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Member A. Garrett Lisi wrote on Apr. 27, 2007 @ 18:12 GMT
There has always been an aura of mystical speculation surrounding quantum mechanics and the role of consciousness. The interpretation of wave function collapse (usually referred to as "the measurement problem") seems to lie at the heart of it. So, I'd like to consider the following:
The role of the observer making an observation in quantum mechanics is the same as that of a classical observer making an observation of a system that may inhabit one of a number of possibilities. You look at it, and then you know what happened -- until you look at it, you don't know and can only assign probabilities to what may have happened. The weirdness of quantum mechanics is that the possibilities interfere with one another, whereas classically they don't.
I'm curious if others here would agree or disagree with this description, and how it might need to be amended or changed?
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dleiter replied on Apr. 17, 2010 @ 23:29 GMT
A recent publication (copy attached) has shown that a spontaneous CPT symmetry breaking mechanism exists which dynamically determines an arrow of time within the context of quantum electrodynamics. This was accomplished by incorporating a new symmetry of microscopic observer-participation called Measurement Color (MC) into the field theoretic structure of quantum electrodynamics (QED).
The resultant MC-QED formalism was shown to be a nonlocal quantum field theory whose spontaneous CPT violating properties were generated by the microscopic observer-participant Measurement Color operator symmetry contained within it.
This occurred because the physical requirement of a stable vacuum state in MC-QED caused a spontaneous symmetry breaking of both the T and the CPT to symmetries to occur which dynamically selected operator solutions which contained a causal quantum electrodynamic arrow of time.
Since the spontaneous CPT symmetry breaking in MC-QED dynamically causes the photon to carry the arrow of time, it offers a quantum electrodynamic explanation for the existence of irreversible phenomena associated with wave function collapse independent of any external thermodynamic or cosmological assumptions. For this reason this result is worthy of discussion here and I look forward to reading the comments of contributors to this thread.
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Juan R. González-Álvarez replied on Jun. 10, 2010 @ 09:17 GMT
I will only say that a fundamental explanation of the arrow of time (and thus a fundamental explanation for wave-function collapses) cannot be based in modifications of QED like those reported in the above recent paper.
The field theoretic structure of quantum electrodynamics is based in several approximations. I gave a list of them in the section "Beyond quantum field theory and string theory" in the next event
Toward a grand theory of irreversibilityThe general theory of irreversibility works beyond those approximations and gives a foundations for quantum field theory (e.g. one can recover the cluster decomposition principle of quantum field theory as a special case from the new theory).
There is more advantages of the new theory over QED that I am not noticing therein. One of them is that we can obtain a unified description of fermions as the electron and bosons as photon.
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Dr. Darryl Leiter replied on Aug. 19, 2010 @ 14:39 GMT
The skeptical comments of Dr. González-Álvarez are insufficient to contradict the fact that it has been shown that the quantum measurement problem can be solved by incorporating an operator labeling symmetry of microscopic observer-participation called Measurement Color into Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) (see first attachment).
In particular the resultant Measurement Color Quantum Electrodynamics (MC-QED has been shown to contain a time reversal violating description of the quantum electrodynamic measurement process which is independent of thermodynamic or cosmological assumptions.
This occurs because the Measurement Color gauge symmetry within MC-QED generates a spontaneous CPT symmetry breaking effect which causes the photon operator in the formalism to have a negative parity under Wigner time reversal. For this reason the photon carries the arrow of time in the MC-QED formalism. This prediction differs from QED which does not contain an intrinsic arrow of time because the QED photon operator has a positive parity under Wigner time reversal.
More importantly because of the difference between the Wigner time reversal symmetry properties of the photon operator in QED and MC-QED we have been able to show (see second attachment) that a recently performed Michelson interferometer experiment, involving a combination of ordinary mirrors and phase conjugate mirrors, contains experimental results which offer strong evidence in favor of the fact that the photon operator has a negative parity under Wigner time reversal and the MC-QED prediction that the photon carries the arrow of time.
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Dr. Darryl Leiter replied on Aug. 19, 2010 @ 14:44 GMT
THE SECOND ATTACHMENT TO THE ABOVE COMMENT BY DR. DARRYL LEITER DID NOT
ATTACH. SO HERE IS THE RELEVANT COMMENT AND THE ATTACHMENT THAT IS NEEDED
More importantly because of the difference between the Wigner time reversal symmetry properties of the photon operator in QED and MC-QED we have been able to show (see attachment) that a recently performed Michelson interferometer experiment, involving a combination of ordinary mirrors and phase conjugate mirrors, contains experimental results which offer strong evidence in favor of the fact that the photon operator has a negative parity under Wigner time reversal and the MC-QED prediction that the photon carries the arrow of time
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H. Dieter Zeh wrote on Apr. 30, 2007 @ 15:17 GMT
What you say comes close to what is often claimed in the Copenhagen interpretation. Therefore, the collapse of the wave function is NOT a dynamical process in this interpretation (better called a "non-interpretation").
However, in classical physics you can and do assume that only one of the possibilities is real (that is why you call them possibilities). It is your knowledge that was incomplete before the observation. Mere possibilities cannot interfere with one another to give effects in reality. In particular, if you would use the dynamical laws to trace back in time the improved information about the real state, you would also get improved knowledge about the past. This is different in quantum theory (for pure states): In order to obtain the correct state in the past (that may have been recorded in a previous measurement), you need all apparent "possibilities" (all components of the wave function - including the non-observed ones). So they must have equally been real.
Hence, either a collapse has occurred - or the world has branched into many quasi-classical "worlds". (The difference is that they could in principle recombine.) Heisenberg's original hope that the quantum system was disturbed during the measurement is not tenable. Instead, various systems (the observed one, the apparatus, the observer, and the environment) get entangled.
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Siamak wrote on May. 8, 2007 @ 09:31 GMT
Can anyone explain what is the rule of various amplitudes in the equation of wave function in the Many World Interpretation of QM.
I mean they can't show probability because all possible outcomes are happening as a result of branching, so what those coefficients tell us.
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Bruno Marchal wrote on May. 8, 2007 @ 11:06 GMT
The rule of amplitudes in the equation of the wave function gives *personal* expectation of finding oneself in front of such or such eigenvalue after a measurement.
If we are "memory machine", as in Everett's work, we are in principle duplicable. In a classical self-duplication, from an outsider (third person) perspective, there is no probabilities and the process of duplication can be considered as purely deterministic. But, even in this classical case, from the personal point of view of each duplicated person, it seems as if they have *personally" live an indeterminacy. The probabilities are purely first personal, and the amplitudes can be be related to expected proportion of possible outcomes taken from a continuum of possibilities (in non relativistic QM).
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FQXi Administrator Anthony Aguirre wrote on May. 8, 2007 @ 15:28 GMT
As I have recently expressed
here , while the MWI is nice in several ways, it seems to me to bury the probabalistic nature of QM, as well as the 'Born rule' for the probabilities, in the very hardest of places: how our conscious experience evolves through time. I might be willing to believe a probability interpretation if it could be shown that the number of 'copies' of me that experienced outcome A versus B was given by the relative squared amplitudes of the wavefunction; but I don't see how that emerges, at all, from the many-worlds view applied to a single experiment with two outcomes of highly different probabilities.
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Count Iblis wrote on May. 8, 2007 @ 18:42 GMT
I think that it is misleading to say that in the MWI the universe is constatly branching. The branching only appears to happen from the perspective of local observers. The entire multiverse may well be in an exact eigenstate of the Hamiltonian and thus only evolve in a trivial way.
Suppose then that a static wavefunction is the real wavefiunction of the multiverse. Time evolution experienced by some observer is then just an illusion. In reality the observer and his time evolved counterpart are different components of the same wavefunction related by a unitary transformation.
Now, if a unitarity transformation, not necessarly the time evolution operator, that maps one region of Hilbert space into another then those two regions are pretty much the same (compare this with rotations in ordinary space). So, if here exists an intrinsic measure or probability distribution it should be invariant under unitary transformations. This, surely is the basis for the Born rule.
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Member A. Garrett Lisi wrote on May. 8, 2007 @ 23:48 GMT
Hmm, many good points (Including several from Dieter Zeh, an inventor of the idea of quantum decoherence -- a good sign for the FQXi forums!).
I think the main difficulty in accepting the probabilistic (or, as
Matthew Leifer just described, epistemic) interpretation of quantum mechanics is the
frequentist view of probability. The frequentist view requires us to think of "many copies" of reality, which, as Anthony points out, clashes with our experience. In contrast, the Bayesian view of probability as a likelihood of what we will experience is a much better fit with quantum mechanics.
A frequentist insists that an experiment be repeated many times, or in many locations, and the probability determined by the number of occurrences of one thing or another. For a frequentist, each experiment is very much a separate, concrete instance with a unique outcome. But a Bayesian thinks of a probability as a likelihood of how one occurrence might turn out -- she is used to holding multiple possible "realities" in her head at once. These are "many worlds," but they are not the concrete worlds of the frequentist but possible worlds, with likelihoods. When she makes a measurement, she gets new information and adjusts these likelihoods accordingly (collapse). A Bayesian's view of the world really is as a collection of possibilities with likelihoods. It is but a small step from this view of probability to quantum mechanics, in which the probabilities interfere.
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Siamak (M.Ravanbakhsh) wrote on May. 9, 2007 @ 07:44 GMT
Bruno,
That would be a satisfactory explanation if the wave equation is meaningless to the third person. Is it? Because if it's not there should be a bias based on the wave function, and no probabilistic interpretation for that bias.
And if it's the case... then what is the third person point of view? what does he see? Can we expect for a third person point of view to be less informative than the firs person view?
Anthony,
I just read your post. I guess the name is 'Prestige' ;)
Count,
I guess in contrast to what you said, local observers would not be aware of branching.
Garret,
And about the frequentist and Bayesian view point. It seems as long as we're dealing with a quantum phenomenon any probabilistic interpretation would be based on frequencies, regardless of further interpretation which might be Bayesian. Maybe I'm missing your point.
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Bruno Marchal wrote on May. 9, 2007 @ 14:14 GMT
Siamak,
You seem to say that the pure classical indeterminacy would provide a satisfactory explanation of the quantum amplitude in case the wave function is meaningless from a third person point of view. Actually I do agree with you, although I am not sure that our agreement share the same basis. Perhaps you could elaborate a little bit. The problem, once, like Everett or some other many-worlders, we accept the computationalist or the mechanist hypothesis in the cognitive science, is that in such a case, we have to accept an a priori strong form of computationalist first person indeterminacy: we don't know and cannot know which computational history support us. This does not mean that the Universal Wave Function is really meaningless, but it shows that, as far as the Universal Wave is meaningful, we should recover it without postulating it. From this I tend to believe that in fine we have to justify physics from computer science or number theory or more generally mathematics. This would lead to a form of platonic mathematicalism. Well, this is related to my own work in the field. You could look at
this text where I explain a little bit more in a hopefully not too much technical way. But ok, I mainly agree with you, I think.
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Siamak(M.Ravanbakhsh) wrote on May. 10, 2007 @ 18:33 GMT
Thanks for your link. I've already read some parts of it and I would finish it soon. But frankly I dindn't get your point in the previous post. 'we don't know and cannot know which computational history support us'
Here is the the problem:
-I asked what is the meaning of amplitude in the wave function in the MWI of QM.
-Your answer is: it shows the indeterminacy of the first person in finding himself in one of probable situations.
-I say, What about the third person. My belief is he should have a more comprehensive picture of the event of the branching(at least the same amount!). How the third person gonna percieve branching? What is the role of amplitude in the third person point of view? We know that it wont have a probabilistic effect. Are you claiming that the wave equation just describes the first person view?(I guess you're not... so?)
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Anonymous wrote on May. 12, 2007 @ 12:42 GMT
Hmmm... I see the third person view as a description of what perhaps *is*, and it has to include, in some way, what I believe in in some indubitable manner, i.e elementary arithmetic. I have done on a very elementary presentation of Arithmetic what Everett has done for pure (= without collapse) Quantum Mechanics. Technically this is akin to a reconstruction of Lucas-Penrose (erroneous) use of G??del.Godel shows only that if we are machine then we cannot know which machine we are, nor can we know which computations would support us. This gives the arithmetical basis for different notion of indeterminacy.
You were right above: the ontic third person view is poorer than the epistemological first person observer, but the observable are inside (modal) view of that elementary arithmetic.
Neither the third person nor the first person really perceive (arithmetical) branching, except that both can infer it somehow like mendeleev infer the existence of non observed atoms by completing a theoretical+empirical table.
All I say, mainly, is that, about the nature of "matter", some "theological" points can be made precise enough so as to be tested empirically. I am thinking sending an attempt to a mailing list to explain the whole thing, but "applied mathematical logic" is not something simple to explain without describing at least some "machine" or formal systems. I will give you the link.
Accepting Everett (on "matter"), I would say the Wave equation belongs to the third person view, but accepting the computationalist hypothesis ("I am a machine", not: "the universe is a machine"), then, well, I think quite plausible that the wave equation belongs to a non trivial notion of first person plural notions, but it is yet an open problem!
Still preliminary results are going in the direction that in the "many-worlds", the worlds are perhaps more subjective constructs than strict Everetian would appreciate, I don't know. All points of view are represented by modal variant of Godel-Lob arithmetical provability logics. Those are made necessary as a consequence of incompleteness, but sound machines can discover them by their self-referential provability andf inferability powers.
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Anonymous wrote on May. 12, 2007 @ 13:08 GMT
Oh! I was short. What Everett did for QM, was the obvious (obligatory with any monism) idea of embedding the "physicist" in reality. Note that this was taken for granted by Newton: physicist obeys to the gravitional law! Otto Rossler, and according to him Boscovitch, but there is also Hans Primas, Finkelstein and probably many others realized that this embedding leads by itself to non trivial invariance principles. Rossler concludes that physics is the science of the interface between us and the "rest". This is quite coherent with the generalized embedding of the "mathematician" in "arithmetic/number-theory/computer-science.
Actually the arithmetical embedding leads to a purely arithmetical, but empirically falsifiable, interpretation of Plotinus' (300 AD) theory of Matter. I present this
here (CIE 2007).
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Siamak(M.Ravanbakhsh) wrote on May. 14, 2007 @ 09:19 GMT
Thank you Bruno, it was descriptive.??
I believe Everet's view remains no room for subjectivity of physics which is ??becoming more prevalent as a result of recent experiments.?? At last we still have the problem of mind and a subjective description of the world seems more attractive.
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Bruno Marchal wrote on May. 15, 2007 @ 10:17 GMT
Hmmm ... I would say yes, ... and no.
Yes, because Everett can be said having rendered the quantum facts coherent with a "theory of mind" which has a venerable tradition (mechanism). Indeed, Everett has substituted the unintelligible wave collapse by a mechanist assumption, allowing the observer to obey to the linear wave equation. It has then singled out the necessity of distinguishing third person descriptions (like the Quantum Wave describing a couple observer-observed, and first person descriptions, like the subjectivity of the observer describing its own *relative* memory, and thus has anticipated the rather succesfull decoherence theory (imo).
No, because Everett is not aware (well, few people seems to be aware) that once we assume mechanism or computationalism, the machine are, in principle, confronted to a bigger (a priori) form of indeterminacy, making a priori still stranger the quantum indeterminacy.
If we take seriously the mechanist hypothesis or the computational or digital version (hereafter named comp), we have to justify why the quantum (consistent) histories win the "measure battle" which, with comp, involved many type of possibly non quantum-like histories.
But Everett underestimated without doubt the subtleties of what a self-observing machine can be. It is here that computer science and mathematical logic can offer hope to justify why the quantum laws seems (correctly) to stabilize statistically.
If you want, with comp, matter, and in particular its destructive interference features, seems a priori even *more* weird. We cannot, for the comp-reason decribed above, directly appeal to Gleason theorem or to decoherence theorems, we have to justify that move directly from a more thorough study of what a digital memory machine can prove and guess correctly about herself and her possible histories. It is still possible that such a line would refute the mechanist thesis, but the preliminary results I got seem on the contrary to consolidate the marriage between the quantum and the digital.
Note that such approach could demistify, not only the collapse, but also the relation between consciousness, quasi definable in this setting by unconscious or automatic guesses in a reality (cf Helmholtz), and the quantum reality (capable of stabilizing those guesses through some "entangling" of consistent computational histories.
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Ulrich Mohrhoff wrote on Jun. 12, 2007 @ 05:07 GMT
I somehow missed how and by whom the wave function collapse was demystified. As some of you know, my way of demystifying it is to demystify wave function evolution, which appears to be taken for granted here. I suppose we all agree that the wave function serves to assign probabilities to the possible outcomes of measurements. We disagree on the meaning of "probability" (a problem much older than QM), on what constitutes a measurement, and on why measurements are given special treatment by the general framework of contemporary physics. Leaving these questions alone, I propose (have done so, will do so) that the time dependence of the wave function is a dependence on the time of the measurement to the possible outcomes of which it serves to assign probabilities. It is not the continuous dependence on time of a physical state of affairs of any kind. In other words, the wave function has neither two modes of evolution (unitary and collapse) nor one (unitary) but none. It is an algorithm, not the kind of thing that evolves.
Then what about the time between two successive measurements? The only way to make sense of this notion is to think of it as the time of an unperformed measurement — a measurement that could have been but was not performed in the meantime. We can of course continue to regale us with stories purporting to describe what happens between successive measurements, since they are not even wrong. If you want to check such a story, you must make a measurement, yet by making a measurement you learn nothing about what happens between measurements.
What bugs me about all these discussions (collapse or no collapse while evolution is taken for granted) is that they drown out the real questions concerning the ontological implications of the testable ways quantum mechanics assigns probabilities in actual measurement contexts.
For further thoughts in this direction please visit
This Quantum World or check out
my papers.
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pauljpease wrote on Nov. 15, 2007 @ 23:16 GMT
I'm an outsider so forgive me if my comments seem naive. It is clear you all know details that I do not know, yet great thinkers often ignore details because it can lead you astray (e.g. "Mathematical Discovery: Hadamard Resurected). For example, Einstein didn't know more details than his peers, but he did question their assumptions.
Did relativity and quantum theory evolve from classical...
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I'm an outsider so forgive me if my comments seem naive. It is clear you all know details that I do not know, yet great thinkers often ignore details because it can lead you astray (e.g. "Mathematical Discovery: Hadamard Resurected). For example, Einstein didn't know more details than his peers, but he did question their assumptions.
Did relativity and quantum theory evolve from classical physics? That would imply that modern physics is a special case of classical physics, starting with the same axioms but more refined. This is obviously false. It is clear that classical physics is actually a special case of modern physics. Put another way, for any of you who have any interest in evolutionary theory, classical physics was a thought "dinosaur". And just like real dinosaurs that were unlikely to evolve into the current ecosystem of Earth, modern physics needed to evolve from new axioms, not directly from classical physics. So I question the approach of trying to extend relativity and quantum theory to explain the as yet unexplained. In other words, I'm not sure dinosaurs will ever evolve into humans.
So while I can't point to an answer, I can point to some assumptions that might be wrong. First of all, the problem of consciousness is obviously one we've inherited from culture and we can't solve it because it isn't really a problem. Many philosophers have gotten rich calling it a problem, but there is no evidence of any problem beyond the fact that unless you and I are the same consciousness, we won't ever know the the other is conscious. It is wreckless to mix in the notion of consciousness in a forum discussing quantum physics, for one will never help the other just as you can't distinguish two entangled particles until they are unentangled.
Most importantly, there is no evidence of this thing called time. Until we can all admit this simple fact, we will continue to be trapped by our culture and human form into concepts like "evolve", "measure", etc. Comparing one state to another requires memory, which requires observing an observation of an observation. As Bruno nicely pointed out "we don't know and cannot know which computational history support us." Making a measurement requires change. Change itself cannot be observed. Therefore when I say something changed then I mean that what I most recently observed is different from a memory of what that thing was like. We have no way of knowing (with our current understanding) if in fact all possible things happen from one instant to the next. Or if our Universe was just created from a computer simulation in its current state, including my own memories of the "past". This assumption that what we observe as time is actually real is a major assumption, and you may not want to question it. Many did not want to question absolute time when Einstein proposed relativity. It complicated the Universe a whole lot. But the Universe made more sense for it. So is anyone willing to question this assumption and see if any predictable features of our observed Universe can be made?
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Steve Colmer wrote on Nov. 19, 2007 @ 20:13 GMT
So - if the MWI holds true - does that mean which lottery numbers one might select is irrevelent - and what is relevant is the moment one decides to check them..? Presumably any combination of numbers is a winning combination in some region of the multiverse - pick the right moment for checking them and I 'collapse' into a winning region for the number set I've chosen..?
Although I like this idea as it removes any blame on my part for picking the 'wrong numbers' - it still doesn't help me win the lottery...
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Jonas Pate wrote on Dec. 14, 2007 @ 09:07 GMT
I posted this in the FAQ by accident, so I'm posting again here
I'm a complete non-scientist, but in trying to understand your theory, I was reminded of Carl Jung, who believed that mankind often created symbols in an attempt to reconnect with the unconscious " archetypes" that he believed formed the essence of the universe.
Jung was convinced that these archetypes were psychoid, that is, "they shape matter (nature) as well as mind (psyche)" That archetypes are elemental forces which play a vital role in the creation of the world and of the human mind itself.
so when I saw your youtube video of E8-- it looks so much like so many primal man-made symbols that Jung would flip over-- suddenly your theory had a real power for me, even if I couldn't understand the details of the science. so for that -- thanks, dude. you're my official new hero.
I don't know if the theory is "factually" correct, but I'm sure it's instinctually correct
as a soul surfer my bet is you've had some of these same thoughts. care to comment?
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Gevin Giorbran wrote on Dec. 23, 2007 @ 01:13 GMT
Trying to preserve the original question posed, how does the measurement problem relate to the existential fact that until the observer makes an observation, they don't know and can only assign probabilities to what may become reality upon observation?
Time or consciousness as experienced by the observer is in some way linear, I am not sure how either concept could be sustained otherwise, but it is also paradoxically true that the observed cannot also be linear. The observed world (the source of information) exists adjacent or lateral to the linear stream of consciousness (time), a simple analogy being the observer sitting and watching a movie film. The observed film is a sequence of frames (quantum) and only appears to be linear (classical), but something has to bind the frames together (the observer). If objects in the film, or if the classical objects of our observations instead followed linear paths from point A to B we all know they would instantly become trapped by the infinite measure of steps within any distance.
So the picture we have then is of a linear observer (time) passing through a sequence of static frames. The observer, let’s call him/her “the pilot” is the only required linear element in this model. The world relative to each pilot is quantum mechanical, even other observers, meaning the lateral world is a construction or a series of discrete states or moments. However, the duration of time spent in any given frame or any collection of frames is always zero, and cannot be otherwise, since this would also lead to insurmountable infinities.
