arXiv Preprint Argues Relativity Permits Frame-Dependent Foreknowledge of Undetermined Quantum Outcomes

Engelberg redefines freedom as lack of determination by an event’s prior accessible history and applies it to EPR pairs measured at spacelike separation. Special relativity permits reversal of measurement order across frames while preserving causal independence; quantum correlations nonetheless transmit the distant outcome. The result is a frame in which knowledge precedes the event without any physical determination of that event. The argument is purely theoretical and contains no new data or simulation.

The paper draws on Bell inequalities and relativistic causality but adds no empirical test. It distinguishes epistemic access from causal influence, a distinction often collapsed in philosophical literature. This move directly addresses the foreknowledge-free will tension without invoking determinism or divine attributes. Legal and ethical implications remain unexplored; the work stays within foundations of physics.

Related treatments appear in Shimony’s 1978 analysis of Bell’s theorem and Maudlin’s 2011 Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity, both of which examine whether correlations imply retrocausality. Engelberg’s contribution is the explicit frame-dependent formulation that avoids both. No experiment yet isolates the claimed epistemic relation from hidden-variable alternatives.

Future work could close the gap by performing high-precision Bell tests with moving observers and real-time outcome comparison, testing whether the predicted foreknowledge survives when reference-frame information is recorded. Such an experiment would require sub-nanosecond synchronization over kilometer baselines.