard problem.”

How real is real? For example, do we live in a hologram simulation? See Nick Bostrum’s book on advanced super-intelligence for example.

Are we alone in the multi-verse?

What about God?

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

As Albert Einstein said “God does not play dice

with the universe” we can now arrive at a post-

quantum view of things and say “He loads the

dice back from the future”.

Future events are contributory causes of present

ones – Past (Causality) is interacting with our

Future (Retro-Causality) at the junction of the

present moment called the ‘now’ moment

FEELING THE FUTURE: IS

PRECOGNITION POSSIBLE?

MOST SCIENCE PAPERS don’t begin with a description of psi, those “anomalous processes of information or energy transfer” … It’s even less common for a serious science paper, published in an elite journal, to show that psi is a real phenomenon. But that’s exactly what Daryl Bem of Cornell University has demonstrated in his new paper, “Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect,” which was just published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

http://www.wired.com/2010/11/feeling-the-future-is-precognition-possible/

Back From the Future A series of quantum experiments shows that

measurements performed in the future can influence the present. Does that mean the universe has a destiny—and the laws of physics pull us inexorably toward our prewritten fate?

By Zeeya Merali|Thursday, August 26, 2010, Discover Magazine

This article is about the work of David Bohm’s protégé Yakir Aharonov and his students on the interference of future to present “destiny” quantum information flows with past to present “history” quantum information flows to create “weak measurements” in the present that have useful laboratory applications.

Published scientific papers on future

“destiny” influence on past is

growing. Martial arts students influence the past by Julian Brown (1994) (review)

The strange properties of psychokinesis by H. Schmidt (1987)

Channeling psi effects by H. Schmidt (unpublished manuscript)

Channeling evidence for a PK effect to independent observers by H. Schmidt, R. Morris, and L. Rudolph (1986)

Mental influence on machine-generated random events by D. Radin (1981)

PK tests with pre-recorded and pre-inspected seed numbers by H. Schmidt (1981)

Exploratory PK Tests with a Programmable High Speed Random Number Generator by D.J. Bierman and J.M. Houtkooper (1975)

PK Effect on Pre-Recorded Targets by H. Schmidt (1976)

Comparison of a teleological model with a quantum collapse model of psi by H. Schmidt (1984)

Comparison of PK action on two different random number generators by H. Schmidt (1974)

Observation of a PK effect under highly controlled conditions by H. Schmidt (1993)

Addition effect for PK on prerecorded targets by H. Schmidt (1985)

Can an effect precede its cause? A model of a noncausal world* by H. Schmidt (1978)

Collapse of the state vector and PK effect* by H. Schmidt (1981)

PK tests with a high-speed random number generator* by H. Schmidt (1973)

A radioactivity test of psycho-kinesis by J. Beloff and L. Evans (1961)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/

CAUSALLY SYMMETRIC BOHM

MODEL

Roderick I. Sutherland

Centre for Time, Department of Philosophy,

University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia

“A version of Bohm’s model incorporating

retrocausality is presented, the aim being to

explain the nonlocality of Bell’s theorem while

maintaining Lorentz invariance in the underlying

ontology. The strengths and weaknesses of this

alternative model are compared with those of the

standard Bohm model.”

Free Will and Retrocausality in the

Quantum World

A conference held under the auspices of the JTF-

funded project, New Agendas for the Study of

Time

Venue: Free Will and Retrocausality in the

Quantum World

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College,

Cambridge

Dates: 1—4 July 2014

Why retrocausality — and why

free will?

“The 'classic' motivation for retrocausal models in QM stems from Bell's Theorem, and the nonlocality it seems to entail. Nonlocality is often felt to be counterintuitive in itself, and the source of an unresolved tension between quantum theory and special relativity. As Bell himself described the implications of his famous result: ‘[I]t's a deep dilemma, and the resolution of it will not be trivial ... [T]he cheapest resolution is something like going back to relativity as it was before Einstein, when people like Lorentz and Poincaré thought that there was an aether — a preferred frame of reference — but that our measuring instruments were distorted by motion in such a way that we could not detect motion through the aether’.’’

Trinity College Retrocausality & Free Will

No!

Backward in Time Entanglement?

Yes! John Archibald Wheeler and Richard Feynman introduced

future to past electromagnetism back in the 1940s in such a way as to be consistent with the apparent lack of precognition.

Olivier Costa de Beauregard in Paris applied their idea to quantum theory in the 1950s and showed that the apparent faster than light quantum entanglement is really a “Feynman zig-zag” involving future-to-past combined with past-to-future quantum information flows.

This is consistent with Einstein’s key idea behind special relativity. There is no need for the preferred frame of reference. Indeed Sutherland has shown how to incorporate this into Bohm’s theory.