Time in this framework is not a duration in which something classical exists, time is rather a direction in space that travels from one unique frame to another, unique from the directions within each frame. Such directions in space are fourth dimensional, each direction is foundationally dependent on the primary adjacent frames, but they have no length in any given frame. In the same way movie frames create a sense of time, this fourth dimensional space is dependent upon change, it is dependent on objects having unique positions relative to other objects (adjacent the observer). The result is a unique volume different in character from the frames (expansion, collapse, curvature), as well as a unique sense of time (change) radically distinct from the actual existence of the frames. The result is that both the position and the momentum of a classical object cannot be determined, since there is no momentum in a given frame, and no duration or position in between the unique configurations of any two frames.
This I think is the foundation of why the observer’s observations are probabilistic, but since I am not a member of the club I will remain quiet unless spoken to.
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Gevin Giorbran wrote on Dec. 25, 2007 @ 09:30 GMT
Garrett, I guess this is why I have become so disappointed in scientists, because they never want to discuss anything off the beaten path. They are always so afraid of looking unprofessional or unscientific or unintelligent. It is as if we live in a brutal dictatorship and everyone is afraid to discuss freedom. Consequently you can’t discuss anything unique with scientists, no matter how...
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Garrett, I guess this is why I have become so disappointed in scientists, because they never want to discuss anything off the beaten path. They are always so afraid of looking unprofessional or unscientific or unintelligent. It is as if we live in a brutal dictatorship and everyone is afraid to discuss freedom. Consequently you can’t discuss anything unique with scientists, no matter how “clever”. Here we are at a website founded on fundamental questions in cosmology. You yourself asked a question looking to get feedback on an unexplored issue but the talk immediately reverts to the safety of the familiar. There needs to be a revolution from within.
Lisi wrote:
“a classical observer making an observation of a system that may inhabit one of a number of possibilities.”
Isn’t a classical system deterministic, so there is no such thing as a classical system that may inhabit one of a number of possibilities. The classical observer only assigns probabilities to events he/she has limited information about. Knowing every property of an actual coin flip, the classical observer knows the precise outcome. In principle the information is available. Contrastingly the quantum observer cannot know all the properties of a quantum event. The information isn’t localized. So the roles are not the same. They are only similar if the classical observer lacks information and then the similarity is that they both lack information. In lacking information they both can calculate the chance of say winning the lottery, but in doing so the classical observer assumes a measure of uncertainty that doesn’t exist in his/her classical world.
If we had complete information of a classical universe would we still question if other universes were possible, since complete information would predict only the one universe. Perhaps there is a fundamental flaw in the notion that complete information can predict a single outcome (Godel?).
However, I do realize you are pointing to something. I have wondered if quantum mechanics is somehow tied to the quantum observer’s lack of information, a mistaken theory resulting from our role in reality as observers. Of course we can’t say where the particle is if we don’t measure or observe it. But beyond this surface thought I sense you've brought up something deeper, something basic concerning predictability and uncertainty.
The classical observer’s ability to calculate probabilities based on limited information is due to how limited information predicts more than one possible outcome. Any limited information about a system naturally predicts a set of possible outcomes, many of which are equally possible (coin flip). Likewise in a quantum event, the lack of local information (the measurement problem) predicts a set of possible outcomes, many of which are equally possible. I have had this insight before but never clear enough to record it, but I think this is the fundamental reason why uncertainty exists in nature, or in time, because there are equally probable outcomes, in the atomic world, as well as for the observer, (viewing Schrodinger’s cat), and equally probable outcomes interfere with one another (heads and tails), in human calculations and quantum events.
Imagine walking down a stairs but instead of one step below there are many. Why? Because there are many different steps that could proceed from the step you are standing on. In the range of possibilities, there are many next steps that are as equally probable or possible. This is how nature works, and uncertainty exists in time, because a past state cannot lead to one single future state. Time cannot be linear because the information in past states is by nature unable to determine a single specific future state. The present configuration of the universe cannot ignore all the equally possible futures and dictate a single future, because the equally possible futures are equally real (and our universe is a sampling of that reality).
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Gevin wrote on Dec. 25, 2007 @ 22:20 GMT
So it just occurred to me that if this is true, then the classical world and the quantum world are the same. Even a linear path would branch. For example, suppose the step you are on is the perfectly uniform singularity of the big bang. If this state expands the next step (any change) would be less dense and smooth, but there also might be variations in the expansion, which are equally as possible in the next step. There are many different variations and only one smooth next step. Both are possible but the variations are more probable.
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There are three fundamental and interrelated relationships of reference for perspective. The three fundamental relationships of reference for perspective are the relationship of the dimensions of Cartesian coordinates with the dimensions of polar coordinates, the relationship of finite with the infinite, and the relationship of 'still' with motion (or constant motion with accelerated motion). Each...
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There are three fundamental and interrelated relationships of reference for perspective. The three fundamental relationships of reference for perspective are the relationship of the dimensions of Cartesian coordinates with the dimensions of polar coordinates, the relationship of finite with the infinite, and the relationship of 'still' with motion (or constant motion with accelerated motion). Each of these three fundamental relationships are not, in-and-of themselves, a 'given' (that is, not an independent and necessary foundation of physics), but rather, the result of the ‘overlapping’, or exchange, of the designated parameters of the other two. And so, it is the relationships of fundamental references that define tiered perspective (that is, a perspective co-existing within an ‘Other’ overriding perspective) and perspective exchange (that is, consideration, or ‘thought’) as the foundation for all perception (physical observations and symbolic considerations). That is, there is no 'point' of origin, but instead, a relationship determines existence and experience through tiered interrelated combinations of fundamental references into perception ternaries. In other words, various tiers, or ternary combinations, of the constituent references of the three fundamental relationships represent all perspectives and perspective exchanges. The three fundamental relationships are not completely independent of each other, but rather, are interrelated and overlapping (like interacting ‘whirlpools’), in one or two of the three constituent references comprising the involved respective perception ternaries. So, every ‘object’, number, and experience, every physical and mathematical observation and consideration, is represented by overlapping ternary combinations of the constituent references within the three fundamental relationships of reference. And the relationship of tiered combinations forms the perception ternary—the perceived, the perceiver, and the reference of measurement. The model/metaphor is a self-proving totality that is entirely perspective-based, and the necessitated foundation for existence that results from the tiered-ternary relationships of fundamental references, providing its own inter-exchanging context and its own reciprocating cause.
This presents a physics/mathematics continuum, or overlapping exchange, that is based upon the binary relationship of ‘within’ and ‘without’, representing the one-or-two-of-three of the constituent references in a perception ternary. That is, the overlapping of one, or the overlapping of two of the constituent references in the various constituent tiers, or ternary combinations, determines the relationship as ‘without’ or ‘within’, respectively. Thus, in physics (or ‘without’—reference paired with perceived in perception ternary), the three fundamental relationships of reference form, by perspective, the three fundamental overlapping and interrelated concepts of distance, time/speed, and mass/acceleration; and in mathematics (or ‘within’—the symbolic pairs the reference with the perceiver in the perception ternary), the three fundamental relationships of reference form, by perspective, the three overlapping and interrelated fundamental ‘constants’ which divide, or provide the exchange for, the three fundamental concepts of physics—namely, epsilon, pi, and phi (the golden ratio). That is, epsilon represents mathematically the divide, or reference of exchange, between distance and speed, pi represents mathematically the divide, or reference of exchange, between linear distance and rotational distance, and phi represents mathematically the divide, or reference of exchange, between linear distance and area (dimensional shift). Further, every ‘physical’ observation is symbolic in one-of-three of the perception ternary; and conversely, every ‘mathematical’ consideration is physical (more truly, of other tiered consideration) in one-of-three of its analogous perception ternary. So, mathematics, whether as numerical values, operations, or their corresponding geometry, is the result of tiered co-perception (or, tiered perspective and perspective exchange), just as with physics, with overlapping and exchanging references ‘within’ and ‘without’, so that each completes the other.
In this way, all values can therefore be defined completely only through the multiple and interrelated contexts (references) of tiered perspectives, thereby representing a ‘number’ (or perception ternary) not as an exact, or ‘given’, absolute, but rather in relation to another perception ternary which is separated by one-or-two of their constituent fundamental references—for instance, relating, as a perceived proportion, a fundamental concept like that of time or dimensions to distance. So, ‘value’ and ‘path’ (or, act of calculation) ‘trade places’ (exchange) and are defined in the same way that ‘observer’ and ‘object’ do in their physical correlation. That is, the ‘constants’ (constant only by co-perspective), pi, phi, and epsilon, as well as the exchanges between them, represented by the polar and Cartesian forms of complex numbers (‘i’), frame the foundation for the mathematical correlate of perspective and perspective exchange. And, as with the three fundamental concepts of physics, these values are overlapping and interrelated.
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Don Limuti wrote on Aug. 13, 2008 @ 00:49 GMT
Please visit the
Zeno Physics web site.
This site investigates the mathematics/Physics boundary using Zeno's paradox on Achilles arrow as the entry point.
From a very basic beginning it proceeds to answer Smolin's Five problems that need to be addressed by any new theory of everything.
attachments:
For_You.jpg
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Brian Fraser wrote on Oct. 24, 2008 @ 07:48 GMT
Here is an easy-to-read paper on Quantum Mechanics that a student wrote for a class on "Religion and Modern Culture":
Reflective Essay. Although the topic is officially about religious beliefs, the article points out some very pertinent things that have been overlooked in Quantum Mechanics.
You can find a much more extensive presentation on similar themes at
Intuitive Concepts in Quantum Mechanics.
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amrit wrote on Dec. 8, 2008 @ 13:21 GMT
into scientific expariment observer is consciousness itself
the process of observation follows:
experiment-eyes-mind elaboration-experience(observer)
attachments:
INTERACTION_BETWEEN_SPACETIME_GRAVITY_AND_CONSCIOUSNESS__SORLI__2008.pdf,
6._Consciousness_As_A_Research_Tool_Into_Space_And_Time.pdf
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Brian Beverly wrote on Jan. 1, 2009 @ 01:48 GMT
"an aura of mystical speculation surrounding quantum mechanics and the role of consciousness."
I think the mystical interpretation sends a cold shiver down the spine of most skeptical scientists. For all intents and purposes Dieter Zeh and decoherence have resolved the measurement problem. I'm content to leave the ontology a mystery, but I think entropy may provide a reasonable explanation...
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"an aura of mystical speculation surrounding quantum mechanics and the role of consciousness."
I think the mystical interpretation sends a cold shiver down the spine of most skeptical scientists. For all intents and purposes Dieter Zeh and decoherence have resolved the measurement problem. I'm content to leave the ontology a mystery, but I think entropy may provide a reasonable explanation rather than the many worlds interpretation or the role of “consciousness”.
"The role of the observer making an observation in quantum mechanics is the same as that of a classical observer making an observation of a system that may inhabit one of a number of possibilities. You look at it, and then you know what happened -- until you look at it, you don't know and can only assign probabilities to what may have happened."
"The weirdness of quantum mechanics is that the possibilities interfere with one another, whereas classically they don't."
Classically probabilities do interfere. For instance, in a system of Einstein solids the probability of the system's overall macrostate depends on the microstates of each individual solid. In fact, when they are combined the macrostate they form is overwhelmingly probable even for a small amount of energy and small number of oscillators. The probability distributions are wavelike Gaussians that do interfere with each other.
Dieter Zeh describes the Copenhagen interpretation as a non-interpretation. My belief is that the imaginary number in the exponential time evolution of the wavefunction
exp(iEt/hbar)is why it is considered a non-interpretation. However, I'm not convinced that the imaginary number belongs in the wavefunction's time dependent evolution.
I agree with Dieter Zeh that most of those who dislike QM or are confused by it believe that the probabilities represent incomplete knowledge. The incomplete knowledge is wrong quantum mechanics is fundamentally probabilistic there are no hidden variables that will change it's probabilistic nature. However, I do not agree that, "Heisenberg's original hope that the quantum system was disturbed during the measurement is not tenable." I think entanglement and Heisenberg's original hope are perfectly compatible.
This is the problem, the cat is alive or dead when measured, but quantum tells us it is a superposition of both at the same time until measured.
In other words flip a coin and the possibilities are H or T and quantum says it is both heads and tails at the same time.
A possible solution is that what is observed after the collapse is the systems macrostate. For instance with three coins the possibilities are:
TTT = 0 Heads macrostate | probability 1/8 | multiplicity 1
TTH = 1 Heads macrostate | probability 3/8 | multiplicity 3
THH = 2 Heads macrostate | probability 3/8 | multiplicity 3
HHH = 3 Heads macrostate | probability 1/8 | multiplicity 1
If a measurement were to change the microstates, introducing one thousand coins into the system, then the overall macrostate is overwhelmingly likely to be a 1/2 heads macrostate and the no heads macrostate has a probability of 1/2^1000.
I used these concepts from entropy to give a possible alternative to the MWI and consciousness explanations for the collapse. I used the derangement from combinatorics to produce a real wavefunction time dependence as well as real probability amplitudes and eigenstates for any state |PSI>. I did not have to use the Hilbert space to get to the probability space i.e. without requiring the inner product first . Wavefunctions can still entangle and the exp(-a) dependence still "drops out" in a way analogous to using the complex conjugate during a "measurement". I would be interested in getting a physics beating by the experts or settle for their encouragement.
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Don Limuti (www.zenophysics.com) wrote on Jan. 16, 2009 @ 07:07 GMT
The Postulate: Until you look at it (the quantum or classical outcome), you don't know and can only assign probabilities to what may have happened. The weirdness of quantum mechanics is that the possibilities interfere with one another, whereas classically they don't.
I'm curious if others here would agree or disagree with this description, and how it might need to be amended or changed?
1. I would get specific and ask the question as: Where will the mass be when I observe it next?
2. Then I would say that the position of the mass will always be as given by quantum mechanics with interference taken into account. And this is true for both quantum and classical systems.
3. In quantum systems the wavelength of the mass is far greater than the physical dimensions of the mass and interference of the probabilities has an effect on the outcome.
4. In classical systems the wavelength of the mass is well within the dimensions of the mass and the probability of the outcome is not effected by interference.
Quantum mechanics covers it all.
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Brian Beverly wrote on Jan. 20, 2009 @ 19:33 GMT
The current mystical mechanics seems to be centered around the use of imaginary time. I would appreciate it if someone would explain how imaginary time is justified.
The measurement problem in physics is where it is implied that imaginary time is ordered:
(...[-itn,...,-it2,-it1,0,it1,it2,...,itn]...)
The mathematical axioms tell us that complex numbers can not be ordered.
Order Axioms:
1) A number can not be less than itself
2) x > y, x < y, or x = y
3) if x > 0 and y > 0, then xy > 0
4) if x < y, then for all z, x + z < z + y
5) if x < y, then for all z, xz < yz
set x = i and y = 2i and z= 2 + i
1) makes sense
2) i < 2i makes sense
3) a bit tricky:
0 = 0 + 0i and i = 0 +1i therefore i>0 and 2i>0
(i)(2i) > 0 ---> -2 > 0 FALSE!
4) 2 + 2i < 2 + 3i (complex # is of the form a + bi)
5) This is the key axiom!
xz = what exactly? xz or x*z (* is complex conjugate i*=-i)
If we distribute xz as we do for real numbers then axiom 5 is false. If we take the complex conjugate x*z then axiom 5 is true.
Quantum mechanics relies on C* algebra which is ordered. What is the big idea of C* algebra? C*C, multiply a complex number by a complex conjugate and you end up with a real ordered/countable number.
By the axioms of math the measurement problem should not exist in physics and neither should mystical mechanics.
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amrit wrote on Jan. 22, 2009 @ 08:47 GMT
As consciousness is a basic frequency of quanta of space and human nerve system can vibrate with it, consciousness can influence outcome of an experiment
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1_Indirect_and_Direct_Quantum_Information_and_Quantum_Energy_Transfer_Sorli__2009.pdf
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Daniel wrote on Jan. 22, 2009 @ 18:21 GMT
WOW!! hows about a somewhat normal interpretation saying a probability wave is like finding a drop of water in a puddle. One goes to the puddle for the drop and knows he came to this puddle for a specific kind of drop but doesn't know exactly which drop he gets. He knows where in the puddle he got the drop the disturbances in the puddle ripple from the point. however the puddle is forever changed by his retrieval. One is not separate from an experiment One can only be part of an experiment
ps. hopefully my paper will be out for mid spring!!
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atomiton1 wrote on Jan. 25, 2009 @ 03:39 GMT
The brain releases certain waves and vibrations (all of wich can be disrupted). Some can escape the the body and can affect things around it. If you were able to look at them, you would see that they have different frequencys. In any case, they are in fact energies that can affect things around it.
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Brian Beverly wrote on Jan. 29, 2009 @ 07:21 GMT
atomiton1 here is some scientific reasoning that debunks the pseudoscientific, "secret" and "law of attraction".
http://www.sustainedaction.org/Explorations/problem_with_qua
ntum_mind_theory.htm
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atomiton1 wrote on Feb. 2, 2009 @ 04:03 GMT
Brian, sweet. I read the paper. Now I can go into more detail: The paper although has Its problems in my eyes. Well they didnt think to cover all the possiblities. The most reasonable explanation I can think of is: the neurons in the brain must be temp. controled. when one is activated it would affect those around it. In a specific order (I stress specific) till it reaches the spine. sort of like binary code but alot more specific.
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atomiton1 wrote on Feb. 2, 2009 @ 21:09 GMT
Complex is what i mean to say... anyway i believe that with all those nerves. You could probobly store new info in them. Heck i bet you could even decode them on a computer. Realy all youd have to do is intercept them from the top of the spine.
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Georgina Parry wrote on Feb. 22, 2009 @ 23:15 GMT
Part of the difficulty in comprehending the world of sub atomic particles and their behaviour, the structure and development of the universe and the fundamental forces, including gravity has been due to the failure to recognise the Prime reality interface.
Full comprehension of the Prime (subjective-objective) reality interface requires the coming together of biology and physics in the understanding of the subjective experience of reality that is created by the mind, and how this effects our comprehension of the physical material world external to the organism. Integrating a growing understanding of neuroscience with fields of physics that have been difficult to comprehend using physics and mathematics alone.
(The field of dynamical neuroscience relying as it does on the mathematics of chaos and complexity theory is most promising in this regard since it is the same maths that can be used to explain the physics of the formation of all matter and is thus a link between the external environment and internal environment of the organism.)
Science has developed from examination of the world via observation and experiment. This process is held up as the essential step that makes science objective and therefore superior to other forms of investigation and interpretation of the world. There has however been a failure to take account of information transfer from objective material reality and how the processing of that information renders it into subjective experience and comprehension, a subjective reality.
Observation always results in subjective reality outcome, which is distinct from the material physical reality that is under investigation. An observation does not have to be made by a living being to become subjective reality. The observation depends upon information being received. That information is not the objective material reality itself but is a link between the physical objective reality and the subjective reality formed from the information being received and then processed to allow comprehension. As soon as the information is detected or received a subjective reality is formed. According to this model, the subjective reality comes into existence only then but the material objective reality exists within 4D space whether an observation is made or not. However it can not be known directly, since in order to know it a subjective reality must be formed. The existence of the prime reality interface raises the possibility that the objective material universe is quite different from the subjective experience of it, due to the processing of inputs received. The objective material is not itself the experience of it. However contemplation of this is metaphysics rather than a matter that can be resolved by scientific modelling and investigation -from The prime Quaternion model.
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Stefan W. wrote on May. 7, 2009 @ 13:48 GMT
If a global wave-function exists wich evolves in a strictly deterministic manner, this would be in my opinion in somewhat contrast to a certain assumption in traditional and modern darwinian evolution theory.
There it is widely accepted that consciousness and intelligence evolved due to dynamical, macroscopic selection effects wich "offered the opportunity" for an organism to extend its lifetime and reproduction chances with the help of internal "precognition".
This "extention" of the organism's lifetime with internal "precognition" is well-thought-out by the intuitiv insight that the more intelligence an organism has, the more it can predict certain circumstances in the future and avoid them or otherwise handle them.
According to Popper this organism can "simulate" certain circumstances in its consciousness, especially his own behaviour regarding certain future events, similar to a scientific experiment. One could label such an experiment as a "gedankenexperiment" ("thought experiment"). If the organism would act out this visualized behaviour in reality instead of simulating it, it would risk to fail and to die.
So according to Karl Popper in many cases of such a simulation the organism survives future events due to its ability to first simulate some events. If a simulation leads to a "negative" result, only the false assumptions of this simulation then could "die out" but not the organism(s) itself.
The sharp contrast from evolution theory to determinism for me is, that the operational explanation of consciousness is somewhat meaningless in a world that's strictly predetermined. Now one can argue that the evolution of consciousness and intelligence can not be enabled - untill a strict determinism is universal valid. The reason for this conclusion would be because local and causal physical dynamics can't precalculate its own future dynamics until a level of classical, stable macrocosmos appears in the quantum world (that macrocosmos makes brains possible to evolve). And this would surely presuppose universal entanglement and decoherence.
Would that mean that an intelligent organism has no free will? Because even though it seems that nature can simulate some of its own future dynamics (due to consciousness) - only at the macroscopic level! - it can't really chance this future? In this case (human) consciousness and intelligence is really an "epiphenomenon". But how are our very best scientific conclusions related to a strictly deterministic world, in other words, is it too "anthropic" to wonder about the ability of nature (with nature i mean especially quantum mechanics) to comprehend itself?
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Stefan W. wrote on May. 7, 2009 @ 23:48 GMT
little, but perhaps important type-error in my previous post...:
should read: "... only at the macroscopic level! - it can't really change this future?" (instead of "chance").
Thanks to this very interesting forum!
Stefan W.
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amrit wrote on May. 14, 2009 @ 09:37 GMT
Important task of theoretical physics today is to free observer from his imprisonment into psychological time.
yours amrit
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Brian Beverly wrote on May. 23, 2009 @ 05:17 GMT
Hey Stefan,
I'm a little slow when it comes to understanding the philosophical jargon so I'm not sure I get your big idea.
'There it is widely accepted that consciousness and intelligence evolved due to dynamical, macroscopic selection effects which 'offered the opportunity' for an organism to extend its lifetime and reproduction chances with the help of internal precognition."
Could this be retranslated as intelligence is a sexually selected trait [something similar to a peacock's tail (is this philosophy misogynistic?!)].
What are your thoughts on punctuated equilibrium? What do you think about climate change and its role in human evolution?
How is this tying into the wavefunction? Is PSI(x,t) = exp[(iEt/-h-)] the determinism you're referring to? What causes the wavefunction to collapse?
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Brian Beverly wrote on May. 23, 2009 @ 05:22 GMT
Amrit I can tell you are very persistent with your ideas which is admirable and I've read a lot of your attachments. Are you willing to share any explicit derivations so I can see it worked out step by step?
