Stéphane Durand 2002 J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 4 S351 doi:10.1088/1464-4266/4/4/319
An amusing analogy: modelling quantum-type behaviours with wormhole-based time travel
Stéphane Durand
Show affiliationsWhen backward time travel through wormholes is taken into account, classical physics loses its determinism and allows simulation of some quantum behaviours. We show how it is possible to simulate a non-local wavefunction reduction-type effect, i.e. we present a mechanical analogy for the collapse of the wavefunction of an entangled state of two removed particles. This situation can be seen as the simplest EPR situation, i.e. the situation where there is just one direction to measure along the spin (or the correlated properties). We present no rigorous results here, just a different point of view about something that is generally thought to be impossible: modelling a quantum indeterministic and non-local behaviour with a mechanical system.
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Issue 4 (August 2002)
Received 15 December 2001
Published 29 July 2002
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An amusing analogy: modelling quantum-type behaviours with wormhole-based time travel
Stéphane Durand 2002 J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 4 S351
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