The End of the Entanglement Illusion: Erased Time Paradoxes and the Mechanics of the Folded Single Wave

F.J. Duarte, T S Taylor

Vipul Badhan, Pranvi, Samreet Dhillon +1 more

Ever since the proposal of delayed choice quantum erasure and subsequent realization in the experiment by Kim et al., the interpretation and implications of delayed-choice experiments have remained a subject of intense foundational debate. This paper resolves the apparent paradox attached to the experiment using standard quantum mechanics. Using an extended Mach-Zehnder interferometer which captures every operational feature of the original experiment, we show that choosing between which-path and erasure detectors is simply a choice of measurement bases, which does not rewrite a photon's past. Furthermore, by mapping the experiment to a two-way Stern-Gerlach framework, we prove that quantum erasure is an expected result of measuring entangled states, not a physical anomaly. Ultimately, through a pedagogical game, we illustrate that the illusion of retrocausality arises from asking illegitimate questions, and that a forward-in-time description is entirely sufficient to explain the logic.

Гадам Магтымов

The “Delayed-choice quantum eraser” experiment is traditionally interpreted in the popular science mainstream as proof of retrocausality, while in the strict Copenhagen interpretation, it is reduced to fundamentally random post-selection. In this paper, this paradox is completely demystified within the framework of the Topological-Plexor kinematics of the vacuum. It is shown that the macroscopic chronology of events is never violated, and quantum randomness is an illusion. This illusion arises solely from ignoring the hidden fundamental 4D-metric (GAB) and the superluminal phase transfer by a Sine-Gordon soliton. In our discrete model, the impact of the Signal photon on the screen (in the past) generates a topological kink, which propagates along a 1D-chord at a velocity v4D ≫ c and deterministically “reprograms” the spinor phase of the Idler photon on the fly. The subsequent behavior of the Idler photon at the beam splitters (in the future) is not a probabilistic choice, but a rigid mechanical consequence of the Signal photon’s impact coordinate. The introduction of a macroscopic No-Signaling Theorem proves that this mechanism does not violate Special Relativity (SR). The Topological-Plexor paradigm (TPN/PPU) restores absolute causality, eliminates quantum mysticism, and paves the way for describing extreme cosmological states of matter.

Robert J. Kolenkow

Elitzur, A C, Dolev, S, Anton Zeilinger

When a single photon is split by a beam splitter, its two `halves' can entangle two distant atoms into an EPR pair. We discuss a time-reversed analogue of this experiment where two distant sources cooperate so as to emit a single photon. The two `half photons,' having interacted with two atoms, can entangle these atoms into an EPR pair once they are detected as a single photon. Entanglement occurs by creating indistinguishabilility between the two mutually exclusive histories of the photon. This indistinguishabilility can be created either at the end of the two histories (by `erasing' the single photon's path) or at their beginning (by `erasing' the two atoms' positions).