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Stefan W. wrote on May. 23, 2009 @ 08:52 GMT
Dear Brian,
let me briefly expose what i meant with what you call a big idea (it isn't so much a big idea in my opinion, merely a discrepancy between two very sucessful theories):
The evolutionary theory in its neo-darwinian form assumes the arising of consciousness as an "epiphenomenon", not as a phenomenon "in its own right". Evolutionary theory, as it is widely accepted, explains...
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Dear Brian,
let me briefly expose what i meant with what you call a big idea (it isn't so much a big idea in my opinion, merely a discrepancy between two very sucessful theories):
The evolutionary theory in its neo-darwinian form assumes the arising of consciousness as an "epiphenomenon", not as a phenomenon "in its own right". Evolutionary theory, as it is widely accepted, explains all biological properties to be selected due to their impact for the sucessul survival and reproduction. It is assumed that the emerging of the biological property of consciousness has an impact of being able to decrease exact these reproduction chances. Not by intelligence being a sexually selected trait (what is also true but not the whole story concerning the explanation of consciousness in evolutionary theory), but by intelligence as being capable of avoiding certain situations that could lead to the organism's dead. The more frequently an organism can avoid its own dead by grasping a dangerous situation in its mind and reacting sucessfully to that effect, it also has more options to reproduce itself (be it by sex or by another mechanism) and therefore entail his intelligence to its offspring. Would the most of his spezies including hiself die out (for whatever reasons), they probably could not create sufficient much offspring that can survive accidents and on their part create further offspring.
Let us now assume that this widespread explanation of the emergence and resistence of a biological property named "intelligence" is true - and -complete.
Now, let us assume that there exists a - yet to be discovered - fundamental physical theory, named here as TOE, that is strictly deterministic in its framework.
What follows, is, that both theories, namely evolutionary theory and this deterministic TOE (label the latter as Bohmian quantum mechanics or whatever you want) cannot both be true - and - complete at the same time. Because a strictly deterministic TOE asserts that everything is only and only determined by its perceding event(s) and evolutionary theory states that some organisms must be partially independent of such a strict determinism for the aim of changing the tide of events codified in the fundamental equations & initial conditions of this TOE (for example to be not eaten by a tiger by seing him coming towards myself with the aim of eating me i jump on a tree and climb as fast as i can on the top of this very tall tree and wait untill the tiger disappears). The discrepancy is, that the latter behaviour of an organism is, at least for myself, hardly to imagine as having been established in a universal wavefunction (or something like that at the beginning of all times) where all events are predetermined.
"How is this tying into the wavefunction? Is PSI(x,t) = exp[(iEt/-h-)] the determinism you're referring to? What causes the wavefunction to collapse?"
I have no clue on this. Rather i assume that there cannot be in principle a path from abstract knowledge to ultimate reality. Because abstract knowledge cannot distinguish between truth and assumption. Therefore i cannot decide what ontological status the wavefunction really has. The determinism i refer to is independent of a specific physical theory, it could be every TOE that is thinkable.
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jr wrote on Jun. 2, 2009 @ 19:19 GMT
Have a look at footnote 8 on page 76
of Feynman "QED The strange theory of light and matter"
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Andrew wrote on Oct. 25, 2009 @ 22:56 GMT
Why do people place so much emphasis on "measurement" and wave function collapse when surely it is "interaction". Measurement requires a measurer, interaction occurs regardless of whether anyone is measuring. I have seen the point made forcefully by much better minds than mine, but it just does not seem to stick in popular or casual usage.
Andrew Scott
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Narendra Nath wrote on Nov. 19, 2009 @ 16:29 GMT
The entire Physics is centred around what is observed and the observer who perceives what he/she has observed. The tools of experimentation add further complexity to the observer. Instruments have their own response times that differ. Thus, the measurement is never instantaneous as it avarages over the response time. Thus two measurements of the same process/ phenomenon may well differ. The truth can only be ascertained if we can know what happens at each instant of time. Thus, experimental sensitivity and accuracy play a significant part as to what has been observed. Further, the observers subjectivity involves the mind. It may well limit the objectivity of the observer. The best way for one to conduct an experiment will be to observe a process as a function of shorter and shorter response time. It is further possibe for an experimentalist to reduce the response time of the sensers used by cloipping the electronic signal that it generates for a given event. It may well provide guidence as to be able to extrapolate the observed process towarsd a measurement at an 'instant'.
The theory has also got their own limitations by way of the chosen dependent and independent variables and the actual boundary conditions that are imposed on each of them. These can well result in entirely different set of conclusions. Every reaseracher has a human tendency to ignore his shortcomings and exaggerate his strengths, thereby distorting the objectivity of the treatment presented.
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Marcel-Marie LeBel wrote on Nov. 30, 2009 @ 18:09 GMT
Here is how I view the uncertainty principle and the decoherence problem.
1) Macroscopic conceptual error:
An oil tanker half a kilometer long has an uncertainty of position of half a kilometer; anywhere on this tanker is tanker. This is normal. It may appear as a weird uncertainty when we compare the half kilometer precision to that of the small GPS antenna on the mast which give a meter or so precision of position. Conclusion: To reduce objects to point particle does naturally introduce a conceptual uncertainty.
2) The Quantum conceptual error:
In the quantum realm, a moving particle is composed of the particle and of its associated wave (1 lambda); this is the whole tanker. The moving particle has a non uniform existence which is motion. Position and speed are part of the same boat; indissociable. A higher precision in position looses the associated wave which is the expression of its non-uniform existence i.e. speed. A higher precision of the speed i.e. th wavelenght, looses the position of the particle.
At the quantum realm, position and speed is replaced by a single concept; probability of existence. Associated with the moving particle is a single lambda Pilot wave that constitutes its probability wave, direction and speed.
Conclusion: Decoherence is the shared probability of existence.
3) Back to macroscopic
If one looks at the solar system from a distance, what is the probability of finding the earth in a specific position? This probability is equal to the ratio of time spent by earth in that position on sum of time spent in the rest of its orbit around the sun. The sum existence of the total orbit is one. The relative existence Re in one place is a function of the time spent in that place compared to all other available places. Where it spends more time it is more likely to be and be found. Conversely, something that exists tends to exist more where it can stay longer, because it is there longer. (e.g. gravitation)
Existence as a function of time spent in one place is valid for particles or planets ...
I don't know if this decohere it for you ...
Marcel,
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Anonymous wrote on Nov. 30, 2009 @ 21:15 GMT
o.k. One background idea may be missing in the above post to understand the point.
The particle and the vacuum are made of the same stuff, but different forms of it. This vacuum is a continually exploding process that we refer to as the passage of time. In essence, because it is of the same nature as the vacuum,
the particle replaces the vacuum by logical substitution, a substitution that is felt away from the particle as local dip in the rate of passage of time. (see model of explosive substitution in my essay)
The particle jiggles at the bottom of this time rate well which takes the shape of a sphere of probability. This spherical shape describes a uniform existence, uniform in all directions. If we push this particle, we skew this sphere of probability and cause the particle to have now a higher probability of existence in one specific direction. The sphere now takes the shape of a wave of probability; lower rate in front where the particle sits, higher rate at the back half of the wave. (remember that the particle replaces the vacuum and therefore always sits in the lower rate part of the wave). The particle is not falling in a time rate gradient (like in gravitation); it is actually being pushed by the higher time rate back half of the wave. In other words, a bump in the time rate in the vacuum makes things less likely to be there. A dip in the time rate in the vacuum makes things more likely to be or move there. Put them together and you have a directional traveling wave of time rate i.e a traveling wave of probability, i.e. pure motion.
In our calculations, this is where we have to use pi, to correlate values of spherical probability, or existence, to linear probability of existence, or motion.
hope this helps ...
Marcel,
p.s. Think this is a bit of metaphysics? Of course it is. The existence of the whole universe is metaphysical! Every experience or measurement exists only as a binary relationship. The universe does not require us in order to exist and
to work.
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Narendra Nath wrote on Dec. 15, 2009 @ 12:54 GMT
i wonder if my comments of Nov., 19 are not worthy of any rejoinders. I again visited the site and found some comments by Atomiton1. These have interesting aspects where Physicists need to join neurologists in active collaboration. An year back, i read a science news report on an Internet site concerning the experiments conducted by Oxford University Prof. Eccles who is also a Nobel Prize winner. He was studying the activities of the neurons in the Supplementary Motor Area ( SMA ) of the brain, under sedation. He was not expecting any activity. However, he observed activity in a regular fashion. He postulated that it must have been caused by stimuli, external to the human body. He then suggested that such activities must be getting recorded in a non-physical shield that surrounds the SMA of the brain. Such records are not expected to disappear after the death of that body. This aspect needs closure scrutiny using sensitive electrical sensors where the physicist can help provide the technologies available today. For example there are nano-structured dyes that can be directed into individual cells, where these act as nano voltmeters measuring the electric fields and changes therein. These changes then will help us unrival the mysteries involved between the life giving soul and the physical body and what happens when a person dies and subsequent to it! The distinction between brain and human mind may be better understood and what not. The future lies in a meaningful science conducted through closure collaboration between the physical and the live sciences! i happen to emphasize such linkage in the essay posted this year on the FQXI Essay Contest site via ' What Physics Can & Can't Do?'.It will be interesting what others think about such possible investigations.
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Anonymous wrote on Dec. 26, 2009 @ 16:43 GMT
Ulrich,
“What bugs me about all these discussions (collapse or no collapse while evolution is taken for granted) is that they drown out the real questions concerning the ontological implications of the testable ways quantum mechanics assigns probabilities in actual measurement contexts.”
I think that the wave collapse is a conceptual artefact. I don`t see a radio photon a 100km in wavelength collapsing on the radio antenna. I goes by and induces as it goes the emf in the antenna. At the light photon wavelength size it is easy to assimilate absorption to instantaneity i.e. a particle. Lets make the photon a soliton and forget about this collapse thing!
The question as you say is what ontological conclusion or inferences can we draw from our experience of QM? In what concerns the fundamental nature of the universe, physics is but a method of gathering clues for us to deduce what the universe is made of and what makes it work. The true nature or state of the universe is metaphysical and we can never experience it directly, because an experience is a relationship, not an isolated state…
My essay shows the universe as being ruled by logic. Since the universe evolves by itself it must also be able to operate on logic (logical operations). This leaves us no choice but to admit only one substance and one cause in the universe. The logical creation of the universe from the rule of non-contradiction allows only time as a substance in the universe. This monism allows one to understand a lot of what physics describes.
This shows that local variable time rate and probability of finding a particle are interchangeable. We can’t measure the first one so we use the other one. (This is your ontological connection). A slower time rate in one spot makes the particle stay there longer which translates in a greater chance for us of finding it here. Period. In essence, the wave function describes the distribution of highs and lows in the time rate that determine where the particle stays longer or quickly moves on, which is the probability of us finding it or not. Is this too simple to understand? Or is there some other barrier I don’t know about?
Marcel,
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Vincent Wilmot wrote on Feb. 5, 2010 @ 13:28 GMT
Most attempts to incorporate observation and mearurement into physics seem maybe too narrowly human-oriented or anthropomorphic. In line with Relational Quantum Mechanics, it can reasonably be posited that no physical event can happen without some information or signal being observed and responded to. Then the key requirements of the physical universe would seem to be not particles and/or waves and humans; but information emitters, information responders and response time ? as in
review of Newton's Principia
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T H Ray wrote on Feb. 22, 2010 @ 19:29 GMT
Garrett,
In my unpublished paper "On Breaking the Time Barrier," I give time a physical definition ("n-dimensional infinitely orientable metric on self avoiding random walk") and follow through the consequences of a time metric dissipative over n dimensions, n > 4. One of these conseqeunces is an interpretation for collapse of the wave function:
"If time, as we assert, has an independent physical reality, it must be discontinuous with R^n and necessarily continuous with the n-dimensional Hilbert space. Necessarily so, because the continuity of a metric in n dimensional space implies discontinuity with R^n
by the invariance of dimension. The 3-space boundary in 3 + 1 dimension (Minkowski) space-time is the distance-time relation that changes sign in the metric signature + + + - on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold of Lorentzian metric properties; “curved space.” Compare with the Riemannian manifold in n dimensions of m eigenvalues, assuming non-degeneracy, which is smooth and positive definite. There are no timelike vectors, an important property for our definition of time, because an infinitely orientable
metric on a non-orientable surface is smoothly connected over dimensions
n - 1. We mean that the Lorentzian metric is compelled to obey local Minkowski space limits of time-distance. We mean that the time metric seeks the least dimension path in n-dimensional event space, which makes time an entirely scalar quantity. The magnitude {T} describes every time t --> T at which a measurement is recorded and all information about t is lost. This model preserves irreversibility in the measure space without sacrificing the
smoothly continuous function of a non-perturbative theory. I.e., we have the means to determine the large-scale bounds of quantum uncertainty in the relativistic limit:"
We then go on to calculate that result.
Tom
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Bubba Gump wrote on Feb. 24, 2010 @ 16:27 GMT
The fact that terms like 'demystified' are still being employed shows the crux of the issue in contemporary physics, which is the failure of many in the community to let go of their previously held ontological assumptions regarding the universe. The problem is that many want to see the structure of the world in a certain way and cannot accept any interpretation which does not conform to the neat and tidy world of classical reductionism.
For those who cling to the philosophical school of classical reductionism, which still describes the vast majority of the scientific community, the 'strangeness' of QM is the Elephant in the room that everyone sees but nobody wants to admit is real. It is obvious that the scientific community has always been uncomfortable with the hand we have been dealt and the last century has been full of various attempts to explain why the elephant is an illusion or why it must be an illusion because it does not jive with the pre-packged ontological assumptions that are born out of the desire to see the world through the crytsal-clear lens of classical reductionism.
The problem is not which interpretation of QM is correct, the problem is a direct result of trying to interpret the emperical results through the eyes of 18th-century Analytical Mechanics and classic determinism. We ain't in Kansas anymore Toto. Pretending that we are will be an exercise in futility.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Feb. 26, 2010 @ 20:13 GMT
I wanted to present a question for discussion. Unfortunately, I cannot create a new post. There is no option available on the menu. What gives?
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How much do the Philosophical prejudices held by Physicists preclude them from entertaining formulations that infer implications about the nature of reality that diverge from these Philosophical ideals?
The History of Physics is replete with such examples. One example is Einstein's failure to accept QM as a complete system due to the fact that the Ontological implications of the theory did not sit well with his notion of strict causal determinism.
We like to think of Physicists as entirely objective creatures who go about their business by appealing only to the empirical facts that are set before them. Physicists are human beings and like other humans, they carry with them metaphysical and emotional prejudices regarding the ontological nature of the world. Like other humans, they do not like to let go of these prejudices, even in the face of hard-core empirical facts, as was the case with Einstein.
All one has to do is read a few popular accounts of Modern Physics, both past and present, and you will often be presented with the opinion that any fundamental theory of physical structure will possess a beauty and elegance that is derived from its simplicity. Who says so? Is that something that we desire or something that is a logical necessity?
It is common to hear that some aspect of the Universe must be this way or that and, more often than not, this notion comes from philosophical and emotional prejudices. The tendency then is to not even entertain any idea which does not pass an arbitrary litmus test. This fact, along with the Sociology and Politics of the scientific enterprise, is a cause for concern. These factors have generated a herd mentality in the Physics community and have created a stagnate environment in which straying too far from the herd is shunned. I can use a number of words or adjectives to describe the state of Modern Physics. Objective is not one of them.
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Brian Beverly replied on Feb. 27, 2010 @ 12:41 GMT
"How much do the Philosophical prejudices held by Physicists preclude them from entertaining formulations that infer implications about the nature of reality that diverge from these Philosophical ideals?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_justification
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"All one has to do is read a few popular accounts of Modern Physics, both past and present, and you will often be presented with the opinion that any fundamental theory of physical structure will possess a beauty and elegance that is derived from its simplicity. Who says so? Is that something that we desire or something that is a logical necessity?"
I think it was William Occam who said something like that, but he phrased it as more of a correlation.
The classical elephant in the room was assumed to be spherical, frictionless and in a vacuum. The quantum elephant is assumed to be a zombified
cat existing in multiple universes.
There are a multiplicity of
possible explanations. Which school of thought do you like and why?
Bubba, thank you for the intelligent and insightful post.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Feb. 27, 2010 @ 22:49 GMT
Hi Brian, thanks for the reply. I wanted to start a new topic on this subject so as not to diverge too much from the scope of the original thread. Unfortunately, I cannot create a new post. My apologies to the OP for hijacking his thread.
Too often you find someone employing Ocaam's Razor as if it is a measuring tool for scientific truth or validity. Simplicity does not imply validity and...
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Hi Brian, thanks for the reply. I wanted to start a new topic on this subject so as not to diverge too much from the scope of the original thread. Unfortunately, I cannot create a new post. My apologies to the OP for hijacking his thread.
Too often you find someone employing Ocaam's Razor as if it is a measuring tool for scientific truth or validity. Simplicity does not imply validity and it is not a fundamental litmus test for scientific truth. The litmus test for scientific truth is empirical observation. If it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a a duck; even if the equations infer it must be a cow.
Someone can come out of the woodwork and put forth the18'th century hypothesis that' the Sun is simply a burning lump of coal and attempt to justify the theory by asserting that the Coal theory is certainly much more simple and elegant than the explanation provided by nuclear physics. Right out of the gate, however, the lack of dominance of carbon emission lines throws a monkey- wrench into this theory. The empirical observations of the emission lines force a much higher level of complexity on any theory that attempts to to explain this observation.
Also, I think it is important to separate methodological simplicity from causal simplicity when discussing concepts like Ocaam's Razor. A scientist does not start with the goal of constructing a theory which is simple and elegant. A scientist sets out to construct, in the most general and fundamental terms possible, an explanation for the phenomenon under scrutiny. This explanation and the associated methodology may or may not be more simple than any arbitrary theory which precede it or competes with it. If anyone doubts this, simply read a paper on the theory of vortex flow or non-linear dynamics.
In terms of methodology, relative simplicity results because we choose a frame of reference that often, but not always, makes it possible to intuitively conceptualize the problem under study. As a very simple example, I can choose to utilize polar coordinates to calculate the trajectory of an object undergoing rectilinear motion even though it is much easier and more intuitive to utilize Cartesian 3-space or some arbitrarily simply Vector space. Both reference frames will produce the same results and allow me to predict and explain. To me, that is the gist of Ocaam's Razor -- there is no need to trouble yourself with unneeded complexity when a simpler explanation will do. Ocaam's Razor does not imply that something is very wrong when a theory is not relatively simple, elegant, and beautiful.
I also believe that it is important to separate heuristic simplicity from causal simplicity when discussing a subject such as Ocaam's Razor. We generalize concepts to make them more subtle and compact. This flows out of our operational requirements. We formulate more fundamental generalizations to eliminate higher levels of relative complexity in our understanding of phenomenon. In terms of causal simplicity, a more fundamental theory is naturally going to be much more simple and elegant than those that precede it because it provides a more fundamental and generalized way of viewing the phenomenon.
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As far as interpretations of QM, interpretations are only worthwhile for a scientist if they lead to a framework that allows the scientist to create novel and testable predictions that the current theory cannot. Otherwise, different camps would simply be doing the same things using different metaphysical labels. When a novel conceptual understanding of fundamental ontology leads to a new theory that can explain and predict where others cannot, the result is a paradigm shift that revolutionize how one thinks about nature.
IMO, Physics has been in a metaphysical funk for quite some time -- since the 20's, actually -- and it is a community that is not really sure of itself or where it wants to go. If any period in the history of Physics as in need of a paradigm shift, this is it. As I stated in an earlier post, we are not in Kansas anymore and pretending that we are is likely only going to result in more time spent in this funk.
Modern Theoretical Physics has become String Theory vs the Standard Model vs Loop Gravity vs [insert theory here]. Very few have stopped to consider that perhaps everyone is digging for oil in the wrong place. Perhaps the community needs to find a totally different conceptual landscape in which to probe for oil. Unfortunately, budgets and manpower are all tied up and little of anything is left for any undertaking which challenges the status quo or heads in a novel direction. Physics is no longer 19'th century Natural Philosophy where scientists work largely autonomously and can head out into new ventures on their own. The current politics, sociology, and budgetary considerations of 21'st the century scientific enterprise preclude the possibility of a paradigm shift happening any time soon.
IMO, a Reductionist blind-spot exists in our attempt to understand nature and formally relate lower levels of complexity to higher levels, and vice-versa. One thing that is apparent from our current understanding of nature is that there often exists no clear and systematic causal delineation between different levels of structure in the physical world. I would liken this to the notion of the 'so-called' missing links in evolution that don't permit one to empirically map one level of organizational structure to the next. For example, our distinction between atomic and molecular structures is methodological and heuristic--nobody has managed to come up with a complete and internally consistent physical model that applies, across the board, as to how molecular structure arises from atomic structure.
We can explain the structure of the water molecule by appealing to the concepts of energy levels,stability, valence, polarity, and all these other useful concepts employed in chemistry;however, we would be hard-pressed to deductively predict the existence of the water molecule and it's properties based only on the the laws governing physical structure at the atomic level. In chemistry, scientists still have trouble explaining certain unique molecular properties such as chirality. In fact, scientists are still debating the number of bonds each water molecule makes with its neighbors. In our study of nature, a reductive blind spot always seems to exist when we go from one level of structure to another.
In short, knowing and understanding the properties of lower level structures does not always allow us to predict or account the properties of higher level structures based only on the properties of those that exist at a lower level -- in any formal and systematic way. There will always be gaps, special cases and oddities along with the blind-spots in our reductive schemes. To abstract even further, would an assumed TOE which accounts for the lowest level structures be able, in theory or practice, to explain the migratory patterns of humpback whales or explain the existence and content of Shakespeare's plays? I am withholding my opinion as to whether or not I believe emergence is due to ontological or methodological concerns.
Historically, physicists have been working with the metaphysical presupposition that discreet and autonomous bits of substance represent the most fundamental property that can be attributed to natural phenomenon. The autonomous parts that comprise themselves are all that is needed to account for complexity -- at least that's the current paradigm.
This ontological and methodological framework is what I question.
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Brian Beverly replied on Feb. 28, 2010 @ 23:42 GMT
Bubba,
That was well said, thank you. I am a dilettante so I am always appreciative of a wise physicist who will take the time to answer some of my questions.
"Very few have stopped to consider that perhaps everyone is digging for oil in the wrong place. Perhaps the community needs to find a totally different
conceptual landscape in which to probe for oil. Unfortunately, budgets and manpower are all tied up and little of anything is left for any undertaking which challenges the status quo or heads in a novel direction. Physics is no longer 19'th century Natural Philosophy where scientists work largely autonomously and can head out into new ventures on their own. The current politics, sociology, and
budgetary considerations of the 21'st century scientific enterprise preclude the possibility of a paradigm shift happening any time soon."
If what you're saying is true then what are scientists doing? I understand that experimental physics is expensive and difficult. However, theoretical physics is dirt cheap by comparison so why is there a lack of diversity and resistance to new ideas? Why must it be expensive to shift the paradigm? I thought the overhead for a new idea was only the cost of paper, pencils and the physicist's time. Physics should be full of well supported nascent ideas.
