Does the future influence the present?

Here's a cool little article that asks that question and provides an experiment that shows how that "could" be true in a quantum sense.

http://secondnexus.com/technology-and-innovation/physicists-demonstrate-how-time-can-seem-to-run-backward-and-the-future-can-affect-the-past/

Man...I love stuff like this. :silly:

Connor L. wrote: Here's a cool little article that asks that question and provides an experiment that shows how that "could" be true in a quantum sense. /

It would be true if I was born in the future and was growing younger or liveing time backwards? Would I know that Connor is going to post next?

Its a long stretch to make - but - if the brain was sensitive to such effects it would explain phenomena like this:

http://cornellsun.com/blog/2010/11/12/psychic-precognition-may-exist-cornell-study-finds/
http://phys.org/news/2010-11-precognition.html

“The remarkable finding [we made] is that their physiological responses are observed to occur about 2-3 seconds prior to the appearance of the picture, even before the computer has decided whether to present a non-arousing or an arousing picture,” Bem said.

Also, what we want the future to be influences how we act in the present.

the hit rate for those shown erotic stimuli was 53.1 percent, while the 49.8 percent hit rate of those shown non-erotic pictures did not deviate from chance.

Perhaps the subject matter was a motivator. They were young people and this could be on their minds a higher % of the time?

This reminds me of an experiment that has been ongoing for some time - my apologies for not remembering the details: names, universities etc. - where pseudo-random number generators placed in over half a dozen places around the world are examined for unusual activity - non-random numbers. They have reported that in instances of large masses of people being involved in or witnessing emotionally charged events, there tends to be a corresponding influence on the randomness of these machines.

I really wish I could remember more about it, because I'd love to provide links. But there have been instances occurring on local levels such as natural disasters that got some big spikes in non-randomness, there were also events that were perceived a positive having the same effect - the speech Barack Obama made after being confirmed as the first black president also spiked the machines' results into non-random activity. It would seem that mass consciousness may perhaps have an effect on their results somehow.

Where this ties into the concept of backwards time, or retrocausality as it is known, is the largest anomalous date result received since the project's inception, that purportedly took place on September 11th 2001 - in this case the pseudo-random number generators began spitting out non-random results on a large scale a full four hours before the events took place. I'll attempt to dig up more info on the actual experiment, because I know that until I've done that it's essentially just hearsay.

Here we go, you can find more info by searching for the Global Consciousness Project.

"Right now our whole future, not just this lifetime but future lifetimes, is being decided. It’s in what we do with our mind, with our speech, with our body. Moment to moment to moment we are creating our future. Nobody else can do it for us."
~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

No pressure :ohmy: Maybe she is right!!!!