Back علية معكوسة Arabic Retrocausalitat Catalan Retrocausalidad Spanish علیت معکوس FA Causalité inversée French Retrokausalitas ID 逆因果律 Japanese Retrocausalidade Portuguese Retrocauzalitate Romanian Ретропричинность Russian
Retrocausality, or backwards causation, is a concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an earlier one.[1][2] In quantum physics, the distinction between cause and effect is not made at the most fundamental level and so time-symmetric systems can be viewed as causal or retrocausal.[3][page needed] Philosophical considerations of time travel often address the same issues as retrocausality, as do treatments of the subject in fiction, but the two phenomena are distinct.[1]
- ^ a b Faye, Jan (2001-08-27). "Backward Causation". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 2006-12-24.
- ^ Barry, Patrick (September 2006). "What's done is done…". New Scientist. 191 (2571): 36–39. doi:10.1016/s0262-4079(06)60613-1. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
- ^ Sheehan, Daniel P. (2006). Frontiers of Time: Retrocausation - Experiment and Theory; San Diego, California, 20-22 June 2006. Melville, New York: American Institute of Physics. ISBN 978-0735403611.