If there is a precedent in physics for scientists working autonomously and heading out in new directions then why does science have metrics that work against that creative process? Why is an isolated population necessary for an organisms evolution? Did Einstein support his initial research with a sinecure or did he pursue tenure?
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Bubba Gump replied on Mar. 1, 2010 @ 00:32 GMT
Hello again Brian.
From my perspective, I can sum up the issue in one word -- Politics.
When discussing the subject, it is important to separate the institution of Science proper from the institutions that pay the theorists to conduct the business of science in an academic setting.
A University is an exceedingly competitive environment. Every year, the typical university puts out more PhD's in Physics than there are positions available in research. An institution is very unlikely to hire a researcher that does not either have an interest or background in the areas of research that represents the focal point of the institution.
Scientists are like anyone else. They need to buy food, clothing, and shelter. The University will judge a scientist on a number of factors, one of which is their ability to publish as many papers as possible in one of these areas of research -- and in the shortest amount of time possible. In short, unless you are already tenured and have established yourself, you will not risk your future by venturing outside of the confines established by the status quo. By the time you have established yourself, you have usually reached a level of complacency with the field that you will not venture out. By that time, you are more interested in validating your life's work rather than starting something new.
There currently exists one large focal point of theoretical research that represents the status quo--one which will go unnamed. If you are fresh and young and wish to find your niche, you will either get with this program or find your potential future to be FUBAR.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 2, 2010 @ 00:52 GMT
Back to the subject of interpretations.
I think it's worthwhile to take a quick survey of ideas and concepts throughout history that presented similar conceptual and ontological difficulties. It certainly won't offer any solutions to our problem but will give us an idea of how such issues eventually were resolved.
If you every get a chance, browse through Newton's Principia and...
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Back to the subject of interpretations.
I think it's worthwhile to take a quick survey of ideas and concepts throughout history that presented similar conceptual and ontological difficulties. It certainly won't offer any solutions to our problem but will give us an idea of how such issues eventually were resolved.
If you every get a chance, browse through Newton's Principia and Optiks. Compare and contrast the tones present in the works. In Optiks, you will find Newton offering many hypothesis and explanations for the phenomenon he is investigating. In Principia, he explicitly refrains from offering any opinions whatsoever concerning the nature or of the gravitational force.
Action at a distance is so abhorrent to a mechanistic world-view that it is nonsensical. Forces are a local phenomenon and force is transmitted through direct contact. In the everyday world of the 18th century, a force is something that only occurs between two bodies that are in direct contact. It was impossible to fathom how two bodies separated by great distances could influence one another.
Unlike the corpuscular theory of light he put forth, Newton pretty much dealt with the subject of gravitation in a pedantic way and left it at that. The subject was never revisited. Action at a distance was a hot potato and the subject was usually dropped from discussions. It was something that most everyone eventually accepted but nobody ever really spent a whole lot of time trying to think about. There were no Copenhagen or Many-Worlds interpretations for this spooky behavior. Just as we do today, Newton and his contemporaries simply acknowledged that they did not understand the manner in which such a phenomenon manifest itself. Like today, they simply knew that the mathematics worked, could make accurate predictions, and offered a complete accounting for the observations. Life goes on and the work continues. One does not need to understand the complete picture in order to continue to make use of the knowledge one has gained.
In the 19th century, the development of analytical mechanics changed the focus away from force and onto the concept of the energy of a system. In the formulations of LaGrange and Hamilton, force is never an explicit part of the picture. One does not need to visualize the system as individual particles exerting forces on one another. The goal of nature is to minimize the integral of kinetic and potential energy differences. This makes it much easier and efficient, as one can deal with scalar quantities and generalized coordinates. It also means that the notion of action at a distance subtlety disappears from the scene. The problem of action at a distance basically gets tucked away in the attic. It isn't until Einstein that anyone seriously attempts to revisit the subject and attempt to make any sense of the ontological nature of gravity.
A similar justification was used for accepting the field concept after it's introduction by Maxwell and Faraday. With Maxwell, a non-local force between distance charges never explicitly enters the picture. The electromagnetic field permeates space and is the causal agent responsible for the interactions of parts of the 'electromagnetic fluid.' As the field permeates space, matter is influenced by it's direct interaction with the field at the point at the point on the field at which it finds itself. The field is the causal mechanism of the electromagnetic force and action at a distance becomes superfluous.
Later developments obviously model the forces of nature as being mediated by the exchange of particles or energy borrowed from the vacuum.
The spooky notion of action at a distance completely disappeared from the picture. Or so we thought. After a short hiatus, it seems to be back again, only in a slightly different form. Entangled particles seem to be working some strange magic and we once again find ourselves in the unenviable position of trying to play poker with half a deck. It took almost 200 years and a radical shift in methodology and theory before we were able to form a coherent picture of gravitation that let go of the notion of action at a distance. How long it will take for us to make sense of the present conundrum remains to be seen. At least we know how Newton and his contemporaries felt when trying to make sense of the nonsensical. The intrigue and wonder is what draws most people to science. If we had the answers to everything, it would be a very boring world.
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Continuing with the discussion(or monologue in this case). I can never resist discussing this subject, even on Internet message boards. It's a good way to just sit back and unwind -- some might say a very geeky way, but a good way nonetheless. :)
I am not trying to sustain a running monologue but am trying to add a different dimension to the subject. Jump in y'all !
There are lots of...
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Continuing with the discussion(or monologue in this case). I can never resist discussing this subject, even on Internet message boards. It's a good way to just sit back and unwind -- some might say a very geeky way, but a good way nonetheless. :)
I am not trying to sustain a running monologue but am trying to add a different dimension to the subject. Jump in y'all !
There are lots of things we don't know.
What do we know?
-- QM in all its incarnations works. It represents the most successfully theory to-date in terms of it's power to predict and account for observed phenomenon on the scales in which we apply it.
-- For nearly a century, the most brilliant minds in the scientific community have been trying to come to terms with the implications of this theory.
-- These brilliant minds have put forth a myriad of interpretations but there is no consensus and currently there exists no methodological or empirical way of establishing the validity of one interpretation over another.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much all we can really say at the moment. It's fun to speculate but we are all basically shooting in the dark when offering our interpretations.
If someone were to ask me my opinion, I might just say, "I haven't the slightest idea. If Feynman or Wheeler couldn't figure it out, I sure as hell can't." Then I would put on my philosophers hat and offer some metaphysical speculations, because that's really all that can be done without some new discovery or an entirely new reformulation of the subject. Obviously, our classical deterministic tendencies that we have gleaned from the macro world have failed us on this most fundamental level.
We did not build our current paradigm from the ground up. We occupy a very peculiar corner of the Universe. The majority of the visible matter in the universe exists in the peculiar high-energy state of matter that we call plasma. Our tiny little corner of the cosmos is a Universal freakish oddity characterized by stable low-energy states of matter known as solids. If we were plasma-beings living in the chaotic soup of high-energy substance, our physics textbooks would look very different. Our world would be dominated by forces so powerful that it would probably take quite some time before we ever get around to the idea of gravitation, if we ever did at all. We would likely never catch onto the notion that a relatively stable substance called solids was something real. We would probably never speculate on the existence of relatively stable entities such as molecules,solids, or polypeptide chains.
We find ourselves on the opposite end of the spectrum. Our world is characterized by relatively low-energy states where the effects of forces such as gravity are the most discernable features of our existence. It is in this environment that we formulated the rules of the game. We had to start big and work our way backwards down the causal chain into the relatively high-energy world of particle interactions. There is no reason not to believe that our intuition gleaned from our oddball existence will fail us in this environment. This strange and tiny quantum world looks and behaves nothing like the one we live in here in our corner of the cosmos. If a plasma-being happened onto our little corner of the world, he would bey as equally perplexed and dumbfounded.
All the plasma-scientists would be running amok shouting, "Nothing behaves like it should ! What the hell is going on?!!" We would simply retort, "Of course nothing behaves like it should -- you live in a plasma! What did you expect? What made you think that your world should behave like ours?"
We always assumed that the micro-world must behave like our oddball world full of colliding pool balls and masses sliding down frictionless planes. We were wrong. Just one look around tells us that we ain't in Kansas anymore, Toto.
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Brian Beverly wrote on Mar. 3, 2010 @ 05:35 GMT
Bubba
Your lucid comments are a pleasure to read. Ever thought of writing physics books? What would you consider to be a measurement in quantum physics? Why should the wavefunction collapse to an eigenvalue once there is a measurement? What specifically do you question in the ontological framework? We are solid beings yet we still understand plasma physics (except for me I got a C in that course). I'd also be interested if you have any historical connections or philosophical musings on entropy.
I agree,
we are not in kansas anymore...quantum can be a trip.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 10, 2010 @ 01:52 GMT
Hello again, Brian.
As Feynman once stated, "If you think you understand Quantum Mechanics, you don't understand Quantum Mechanics."
I am reluctant to offer any specific opinions without qualifying them with arguments as to why I believe any individual interpretation or opinion holds merits over another--or why I formulate the specific opinions that I do. I don't want to come across as if I am skirting the question or engaging in hyperbole. I just prefer to think about these topics from a different angle.
I believe it is more productive to start by trying to understand the factors that lead a scientists or any individual to choose one interpretation of another. How does someone come to choose the MW interpretation over Copenhagen, or vice-versa? What is the criteria of selection and where does the criteria originate?
As I mentioned before, with our current state of knowledge, the problem with interpreting quantum mechanics is that we lack a formal means of deciding which interpretation corresponds to reality--it is theoretically possible that we may never know. Outside of possessing data that contradicts an interpretation, all interpretations are equally valid answers to the question , 'What is QM really saying about the ontological nature of reality on both the macro and micro scales?'. This is really what people want to know.
The acceptance of an interpretation of QM often results more from a desire to make a selection that appeals to our metaphysical inclinations rather than from having thought through the issue in as objective a manner as possible and arrived at a conclusion. We end up grocery shopping and making selections that are agreeable to our palate -- "I will take two jelly doughnuts, two eclairs, a and a bagel, please -- and throw in a coffee, extra cream." The unpopular items like Brussel Sprouts are largely ignored and can be seen gathering dust on the shelf.
In the absence of evidence to support any claim to validity, I believe that it is especially important that we think about why we have come to prefer our own interpretations over another and can rationally articulate our choice to accept this interpretation as a probable ontological narrative that describes reality. It is important that we do so because how we choose to interpret phenomenon often determines in what direction we head in trying to advance our knowledge of the subject. Just saying, "I think the MW worlds interpretation is true" is no different than saying, "I think the Yankees are a better team than the Red Sox". Can you back up the opinions with some sort of argument or is it something that arises out of a whim or personal preference? Many interpretations come across as if they were formulated in the same way one would attempt to find a rational way to jam a square peg into a round hole in an attempt to hold onto a classical metaphysical conception of physical reality.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 10, 2010 @ 19:48 GMT
Continue on with this subject..
Violation of Bell's Inequalities appear to have put us in the position of either rejecting the idea of hidden variables or accepting the notion of hidden variables as they apply to non-locality.
Some theorists who do not like the experimental results will say, "I will concede the existence of non-locality as long as I get to retain the ability to rely...
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Continue on with this subject..
Violation of Bell's Inequalities appear to have put us in the position of either rejecting the idea of hidden variables or accepting the notion of hidden variables as they apply to non-locality.
Some theorists who do not like the experimental results will say, "I will concede the existence of non-locality as long as I get to retain the ability to rely on hidden variables." Others will simply reject the experimental results entirely and argue the fine points of the experimental setups. They will concentrate on finding ways to show how the results are invalid. Again, going back to my points earlier, this sounds more like an attempt to hold onto a particular worldview rather than taking an objective look at the evidence and trying to reach the most logical conclusion that represents the most plausible interpretation. If the inequalities had not been violated and the results of experiment had told them what they wanted to hear, would they be pressing the issue of validity? I would tend to believe not.
The experimental results have been replicated many times. If someone were to demonstrate and empirically prove that hidden variables indeed exist, I would have no choice but to accept their existence. That evidence, however, does not exist and nobody has put forth any consistent theory that would account for or explain such hidden variables. This does not mean I am right. It simply means that I have formed my opinion in as objective a way possible, irrespective of my own prejudices and metaphysical bias. It doesn't really matter to me if it turns out that hidden variables do indeed exist anymore than it would matter to me if it turned out that we discovered that the Universe really was the back of a Tortoise floating in a gigantic pool of water. I simply see no reason to currently accept either proposition. They appear to be conjectures based on criteria that appeals to an individuals metaphysical desires and inclinations about how the world should operate.
In the absence of evidence for hidden variables, I can only objectively infer that classical reductionism likely died a very slow death as we discovered more and more about the workings of nature on scales that are far removed from our senses. Many have refused to attend the funeral and hold out hope that it simply went AWOL and will one day reappear or manage to resurrect itself. The theoretical community appears to be going through the progressive states of Kubler-Ross -- Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Currently, many seem to be somewhere between the Bargaining-Depression state.
I believe that any resolution of the conceptual and ontological issues we face are likely going to result not from a reformulation of Quantum Mechanics or a discovery of hidden variables, but will involve a major paradigm shift that reorganizes our intuitive and causal notions of how nature is structured on a phenomenological level, not only microscopically but macroscopically as well.
To give you an idea of what I mean, we should consider some examples from History. In the history of our quest to understand the structure and properties of the phenomenon that exist in the natural world, there have been two fundamental reasons for shifts in thought that lead us to reformulate current principles. Such shifts either result from observations that force this change upon, as is the case with QM, or they result from a radical ideological shift in perspective. Both will lead to a reformulation of fundamental notions or concepts about the world but the latter proves more powerful as it forces one to reformulate ideas on a global scale. It forces a new approach to an old problem using entirely novel ontological conceptions about the nature of the Universe itself, not just a specific phenomenon associated with an arbitrary scale of influence.
I would present two examples here that explain each type of methodological shifts .
Contrary to popular opinion and many textbooks, Copernicus did not discover that the Earth orbited the Sun. Copernicus presented a Hypothesis--one that was neither logically or empirically necessary, given the information available at the time. The Ptolemaic system could account for the observations of the behavior of heavenly bodies with equal precision. Unlike our venture into the Quantum world, the Heliocentric hypothesis was not one which was formed as a result of some new observation that could not be accounted for within the confines of the accepted theory of the time. Copernicus did not come out and say to the world, "Hey guys, we’ve got this all wrong. I was just observing the sky last night and discovered that the Earth is actually circling the Sun. We've got this whole thing wrong !"
The Heliocentric hypothesis was one that had fermented in the cellar for centuries. You can find the hypothesis present in some schools of thought all the way back to the Greeks. Copernicus framed the heliocentric hypothesis on a much more refined and accurate scale, using the precise data available at the time. He was able to do something the Greeks could not--he could match empirical data to a hypothesis and give it some life. Still, I must emphasize that the Heliocentric hypothesis was not necessary to be true in order to account for the data -- the Ptolemaic model did so with equal precision. Since displacing the Earth from it's primal and privileged position was abhorrent to the common sensibilities of the time, why, then, did it gradually gain acceptance? It offered simplicity and elegance that the Ptolemaic system could not. It accounted for the astronomical observations in a much more straightforward and rational way. In short, it made more intuitive sense; whereas the Ptolemaic system, with its bizarre system of epicycles and deferent, did not. One could more easily explain and account for observed phenomenon.
The period that followed represents a time when the ideology of the world was turned totally upside down as a result of the inferences we derived from the theory. It marks the beginning of the scientific revolution and allowed us to proceed in ways previously undreamed of. We have never looked back since. Obviously, the idea was slow to be accepted. As with the Theory of Evolution today, it infers things about our existence that many people may not want to hear. If our position in the Universe is not special then perhaps we are not as special as we thought. In the case of Copernicus, the idea started to take shape that perhaps the world does not revolve around us, either literally or figuratively. IMHO, the Copernican Revolution represents the most radical shift in naturalistic and rational thought in the History of the Western world.
Compare this Paradigm shift to the changes in reasoning that occur when nature forces upon us, by means of direct observation, certain tenets or principles which cannot be avoided but do conflict with the current paradigm.
A misconception in the history of physics as it is portrayed in most texts is that Planck was a willing accomplice in the development of Quantum Theory. Planck's motivation for introducing the notion of quantization was entirely methodological and not thematic. He was simply using quantization as a neat mathematical trick. His goal was to create a mathematical model which could be used to reproduce the spectral observations gleaned from the study of blackbody radiation.
Another misconception is that he was motivated to do so due to the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. This is not the case -- in any way, shape, or form. Planck held great reservations surrounding the methodological application of Boltzmann’s statistic to observed phenomenon. He never trusted such an approach as a internally consistent method of relating thermodynamic properties of macroscopic systems to micro-phenomenon. He saw the application of M-B statistics as rather arbitrary and contrived. He set out to create his own methodology that would not rely on assumptions about the mathematical forms of the distributions themselves. In other words, he was asking, 'What mathematical form of the distribution equations would allow one to successful model the spectral phenomenon?' His goal was to model the behavior of the system, not start with assumptions about the statistical behavior of an ideal ensemble.
Using Classic Electrodynamics, Planck tackled the issue by imagining that all of the component structures contained in a body that gave rise to the EM waves could be imagined as charges on the end of springs, vibrating back and forth like a simple harmonic oscillator. He worked out an equation to model the energy distribution among the components that would give the exact results measured in experiment. He gradually found out that he could never apply a continuous distribution of energy among the oscillators and model the empirical results. The only way he could make the mathematics work is if he assigned each oscillator only discreet values of energy which were proportional to an arbitrary constant. We know the rest of the story.
The gist here is that Planck thought of quantization only as a mathematical trick that would allow him to model the phenomenon. His goal was not to explain the nature of the underlying entities which made up the system. He, and others, refused to even entertain the idea that the quantization of energy states had anything to do with the entities themselves. When he published his results, he presented the equations as a mathematical tool to model the observed phenomenon. He was not making a statement about the nature of the underlying entities themselves.
It wasn't until Einstein took up the study of the Photoelectric effect and direct experimental proof of quantization of light was shown to exist that he finally came to grips with the idea that quantization indeed occurs on a fundamental level. He admits he only grudgingly accepted the notion. It is for this reason, btw, that many consider Einstein the founder of Quantum Theory -- or at least co-founder. It is also ironic that both men eventually came to reject the theory which arose from their work. Neither would ever accept Quantum Theory as a complete and accurate representation of nature. Two of the most brilliant men in the history of physics let their prejudices concerning the ontological nature of reality interfere with the acceptance of a theory.
The point here is not to bloviate but to offer a different perspective on the subject of interpretations. There are two different ways in which we come about altering our perspectives.
Shifts in understanding may come from areas of research that are largely ignored and still in their infancy. In our current case, I believe that such areas of study include chaos theory, complexity, and emergence. These are realms where processes take on a more fundamental role than discreet substance and represent different ways of tackling an issue. I believe that work in these areas could possibly allow us to make sense of things that we may be missing in transitions as we go from one level of structure to the next.
We have made a lot of ontological assumptions about the nature of physical reality and how systems are constructed. Many of them are hard to hold onto in the face of current observations of the world beyond our senses. I think we need to ask the question, what is fundamental to nature? The assumption has always been that discreet substance(whatever that means on the subatomic level) is the most fundamental property of nature that is responsible for all observed systems. The notion that substance may not be fundamental may seem absurd and nonsensical but on close inspection it is not as absurd as one may think -- can it be more absurd than believing that a photon possesses certain ontological properties that allow it to simultaneously be both a wave and a particle?
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 10, 2010 @ 20:11 GMT
Also, I wanted to add that a degree of 'weirdness' is not a valid criterion of selection when accepting a theory and my last statement did not mean to imply it should be. If it was, nobody would ever have accepted Quantum Mechanics. I am pointing out that Nature need not conform to our metaphysical predilections and we should never proceed with the inherent assumption that any fundamental theory is not obliged to jive with neat and tidy ontological notions concerning physical reality. Nature plays it’s own game.We don’t get to set the rules.
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Pankaj Seth wrote on Mar. 12, 2010 @ 05:41 GMT
I have been intrigued by QM as well. I think its possible to utilize rationality (science) and draw a map of self/world that is quite paradoxical to a materialist point of view. Information via the senses displays a picture of disparate matter moving through space and time. A closer look via QM also discloses a space-time transcendent oneness between matter/energy separated in space/time.
The subject-object dualism which is a strong feature at the macro realm begins to looks like a non-duality at the quantum realm. The questions we ask, "What am I?", "What is the world?" imply a primary, fundamental division between a pure subject who asks the questions and the object of which it is asked, but the subject-object divide may be secondary, or approximate feature of reality.
It appears that when matter is probed to its depths, its existence in a noumenal space/time setting is challenged. Space and time themselves appear to be phenomenon, rather than noumenon. But even this distinction does not move past the subject-object divide.
A rational inquiry into self and world via science has brought us to the edge of a new understanding. I think the chief finding here is that the subject-object divide within consciousness and reality is not fundamental. Consciousness, within which all appears is far more mysterious than we thought.
An approach which studies consciousness directly, subjectively would seem to fit our prescription now. This is what I find most compelling about Yoga... that here is a methodology worked out over millienia for doing just that. It does not replace science, that is not its genius. But it offers another, now crucial direction in which to take our inquiry.
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 12, 2010 @ 18:53 GMT
Not sure how yoga could help solve the roblem of Wave Function collapse. I can't imagine Physicists doing Yoga while working out a calculation.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 13, 2010 @ 03:35 GMT
That paints a hilarious picture in my mind -- physicists doing the downward dog while calculating. I should have been clearer about what I meant by the word 'Yoga'. I tend to forget that most persons think about Yoga as a bunch of postures, when its actually a method to explore consciousness directly, as opposed to constructing abstract models of its nature and function. The postures are almost irrelevant to Yoga in its actual context, but that's whats out there for sale.
I assume that there is no disagreement about the "paradoxical" subject-object relationship seen in the double slit experiment, for example. We have been trying to "understand" the implications of what is abstracted as "wave function collapse", and this certainly leads us to wondering about the relationship between consciousness and matter. Even Anton Zeilinger has met with the Dalai Lama to see if there might be Buddhist insights available on this mystery. Yoga is actually a close cousin of Buddhism and speaks on the same things in a similar vein -- hence my comment.
So, I wondered if there was any interest in a direct exploration of consciousness, so that the "paradox" could perhaps be better understood. There seems to be a paradigm shift going on which is moving us away from reductionism and materialism -- heck, there is even a statue of the patron of Yoga, the Dancing Shiva, at CERN.
http://www.fritjofcapra.net/shiva.html
http://public.web
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 13, 2010 @ 19:29 GMT
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When people explore the nature of consciousness in an attempt to resolve the weirdness of QM, they are making an implicit assumption about the scope and structure of the theory we have built -- namely, that the theory itself represents something more than an elaborate Turing machine which we have constructed to allow us to model phenomenon on the level of detail beyond our senses....
