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We apply the quantum potential approach to a ‘delayed-choice’ experiment considered by Wheeler and show that there is no need to conclude that the past has had no existence except insofar as it is recorded in the present.
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Bohm, D., Dewdney, C. & Hiley, B. A quantum potential approach to the Wheeler delayed-choice experiment. Nature 315, 294–297 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/315294a0
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