retrocausality

Noun

Meaning

retrocausality (usually uncountable, plural retrocausalities)

(physics) Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.

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Although retrocausality is sometimes referred to in thought experiments and hypothetical analyses, causality is generally accepted to be temporally bound so that causes always precede their dependent effects. Source: Internet

Similarly, they explain entanglement as not being a true physical state but just an illusion created by ignoring retrocausality. Source: Internet

This creates retrocausality : events in the future can affect ones in the past, exactly as events in the past can affect ones in the future. Source: Internet

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