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When people explore the nature of consciousness in an attempt to resolve the weirdness of QM, they are making an implicit assumption about the scope and structure of the theory we have built -- namely, that the theory itself represents something more than an elaborate Turing machine which we have constructed to allow us to model phenomenon on the level of detail beyond our senses.
As I mentioned in my prior post, the mathematical structure and formalism of QM was something forced upon us by the nature of our observations. Such a construct is logically necessary. The variants of QM(e.g. Canonical, Path Integral, Field Theory) represent the only systematic ways one can construct a formal mathematical structure that takes into account the quantization of observables. We have carried over some of the the basic principles and structures from Classical Mechanics, such as the implicit notions of least action present in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dyanmics. We have also carried with it the ontological notions about casualty that have arisen from our intuitive understanding of the world of our senses. In other words,we have taken along with us the philosophical baggage we have intuitively derived from our sense experiences and this the reason for our cognitive dissonance.
The fundamental question is not what QM is describing as it relates to our intuitive understanding of the world of our senses, as this picture will always be incomplete given that we are mixing categories. In my opinion it makes no sense whatsoever to assign properties like 'partlecness' or 'waveess' to things like electrons or photons. Intuitive concepts like 'particleness' and 'waveeness' have arisen from the intuitive concepts we have formed from our sense experiences of the world in which we live.
In other words, from my perspective, we cannot retain any logical consistency in our world-view if we employ intuitive constructs such as an electron being either a particle or a wave -- or anything resembling the structures we assign to things in our world. These only represent neat and abstract mathematical constructs that allow us to explain in a stochastic fashion, the behavior of the systems under scrutiny.
I liken this to being at a party and playing charades with your friends. Your form solutions to the problems of identification by trying to relate abstract clues in a game of association. You rely on your memory and intuitive understanding of relations, causal structures, and imagery. You form a set of al possible things which could account for the clues and then narrow them down to form an identification by selecting one member from the set. You come up with an answer -- you are a cow ! Woohoo -- pass me a beer !
When we speak of substance on the level in which we apply QM, what are we really talking about? When trying to answer this question, we can only form the answer using, as a basis, our intuitive understanding of phenomenon gleaned from our classical sense-experiences of the world around us, on the scale in which we live. Like charades, we form the set of all possible things which can account for the clues. The problem is, there are no members of the set which can account for the things we are describing in QM. We have no intuitive or sense-experience information in our thought processes for an entity called a 'wavicle'. A wavicle is not a member of the set of things formed by our experience and intuition. We would never be able to intuit an object with such properties from the sense-impressions we have formed through our existence.
Take, for example, a physical system whereby we might model an electron conconfined to a potential. First of all, we are assuming that there is an entity which corresponds, in a classical sense, to something being confined -- like confining a pool ball to the confines of a table. IMO, this notion is FUBAR to begin with. We are mixing ontological categories of being and structure. There is no direct map to the set of all our sense to the set of all properties and behaviors observed on the QM level. We just try to play the game assuming there are. That's when things go haywire.
It is much more logically sound and consistent to speak instead not of substance as something fundamental to a phenomenon, but as a fundamental process that determines the changes any arbitrary system will undergo when we think of in the classical sense. In a classical sense, strip a particle of it's properties then what is it? What is left of an electron if you take away its properties of charge, mass, and energy? Nothing. You could not identify such a thing --there is no substance left. The properties themselves ARE the substance. They define the substance in a classical intuitive sense, not the QM sense. In other words, there is nothing there in the classical sense of a point-like particle running amok like pool balls flying about on a table.
It is more consistent and sane to think of something like an electron not as substance but as an emergent feature of some fundamental underlying process that is beyond our ability to comprehend or intuit. Thing such as the appearance of an electron, photon, etc represent the possible degrees of freedoms of such a fundamental system. Interactions,forces, fields, in the classic sense, represent the possible degrees of freedom.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 13, 2010 @ 20:53 GMT
Hi Bubba,
I agree with what you say. Heisenberg said the same: "The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however. Bohr said the same, "There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature."
I agree that what we have is a hard won formalism, that is brilliantly constructed and we can get on with the business of Techne, but Scientia, as approached via materialism is at an end. We still have our "paradoxical" experimental results to think about in terms of what they might be telling us about self/world. Let's stick with the double slit experiment, and variations such as 'Delayed choice quantum eraser". What's paradoxical to us is that the state of knowledge of the experimenter and the experimental results are correlated, entangled. In other words, the categories of 'mind' and 'matter' that are separable at the human sensory level are not separable when we look as deeply as we have with QM. Now this is not a surprise to either Vedanta nor Yoga. If a culture does not get stuck at the Cartesian division, then its not so difficult to deduce that its impossible to even conceive of phenomenon without consciousness in place… ergo, consciousness and phenomenon are a unity; or, mind and matter are a unity. How could it be otherwise?
As seekers of ourselves, we can take other lessons from what QM has shown us too, and this has got nothing to do with the formalism which includes the "wave function collapse". We have, in the West, considered ourselves as material beings with an emergent consciousness added on sometime during evolution. This picture is under great stress because now we have seen that matter and mind are inseparable. Given this, how would consciousness arise some time later than matter? Phenomenon and mind cannot be separated. There was no Cartesian split. It was only the Cartesian Spell that we were under. Our modern ideas about cosmology will not survive this either. But no matter, what survives or doesn't survive is irrelevant to someone actually interested in finding out about self/world. We have tried to study matter to its depth. We have chased it down and it is not a self-existent category apart from consciousness. Many cultures had already figured this out. So now what? The other pole, mind, turns out to not be an emergent property of matter, but just as primary, maybe more so, and that deserves our attention. It turns out it is very, very accessible… thus the recourse to Yoga now would seem to fit our prescription.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 13, 2010 @ 21:13 GMT
Hello again.
It is an interesting to offer our philosophical musings but it won't supply much assistance once we go into the laboratory. We will still find the same results for our experiments. I simply take an instrumentalist view when it comes to intepretaitons and believe that it really makess no sense to try to even comprehend the subject of QM in a clssical reconstructionist way.
I say we blame all the confusion on Planck. If Planck's constant was zero, we wouldn't have needed to create this whole mess and would be able to envision atomic structure as tiny little marbles orbiting an Aggie.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 13, 2010 @ 22:34 GMT
If planck's constant was zero, then we would have found ourselves to be automatons in a massive machine. We have found ourselves at the doorstep of knowing ourselves a lot more deeply... I think as time goes by, more and more persons will walk through... the West will follow at some point.
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Bubba Gump replied on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 00:07 GMT
We need to make a distinction between Philosophy and Physics. What you are proposing is certainly open to philosophical discussion but it is neither falsifiable nor verifiable in the realm of scientific inquiry.
Science does not concern itself with questions of teleology. I am not saying such questions are not important, but they do not fall under the magisterium of the scientific method. Questions of teleology have preoccupied the mind of man since we developed the ability to form the abstract thought that allows us to form such questions.
As interpretations of QM are not currently subject to empirical verification or negation, it's pretty much a free-for-all out there. It can be easy to go overboard with the speculations and we are given a license to let our imaginations run wild. Again, it proves to be an interesting exercise but we should caution against equating our own interpretations as facts.
I remember back in the 80's when popular accounts of QM such as, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters' and "The Tao of Physics' came out. Scientists realized that lack of empirical verification essentially handed them a 'get out of jail free' card when offering their own interpretations to the public.
The result is that authors of these popular accounts of modern physics ran amok with wild and often bizarre stories that border on the nonsensical. They took ideas like the MW interpretations and turned them into fanciful stories that sound more like they were stolen from the script of an Episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine rather than from a science textbook. People liked to hear that in an alternate reality they were filthy rich and drove a Jag. The public forgets that we have no way of proving such wild takes and it is nothing but fanciful speculation at this point. In fact, some current contemporary theories haven't even been verified empirically, yet textbooks and popular accounts often portray reality as if multiverses and the like are real.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 01:57 GMT
Yes, we need to be careful… but who exactly denies that we have found a non-separability of the 2 categories termed 'mind' and 'matter'? Does anyone question this anymore? This is not in the realm of speculation and philosophy, but empirical fact. This does not have to do with which interpretation of QM one wishes to believe.
There is all this bravado about following where the evidence...
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Yes, we need to be careful… but who exactly denies that we have found a non-separability of the 2 categories termed 'mind' and 'matter'? Does anyone question this anymore? This is not in the realm of speculation and philosophy, but empirical fact. This does not have to do with which interpretation of QM one wishes to believe.
There is all this bravado about following where the evidence leads us, but instead there is a profound stuckness in materialism still, and dualism still. On the one hand we talk about the need to move beyond the 17th century worldview of Newton and Descartes, and on the other hand there is fear at moving on. Why are we still attached to pictures of self and world that do not fit the facts? We no longer have the evidence to believe in determinism. Why should we believe that we are automatons without free will, and the world is a great big wind up clock? Time to move on.
Within us, thought has seen its limits, and that's just how it is… its not speculation or philosophy… now what? We can keep making more models, but they will *never* be complete. Even in principle, they can never be complete. The quest for knowledge through the exclusive use of the sensory and cognitive modes has come to an end. Now what? Should we just quit, or find something more within us to keep going?
These people are helping us move ahead… one will need to argue against them.
Anton Zeilinger in http://www.signandsight.com/features/614.html
Q
: So there is in fact something that exists independently of us. And the moon is also there when I'm not looking at it.
AZ: Something exists, but it is not directly accessible to us. Only indirectly. And whether this thing must really be called the "moon" is another question. That is also a construct.
Q: But there is something up there...
AZ: ... the word "there" is yet another construct. Space and time are concepts aimed at giving meaning to our world of appearances. So they are entirely reasonable constructs. By no means do I want to give the impression that I believe everything is just our imagination.
Q: The world as a huge theatre that only plays in our heads.
AZ: That is certainly not my view of things.
Q: Then what would you call it, this something that you can't call moon or space or time – this something that exists independently of us?
AZ: Wouldn't I be making another qualification if I tried to give it a name? Isn't it enough if I just say it exists? As soon as you use words like "world" or "universe", you start lugging about all that conceptual ballast again.
Q: But you defend the thesis that there is an "original matter of the universe": information.
AZ: Yes. For me the concept of "information" is at the basis of everything we call "nature". The moon, the chair, the equation of states, anything and everything, because we can't talk about anything without de facto speaking about the information we have of these things. In this sense the information is the basic building block of our world.
Q: But just now you spoke of a world that exists independently of us.
AZ: That's right. But this world is not directly ascertainable or describable. Because every description must be done in terms of the information, and so you inevitably get into circular reasoning. There's a limit we can't cross. And even a civilisation on Alpha Centauri can't cross it. For me that's something almost mystical.
I'm tired of believing in fairy tales, even if they are told by persons called "Scientists". If we don't like words like "Mysticism" or "Yoga", we don't have to use them.
Paul Davies: "the very notion of physical law is a theological one in the first place, a fact that makes many scientists squirm. Isaac Newton first got the idea of absolute, universal, perfect, immutable laws from the Christian doctrine that God created the world and ordered it in a rational way. Christians envisage God as upholding the natural order from beyond the universe, while physicists think of their laws as inhabiting an abstract transcendent realm of perfect mathematical relationships."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/
24/opinion/24davies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
I think its an exciting time… time for a change, but we should move carefully... and discussions like these can be very helpful. Thanks.
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 04:26 GMT
Hi Pankej,
With the advent of QM, I agree that determinism and classical constructionism are no longer tenable; however, that does not infer that nature is structured in a way that defies some semblance of casual explanation that necessitates the introduction of a 'ghost in the machine.'
Science is not concerned with establishing truths and the questions and opinions you are presenting fall under the purvue of Philosophy. Science cannot arrive at truths as science relies on inductive inference, not deductive reasoning that starts with a set of axioms and ends up with proofs. The final judge of any proposition in science is not a deductive proof, but an observation. No matter how certain we are of our present theories, all it takes is a single observation to throw a monkey wrench into the picture. Theories are amenable to change, truth is not.
The Q&A you supplied, although interesting, simply represent opinions that represent the philosophical ideations of a particular individual. This does not mean such opinions are false simply because someone does not agree with them. It simply means that for a scientist, there is no way to empirically confirm or falsify any of these opinions as they are not subject to testing. In a practical sense, they serve no operational purpose to a scientist -- they represent background noise that can be ignored.
Now, I have already stated that our philosophical ideology may determine how we proceed when constructing testable hypothesis,;but, the hypothesis must be testable, or it is not science.
We need to be very cautious about confusing science with philosophy, especially when the subject of QM comes up. The Internet is full of the crazy crackpot theories when it comes to this subject. Just as with politics, everyone seems to have an opinion on what QM is really telling us. I am certainly not calling your position crazy and I am not implying that philosophy is not important, as it surely is. I greatly enjoy philosophy. It's just that we can get ahead of ourselves and scientists can end up sounding like snake-oil salesmen instead of scientists. I think the scientific community as a whole needs to calm the hell down about Quantum weirdness.
The position you hold is one that an individual is forced to either accept or deny, largely based on their own philosophical bias. Nobody has any way to deductively prove or empirically verify any such position.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 17:40 GMT
We have probed the depths and have come face to face with the Quantum. This has led to terrible weapons as well as communications technology which can make the whole world as One. The Quantum has also led us to a deep reflection, and has pointed the attention back onto ourselves, to our own inner depths, towards an illumination we always wanted but didn't know how to approach.
The surface looks into the depths and receives all these possibilities. In Taoism, extreme Yin turns into Yang, extreme Yang turns into Yin. We have looked outwards as far as possible and have been led back to ourselves. We have been taught by the Quantum, that an objective stance eventually requires the exploration of our own subjectivity. Therein lies our next adventure where we shift from asking "What is the World?", to "Who asks that question?".
There is a mystical tradition in India known as "Spanda Karika" translated as "The Doctrine of Vibration". It states that at the depth of experience is a vibration, a discontinuous change, a flickering, which from an objective stance can be appreciated as an external existent that one can watch, but also that this flickering is the depth of oneself, the subject. This flickering is the coming and going of the world, but an even deeper understanding is that it is the self-movement of consciousness, of reality. There can be a looking upon this, or an identification with it. The former is a distant knowledge in the form of the subject-object distinction. The latter is the experience of the flickering reality to itself, which can be experienced as one's own deep nature. This self-experience is termed "Samadhi" meaning the non-distinction of subject and object. This is, finally, a self-illumination of the world, through any and all subjects in the world. This is also called "Moksha", meaning "The end of the road", or "Finishing up", or "Liberation/Freedom". It is said that this is what we crave, or that this is the movement of reality towards itself, that plays itself out in all subjects.
"Nothing perceived is independent of perception and perception differs not from the perceiver, therefore the universe is nothing but the perceiver."
"[This] Bliss", writes Abhinava, "is not like the intoxication of wine or that of riches, nor similar to union with the beloved. The manifestation of the light of consciousness is not like the ray of light from a lamp, sun or moon. When one frees oneself from accumulated multiplicity, the state of bliss is like that of putting down a burden; the manifestation of the Light is like the acquiring of a lost treasure, the domain of universal non-duality."
The Doctrine of Vibration: An analysis of the doctrines and practices of Kashmir Shaivism
Mark S. G. Dyczkowski - State University of New York Press, 1987
http://www.amazon.com/Doctrine-Vibration-Doctrines-Pract
ices-Traditions/dp/0887064329
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Bubba Gump replied on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 19:37 GMT
Hi,
The experimental study of radioactivity and fission led to the development of fission weapons. We could have built a bomb without any knowledge of QM whatsoever. All you need is the ability to produce enriched uranium and the technological capacity to bring two parts together into a critical mass without fizzling out.
Quantum teleportation and communication are still highly theoretical developments that have yet to bear any fruit. These are highly speculative subjects and researchers are really not sure to what extent we can make practical use of properties such as entanglement. The most promising area so far seems to be in quantum computing. As far as everything else, most experimentation to date has really not been that successful in doing much of anything other than dealing with systems of single pairs of entangled photons. IMO, the popular notion of Quantum Teleportation transporting humans and such is simply a wild fantasy, unless proven otherwise. So far, this idea has only been successful in selling pop-sci books to people who watch too much Star Trek.
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 20:23 GMT
Hi Bubba,
Re: Tool Making
In the West, the Cartesian dualism still persists. It is believed that mind looks upon a reality that exists independently of it. This is a metaphysical stance, rather than something disclosed by empiricism. This dualist position is not "Science", but "Metaphysics". A scientific position, given by empirical evidence is that "Nothing perceived is independent of perception."
The Kantian formulation of "Phenomenon-Noumenon" is also not a scientific position, given by empiricism. In fact, this is simply another dualism, a more subtle version of the Cartesian split, which cannot be supported by evidence either. We hope to say something about a "Veiled Reality", that exists independently of the perceiving subject, that exists outside of sentience, but we have no empirical basis to support such a position. It is a metaphysical position masquerading as a Scientific stance. The only thing that empiricism discloses, the only thing that there is evidence for is "Nothing perceived is independent of perception." This is a non-dualism, which is not a metaphysical stance, but an empirically derived and thus Scientific position.
The Cartesian stance, and even the Kantian stance are just that, stances, which are useful positions to take so as to get a particular sort of view, one that avails itself to a type of investigation we call "Science". And this is very powerful, gives us the ability to model the sensory display as mechanism, which has led to marvellous technological innovation. But if we do not step out of these stances, we might get lost in them, even losing ourselves, and ourselves and others as "mechanism".
Tools are great, but forgetting oneself is not. Thus, the Quantum, the flickering of the sensory display at its depths brings us back to "Scientia" (KNOWLEDGE), rather than getting lost within the models we make towards the pursuit of "Techne" (TOOL MAKING).
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 20:24 GMT
Forgot to put my name in above post... though you probably would've guessed. Thanks again.
Pankaj
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 14, 2010 @ 21:39 GMT
Hi Pnakjaj,
This Web Site, I assume, is devoted to the discussions of issues related to the advancement of our scientific knowledge. I would therefore assume that most people who visit a board that falls under the auspices of science would be visiting to discuss various aspects of knowledge and theory-making that fall within that context. Debating the truth or falsehood of such an esoteric topic as mind/body dualism is not something that would be of value to someone who visits a web domain that is dedicated to discussion scientific theories. A neurologist might be interested in the subject, but probably not physicists.
Again, I am not saying such questions are not important -- they are. But everything has it's place. Discussing such topics on a board dedicated to physics is kind of like going to a Chinese restaurant and ordering a hamburger and fries.
What you are proposing is interesting to discuss but I am not sure how it adds to the goal of advancing our scientific understanding of nature. You obviously adhere to some form of idealism. But what practical value does such an opinion have for science? We will still measure the same mass for the hydrogen atom, the Earth will continue in it's orbit and we still will have no verified theory that unifies gravity with QM.
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pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 02:19 GMT
Hi Bubba,
Let me point out that this portion of the forum is called "Ultimate Reality", and there are other portions where discussion should indeed be limited to whatever is suggested by their titles.
The words "Science" "Physics" and "Nature" have a long history, and what is meant or encompassed by these words has changed over time. This process of change continues even today. We are not at some end point of knowledge. Without discussion of foundational issues, as is the goal of this website, we will become ossified.
The Greek "Scientia" means knowledge, and the modern rendition "Science" is limited in its meaning when compared against the original. The Greek "Physis" is translated as "Nature", and it encompasses more than the modern use of the word "Physics" connotes. I believe that we have ample reasons, which I have stated in earlier posts, to revisit the meaning and use of these words. These are very, very important foundational issues, though they are less important to someone who has an instrumentalist approach. However, it was due to persons like Bohr, Heisenberg, Shrodinger and Einstein, who were certainly not instrumentalists, that we have made very hard won advances in our knowledge of nature, and as it turns out QM is telling us something very important about nature, including our own nature; this is bringing us back to the older, wider meanings of 'Scientia' and 'Physis'. There is change afoot, and I am a harbinger of that change, as are many others.
I would prefer to discuss the arguments that have been put forward, so as to test their veracity. But you have raised questions which are also important and in fact allow us to go further in our relationship to the very deepest foundational issues, as is the goal of this website. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
http://en.wikiped
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(disam
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 13:42 GMT
Hi,
I was not suggesting that the questions should not be discussed. I was just pointing out that such philosophical opinions are ultimately of no value to science. Such opinions will not make any new predictions about the universe that can be measured or tested in a laboratory.
Science relies on empirical evidence gathered through observation. That's just the way it is. Philosophy relies on deductive reasoning that starts with premises or axioms and uses these as a basis to form an argument that necessitates a conclusion. Too often, people skip this part when stating their position. They simply state their own opinions without offering the rational justification they used to reach the conclusions that they hold. The opinions end up sounding more like something that appealed to emotions and desires, rather than reason -- i.e. wishful thinking.
Basically, I really don't understand what you are proposing and how it relates to furthering progress in science or philosophy. There is no way to empirically measure the veracity of the arguments you are putting forth regarding the nature of consciousness. There is no way to prove or disprove such a position rationally without making assumptions regarding the truth of religious traditions as they are present in Eastern mysticism.
To me, it sounds like esoteric musings on a theme. The onus is not on me to show your position to be false. I simply have no reason to accept it and nobody has supplied me any rational reason why I should accept it. In the absence of evidence to prove your position, it is on you to provide some rational basis for why I should accept your position and why your position offers more intrinsic value to a scientist than any of the other myriad of interpretations for QM.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 16:11 GMT
Hi Bubba,
The modern, fragmented version of "Scientia" known as 'Science' makes many, many "is" statements. We are presented with many ontological claims, but Relativity and QM have shown us that it would be more accurate to state many of these claims as being phenomenological. This is a very, very important point. Ontological statements stand upon thin air, unless the underlying epistemology is also clearly stated. That is, it is salutary to say "Such is the case, when examined from this particular epistemic mode, or point of view". This removes ambiguity, which otherwise can and has caused us to become lost to ourselves, and the world to be inaccurately portrayed. This is the case, for example, with what is called the "Newtonian Worldview". Because we were not clear in stating our epistemological stance, we considered Newtonian statements as ontological. The advent of Relativity and QM have caused us to see our error, and we are now trying to correct our course. We are still stuck, there is resistance to change, but we must move ahead towards recognizing and shedding our errors. In the modern world, those who call themselves "scientists" and "philosophers" too often work apart from each other. Because of the dominance of the instrumentalist approach in modern science, foundational issues are weakly addressed, and thus the change required is needlessly slow. Rare are those persons who are scientists and philosophers both, and such persons have generally been at the forefront of our advancements of knowledge; Bohr and Heisenberg come to mind here. Instrumentalism is certainly a valuable approach and those so inclined should adopt it, but then we move from "Scientia" to "Techne". Instrumentalism can give us technological innovation, but is not nearly as strong as concerns understanding. We need both. Since it is obviously more difficult to be scientist and a philosopher, such persons are rare. However, it is such rare persons who best resolve epistemic, ontological and phenomenological issues. Without these persons, we would still be enmeshed in a Newtonian worldview, which actually we are still too much in. Ideally, we need the lead of persons who are a combination of scientist, philosopher, Artist and mystic. The Artist and the Mystic open up epistemic modes/approaches that would cause for a near complete approach to knowledge, when added to Science and Philosophy.
