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Nothing in physics forbids information moving backward in time, provided it has no effect on whether the event communicated will happen after it arrives. So, i
by pencilguin 4y ago
Nothing in physics forbids information moving backward in time, provided it has no effect on whether the event communicated will happen after it arrives.
So, information about an earthquake or asteroid strike, or even a plane crash if you don't prevent it, is fine. You can choose not to get on the plane, based on the information. But if you did stop the plane taking off, what physical event would there be to communicate?
That is not to say information does routinely go back, or does just because somebody wants for it to. The universe appears not generally to care what people want. But if any does go back, and organic systems could pick it up, it would be adaptively advantageous to be receptive to it.
Again, just because it could happen, in principle, doesn't mean it does. It would depend on some biological structure being just incidentally sensitive to the signal, and then refined by selection. It would be a Rube Goldberg sort of process, but study of parasite lifecycles will cure you of skepticism as to nature's tolerance for dodgy complexity and marginal usefulness.