Two Arrows of Time in Nonlocal Particle Dynamics

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-02798-2_7zbMATH Open1318.81011arXivquant-ph/0210207OpenAlexW1802077955WikidataQ62036711 ScholiaQ62036711MaRDI QIDQ5262726FDOQ5262726

Authors: Roderich Tumulka 

Publication date: 16 July 2015

Published in: Direction of Time (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Considering what the world would be like if backwards causation were possible is usually mind-bending. Here I discuss something that is easier to study: a toy model that incorporates a very restricted sort of backwards causation. It defines particle world lines by means of a kind of differential delay equation with negative delay. The model presumably prohibits signalling to the past and superluminal signalling, but allows nonlocality while being fully covariant. And that is what constitutes the model's value: it is an explicit example of the possibility of Lorentz invariant nonlocality. That is surprising in so far as many authors thought that nonlocality, in particular nonlocal laws for particle world lines, must conflict with relativity. The development of this model was inspired by the search for a fully covariant version of Bohmian mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210207

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zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicsrelativityquantum nonlocalitydifferential delay equationsbackwards causation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

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• A microscopic Liouville arrow of time

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