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Does Free Will Exist? Ancient Quasars May Hold the Clue.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:10
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 Artist’s interpretation of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Artist’s interpretation of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Do you believe in free will? Are people able to decide their own destinies, whether it’s on what continent they’ll live, who or if they’ll marry, or just where they’ll get lunch today? Or are we just the unwitting pawns of some greater cosmic mechanism at work, ticking away the seconds and steering everyone and everything toward an inevitable, predetermined fate?

It might sound like the realm of pure philosophy but MIT researchers are actually looking to get to the bottom of this age-old debate once and for all, using some of the most distant and brilliant objects in the Universe.

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Post tags: Bell’s Theorem, entanglement, free will, MIT, Physics, quantum, quasar

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