In early work on beam splitting experiments one of the researchers suggested the methods might be developed to predict future events by quantum measurements. Another researcher some years later suggested the prediction could never be more than 87% correct.
Since then the scientific community has divided in two camps identified by how the experiments are named. One camp calls the work Delayed Decision experiments, suggesting a backward in time communication. The other camp refers to Beam Splitting experiments, suggesting a view of future events.
In other threads I have suggested a relativistic transformation to the frame of action for the moving particle as the best way to evaluate the results. In frame of action all the decisions may occur at the same time in the same place.
The laboratory frame is still of interest since the results have useful applications in communications, cryptography, and quantum computing.
Richard Feynman in QED required antiparticles to travel backward in time. It leaves the possibility of a future viewing statistic or a communication to the past other statistic.
After several decades the experimental results are repeatable by many researchers.
Can A Beam Splitting Experiment Be Constructed To Predict The Future?
So much experimental work has been done that some of the researchers must have believed they could discover something new.
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