So recently I've been finishing my work on a new theoretical physics model, and I realized that what it's telling me is that the future already exists just like the past.
I find this idea deeply disturbing on a philosophical level, because it dashes all notions of free will and indeterminacy, and I suppose that I'm rather fond of my assumption that I'm the captain of my own future. This new theory seems to be telling me that we're just along for the ride: whatever we do - whatever we will do, we've already done.
But on the other hand it resonates perfectly with the recent work of Yakir Aharonov and Robert Griffiths, which has found that quantum mechanics becomes elegantly symmetrical if the future boundary conditions of our experiments are predetermined just as the past boundary conditions are determined. And of course it eliminates the conventional interpretation of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation by stating that quantum events aren't uncertain after all; they're simply unknowable from the reference frame of "the present."
I wonder how you feel about this idea. Honestly it's been haunting me for weeks, and I'm still not sure how to feel about it. It would be interesting to hear how others react to this idea, because honestly I'm pretty convinced that this theory is correct.
I find this idea deeply disturbing on a philosophical level, because it dashes all notions of free will and indeterminacy, and I suppose that I'm rather fond of my assumption that I'm the captain of my own future. This new theory seems to be telling me that we're just along for the ride: whatever we do - whatever we will do, we've already done.
But on the other hand it resonates perfectly with the recent work of Yakir Aharonov and Robert Griffiths, which has found that quantum mechanics becomes elegantly symmetrical if the future boundary conditions of our experiments are predetermined just as the past boundary conditions are determined. And of course it eliminates the conventional interpretation of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation by stating that quantum events aren't uncertain after all; they're simply unknowable from the reference frame of "the present."
I wonder how you feel about this idea. Honestly it's been haunting me for weeks, and I'm still not sure how to feel about it. It would be interesting to hear how others react to this idea, because honestly I'm pretty convinced that this theory is correct.