A typical recipe explains how to cook a dish: step by step, from the initial ingredients to the finished result. The new approach flips the logic: imagine that the future pie itself dictates how much flour to add now. In the quantum world, researchers suggest, a particle receives signals from the future measurement outcome. This outcome determines what we see in the experiment. Such a model is called a backward-time model: future events influence the past at the quantum level.

Physicists, including John Bell, have spent decades searching for the source of quantum randomness — the unpredictability of measurement outcomes that seems inherent in nature. The backward-time model not only explains this randomness but also serves as an alternative proof: quantum states are not a computational trick but reality. Unlike the standard interpretation, where randomness is fundamental, here it emerges as an averaging of all possible 'recipes' proposed by the future. We cannot see further ahead than physics allows, so we perceive this as randomness.

This resembles spacetime curvature on microscopic scales: time ceases to be a one-way arrow and begins to resemble a two-way road. The rules of the Standard Model, the fundamental theory of particles and interactions, make sense if we allow time to flow in both directions. Meanwhile, no signal travels faster than the speed of light, so causality in the usual sense is not violated. And entropy (a measure of uncertainty, chaos, or, in this context, our ignorance of these backward influences) increases because we do not see the full picture of bidirectional time.