Well, it's done! Now onto peer review!

Jan 18, 2021

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Well, it's done! Now onto peer review!Thanks to your donations AND patience, I am confident in what I've been calling the "time-traveling photon" effect. It has taken me almost two years to believe it, analyze the data and write it up, but I got there. I'm so grateful to my encouraging team (see Acknowledgements in the paper) as well as all of you.
Here's a video that hopefully conveys my gratitude:
 

In the video I lied about the link because I got excited to let you all know ahead of time. The non-peer-reviewed paper itself should be released on http://Arxiv.org around Tuesday afternoon Eastern time, 1/19/21. You can search Arxiv for "Mossbridge" and "Causally ambiguous duration sorting (CADS)" to find it.
Again, many thanks for all your support -- and onward, to peer review!

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Cindy Wu

So exciting! I love your videos. Is this the pre-print? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349106030_Long_time-frame_causally_ambiguous_behavior_demonstrated_in_an_optical_system I wasn't able to locate a pre-print on arXiv.org.

Mar 07, 20211

Bert PoolBacker

Julia, thanks for putting in all the work, doing all the runs, logging all the results and doing the analysis. I am really looking forward to reading your paper!

Jan 18, 20211

Elizabeth NestorBacker

Very exciting! so glad that your time and effort has been rewarded.

Jan 18, 20211

Julia MossbridgeResearcher

Turns out it will be released at 1am GMT on Wednesday morning, for those who are chomping at the bit!

Jan 18, 20210

About This Project

Are we catching photons traveling in time?

Northwestern University

We plan to replicate and extend unpublished pilot results suggesting that photons to be emitted in the future affect interference patterns detected in the past.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.