Lost goes quantum & temporal superposition states

My favorite television show is Lost.  I’ve been obsessed with it for awhile and now, as if they needed to reel me in even more, they introduced a quantum consciousness sort of time travel storyline that hints at some of the things I’ve been discussing here, here, here, and here, as well as what’s been discussed over at The Observer Effect. It raises the question of whether or not superposition states consisting of two different times might possible exist and might this help explain seemingly inexplicable cases of déjà vu.  While it is a radical notion for certain and I’m a serious skeptic of the paranormal, there is some precedent that, at least on the quantum level, this might be possible.  In particular, the Leggett-Garg inequalities are Bell-like inequalities that provide correlations for time-separated events.  In related work, I recently showed that the Cerf-Adami inequalities are a form of the second law of thermodynamics.  Thus, as Ken Wharton agreed, it seems quantum mechanics violates the macroscopic form of the second law of thermodynamics.  In short, while the universe appears time asymmetric on a macroscopic scale, it really is time symmetric, at least microscopically.

~ by quantummoxie on February 28, 2008.