Schroedinger equation for joint bidirectional evolution in time: astrophysical applications

TL;DR

This paper extends a quantum framework to explore astrophysical phenomena involving both forward and backward in time causation, proposing a multi-field space-time model with negative energy components affecting gravity.

Contribution

It introduces a multi-field space-time model with negative energy matter and vacuum components, extending previous quantum theories to include reverse causation in astrophysics.

Findings

Proposal of a space-time comprising multiple quantized fields including negative energy matter.

Introduction of a backward-evolving matter+vacuum component with negative energies.

Implications for gravitational and inertial masses due to negative energy contributions.

Abstract

The theoretical framework established in arXiv:quant-ph/0404103 is extended to deal with possible astrophysical manifestations of phenomena involving reverse, as well as forward, causation in time. The basic idea is that space-time comprises the direct sum of a number of quantized fields, including a distinct physical vacuum for each space in the sum. It is presumed that these fields all contribute to, and are influenced by, gravitation, but generally do not interact electromagnetically, i.e., are mutually invisible. At least one term in the sum is proposed to consist of matter+vacuum evolving backward in time; the expectation values of energies, both of matter and vacuum, of this subspace are by construction negative, with a corresponding change of sign in classical gravitational and inertial masses.