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What would be the consequences of assuming the existence of antiphotons which propagate backward in time? This is obviously permitted mathematically. There is also physical justification in the Wheeler-Feynman advanced radiation, the Einstein Nadelstrahlung, the Brittingham solutions of the wave equation, and a photon model of the author (presented at Vigier I). Interesting consequences of this assumption include explanations of the attractive Coulomb force as an exchange of antiphotons, quantum entanglement and “teleportation,” the problem of action at a distance, and some characteristics of emission and absorption of radiation.
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Beil, R.G. (2002). Photons from the Future. In: Amoroso, R.L., Hunter, G., Kafatos, M., Vigier, JP. (eds) Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 126. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48052-2_22
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