Many physicists since then further developed this basic idea including I.J. Good, Fred Hoyle, Yakir Aharonov, John Cramer, Sheldon Goldstein and their students, Henry Stapp, Roger Penrose, Huw Price, Ken Wharton, Fred Alan Wolf and myself as well as others.

Emission of light as a loop in

time.

Seemingly faster-than-light nonlocal

entanglement is really a retrocausal double loop

in time.

Back-From-The Future Influence “As Bell was well aware, the dilemma can be avoided if the

properties of quantum systems are allowed to depend on what happens to them in the future, as well as in the past. Like most researchers interested in these issues, however, Bell felt that the cure would be worse than the disease — he thought that this kind of “retrocausality” would conflict with free will, and with assumptions fundamental to the practice of science. (He said that when he tried to think about retrocausality, he “lapsed into fatalism”.)

If this objection to retrocausality in QM is well-founded, it raises interesting issues about the nature and origins of this "free will", that turns out to play such a surprising role in the foundations of physics. If the objection is not well-founded, then it is high time it is moved aside, so that the retrocausal approach can be given the attention it otherwise seems to deserve.”

Trinity College Retrocausality and Free Will Workshop

Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Victorian Gentleman,

Harvard Porcellian Club wrote:

“Science proceeds as if the past was the home of

explanation; whereas the future, and the future alone,

holds the key to the mysteries of the present. When

the first cell divided, the meaning of that division was

to be discovered in the future, not in the past; when

some pre-human ancestor first uttered a human

sound, the significance of that sound was to be

interpreted by human language, not by apish grunts;

when the first plant showed solicitude for its seed, the

interest of that solicitude lay in the promise of

maternal affection. Things must be judged in the light

of the coming morning, not of the setting stars”. -

Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “An Apology for Old Maids” (

1908)

“Creation faces the future” “There are invisible ways of conveyance by which

some great thing doth touch our souls, and by which we tend to it. Do you not feel yourself drawn by the expectation and desire of some Great Thing?” -Henry Dwight Sedgwick, “The House of Sorrow” (1908)

‘It is not the past which, like an uncoiling spring, pushes us on; creation faces the future, and is drawn onward by an irresistible attraction. “For though it be a maxim in the schools,” says Thomas Traherne, “that there is no love of a thing unknown, yet I have found that things unknown have a secret influence on the soul, and, like the centre of the earth unseen, violently attract it. We love we know not what…”

- H D Sedgwick

Sir James Jeans “The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-

mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.” The Mysterious Universe, page 137.

“I incline to the idealistic theory that consciousness is fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness, not consciousness from the material universe... In general the universe seems to me to be nearer to a great thought than to a great machine. It may well be, it seems to me, that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.”

Creation of our observable universe “causal

diamond” piece of the multiverse

Most of the world stuff is dark

Dark matter voids make our universe

look like a giant brain’s neural

network.

Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli

1958 “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The

question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.”

“cosmology without apology

no-one knows the topology

only craziness will find the way

breaking down the rulebooks of today

smashing beliefs is half the job

stealing the future just to rob

the meaning of the universe will be clear

when we find a route from here to there”

Excerpt from Richard Fordham’s song.

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of

Time

“... if we do discover a complete theory, it should

in time be understandable in broad principle by

everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall

all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary

people, be able to take part in the discussion of

the question of why it is that we and the universe

exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the

ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we

would know the mind of God.”

I first recognized the quantum entanglement problem with

special relativity in 1961 at Brandeis University before it

became mainstream, but I was told to “shut up and

calculate.”

The history is given in MIT Physics Professor David Kaiser’s

award-winning book

https://archive.org/details/DavidKaiser-HowTheHippiesSavedPhysics-

Iqc-2012

Einstein’s ‘Spooky Physics’ Gets More Entangled

by Clara Moskowitz | June 03, 2009

Quantum mechanics predicts that two or more

particles can become "entangled" so that even

after they are separated in space, when an action

is performed on one particle, the other particle

responds immediately. Physicists still don’t agree

how the particles send these instantaneous

messages to each other, but somehow, once they

are entwined, they retain a fundamental

connection.

This bizarre idea riled Einstein so much he called

it "spooky telepathic action at a distance.”

Two entangled mechanical oscillators

made up of two pairs of trapped ions.

When one pair was forced to change its movement, the other

pair did as well.

Quantum Field Theory + Einstein’s

GR Only about 4% of our observable universe is made of

real particles that can be directly detected by absorbers.

The rest 96% is made of virtual particles inside the quantum vacuum.

Virtual light and other spin 0, spin 1, spin 2 “bosons” cause repulsive anti-gravity fields that act like dark energy.

Virtual electron-positron pairs and other spin ½ fermions cause attractive gravity fields that act like dark matter.

If the explanation is this simple, then attempts to measure real dark matter particles will fail just like Michelson and Morley’s attempt to measure the motion of Earth through the mechanical aether failed over a hundred years ago.

