An amusing analogy: modelling quantum-type behaviours with wormhole-based time travel

Published 29 July 2002 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Stéphane Durand 2002 J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 4 S351 DOI 10.1088/1464-4266/4/4/319

1464-4266/4/4/S351

Abstract

When 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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10.1088/1464-4266/4/4/319