Retrocausality in Quantum Phenomena and Chemical Evolution

• Main Author: Koichiro Matsuno
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016-10-01
• Series: Information
• Subjects: chemical evolution; measurement dynamics; reaction cycle; retrocausality; time-reversal symmetry
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/7/4/62

The interplay between retrocausality and the time-reversal symmetry of the dynamical law of quantum mechanics underscores the significance of the measurement dynamics with the use of indivisible and discrete quantum particles to be mediated. One example of empirical evidence demonstrating the significance of retrocausality going along with time-reversal symmetry is seen in the operation of a reaction cycle to be expected in chemical evolution. A reaction cycle can hold itself when the causative operation of the cycle remains robust, even when facing frequent retrocausal interventions of a quantum-mechanical origin. Quantum mechanics in and of itself has potential in raising a reaction cycle in the prebiotic phase of chemical evolution, even without any help of artefactual scaffoldings of an external origin.