Modern physics is a human activity, and philosophical discussions allow us to stay away from becoming trapped in our own models, thus losing our true selves. Thanks.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 16:29 GMT
Hi Bubba,
I agree with you when you say, "Science relies on empirical evidence gathered through observation. That's just the way it is.'
But then we must interpret these facts and try to make a coherent picture of self and world... and not just coherent, but also in a way that does not turn us into algorithmic computers and the world as a giant chain of cause-effect dynamics (mechanism). There is more to reality than these sorts of pictures, which in fact are still too common. Once the fact gathering has been done (a scientific endeavour), then the Art aspect of the process must be conducted... that is, to bring together all the little bits of facts back into a whole. If this is done poorly, then we have the position of thinking about self/world, for example, as in the Newtonian Worldview, which we are still caught up in. And this is where instrumentalism does not even know how caught it is in a false picture of the self/world, with dramatic effects on the self/world. How we envision ourselves and nature is too important to be left to the instrumentalists, and even to Physics... we need everyone's help here... the scientist, the philosopher, the priestess, the skeptic and the mystic. Thus this type of discussion must never stop.
PHYSICIST Anton Zeilinger @ http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_reality_tests/P3
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“In the history of physics, we have learned that there are distinctions that we really should not make, such as between space and time... It could very well be that the distinction we make between information and reality is wrong. This is not saying that everything is just information. But it is saying that we need a new concept that encompasses or includes both.” Zeilinger smiled as he finished: “I throw this out as a challenge to our philosophy friends.”
A few weeks later I was looking around on the IQOQI web- site when I noticed a job posting for a one-year fellowship at the institute. They were looking for a philosopher to collaborate with the group."
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Bubba Gump wrote on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 17:51 GMT
I am not stating Philosophy is not important. It is very important as it can determine the direction one chooses to head when proceeding with theory-making. The Philosophy of Physics is indeed an important undertaking. One should go about it in a systematic way, however.
You are proceeding with a philosophical discourse and are doing so by making statements without qualifying them with arguments as to how you arrived at your position. You seem to be stating a position then referring to Eastern mystical traditions as a means to justify that position(correct me if I am wrong.) Nobody can really discuss the validity of your position(s) without considering the arguments and reasoning you used to form them. The validity or relevance of a conclusion is not established by examining the conclusion but by considering the merits and validity of the premises used to infer a conclusion.
What are the premises and assumptions you are using to arrive at your position?
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Pankaj Seth wrote on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 19:52 GMT
Hi Bubba,
My assertion is that modern physics has an unexamined metaphysical bias, which cannot be supported by any empirical findings. If my assertion is true, then it would mean that modern physics has already entered the realm of metaphysics, instead of sticking to empiricism, as a modern Science should, and claims to do. In modern physics, it is thought that mind stands apart from the material reality which it tries to model. Thus we think that one day, we will derive the 'theory of everything'.
However, in QM, irrespective of which interpretation one favours, the findings are not controversial, since they are there for anyone to see. In the double slit experiment, it can seen by anyone that the state of knowledge of the experimenter is entangled with how "elementary particles" *behave*. This is not in dispute. However, it is seen as a great mystery, a paradox even. We even ask ourselves how Nature can be so strange.
The Eastern source that I quoted says, in part, "Nothing perceived is independent of perception". In other words, all we can empirically verify is that whatever is seen, is see via the agency of consciousness. We cannot say that there is something 'out there', *outside of sentience*. We have no empirical basis to say that the material reality exists apart from consciousness. If we wish to say that the material reality does in fact exist apart from consciousness, then we have left empiricism/science and have entered metaphysics. There is no basis to say this. If there is, what is it? Could you or anyone else state what this basis is?
We have brought along an unconscious metaphysical bias in our scientific endeavours and we have seen in QM, that Nature says 'No!, here your bias is exposed.' Mind and matter cannot be ultimately separated… this is a key finding in QM that we have been perplexed by.
I am not proposing an Idealism, but a non-dualism… that is, it is not cogent to think that mind and matter are separable. What are the implications? This we have to sort out yet, and an instrumentalist approach will not be enough, as that is what made the metaphysical bias unthought and thus unconscious.
This is a very exciting time in the West… a whole new paradigm, a new way of envisioning/thinking about self/world is about to be born. Our conceptions of the human condition will change a lot too… that process is now underway. Thanks.
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 22:42 GMT
Physics does not hold a bias, people do. Every thinking individual holds a metaphysical bias of some kind. Most follow a general theme but there are probably few that are exactly alike.
Regarding QM, current theory does not concieve of electrons or photons to be particles or waves. This only was an issue back in the 20's when there were only two or three formulations of the subject. The wave-particle paradox is not an issue in QFT. An electron represents a quantized energy fluctuation in a quantized field which permeates all of spacetime. The 'thing' that we associate with a discreet particle simply corresponds to a ground-state energy of such a field fluctuation -- the rest mass-energy of an electron. Such fluctuations are propagated as waves in the field.
Likewise, the quantum field associated with the classical electromagnetic field is also quantized and a photon represents a quantized energy fluctuation in the field. These two fields, along with the vacuum field, interact and gives the impression of electromagnetic forces. The same applies for other classes of particles as well. Each has it's own field and fields interact, particles don't.
In the double-slit, neither a particle nor a wave belonging to an electron is going through the slits. The only thing going through the slit is a propagation of the fluctuation. The field permeates all of space and the energy fluctuations of the field we associate with the electron is the reason for the behavior. The 'electron' field contains many fluctuations but they belong to the same field.
That's the world according to QFT, at least.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 15, 2010 @ 23:15 GMT
Hi Anonymous,
Your description contains a lot of concepts we have invented and utilized to frame something empirically found. This conceptual ballast is constructed after the observation to try to frame what is observed. If not waves and particles, then fields and vacuum etc.
What exactly is observed? We aim tiny pulses of light at the double slit apparatus and *depending* upon whether or not the experimenter can have certain information, one or the another distribution pattern is seen on the photographic plate. We have done controlled experiments to rule out potential mechanical explanations, but the behaviour persists. This is what is "paradoxical". Even Feynman wrote "This is the only mystery."
I ask a very specific question: Would you agree that it is empirically established that the state of knowledge of the experimenter is correlated/entangled with what ends up occurring on the photographic plate?
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 00:03 GMT
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No, I would not aggree that it is emperically established. Such an interpretation cannot be emperically established. If it was, we wouldn't be sitting here discussing whether it has been emeprically established. I have already laid out the reasons why I do not hold such an intepreation in my earlier posts.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 17, 2010 @ 03:48 GMT
This is from the top of this blog post, an excerpt from a comment written by H. Dieter Zeh
"Heisenberg's original hope that the quantum system was disturbed during the measurement is not tenable. Instead, various systems (the observed one, the apparatus, the observer, and the environment) get entangled."
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 00:09 GMT
also,
I think what you are asking is, "If I did not observe the pattern on the plate, would it be there anyways, in a real physical sense?"
My answer to that is yes. We have set up the apparatus so that the source interacts with a target.
Please don't bring up Shcrodingers cat. My answer will be the same.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 00:47 GMT
You said, "If I did not observe the pattern on the plate, would it be there anyways, in a real physical sense?" My answer to that is yes. We have set up the apparatus so that the source interacts with a target."
I agree with you on this one. I am not advocating solipcism.
Nice talking to you.
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 00:58 GMT
What is your intepretation?
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 01:06 GMT
Interpretation of what? I'm sorry, I don't know what exactly you are asking. Please be more specific.
Thanks,
Pankaj
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Anonymous wrote on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 01:15 GMT
Your interpretaion of QM in regards to Wave Function collapse(or lack thereof.)
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Pankaj Seth wrote on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 02:27 GMT
It signifies the end of the Cartesian, Newtonian, Kantian Worldview. If we had not needed a formalism such as wave function collapse, then the former three would still apply. It might take a while to let this sink in... but the implications I think would take us towards something like Buddhism. it will be interesting to see how this unfolds in the context of the modern Western culture. Good things are ahead... the self-created prison is destroyed.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 04:31 GMT
This is a good read... http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/VerhoevenBuddhismScien
ce.htm
"Western interest in Eastern religions, especially Buddhism, historically coincided with the rise of modern science and the corresponding perceived decline of religious orthodoxy in the West. Put simply: Modern science initiated a deep spiritual crisis that led to an unfortunate split between faith and reason—a split yet to be reconciled. Buddhism was seen as an "alternative altar," a bridge that could reunite the estranged worlds of matter and spirit. Thus, to a large extent Buddhism's flowering in the West during the last century came about to satisfy post-Darwinian needs to have religious beliefs grounded in new scientific truth."
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 17:09 GMT
Hi Bubba,
You might want to join the discussion here...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/
"One Universe Too Many? String Theories, The Multiverse And The Future Of Physics." - This is a blog post on the NPR website written by Adam Frank, Astrophysicist, University of Rochester, and a writer for Discover Magazine.
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 16, 2010 @ 17:11 GMT
Here's the direct link to the blog post itself... I should have put this web address in the above post.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2010/03/one_universe_too_
many_string_t.html
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Pankaj Seth replied on Mar. 17, 2010 @ 04:01 GMT
"The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based." - Neils Bohr
"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering...
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"The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based." - Neils Bohr
"Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience." - Neils Bohr
"For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory regarding the limited applicability of such customary idealisations, we must in fact turn to quite other branches of science, such as psychology, or even to that kind of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence." - Neils Bohr
Ontology is an idealization, phenomenology being all that is possible, as nothing perceived is independent of perception. We are looking for the impossible. Certainly we can derive mathematical relationships to represent the regularity apparent in the sensory display, but when we abstract the sensory display to be self-existent, independent of perception, then we have already entered metaphysics, but in our case entered not as a 'stance' consciously enacted, but unconsciously, forgetfully; thus we are left chasing our own tails. This will certainly lead to vexation and madness, as Buddha stated. This is the fruit of "instrumentalism" in Physics, along with of course technology, but that could also have been achieved without becoming lost.
"Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems." - Neils Bohr
"There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature…" - Neils Bohr
In deriving mathematical relationships to represent the regularity in the sensory display we have probed ever deeper and encountered the fact that the sensory display evolves via discontinuous change, a flickering which cannot be measured, except as statistical averages. Here too, we have constructed an ontology, but again without being mindful of epistemological issues. Once again, we have fallen into our abstractions and become further lost in chasing a non-existent, an impossible. Here too, there is the acquisition of technology, but also vexation and madness.
In the discontinuous change, we have seen what to us in our unmindful state are a catalogue of paradoxes. We are confronting the fact that our supposed ontological categories 'space', 'time', 'matter/energy' and 'motion' are but phenomena, and not self-existent apart from perception. But this is not at all an actual paradox. It is reality itself, which in our unmindfulness we had failed to recognize from the outset. We might now realize that in fact, we had fallen asleep to ourselves. If we can internalize this insight, then we may get back on the right track. Another mystery beckons, our mysterious self, the perceiver.
We have thought that the evolving sensory display changes according to its own internal dynamics, and this is correct, but an incomplete understanding. If we have realized that the sensory display does not exist apart from perception, then we may also realize that we ought to co-consider the discontinuous change of the sensory display as a self-movement (i.e. not supernatural) of perception. Either view held by itself is a symptom of unmindfulness, they are complementary and inseparable, non-dual. Because we have probed the sensory display with the attitude that it is self-existent we have seen what it is as a paradox. Once we abandon our dualistic stance for the non-dual, then we begin to turn towards another mystery, our unexamined self, the perceiver.
Our attitude then becomes, "Nothing perceived is independent of perception, and perception differs not from the perceiver." In order to extract ourselves from our predicament we will have to examine not just the sensory display, but also the perceiver, directly and not as an objective existent embedded in the evolving sensory display. Due to these insights, the internal path suggested by Buddhism and Yoga should be considered.
The beginning four stanzas of Patanjali's "Yoga Sutra" - 100 CE (My Translation)
1.1 Now, and exposition on Yoga.
1.2 The aim of Yoga is to induce a non-arising of sensory and cognitive qualia within one's own subjectivity.
1.3 Then, the perceiver is both subject and object, dual and non-dual, self-experience becoming self-evidently complete and absolute, noted as the absence of space, time and matter, self-experience going beyond these phenomenal measures.
1.4 Otherwise, there is an identification with what arises within pure subjectivity, an identification with phenomena, with space, time and matter.
This awakening to oneself is sometimes described by way of analogy or simile, but most times as a negation, "neti neti", meaning "it is not describable this way, nor that way". All attempts at description using concepts derived from the phenomenal, sensory display do not fit. One has passed beyond words, images and thoughts. One of the terms for this level of subjective self-experience is "Buddhi", and one who is situated here is known as a Buddha. "Manas" is the term for mind/subjectivity as it is usually experienced, that which was the starting point of the journey, while "Buddhi" is the term for the "farther shore".
The Yoga Sutra lists the preparations that should be undertaken before embarking upon the process of interiorization, including ethical precepts, intellectual and emotional preparation, interiorization techniques and advice on potential conundrums and potentially destabilizing experiences faced along the way. The only postures listed in the text are variations on the seated mediation pose. The proliferation of postures seen today is a very, very recent development, formulated so as to make Yoga accessible and to enable a gradual introduction to the deeper aspects of Yoga while persons accrue health benefits and calmness of mind.
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Jeremy Horne replied on Feb. 12, 2011 @ 23:21 GMT
Pankaj, I'd like to take your reference to Buddhism a step further and say that what emerged from the South Asian subcontinent 4500 years ago from the Vedas, while obviously not Buddhist but surely has a common thread, was dialectics. That is, something is apprehended in terms of what it is not. It is a process epistemology, where we cannot identify anything except in terms of its "other". A modern rendition of this is Hegel's Phenomenology. It seems that paradoxes, such as the wave-particle duality, arise because people try seeing something in isolation - an either-or thinking. Yet, if one views a wave (a continuum) in terms of particle (discreteness), it starts to make sense. In logic, these are called "duals", and the more we open our eyes, the more we see of them.
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Astro wrote on May. 16, 2010 @ 22:58 GMT
I have always viewed the ''observer-dependancy'' in pretty much the way. Whether you are an electron, or a macroscopic observer, you essentially cut down on all the probabilities to reveal the most likely reality which will be observed. There is nothing special about our measurements, but are quintessentially just as important as quantum observation.
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Jonathan J. Dickau wrote on May. 20, 2010 @ 18:26 GMT
Hello Folks,
I've given this topic a lot of thought, so I figured I should weigh in. I gave a presentation at the 10th Frontiers in Fundamental Physics conference last Fall, about a common basis for non-locality and entropy, which focused on the role played by decoherence. I have to admit to incomplete knowledge of the subject, however. My proceedings paper here did not pass peer-review,...
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Hello Folks,
I've given this topic a lot of thought, so I figured I should weigh in. I gave a presentation at the 10th Frontiers in Fundamental Physics conference last Fall, about a common basis for non-locality and entropy, which focused on the role played by decoherence. I have to admit to incomplete knowledge of the subject, however. My proceedings paper
here did not pass peer-review, but subsequent correspondence with H.D. Zeh, Erich Joos, and others, has given me a pretty clear notion of what was wrong with it (I will revise), and a clearer idea of what decoherence really means. I'll share what I'm fairly certain of here.
First off; the wavefunction does not collapse. The global wavefunction remains a unified and coherent entity which evolves according to Schrödinger's equation. However; its nature is essentially non-local. It is field-like, wave-like, and pervasive. When we introduce a local frame of reference; this reference frame is automatically identified with the material or particle-like nature, by virtue of its locality. Any local observer exists in contrast with the non-local reference frame of the global wavefunction, and induces (or observes) components of that wavefunction to decouple whenever there is an interaction or observation taking place.
Non-local components of the wavefunction that had been global become associated with one or another discrete or observable entity. In the process; what happens is exactly as Dieter says - "various systems (the observed one, the apparatus, the observer, and the environment) get entangled." In Bell's and GHZ experiments, sequential weak measurements are made that effectively break off one component at a time, so that wavefunction components of the particle under study (corresponding to energetic degrees of freedom) are transferred from that entity to the measurement apparatus (until all the degrees of freedom are linked to it). Thus; components preserving the entanglement of one particle with its distant counterpart become dedicated instead to entangling the particle with the measurement system.
So; there is no collapse as such. There is always an evolving wavefunction. But wavefunction components which had been associated with one system become linked with another, leaving the two systems entangled. One of the chief observations of decoherence theory, therefore, is that there are no isolated systems. Instead, entanglement is universal, and the manner in which various sub-systems are entangled evolves over time.
I shall have lots more comments on this topic, especially if someone responds to these. I want to talk about the observer's role as participant. I just skimmed professor Leiter's Journal of Cosmology paper and feel that it bears some commentary relating to this subject - especially as it seems to offer some confirmation of my non-locality and entropy linkage. I thought the new paper explained his ideas much more lucidly than his FQXi contest essay, and I commend him on his clarity.
All the Best,
Jonathan
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Jim Jones wrote on Aug. 3, 2010 @ 21:08 GMT
I have read a lot about the "action at a distance" problem of quantum mechanics -- it was mentioned in Craig Callender's article in the June issue of "Scintific American" magazine. Murray Gell-Mann, in his book "The Quark and the Jaguar" says that "action at adistance is just a misinterpretation of what quantum mechanics says. Any comments?
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xexz xexz wrote on Nov. 15, 2010 @ 14:38 GMT
Does God allow we apply 'natural number' to 'electron' ?Especially , We konw that electron isn't 'Apple' or Richard Feynman's 'clicks' . as he said that all the surprising wisdom of quantum mechanics is hiding in the double slit experiment. I think maybe the field of natural number's application is restricted by nature, e.g. quantum phenomenon. If we do not reconstruct quantum phenomenon on the old picture(natural number) , that could be think as another reality?
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Marcel-Marie LeBel wrote on Dec. 7, 2010 @ 03:57 GMT
Jonathan,
Very interesting. Here is what I think. In nature, what defines a particle is the number of constraint to its freedom i.e quantum numbers(Pauli exclusion). When we observe/interact with it, we are adding one more constraint or quantum number. We don't collapse the wave function; we simply create a new one. I call that "temporary quantization". Any parameter may, under constraint, give rise to a quantum number. Light can travel in any directions. Send it through a slit and you add one quantum number and the output, as direction, is now quantized; diffraction.
Marcel,
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George Rajna wrote on Feb. 23, 2011 @ 12:01 GMT
The Color of Quarks
The color of quarks coming from the 3 directions of the coordinates and the proton is colorless. The flavors of quarks are the possible oscillation modes, different in energy and if they are plane (2/3) or linear (1/3) oscillation modes. We know that two oscillations cannot be orthogonal to each other, so the quarks never can be free; however there is an asymptotic freedom while their energy increasing to turn them orthogonal. If they completely orthogonal, then they loose these reflection and take a new partner from the vacuum.
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Ben F Rayfield wrote on Feb. 26, 2011 @ 22:35 GMT
Logically it makes sense why they act like particles when observed and waves when not observed. Quantum physics is common sense to anyone who understands the statistics of 2 coin flips and how those statistics are affected by observing the coins. I will explain why the double-slit experiment is the same experiment as something you can do with 2 coins.
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Logically it makes sense why they act like particles when observed and waves when not observed. Quantum physics is common sense to anyone who understands the statistics of 2 coin flips and how those statistics are affected by observing the coins. I will explain why the double-slit experiment is the same experiment as something you can do with 2 coins.
In the double-slit experiment, an electron (or other particle/wave) has 2 holes it can go through and then is detected hitting somewhere on the back wall. If it goes through the left hole, statistically it will paint a pattern on the back wall. If it goes through the right hole, it paints a different pattern. It goes through each hole equally often as the other. Most peoples' common sense tells them that statistically it doesn't matter if you know which hole it went through because you can simply average the 2 patterns to get the pattern on the back wall for when it could go through either hole. But its a very different pattern from the average of the left-hole-pattern and right-hole-pattern. Its the same pattern as waves interfering with each other.
Sometimes electrons act like particles and sometimes like waves, but why? I'm going to explain why that happens using common sense instead of equations. The problem is most people don't have all the parts of common sense that they think they have. If you understand the following about 2 coin flips, and you see the patterns created in the double-slit experiments, then you can put them together and understand why electrons (and other particles/waves) sometimes act like particles and sometimes act like waves. Logically, without considering the specific equations of physics, we can know there has to be something like that in physics somewhere. Here's the 2 coin question:
If I flipped 2 coins and at least 1 coin landed heads, then whats the chance both landed heads?
Its 1/3, not 1/4 or 1/2 like most people think, because there are 4 ways 2 coins can land and I only excluded "both tails" when I said "at least 1 coin landed heads" so that leaves 3 possibilities and I asked what is the chance of 1 of those 3 things which happen equally often. Its 1/3. If you still don't believe it, flip 2 coins many times and only ask the question when at least 1 of them lands heads and you will see that 1/3 of the time you ask the question they both land heads. The flaw in Human minds is the need to choose 1 of the coins and say it certainly landed heads, but I did not tell you any specific coin landed heads, and it does change the answer if you take that shortcut.
Most peoples' common sense tells them that since its a symmetric question (between the 2 coins), it can't matter if they start with 1 of the 1-or-2 coins that landed heads, and they think it will get the same answer as not knowing if a specific coin is heads or not. How could it matter? We know at least 1 of the 2 coins landed heads, so I'll just define a variable called coinX=heads and figure out if coinY=heads or coinY=tails. Since coinY was randomly flipped and coins have a 1/2 chance of heads, then the chance both are heads must be 1/2. But then they think about the extra information I told them: at least 1 coin landed heads. That has to change something, so how could coinY be 1/2 chance of heads by itself and with coinX? CoinX and coinY are symmetric. You can trade them in this question and not change the answer. So whatever is true of coinY has to also be true of coinX on average. So maybe the chance both are heads is 1/4. Most people go back and forth between 1/2 and 1/4, but the answer is 1/3 as I explained above.
How is the 2-coin experiment related to the double-slit experiment?
The patterns of the 2 coins (how often they land heads) individually can not always be averaged to get the pattern of both coins together. If at least 1 coin landed heads and you observe a specific coin being heads, then the chance they are both heads is 1/2. If at least 1 coin landed heads but you don't observe any coin, then the chance both are heads is 1/3.
Logically, observing a specific case of something you know has to be true in general, about the 2 coins, produces a different outcome than only knowing its true in general.