Our Observable Block Universe

Have we found the

MIT’s Max Tegmark’s Multiverse

Stephen Hawking’s “Mind of

God” We have also found that our universe is on a run-away-

mode and this accelerated expansion is due to the presence of dark energy

This has given evidence that we live in a vast cosmic hologram – the 3-d holographic world is a projection from a 2-d plane future cosmic horizon/de Sitter future dark energy cosmological event horizon – this is centre of cosmic intelligence or the Mind of God towards which we are approaching – the Teilhard de Chardin’s ‘Omega Point’ /hardware geometrodynamic computer with ~ 10123 qubits

Are we really simulated back-from-the-future 3D images in the 2D Mind of God on our future dark energy cosmological horizon? It’s a crazy idea. Is it crazy enough to be true? We don’t yet know. But many theoretical physicists are playing with these kinds of bizarre ideas that the universe is a hologram, a simulation software program.

Max Tegmark’s Levels 1 and 2 Classical Reality or

Rocklike Explicate Order

1st level of Reality: David Bohm’s Outer Order or

Explicate Order which obeys deterministic laws of

Classical Physics – Newtonian universe as well

space-time geometries that influence

matter/energy and back reactions of

matter/energy on space-time geometries

(bending/curvature) following Einstein’s general

theory of relativity.. (4 dimensional space-time

geometry – influences matter/energy telling them

how to move and vice versa back reactions of

matter/energy on space-time bending/ curvature

giving rise to real gravity.)

Tegmark’s Level 3 Reality: Thought-

Like Patterns of Information

The stability, the hardness, the diversity of matter

is due to this thought-like patterns which exist

beyond space-time but influence the structure of

matter within space-time.

These thought-like patterns the quantum fields

the Schrodinger waves or psi waves are not

consciousness yet.

This is quantum reality dominated by thought like

patterns of information but they are still not

conscious. The thought like patterns of

information (they are still physical fields and they

influence Levels1 & 2) are guiding the behaviour

of Levels 1 & 2 matter and spacetime geometry

classical fields.

Quantum theory is not good enough

to explain our consciousness.

“It is argued that immense physical resources -

for nonlocal communication, espionage, and

exponentially-fast computation - are hidden from

us by quantum noise, and that this noise is not

fundamental but merely a property of an

equilibrium state ... It is suggested that 'non-

quantum' or nonequilibrium matter might exist …

Nonequilibrium matter could be used to send

instantaneous signals, to violate the uncertainty

principle, …, to eavesdrop on quantum key

distribution, and to outpace quantum computation

(solving NP-complete problems in polynomial

time).” Antony Valentini

Post-Quantum Physics of Consciousness

Consciousness comes from entanglement signal non-locality in the sense of the excerpt from Antony Valentini in the last slide.

Einstein struggled for ten years to extend his 1905 special theory of relativity to his general theory of relativity of the gravitational field He needed two physical ideas and one mathematical idea:

Equivalence Principle – weightlessness in free fall

Newton’s action-reaction principle generalized to all influences of A on B.

The local frame of reference invariant tensor calculus.

Action-Reaction Explains Gravity

Special relativity unified space with time and

energy with mass, but it could not explain gravity.

The reason was that the unified space-time was

rigid. It told matter how to move in the absence of

real forces, but there was no direct back-reaction

of matter on the space-time continuum geometric

field itself.

Einstein’s final gravity field tensor equations

restore the generalized Newtonian principle of no

action without a reaction. The equations show

how unified mass-energy curves spacetime.

Action-Reaction and Time

The quantum wave-particle duality is the same as

mind-matter duality. Bohr was already aware of

this.

The particle is approximated as a test particle in

orthodox quantum theory. It is acted upon by the

wave, but does not back-react on the wave - not

so in post-quantum theory.

The wave acts on the particle in the present both

from the past and the future.

The particle back-reacts on the wave in the

present both from the past and the future.

The former is memory. The latter is precognition.

Action-Reaction Explains Consciousness Quantum theory as taught today is in the same position

that special relativity was before Einstein’s 1915 explanation of real gravity as spacetime curvature from the direct back-reaction of the mass-energy spacetime acts on.

The entangled quantum information fields pilot the motion of matter in a much weirder nonlocal-retrocausal way than does the spacetime continuum, but without direct-back-reaction of matter on them in orthodox quantum theory that works only for the less complex lifeless functions of matter.

Quantum information pilot fields are intrinsically mental. Direct back-reaction of matter on its pilot field excites a conscious experience in that pilot field. That is the basic hypothesis that allows naturally conscious AI in androids and in many other material environments including perhaps the surfaces of black holes and our future dark energy cosmological event horizon that literally may be the world hologram “brain” of Hawking’s “Mind of God.” A crazy idea - is it crazy enough to be true?

The Future Affects the Past