[FRIAM] Retrocausality

[Merle Lefkoff]

David Breecker wrote:
> If I remember correctly (caveat: it's been 20 years, and I barely 
> understood it then), Feynman's "Quantum Chromodynamics" said many 
> things work well backwards, and there is no absolute forwards.  Or 
> something like that.
>
> But perhaps more interesting to this thread, I'm reading a 
> well-researched novel (Richard Power's "Echo Maker") dealing with 
> neuropathological syndromes, and it makes reference to one in which 
> cause and effect are reversed in the mind of the sufferer.
>
> Does anyone know what this syndrome is?
> db
>
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Orlando Leibovitz wrote:
>
>> Orlando Leibovitz here. The October-December issue of What Is 
>> Enlightenment magazine contains an article about the Big Bang that 
>> discusses the concept of events preceding their cause...retrocausality. 
>> It states that "Richard Feynman even offered mathematical proofs of how 
>> certain properities of physics work just as well backward as forward in 
>> time". See the attachments for the work of John Cramer at the University 
>> of Washington. Best to all.
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David,

I read Powers' book when it came out last year (for those of you who 
don't know his work, this gifted novelist is a MacArthur Fellow who 
channels his characters), and the protagonist is a victim of "Capgrass 
Syndrome" , the inability to recognize those close to you, as the result 
of a brain injury.  But I don't remember any specific reference to 
reversing cause and effect.

Merle