Closed timelike curves, superluminal signals, and "free will" in universal quantum mechanics

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2010-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/1006.0338v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages, revised, accepted for publication in Advanced Science Letters

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We explore some implications of the hypothesis that quantum mechanics (QM) is universal, i.e., that QM does not merely describe information accessible to observers, but that it also describes the observers themselves. From that point of view, "free will" (FW) - the ability of experimentalists to make free choices of initial conditions - is merely an illusion. As a consequence, by entangling a part of brain (responsible for the illusion of FW) with a distant particle, one may create nonlocal correlations that can be interpreted as superluminal signals. In addition, if FW is an illusion, then QM on a closed timelike curve can be made consistent even without the Deutch nonlinear consistency constraint.

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