Brief Debunk – Precognition

Information: All stimuli experienced by humans are interpreted through one’s senses. This sense-data, or information, must therefore be sent backwards through time from the event causing the precognitive information to manifest in the present. How and whatever process this operates through, information of the future are sensed in the present.

Wormhole: Although beyond-quantum-scale wormholes are hypothesized to continuously pop in and out of existence, there are a few basic problems to overcome. These wormholes are far too fleeting for information to completely traverse it, to a random point in space, mind you. In order to stabilize a wormhole, one must first obtain negative pressure/density. This and many other forms of exotic states of matter haven’t been found to substantially exist in the present.

Paradox: The classic grandfather paradox. Travelling back in time to kill one’s grandfather creates unstable feedback loop between a version where one succeeds and a version where it never would’ve happened. Also to note, the creation of an alternate timeline isn’t actually time travel.

Knowledge: There is no real difference between changing the past and altering the present based on knowledge of future events. Thus, because we are not physiologically equipped to receive data traversing time as information or physical matter, we cannot know of an event yet to happen. We can guess and intuit, though.

Physics: Mainly, precognition would violate the universal law of cause and effect. However, there is more for precognitive abilities to overcome in order to prove its veracity in the physics department.

Force: All matter consists of and pertains to quarks and leptons, the building blocks of protons and neutrons. These elementary particles interact through the four forces, none of which explains energy or matter transfer in regards to precognition. A new force? If so, then that force is only allowed to have strength of one billionth the strength of gravity – the weakest force. Otherwise it would have been detected already.

Brains: There is no neural receptor to account for reception or transmission of signals between brains spatially, let alone temporally. The amount of energy this process would require would undoubtedly surpass our neural capacity.

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