The analogy to quantum physics is that when you observe a heads or tails, you collapse the wavefunction (including the other coin you didn't observe) to a particle and the other becomes a different wavefunction, but if you do not observe any heads or tails then its a symmetric wavefunction between the 2 coins.
I can say the same thing about the 2 holes in the double-slit experiment. If I put an electron detector past the left hole, and shoot an electron that could go through either hole, and the detector observes or does not observe an electron, then I get a different pattern (statistically on the back wall of where the electrons hit) than if the detector was not observing the space between the left hole and the back wall. If any part of the possible paths are observed (as containing or not containing an electron), then the other possible paths are affected even though they were not observed. The electron could have gone through both slits or neither or left or right, but still the path on the right is affected by observing the path on the left.
Most quantum physics scientists explain it as the electron going through the left hole, the right hole, both holes simultaneously, or bouncing off the thing containing the 2 holes without going through either hole. If the electron does not go through either hole, they do not count that in any of the patterns on the back wall.
In the 2-coin experiment and double-slit experiment, there are 4 possibilities, and 1 is excluded. I need to label the 2 coins for this, like the left and right holes/slits are labeled "left" and "right". One coin is a nickel and the other is a dime. This is not the only way to pair the 4 possibilities. Its just a way to explain that they are the same problem:
(1) Nickel heads. Dime tails. Electron left slit. Electron not right slit.
(2) Nickel tails. Dime heads. Electron not left slit. Electron right slit.
(3) Both coins heads. Electron goes through both slits.
(4) Both coins tails. Electron bounces off the thing containing the slits and does not go through either. It is not true that "at least 1 coin landed heads" so I don't ask the question or keep statistics of it. The electron didn't hit the back wall so its not part of the statistical patterns.
In the design of both experiments (2-coin and double-slit), cases (3) and (4) are opposites and cases (1) and (2) are symmetric. Exactly 1 of (3) and (4) is not counted in the statistics, but the chance is equally balanced between (1) and (2). It works the same way if you swap the left and right slits or swap the nickel and dime or swap heads and tails or swap going through a slit with not going through a slit. Its practical to test it going through the slit but not practical to test it after it bounces because bouncing is an observation by the thing it bounced on.
Quantum physics is a kind of statistics. So is the 2-coin experiment. In the double-slit experiment and the 2-coin experiment, observing any part changes the outcome statistically. I'm not saying the math of the double-slit experiment is exactly the math of a bayesian-network (which is the kind of statistics used for the 2-coin experiment), but I explained enough similarities that quantum physics scientists should take this seriously.
The double-slit experiment is a variation of the 2-coin experiment that uses continuous angles instead of only heads/tails.
That is why observing things changes the outcome and why electrons/photons/etc act like particles when observed and act like waves when not observed.
If I flipped 2 coins and at least 1 coin landed heads, then whats the chance both landed heads? The most important thing to remember is the question is symmetric between the 2 coins, but observing either of those coins changes the outcome, like observing what goes through either slit changes the outcome.
Quantum physics is common sense to anyone who understands the statistics of 2 coin flips.
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gf wrote on Jun. 28, 2011 @ 08:33 GMT
I'm posting this here to see how it looks online. It is my first instance of my paper online incase I wish to show it to someone instead of using email. I hope you don't mind. I basically worked like 5 years on this. If you wish to contact me for further discussion then contact the Fields Institute or Clay Math Institute they have my paper and my...
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I'm posting this here to see how it looks online. It is my first instance of my paper online incase I wish to show it to someone instead of using email. I hope you don't mind. I basically worked like 5 years on this. If you wish to contact me for further discussion then contact the Fields Institute or Clay Math Institute they have my paper and my email.
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Proving the Relative Consistency of Both Hilberts 1st Problem and the Polynomial Time/Non-Polynomial Time Problem
Paper Outline:
Part 1 - Introduction
Part 2 - History
Part 3 - Proving the Relative Consistency of Hilberts 1st Problem
A) First Method of Proving the Relative Consistency of Hilberts 1st Problem
B)Second Method of Proving the Relative Consistency of Hilberts 1st Problem
Part 4 - Proving the Relative Consistency of the P-NP Problem
Part 5 - Relative Consistency Principles Similiar To Hilberts 1st and P-NP Problem in Other Areas of Math
Part 6 - Conclusion
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Part 1: Introduction
"A disciple asked, "What is the difference between the enlightened and the unenlightened man?"
The Master replied, "The unenlightened man sees a difference, but the enlightened man does not."" - old monist teaching
It all comes back to Schrodingers Cat. The ultimate duality of circumstance. Did the cat live or die? Until we open the box, we will always have 2 possible outcomes to consider but we have forever known the principle of the uncertainty would leave us with this dual perspective encountered as one tries to foresee the outcome. This paper deals with Hiberts 1st Problem and the P-NP Problem and I will be attempting to "prove their relative consistency by finitistic methods". Ironically, I could have wrote up a near infinite long paper (hehe) considering the most fundamental and basic principles and foundations of math are required with this paper where I inevitably found that most of these relative types of math and algebra that I came across always applied in some way. I tried to sift through and only use what was relevant or important in any quotes or examples I use. I know what empirical equations are and I know how they can be used. My greatest challenge is teaching the laymen what "Relativity" means ... or that many principles are relative. Any ideas based on measure, comparing, ratios, or probabilitys etc. would be relative. My other key word is "Axiom". Once I focused on what an axiom is and how to use it to show what relativity was, was when I found I could maybe write up some fundamentals regarding Hilberts 1st Problem and the P-NP Problem and try to present a paper on them. I'll be honest, I have a good idea that these are "Relative Problems" and relative problems most likely occur in most of todays top listed math problems not as of yet solved ... or perhaps half of them but I think many of them are relative problems although I'll admit I have only read up on these 2 problems in this paper and have not looked at the other problems!
"The First If"
Without axioms math wouldn't exist. Axioms simply ARE what mathematics and measurement is about. As you read my quotes from information websites, watch to see how axioms determine the "System" that is being used as the tool for solving. Remember that when we encounter an"If", we have obviously used an axiom. I also liked the following word and will quote it since it's a great start for what you are about to read in my paper;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax
"The term syntax is also used to refer to the rules governing the behavior of mathematical systems, such as formal languages used in logic—see syntax (logic)—and computer programming languages—see syntax (programming languages)"
Every word of that definition will be relevant to this paper. I will discuss relative axioms showing relative qualitys in the relative principles. Inevitably, we will see how computer language/logic applys as well and I feel is just as relevant to proving these relative principles. I basically consider Hilberts 1st Problem and the P-NP Problem to be the same problems but only in a different form based on their obvious relative nature ... and have already guessed that many more unsolved problems fall into this "Relative Problem" category. I am going to base most of the paper on 1 diagram found on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P_np_np-complete_np-hard.s
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I apologize for not linking any math equation.jpg or chart.jpg mentioned in any quoted links I use because it would take a long time to upload every symbol or chart and then insert its link into the information I quoted in this paper. If you go to the link I give it will be there to better see but yes you will haveto sift through the page to find the quote I used for it sorry. This is actually my first real math paper. I've written a couple other math/physics papers before this but its just an amateur hobby of mine really and I just write these up as best I can hoping its understandable. My earlier papers were bold and eager but I'm going to try to be more straight forward and convincing in this one. Thank-you for your time and I hope this paper makes sense to you.
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Part 2: History
I became interested in String Theory around the late 90's in my twentys. I had drawn up an image of what I only just recently discovered to be the fractal Koch Snowflake and visited a math professor at the local university with a simple equation that read "x=1/13y". I had with me a 12-sided die (dodecahedron) and tried to explain that when adding up all 13 spheres that make up a dodecahedron (12 spheres around 1 sphere in the middle) that if all 13 spheres were numbered 1-13 that the total is 91 and so thus the average (or Mean) of 91 is 91 divided by 13 so 7 is the Mean. I had heard that " 7" was the biblical "number of completion" and thought that interesting but , anyways, I felt that this geometric truth must be significant since the dodecahedron is very sphere-like and therefore common and also many consider the 12 houses of the zodiac, 12 apostles, and 12 hours of a clock etc. to be more than just coincidences (article depicting our universe as a dodecahedron;> http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/041005_univshapefrm.
htm ) ... So, the math teacher I was talking with said my diagram was fractal and that I was doing fractals. I didn't have any philosophy to why I liked "x=1/13y". I said it was empirical to the dodecahedron and so must be of some value to other structures but I really did not have any real clue as to what I was trying to say. I left somewhat deflated but still enthused and considered it just one step in my journey. I took a 3 or 4 year break and then got back into String Theory maybe around 2004. I started reading on many topics and learned a great deal but it was only maybe around 2006 or 2007 that I finally stumbled upon something called Sample Space. It was when reading Sample Space that I saw literally the step I used to add all 13 spheres of the dodecahedron as simply being a Sample Space of 13 numbers! I soon realized that now I could not only find a Mean average of the 13 digit string/spheres of the dodecahedron, but I now could apply an equation that always added any length string/spheres which could be summed and then divided to find its Mean and so this equation now empirically handles ANY size string and so I right away assumed I had a String Theory or a type of String Theory. I was excited and did not have the easiest time putting into an equation this function of finding a Mean for any length of string. I finally came up with "Energy= (sum Sample Space)/Length". Also, and still surprising to me, I looked at this equation for quite awhile and wrote down its solved values. I was always looking for patterns and so I also thought I'd like to see if theres any pattern in looking at the percentages between the numbers of the various lengths of strings I was calculating ... and so I found a very handy percentage calculator on the internet and it had both "percentage of" and "percentage from" functions so I could look for even more patterns. Thus, by fortune, I saw some pattern showing that inevitably helped me eliminate one of the variables in my first formula. I now had an equation that read "(sum Sample Space)/Length=(Length+1)/2". Both these equations performed the same function and both empirically worked for any length string and so I was even more excited and thought I must have a String Theory equation here somewhere. I wrote up a physics paper covering many topics and I also tried very specifically to factor in the various pivotal fundamentals involved with important topics like String Theory such as Bosons, Tachyons, and also Dimensions, and Blackholes, and Superfluids etc. etc. and I made philosophy an absolute necessity for being the foundation and logic to my theorys and ideas in regards to celestial mechanics and Blackholes and Photons and String Theory etc. etc. I'm bringing this up because I know how deep many of these particles and concepts are and I know how tedius and similiar many particles and concepts can be! I will just get to the point here and say that many, many concepts and particles tend to share many of the same qualitys and often many concepts are discussed across various fields but have many different names. Ideas like Convergance, Wave Collapse, Focal Points, or Locality, Wilson Loops, and things like Feedback, or Rings, or Solitons all can be found in many different forms but still be basically the same concept or action. When I was trying to pinpoint what my 2 equations were, I felt that the empirical geometric and symmetrical nature of my equations surely meant we were discussing quantum propertys or possibly Blackholes and even Tachyons. Still, to this day, I have learned that Mathematical Induction (discussed by Plato and Socrates) is empirically a quality of the geometric and symmetrical realm that we may very well call Blackholes, or Tachyons, or even the Higgs Boson. I am explaining this for those that read my first ever physics paper where I tried to distinguish the more important qualitys of my 2 equations that I felt could be describing Blackholes, Tachyons, Holonomy, Superfluids, or Zero-Point etc. etc. These equations may very well describe those qualitys since they added empirically and we do not yet understand completely just what Blackholes are or what Zero-Point is or how the Higgs Boson functions etc. I am bringing this up really because my first physics paper tried to sort into 2 basic groups the property of Scalars versus Vectors and so I had 1 equation as Scalar and 1 equation as Vector and I tried very hard to sort what category Zero-Point would be in or where the Tachyon should go or if I had a "Blackhole Equation" or a "Higgs Equation". My ambitiousness resulted in a paper with tons of assumptions and many things left open for debate. To start, I didn't actually have String Theory equations since only now recently is when I found out my first equation was actually a form of a Pythagorea Mean and my second equation was my rediscovery of a process called Mathematical Induction. That glaring error of me thinking I had done String Theory really deflated the sails of anyone with the slightest bit of doubt about my paper. Right from the start, in my paper, I had stated my first equation looked very Pythagorean and I also was absolutely certain both equations were empirical, since they were, and that both equations must be significant to the physics world because I added a "proofs" section where I tried to post as many Wikipedia articles I could find that showed any equation using a pattern simply known as "an Infinite Set". I even found that the pattern of my equations that were finding the Mean could be found in whats known as "Magic Squares" that interestingly were used to teach Chinese creation myths with the I-Ching and is also used as the international symbol for Feng Shui (hehe). The pattern showed itself easily in odd-numbered Magic Squares with my Mean number solved from the equations being the centre number of the Magic Square when you added the total number of squares and then divided by that number. You see, I had noticed all along that the function I was using Sample Space for was the very exact and same function of the Infinite Set. I was finding examples of Infinite Sets in many, many classic and empirical equations and therefore I was using this to show that if my equations use Sample Space and its function is seen in the use of Infinite Sets in many other formulas, then surely my equations must be verifiable and legitimate! Well, despite eventually discovering that my equations were legitimate once I found them online, after finding about 4 or 5 university and physics and math proffessors to email my paper around to , I still did not get one person to respond back to me except for the local university math teacher whom I emailed and insisted he give me some feedback. He did recognize my first equation and said it already existed but he never did actually identify it as a form of a Pythagorean Mean equation as I later figured out by myself (alltough to be honest, my version of a Mean equation was original and only the Quadratic Mean equation even comes closest to looking like it, but I digress.). He did not even recognize my second equation as to be a form of Induction but, either way, he seemed to think I knew nothing about math. He even called me crazy. I've been called crazy twice infact (the other person knows who he is). Basically, I sent out a very deep and thought provoking paper (my first ever) to about 10 people asking for any kind of feedback but only a couple responded with unkind words yet not one of those people ever replied back to say, "Hey, your first equation is a form of Pythagorean Mean equation and your second equation is whats known as Mathematical Induction". Had even one person emailed back I would have felt a little better about myself but instead it wasn't until only recently, like a year after my first paper, that it would be myself that would find out I had rediscovered legitimate empirical equations. I actually had called up an old highschool math teacher named Mr. Dajka to help me solve and reduce down the Induction equation that had only 2 variables. By luck, while reading Wikipedia, right after Mr Dajka solved my equation down farther did I by chance happen to be reading the article about Summation and it gave a classic example equation of Mathematical Induction. I was gazing upon literally my reduced second equation. So, there's where I was. I was proud that my equations did mean something but dissatisfied that they weren't original or ground-breaking. I let this stage of my journey chill for awhile and then maybe 5 months later I got back to reading and delving deep into various concepts and philosophys ... re-reading about Pythagoreans 3 Means and then I'll guess around February 2011 where I stumbled upon Transfinite Numbers. The write-up for Transfinite Numbers right away seemed to imply or hint at a "Mean" or "middle-point" paradox that could be conceptualized to exist somewhere between the rational and the infinite. I had realized that the function of summing the Sample Space gave the empirical value of what was the outcome of the Induction equation that used Summation. Sample Space as a single variable was giving the same answer that a summed Infinite Set was giving and so I thought there must be some new equation that exists where I find the Mean between an Infinte Set(or summed Sample Space) and another set that wasn't infinte. I felt the answer to that equation would be the Mean or Transfinite Number since that would philosophically and logically be what the Mean should be. My theory was that if I can find the Mean between an Infinite Set of Natural numbers with another set that is anything but Infinite, it should beTransfinite and maybe a Theory of Everything could be an equation that computed a value between the rational and the irrational or the Quantum and Classical realms. I looked very long at the classic Mathematical Induction equation I stumbled upon and realized the Summation notation of that equation could be used to create a larger more complex Induction formula but that now included another set to be added to this classic Induction pattern and then divided by 2 to get its Mean average. By looking for the pattern I somehow came up with the equation that I am now finally about to explain as my Extended Diophantine Mean equation. I also consider it luck that I wandered into Set Theory and learned about Alephnaught and Alephone as perfect "book-ends" to be used as variables for finding the Mean between the two. I want to repeat, as good as the equation looks with the variables named Alephnaught and Alephone, still, all that matters is the overall pattern. Any real knowledgable mathematician knows that many variables have the same qualitys but just a different name or letter. Even the "constants" like e, pi, the speed of light c, or phi, all can be found in many, many equations and from similiar structured formulas. Changing the letters around does not invalidate the structure. Anyways, the next section explains my handy examples of Tautological Ontological Empirical equations I call TOE's (hehe) and eventually why I think I can show how that the Continuum Hypothesis and the P-NP Problems are relative and that I have equations to solve #1 of Hilberts 23 Problems where he asks if Alephone and Bethone are the same cardinality. If anything in this paper, I show that the Pythagorean Means and Mathematical Induction are related in function and I show that Infinite Sets and Sample Space also share similiar functions. I decided only far more recently (May 2011) as I write up this paper now that it seems the Polynomial Time/Non-Polynomial Time Problem may well also be one and the same type of relative consistency problem as the Continuum Hypothesis. I also recently had noticed that an article on Divergent Series explained how the late mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan had claimed that the sum of an infinite Divergent Series equaled "-1/12" ... which I found intrigueing since that is only 1 sphere off of a dodecahedron (13 total spheres) of which my first ever empirical equation I created for the dodecahedron was "x=1/13y". Could the difference of just that 1 centre sphere be the difference between Convergence from Divergence or a plane from a point? Also interestingly, I decided to compute the percentage difference of just 1 sphere of the dodecahedron to another ... or 12/13 from 13/13. I found that 12/13ths was 92% and therefore the Mean between 92% and 100% was 96% ... is 96% significant? Well, intrigueingly, yes it may be significant. The ratio of all dark "stuff" in our universe is roughly 96% dark to 4% visible. Also, it was surprising to do an internet search and find out that humans' nearest animal relation, the chimpanzees, are 96% related!
*Final note,I would love to find the person who created this diagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P_np_np-complete_np-hard.
svg ) That diagram IS my entire paper and whoemever created that diagram should enjoy this work and I consider that person a peer to whom I owe much gratitude.
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Part 3: Proving The Relative Consistency Of Hilberts 1st Problem
Comment: I will show 2 different forms of determining the cardinality(size) of the sets a and b. The first form will be an axiom of choice applied to the diagram used to explain the P-NP Problem which uses 1 Extention applied on one side of the diagram from the other side. The second form to determine the cardinality(size) of the sets a and b will be an axiom of choice applied to an Extended form of a Diophantine Mean equation. First, I will link to a basic tutorial with basics I want to make sure are understood;
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A) First Method Of Proving The Relative Consitency of Hilberts 1st Problem:
Comment: First, lets create an axiom of choice that we could use to solve the problem of the cardinality of sets a and b. Let's create a "Circle Axiom" that says that "All circles are the same cardinality" and apply it to the P-NP Problem diagram which is found at the website link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P_np_np-complete_np-hard.
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Comment: Notice only 1 more circle has been added to the left diagram than on the right diagram. This is key since its merely an expansion (OR EXTENSION) of 1 more circle to the left diagram which thus now represents more "integers/sets/choices" or "colors/dimensions" to the universe.
On the right, we see that since a does not equal b, then obviously b must be greater than a (the integers) and certainly not greater than c (the infinite reals), and so therefore b exists between them and thus the Continuum Hypothesis would not hold since it states that "no set exists between the integers and the reals". On the left, we see that a=b (by the Circle Axiom since both a and b are circles) and therefore we could assume by syllogism (a 3-step logic) then that ,"If all circles are the same cardinality, and all sets are circles, then all sets are the same cardinality" and therefore no set exists between the integers and the reals and therefore the Continuum Hypothesis does hold.
In again some ironic (yet logical) way, we see that this diagram tells us that only in the "expanded by 1 circle" left side diagram can it even be possible to solve and confirm the cardinality of sets using a "Circle Axiom" (we see 2 full circles a and b on the left diagram and therefore only in that expanded side of the diagram can we say that yes a = b). I am saying this is ironic since its this very notion of "expansion" that is the very same technique called "Extention" used to find other empirical functions such as Bézout's identity. Also, ironically, I had called an equation I used to show the relative nature of Hilberts 1st Problem an "Expanded" Diophantine equation only to later learn that it was the same technique used to find Bézout's identity which was called "Extention"!
B)Second Method of Proving The Relative Consistency Of Hilberts 1st Problem:
Comment: First, let's revisit Aritys and Induction;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arity
"Arities greater than 2 are seldom encountered in mathematics, except in specialized areas, and arities greater than 3 are seldom encountered in theoretical computer science. In computer programming there is often a syntactical distinction between operators and functions; syntactical operators usually have arity 0, 1 or 2."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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"Mathematical induction is a method of mathematical proof typically used to establish that a given statement is true of all natural numbers (non-negative integers). It is done by proving that the first statement in the infinite sequence of statements is true, and then proving that if any one statement in the infinite sequence of statements is true, then so is the next one."
http://en.wikipedia.org
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"In mathematics, the affinely extended real number system is obtained from the real number system R by adding two elements: +∞ and −∞ (read as positive infinity and negative infinity respectively)."
"The affinely extended real number system turns into a totally ordered set by defining −∞ ≤ a ≤ +∞ for all a. This order has the desirable property that every subset has a supremum and an infimum: it is a complete lattice."
Comment: Next, let's learn what Extension is and where it's used;
http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Extended_Euclidean_algorithm
"The extended Euclidean algorithm is an extension to the Euclidean algorithm. Besides finding the greatest common divisor of integers a and b, as the Euclidean algorithm does, it also finds integers x and y (one of which is typically negative) that satisfy Bézout's identity
ax + by = gcd(a,b).
The extended Euclidean algorithm is particularly useful when a and b are coprime, since x is the multiplicative inverse of a modulo b, and y is the multiplicative inverse of b modulo a."
Comment: We see here that by "extending" or "expanding" Euclid's algorithm by 2 additional sets of variables (g,c and a,b), it now can be used to find further algebraic properties called "the Bézout coefficients for (a,b)". I am just an amateur mathematician but I am going to presume the "Surgery" that Grigori Perelman used for proof of the Poincare Conjecture was most certainly a form of Extension as given above in my couple of examples;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
"Accord
ing to Perelman, a modification of the standard Ricci flow, called Ricci flow with surgery, can systematically excise singular regions as they develop, in a controlled way."
http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Surgery_theory
"Therefore, given a manifold M of dimension n = p + q and an embedding , define another n-dimensional manifold M' to be
One says that the manifold M' is produced by a surgery cutting out and glueing in , or by a p-surgery if one wants to specify the number p."
"Surgery is symmetric in the sense that the manifold M can be re-obtained from M' by a (q − 1)-surgery, the trace of which coincides with the trace of the original surgery, up to orientation.
In most applications, the manifold M comes with additional geometric structure, such as a map to some reference space, or additional bundle data. One then wants the surgery process to endow M' with the same kind of additional structure. For instance, a standard tool in surgery theory is surgery on normal maps: such a process changes a normal map to another normal map within the same bordism class."
