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dc.contributor.authorPegg, David
dc.contributor.editorM. C. Kafatos and D. Chopra
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:02:53Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:02:53Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.isbn9781938024269
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/68102
dc.description.abstractThe retrocausality inherent in the retrodictive description of a quantum optical device called the quantum scissors allows this device to be used as a non-deterministic time machine. We show that the device can be used to model the time travel paradox of retrospective suicide. Here a man goes back in time and interferes with his own birth, weakening his infant self in such a way that he is killed by the time machine and is unable to interfere with his own birth. We find that the paradox is avoided by interfering quantum mechanical amplitudes making the time travel event impossible in this case. A slight modification that limits the interference with the birth so that the infant is only injured by the time machine to give a self -consistent cycle does, however, render the time travel event possible. This lends support to the idea that time travel is only possible if it yields a self-consistent cycle that avoids a paradox.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCosmology Science Publishers
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.publisher.urihttp://cosmology.com/Contents18.html
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleThe Time Machine of Consciousness - Quantum Physics of Mind: Time Travel, Cosmology, Relativity, Neuroscience
dc.relation.ispartofchapter26
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom171
dc.relation.ispartofpageto186
dc.relation.ispartofvolume18
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchQuantum Physics not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode020699
dc.titleQuantum mechanical model of a time travel paradox
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
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gro.date.issued2015-05-25T05:45:20Z
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gro.griffith.authorPegg, David T.


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