Julia Mossbridge

Julia Mossbridge

Apr 19, 2019

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Automating a double-slit setup for data gathering - DONE! And it's so COOL!

Have you ever had a job that only an engineer could do and the only engineer you know is way over-qualified for the job? And yet -- you ask that engineer to help out and the engineer agrees, even though the work is well beneath his paygrade?

That's the situation I found myself in when I asked Loren Carpenter to be on my team for the Future Photon experiment ( http://www.tinyurl.com/FuturePhotons ). In case you're unaware, Loren is a Pixar co-founder and an Oscar-winning computer scientist. And he has built some of the most innovative machines for gathering data related to subtle and not-well-understood influences. Nonetheless, thanks to his interest in quantum mechanics, he was willing to build this relatively simple and totally workable automated system for gathering data from an optical double-slit setup (by TeachSpin).

I'm ever grateful! This enables me to run many experiments, even as I sleep. YES!! Excited to start making sleeping double-slit discoveries, as well as waking ones!



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We plan to replicate and extend unpublished pilot results suggesting that photons to be emitted in the future affect interference patterns detected in the past. This may be a new example of quantum retrocausality (QR), in which choices in a quantum system seem to influence events in the past. This form of QR may be a candidate mechanism for precognition, the psychological and biological access to information about random future events.

Blast off!

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