Lapsing Quickly into Fatalism: Bell on Backward Causation
This is a dialogue between Huw Price and Travis Norsen, loosely inspired by a letter that Price received from J. S. Bell in 1988. The main topic of discussion is Bell’s views about retrocausal approaches to quantum theory and their relevance to contemporary issues.
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doaj-1ce707605e074bb8b83d11a671e9bad62021-02-23T00:04:58ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002021-02-012325125110.3390/e23020251Lapsing Quickly into Fatalism: Bell on Backward CausationTravis Norsen0Huw Price1Department of Physics, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USADepartment of Physics, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USAThis is a dialogue between Huw Price and Travis Norsen, loosely inspired by a letter that Price received from J. S. Bell in 1988. The main topic of discussion is Bell’s views about retrocausal approaches to quantum theory and their relevance to contemporary issues.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/2/251quantum theoryretrocausalitysuperdeterminismJ S Bell |
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Lapsing Quickly into Fatalism: Bell on Backward Causation |
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This is a dialogue between Huw Price and Travis Norsen, loosely inspired by a letter that Price received from J. S. Bell in 1988. The main topic of discussion is Bell’s views about retrocausal approaches to quantum theory and their relevance to contemporary issues. |
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