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Why are the Time Symmetric Interpretation rarely if ever brought up in discussions here?
It restores determinism and realism.
This article explains the jist of the interpretation and experimental evidence:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future/article_view?searchterm=Tollaksen&b_start:int=0
People are willing to accept way more crazy ideas (randomness, collapse, many worlds etc.)
So why should subatomic particles traveling back and forth in time be so hard to swallow? After all we already know that eternalism is true.
Keep in mind that this is NOT the transactional interpretation, the transactional interpretation has indeterminism and collapse.
It restores determinism and realism.
This article explains the jist of the interpretation and experimental evidence:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/01-back-from-the-future/article_view?searchterm=Tollaksen&b_start:int=0
People are willing to accept way more crazy ideas (randomness, collapse, many worlds etc.)
So why should subatomic particles traveling back and forth in time be so hard to swallow? After all we already know that eternalism is true.
Keep in mind that this is NOT the transactional interpretation, the transactional interpretation has indeterminism and collapse.