>>14403908The implication is that the universe always knows the potential path a photon can take; the path of least resistance exists regardless of medium and can be thought of as a superconducting dimension of information. Exactly in the same way of electric charges, photons move by a felid line. Create an arrangement of polarized light and beam splitters and you can create potentials that exist regardless of the light being shot through them. Its very much like a winding of wire, always having the potential for current to be induced into it, just because of its shape.