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Problem is that this technology breaks our understanding of causality. So it isn't a "less wrong" type of situation so much as we have to rewrite everything. Specifically it means things that happen in the future can affect things in the past (communication past the light cone). The discoveries of quantum and relativity didn't break classical mechanics so much as extend it. But to rewrite how a sequence of events hap…
> Specifically it means things that happen in the future can affect things in the past (communication past the light cone). Sure, and that's not a problem so as long as self-consistency is preserved. > But to rewrite how a sequence of events happens, well that's a big fundamental change. Depends how you look at it. There are retrocausal explanations of quantum mechanics, for instance.
You break the lightcone...
> Depends how you look at it. There are retrocausal explanations of quantum mechanics, for instance.
Let me save people the time, there's critiques at the bottom but there is no actual evidence for retrocausal explanations: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-retrocausality/