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The Secret Connection Between Past and Future in the Quantum World express

Original: "Can the present be the average of the future?"
· Z. Gedik
arXiv:2604.11968 · 2026-04-13 · CC BY 4.0 · 1 min · Quantum Physics
Physicists explain quantum randomness by allowing the future to influence the past.
Abstract

Scientists proposed a model of quantum mechanics where the future influences the present. Using an invisible state moving backward in time, random events become predetermined. It's as if a film's ending changed its beginning. Could tomorrow be determining today's events?

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A typical recipe explains how to cook a dish. The new approach turns the logic around: the future pie itself dictates how much flour to add now. In the quantum world, researchers suggest, a particle receives signals from the future outcome of a measurement. That outcome determines what we see in the experiment.

Physicists, including John Stewart Bell, spent decades searching for the source of quantum randomness. A model with reverse time not only explains it but also serves as alternative proof: quantum states are not a computational trick but reality.

Randomness is just averaging all the 'recipes' proposed by the future, and we cannot look ahead further than physics allows.

It’s akin to warping of time on microscopic scales. The rules of the Standard Model gain meaning if time flows both ways. No signal travels faster than light, and entropy is a measure of our ignorance of these backward influences.

🎯 The main law of quantum physics that predicts probabilities was taken on faith for almost a century—and only today is it being derived from the idea of the future's influence.

🎬 This work echoes the ideas of the film Tenet, where the future influences the past, but here everything stays strictly within science.

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterAlbert Einstein
Tags
Standard Model spacetime curvature entropy speed of light
Laws
second law of thermodynamicsDoppler effectprinciple of constancy of the speed of lightNoether's theoremBekenstein-Hawking entropymass–energy equivalence
Original: arXiv:2604.11968 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds