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An Unfinished Examination of Retrocausality

Matthew Oldridge
2 min readSep 25, 2021

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CC image by Dom Dada. Zurich, Later Than 1905
  1. Future Matthew Helps Present Matthew To Understand The Nature of Consensus Reality, An Unfinished Meditation On The Nature of “Self”

It is an implied, if not outright true “fact” of quantum mechanics, that retrocausality may exist and in that case future Matthew is helping present Matthew out with everything from his (my) mental state, to the state of my clothes and my shabby shoes and

Time’s arrow reverses, only when I am deeply engaged in the flow the flow the flow of thought that creates reality, and makes all things “true” when I engage in consensual reality-

glasses fall from shelves and shatter & shoes become shabby and tattered & thoughts become ragged toward the ends of days & smashing my head in the wall hurts & blood flows from within.

A spilled spout of milk, a stream reverses, goes back into the carton.

Fashion from 1954 returns, frills & long shorts. Hemlines go up and down, stitches flipping and ripping.

A thought I (or Matthew) had in 1989 returns as a fragment-

a ghost is a trace is a whisp is a wisp is a …

And returns to the spume, downhill flow of thoughts.

In Gottingen Munich New Jersey Manhattan: entropy reverses entropy increases. Your mind & you…

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Matthew Oldridge
Matthew Oldridge

Written by Matthew Oldridge

Writing about creativity, books, productivity, education, particularly mathematics, music, and whatever else “catches my mind”. ~Thinking about things~

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