Tiden og de første årsager

Jeg har i min tidligere artikel "Q" været inde på, at kvantemekaniske begivenheder kan ses som første årsager i de årsags-virknings kæder der understøtter den verden vi lever i.

Senere er jeg stødt på lignende fremstillinger flere steder, men mest tydeligt i en artikel af William R. Wharton: Time and Causality.

I artiklen skriver Wharton blandt andet:

"Every causal chain must have a first cause. In quantum mechanics it appears that any measurement on a system, forcing it to acquire a specific value for the measure quantity, becomes a first cause in newly created causal chains. This measurement can also be considered a boundary condition on the mathematical formulation of the quantum mechanical wavefunction. It would be the final boundary condition for the wavefunction existing before the measurement and the initial boundary condition for the wavefunction existing after the measurement. The actual measurement creates a discontinuity between the before and after wavefunctions. Science can not deal well with first causes especially if they appear arbitrary and lack symmetry. I interpret these measurements as first causes, and with backward causation we can restore the time symmetry of these first causes. Hawking’s aversion with first causes is what motivates him to reject causal chains. There is irony here because the long history of success in science comes from describing and predicting phenomena in terms of causal chains."

Læg mærke til, at disse kvantebegivenheder stadig er første årsager selv om de skulle være forbundet med årsag-virkning der går baglæns i tid!

Det sidste lyder skørt, men kan så vidt jeg kan se forklare mange ting. Blandt andet det såkaldte "forsinket valg eksperiment" der virkelig er en kvantemekanisk mærkværdighed.