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byron178 said:
The problem with Wheelers experiment and the like is that the explanations either be very mysterious - or stick to QM theory and do not think!
The latter is the safest because almost all models of understanding have errors compared to the theory - for example by being (gross) simplifications - or by introducing unneccessary ideas that are not part of the theory.
A guaranteed wrong model - which often is easy for analysis - is to imagine that the photons forming waves in space like a boat on the lake (With dark energy - space is hardly empty). When photons meetings a double split or a half-silvered mirror or a PBS then waves go both ways - but the ship = the particle follows only one of them. Interference takes place between the waves and then they control the ship = particle.
Following this model, there is no time problem - since Wheeler just stop one wave (with or without particles) - and thereby stop the interference.
Remember it is not a theory - stick to that - only a crutch.
(PS Many (all?) of this type of experiments use coincidence counters - ie that it is hard to talk about a real disturbed time sequence.)