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Old 07-18-2008, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Gukkor View Post
Retrocausality is, as I see it, a logical contradiction. If an effect actually results in the cause, rather than the other way around, then the two events have just switched roles (the cause became the effect, the effect became the cause), and we're still left with a typical causal scenario. You can't have "reverse causality" anymore than you can have "reverse change."
But then, your argument basis itself in a strictly linear and one-directional view of time, whereas the article was based on a different view of time, as stated by the expert physicists who have studied it.
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