Why Delayed Choice Experiments do NOT imply Retrocausality

Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations 2 (2):183-199 (2015)
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Abstract

There is a fallacy that is often involved in the interpretation of quantum experiments involving a certain type of separation such as the: double-slit experiments, which-way interferometer experiments, polarization analyzer experiments, Stern-Gerlach experiments, and quantum eraser experiments. The fallacy leads not only to flawed textbook accounts of these experiments but to flawed inferences about retrocausality in the context of delayed choice versions of separation experiments.

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David Ellerman
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Backward causation.Jan Faye - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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