*KEY* "In the classical approach, as developed by Browder,Novikov,Sullivan, and Wall, surgery is done on normal maps of degree one. Using surgery, the question "Is the normal map of degree one cobordant to a homotopy equivalence?" can be translated (in dimensions greater than four) to an algebraic statement about some element in an L-group of the group ring Z[π1(X)]. More precisely, the question has a positive answer if and only if the surgery obstruction is zero, where n is the dimension of M."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forc
ing_%28mathematics%29
"Intuitions:
Forcing is equivalent to the method of Boolean-valued models, which some feel is conceptually more natural and intuitive, but usually much more difficult to apply.
Intuitively, forcing consists of expanding the set theoretical universe V to a larger universe V*. In this bigger universe, for example, one might have lots of new subsets of w = {0,1,2,…} that were not there in the old universe, and thereby violate the continuum hypothesis. While impossible on the face of it, this is just another version of Cantor's paradox about infinity. In principle, one could consider
,
identify with (x,0), and then introduce an expanded membership relation involving the "new" sets of the form (x,1). Forcing is a more elaborate version of this idea, reducing the expansion to the existence of one new set, and allowing for fine control over the properties of the expanded universe."
http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory
*KEY* "Forcing(mathematics):
Paul Cohen invented the method of forcing while searching for a model of ZFC in which the axiom of choice or the continuum hypothesis fails. Forcing adjoins to some given model of set theory additional sets in order to create a larger model with properties determined (i.e. "forced") by the construction and the original model. For example, Cohen's construction adjoins additional subsets of the natural numbers without changing any of the cardinal numbers of the original model. Forcing is also one of two methods for proving relative consistency by finitistic methods, the other method being Boolean-valued models."
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Uncountable_set
*KEY* "The cardinality of R is often called the cardinality of the continuum and denoted by c, or , or (beth-one).
"A more abstract example of an uncountable set is the set of all countable ordinal numbers, denoted by Ω (omega) or ω1. The cardinality of Ω is denoted (aleph-one). It can be shown, using the axiom of choice, that is the smallest uncountable cardinal number. Thus either , the cardinality of the reals, is equal to or it is strictly larger. Georg Cantor was the first to propose the question of whether is equal to . In 1900, David Hilbert posed this question as the first of his 23 problems. The statement that is now called the continuum hypothesis and is known to be independent of the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms for set theory (including the axiom of choice).
Without the axiom of choice:
Without the axiom of choice, there might exist cardinalities incomparable to (namely, the cardinalities of Dedekind-finite infinite sets). Sets of these cardinalities satisfy the first three characterizations above but not the fourth characterization. Because these sets are not larger than the natural numbers in the sense of cardinality, some may not want to call them uncountable.
If the axiom of choice holds, the following conditions on a cardinal are equivalent:
and
, where and is least initial ordinal greater than
However, these may all be different if the axiom of choice fails. So it is not obvious which one is the appropriate generalization of "uncountability" when the axiom fails. It may be best to avoid using the word in this case and specify which of these one means."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Set_theory
"Set theory is commonly employed as a foundational system for mathematics, particularly in the form of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice. Beyond its foundational role, set theory is a branch of mathematics in its own right, with an active research community. Contemporary research into set theory includes a diverse collection of topics, ranging from the structure of the real number line to the study of the consistency of large cardinals."
"Some basic sets of central importance are the empty set (the unique set containing no elements), the set of natural numbers, and the set of real numbers."
"Some ontology:
"A set is pure if all of its members are sets, all members of its members are sets, and so on. For example, the set {{}} containing only the empty set is a nonempty pure set. In modern set theory, it is common to restrict attention to the von Neumann universe of pure sets, and many systems of axiomatic set theory are designed to axiomatize the pure sets only. There are many technical advantages to this restriction, and little generality is lost, since essentially all mathematical concepts can be modeled by pure sets. Sets in the von Neumann universe are organized into a cumulative hierarchy, based on how deeply their members, members of members, etc. are nested. Each set in this hierarchy is assigned (by transfinite recursion) an ordinal number α, known as its rank. The rank of a pure set X is defined to be one more than the least upper bound of the ranks of all members of X. For example, the empty set is assigned rank 0, while the set {{}} containing only the empty set is assigned rank 1. For each ordinal α, the set Vα is defined to consist of all pure sets with rank less than α. The entire von Neumann universe is denoted V."
"Determinacy:
Determinacy refers to the fact that, under appropriate assumptions, certain two-player games of perfect information are determined from the start in the sense that one player must have a winning strategy. The existence of these strategies has important consequences in descriptive set theory, as the assumption that a broader class of games is determined often implies that a broader class of sets will have a topological property. The axiom of determinacy (AD) is an important object of study; although incompatible with the axiom of choice, AD implies that all subsets of the real line are well behaved (in particular, measurable and with the perfect set property). AD can be used to prove that the Wadge degrees have an elegant structure."
Comment: Let's now see where axioms of choice are used;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty
chonoff%27s_theorem
"All of the above proofs use the axiom of choice (AC) in some way. For instance, the third proof uses that every filter is contained in an ultrafilter (i.e., a maximal filter), and this is seen by invoking Zorn's Lemma. Zorn's Lemma is also used to prove Kelley's theorem, that every net has a universal subnet. In fact these uses of AC are essential: in 1950 Kelley proved that Tychonoff's theorem implies the axiom of choice. Note that one formulation of AC is that the Cartesian product of a family of nonempty sets is nonempty; but since the empty set is most certainly compact, the proof cannot proceed along such straightforward lines. Thus Tychonoff's theorem joins several other basic theorems (e.g. that every nonzero vector space has a basis) in being equivalent to AC."
Comment: Axioms are quintessential to analyizing any non-singular system. The best forms to analyze would haveto be the geometric and symmetrical forms. Geometric and symmetric are empirical qualities utalized by algebraic equations to help us understand the fundamental properties of more complex systems. Diophantine equations are first order empirical structures to be used to solve and comprehend such geometric and symmetric qualities.;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_with_one_element
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#12288;
"Another angle comes from Arakelov geometry, where Diophantine equations are studied using tools from complex geometry. The theory involves complicated comparisons between finite fields and the complex numbers. Here the existence of F1 is useful for technical reasons."
http://en.wikipedia
.org/wiki/Diophantine_equation
"In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to be integers only. "
"In more technical language, they define an algebraic curve, algebraic surface, or more general object, and ask about the lattice points on it."
"A linear Diophantine equation is an equation between two sums of monomials of degree zero or one.
While individual equations present a kind of puzzle and have been considered throughout history, the formulation of general theories of Diophantine equations (beyond the theory of quadratic forms) was an achievement of the twentieth century."
*KEY* "The point of view of Diophantine geometry, which is the application of techniques from algebraic geometry in this field, has continued to grow as a result; since treating arbitrary equations is a dead end, attention turns to equations that also have a geometric meaning.The central idea of Diophantine geometry is that of a rational point, namely a solution to a polynomial equation or system of simultaneous equations, which is a vector in a prescribed field K, when K is not algebraically closed"
Comment: I noticed that Diophantine equations not only reflect geometric properties but they also display an important concept known as Recursion which is simply another anologue of Induction;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion
"Many mathematical axioms are based upon recursive rules. For example, the formal definition of the natural numbers in set theory follows: 1 is a natural number, and each natural number has a successor, which is also a natural number. By this base case and recursive rule, one can generate the set of all natural numbers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_set
"Matiyasevich's theorem says:
Every computably enumerable set is Diophantine. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
i/Hilbert%27s_tenth_problem
"Diophantine sets:
Sets of natural numbers, of pairs of natural numbers (or even of n-tuples of natural numbers) that have Diophantine definitions are called Diophantine sets. Diophantine definitions can be provided by simultaneous systems of equations as well as by individual equations because the system
is equivalent to the single equation
A recursively enumerable set can be characterized as one for which there exists an algorithm that will ultimately halt when a member of the set is provided as input, but may continue indefinitely when the input is a non member. It was the development of computability theory (also known as recursion theory) that provided a precise explication of the intutitive notion of algorithmic computability, thus making the notion of recursive enumerability perfectly rigorous. It is evident that Diophantine sets are recursively enumerable. This is because one can arrange all possible tuples of values of the unknowns in a sequence and then, for a given value of the parameter(s), test these tuples, one after another, to see whether they are solutions of the corresponding equation. The unsolvability of Hilbert's tenth problem is a consequence of the surprising fact that the converse is true:
Every recursively enumerable set is Diophantine."
http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursively_enumerable
"Equivalent formulations:
The following are all equivalent properties of a set S of natural numbers:
Semidecidability:
The set S is recursively enumerable. That is, S is the domain (co-range) of a partial recursive function.
There is a partial recursive function f such that:
Enumerability:
The set S is the range of a partial recursive function.
The set S is the range of a total recursive function or empty. If S is infinite, the function can be chosen to be injective.
The set S is the range of a primitive recursive function or empty. Even if S is infinite, repetition of values may be necessary in this case.
Diophantine:
There is a polynomial p with integer coefficients and variables x, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i ranging over the natural numbers such that
There is a polynomial from the integers to the integers such that the set S contains exactly the non-negative numbers in its range.
The equivalence of semidecidability and enumerability can be obtained by the technique of dovetailing.
The Diophantine characterizations of a recursively enumerable set, while not as straightforward or intuitive as the first definitions, were found by Yuri Matiyasevich as part of the negative solution to Hilbert's Tenth Problem. Diophantine sets predate recursion theory and are therefore historically the first way to describe these sets (although this equivalence was only remarked more than three decades after the introduction of recursively enumerable sets). The number of bound variables in the above definition of the Diophantine set is the best known so far; it might be that a lower number can be used to define all diophantine sets."
Comment: In the History part of this paper I discovered that Induction was a form of a Mean equation ... and the last line in that last quote I linked asks if there is a form of Diophantine Set with a lower number of bound variables than in the defintion of a Diophantine Set that the article gives. Well, we see that yes my Extended Diophantine Mean equation shows there is a Diophantine Set equation with a lower number of bound variables. The point is is that Diophantine equations have not only historically been used to solve previously unsolvable math problems, but they are quite fundamentally the perfect vehicles to be used for such a purpose. I explained in the History section how I came to chose an Extended Diophantine Mean equation to be used to solve Hilberts 1st Problem, and now I am going to also link the articles describing the sets that I decided upon to be used as variables in my Extended Diophantine Mean equation which can be used to solve Hilberts 1st Problem. Notice above it said Alephone was reresented by an Omega and Sample Space can also use the same symbol Omega of which I said a summed Sample Sapce represented the same function of an infinite set that I had eventually found out through reading and my 2 equations( Diohantine and Induction equations)? The sets I am chosing for the equations to prove these relative consistency problems are Alephnaught and Alephone;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
i/Aleph-naught#Aleph-naught
" is the cardinality of the set of all natural numbers, and is the first transfinite cardinal. A set has cardinality if and only if it is countably infinite, which is the case if and only if it can be put into a direct bijection, or "one-to-one correspondence", with the natural numbers. Such sets include the set of all prime numbers, the set of all integers, the set of all rational numbers, the set of algebraic numbers, the set of binary strings of all finite lengths, and the set of all finite subsets of any countably infinite set.
If the axiom of countable choice (a weaker version of the axiom of choice) holds, then is smaller than any other infinite cardinal."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Aleph_number#Aleph-one
" is the cardinality of the set of all countable ordinal numbers, called ω1 or (sometimes) Ω. Note that this ω1 is itself an ordinal number larger than all countable ones, so it is an uncountable set. Therefore is distinct from . The definition of implies (in ZF, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory without the axiom of choice) that no cardinal number is between and . If the axiom of choice (AC) is used, it can be further proved that the class of cardinal numbers is totally ordered, and thus is the second-smallest infinite cardinal number."
Comment: Therefore, I have my type of equation determined (Extended Diophantine Mean equation) and now have my variables specified (as opposed to simply using a and b) to create an Extended Diophantine Mean equation from which an axiom of choice can be applied to show the relative nature of Hilberts 1st Problem. I am proposing that in Computability Theory, that if an axiom of choice is applied to an Extended Diophantine Mean equation that results in an unchanged outcome from the equation, then the Continuum Hypothesis will hold. I am proposing that it is the wording of the axiom of choice that determines the result of the changed or unchanged outcome of the equation that is being used to test the Continuum Hypothesis (or Hilberts 1st Problem)! *Please note, calling any equation a "Theory of Everything" today draws extreme scrutiny and originally I felt all Induction/Recursion/Diophantine equations WERE what many conjectured would be a Theory of Everything and so in my early first draft of my class of Extended Diophantine Mean equations I had labelled them TOE's since I knew they were empirical and foundational but I have now since decided to label this handy group of fundamental equations simply "Tautological Ontological Empirical" equations or "TOE" for short *grin. *Please also note, that the first example of my TOE equations is just the Summation example of the Extended Diophantine Mean equation and its only the latter 2 example equations where theres more than one Alephnaught and Alephone in the equation that can be used via an axiom of choice to show the relative nature of the Continuum Hypothesis;
http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q107/mrgf/?action=view&cu
rrent=SummationInductionandTautologicalOntologicalEmpiricale
xamples.jpg
Comment: The Extended Diophantine Mean equations are at the bottom - only the last 2 are for use in solving Hilberts 1st Problem because they have 2 sets of Alephnaught's and Alephone's - the first equation at the bottom is the Summation version which still equals the other Extended Diophantine Mean equations but has only 1 Alephnaught and 1 Alephone and therefore cannot be used to solve Hilberts 1st Problem.
This is where we create an "Axiom of Choice" that states, "Change all Alephone's to Bethone's" to an Extended Diophantine Mean equation . If, in Computational Theory, the resulted outcome still computes the same size ratio/mean value - meaning: although the variables may be different (Bethone instead of Alephone), the size of the value of the final outcome is still the same as before the variables were changed from Alephone to Bethone and therefore the Continuum Hypothesis still holds because obviously Alephone must equal Bethone in cardinality. Conversely, if the axiom of choice is reworded so that it instead states, "Change only one Alephone to Bethone" in an Extended Diophantine Mean equation, we will see that now the final outcome computed no longer shows the same size ratio/mean value as it did before only one Alephone was changed to Bethone and therefore the Continuum Hypothesis does not hold and we would more convincingly see that the axiom of choice is what determines the relative result of the Continuum Hypothesis of whether Alephone equals Bethone (Hilberts 1st Problem)! This is simply a logic gate that computes a different size value determinant on how the axiom of choice is worded.
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Part 4: Proving The Relative Consistency of the P-NP Problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P_np_np-complete_n
p-hard.svg
Comment: I am going to simply state that if I have proven through 1 axiom and an Extended Diophantine Mean equation the relativite consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis (does set a = set b?) and then have shown in Venn diagram form the relative consistency of the Contiuum Hypothesis is the same seen in the exact same Venn diagram used to show the relative consistency of the P-NP problem, then I'd think intuitively that both problems must be equivalent or similiar.
I believe the difference between the sets of integers (Alephnaught) and the sets of reals (Bethone) in the Continuum Hypothesis must be the same difference between the group of Polynomial Time type problems with the group of Non-Polynomial Time type problems.
The following I would consider a relevant point about the relative consistency observation that Potential Theory in two dimensions is different from Potential Theory in more dimensions. Again, I am saying that Potential Theory may also be another anologue of the Continuum Hypothesis or the P-NP Problem;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potenti
al_theory
"Two dimensions:
From the fact that the group of conformal transforms is infinite dimensional in two dimensions and finite dimensional for more than two dimensions, one can surmise that potential theory in two dimensions is different from potential theory in other dimensions. This is correct and, in fact, when one realizes that any two-dimensional harmonic function is the real part of a complex analytic function, one sees that the subject of two-dimensional potential theory is substantially the same as that of complex analysis. For this reason, when speaking of potential theory, one focuses attention on theorems which hold in three or more dimensions. In this connection, a surprising fact is that many results and concepts originally discovered in complex analysis (such as Schwartz's theorem, Morera's theorem, the Weierstrass-Casorati theorem, Laurent series, and the classification of singularities as removable, poles and essential singularities) generalize to results on harmonic functions in any dimension. By considering which theorems of complex analysis are special cases of theorems of potential theory in any dimension, one can obtain a feel for exactly what is special about complex analysis in two dimensions and what is simply the two-dimensional instance of more general results."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_%28complexity%29
"P can also be viewed as a uniform family of boolean circuits"
"P is known to contain many natural problems, including the decision versions of linear programming, calculating the greatest common divisor, and finding a maximum matching. In 2002, it was shown that the problem of determining if a number is prime is in P."
Comment: Here we see that the prime numbers are in P and we know that Set Theory deals with natural and prime numbers. It is simply a case of apples and oranges when it comes to differentiating between Hilberts 1st Problem and the P-NP Problem. From the following quote I want to say I was very pleased to know there is other people out there pondering the common relativity of these various famous math problems;
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/conventional-wisdom-and-pnp/
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"Miklos/December 30, 2010 6:44 pm
I keep wondering if P=NP could be independent of the ZFC axioms, just like the continuum hypothesis. This would mean that a practical implementation of P = NP could not be found, but it would not be possible to prove that they are different either. Very intriguing…"
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Part 5: Relative Consistency Principles Similiar To Hilberts 1st and P-NP Problem in Other Areas of Math
Comment: Pay attention to all the instances of the set of pairs a and b or multiple sets. It may seem trivial or arbitrary to list many examples of the set of pairs a and b but I say it is anything but arbitrary and quite obviously the essential foundation of empirical formulations or axioms found in mathematics and thus relevant to my paper discussing the relativity of set a with set b (Hilberts 1st Problem) or the relativity of the group of Polynomial Time problems with the group of Non-Polynomial Time problems (the P-NP Problem);
http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/
q107/mrgf/?action=view¤t=ANDorOR.gif
http://s134.photob
ucket.com/albums/q107/mrgf/?action=view¤t=XOR.gif
http://itee.uq.edu.au/~cogs2010/cmc/
chapters/BackProp/index2.html
"From a geometrical perspective, the perceptron attempts to solve the AND, OR, and XOR problems by using a straight line to separate the two classes: inputs labelled "0" are on one side of the line and inputs labelled "1" are on the other side. For the AND and OR functions, this is easy to do whereas for XOR it is not. The line separating the two classes is determined by net = theta. For two-diminensional problems such as AND, OR, and XOR, the line corresponds to
(I1 w1) + (I2 w2) = theta
Solving for I2 yields
I2 = -(w1/w2)I1 + (theta/w2).
In higher dimensions the boundary separating the two classes is a hyperplane
net = (sum)iwiIi.
All problems which can be solved by separating the two classes with a hyperplane are called linearly separable. The XOR problem (as presented) is not a linearly separable problem.
However, we can recode the XOR problem in three dimensions so that it becomes linearly separable "
Comment: I consider the difference between the set of integers (Alephnaught) and the set of reals (Bethone) to not only represent the difference between the group of Polynomial Time problems and the group of Non-Polynomial Time problems but also another anologue of the difference between the basic AND/OR logic gates with the XOR logic gate. I also believe the dual nature of the relative unprovable contradicting states found in both the Continuum Hypothesis and the P-NP Problem is also seen not only in Hardys Paradox, but also in the "quantum pairing" of Cooper Pairs. I'd simply refer to the decisions by the 2 "persons" involved in the Hardys Paradox example to represent both sides of the axiom of choice and I would also simply refer to the gate capacitor in the Cooper-pair box to represent an on/off axiom of choice ;
http://www.sciencedaily.com/release
s/2009/03/090304091231.htm
"Hardy's Paradox, the axiom that we cannot make inferences about past events that haven't been directly observed while also acknowledging that the very act of observation affects the reality we seek to unearth, poses a conundrum that quantum physicists have sought to overcome for decades."
http://granades.com/2009/03/30/hardy
s-paradox-or-the-economist-is-dismal-at-science/
http
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"It turns out weak-valued probabilities don’t have to be positive definite, but what does that mean? In their paper, Lundeen and Steinberg say,
"Recall that the joint values are extracted by studying the polarization rotation of both photons in conicidence…. As in all weak measurement experiments, a negative weak value implies that the shift of a physical "pointer" (in this case, photon polarization) has the opposite sign from the one expected from the measurement interaction itself." "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:C
ooper_pair_box_circuit.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_approximati
on_theorem
"In mathematical analysis, the Weierstrass approximation theorem states that every continuous function defined on an interval [a,b] can be uniformly approximated as closely as desired by a polynomial function. Because polynomials are among the simplest functions, and because computers can directly evaluate polynomials, this theorem has both practical and theoretical relevance, especially in polynomial interpolation. The original version of this result was established by Karl Weierstrass in 1885."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zout%27s
_identity
"In number theory, Bézout's identity for two integers a, b is an expression
ax+by=d \,
where x and y are integers (called Bézout coefficients for (a,b)), which is such that d is a common divisor of a and b. Bézout's lemma states that such coefficients exist for every pair of nonzero integers (a,b), with in addition d > 0, which is then in fact their greatest common divisor and also the smallest positive integer that can be written in this form for any integers x,y. This value of d is therefore uniquely determined by a and b, but the Bézout coefficients are not unique. A pair of Bézout coefficients (in fact the ones that are minimal in absolute value) can be computed by the extended Euclidean algorithm. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_equation
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"It follows that there are also infinite solutions if c is a multiple of the greatest common divisor of a and b. If c is not a multiple of the greatest common divisor of a and b, then the Diophantine equation ax + by = c has no solutions."
http://en.wikiped
ia.org/wiki/Diophantine_set
"Examples:
The well known Pell equation
x2 − d(y + 1)2 = 1
is an example of a Diophantine equation with a parameter. As has long been known, the equation has a solution in the unknowns x,y precisely when the parameter d is 0 or not a perfect square. In the present context, one says that this equation provides a Diophantine definition of the set
{0,2,3,5,6,7,8,10,...}
consisting of 0 and the natural numbers that are not perfect squares. Other examples of Diophantine definitions are as follows:
The equation a = (2x + 3)y defines the set of numbers that are not powers of 2.
The equation a = (x + 2)(y + 2) defines the set of numbers greater than 1 that are not prime numbers.
The equation a + x = b defines the set of pairs such that "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_extensio
n_theorem
"Formally, the dimension theorem for vector spaces states that
Given a vector space V, any two linearly independent generating sets (in other words, any two bases) have the same cardinality.
If V is finitely generated, then it has a finite basis, and the result says that any two bases have the same number of elements.
The proof of the existence of a basis for any vector space in the general case requires Zorn's lemma and is in fact equivalent to the axiom of choice, and the proof given below assumes trichotomy (all cardinal numbers are comparable), which is also equivalent to the axiom of choice. The theorem can be generalized to arbitrary R-modules for rings R having invariant basis number."
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Algebraic_extension
"If a is algebraic over K, then K[a], the set of all polynomials in a with coefficients in K, is not only a ring but a field: an algebraic extension of K which has finite degree over K. In the special case where K = Q is the field of rational numbers, Q[a] is an example of an algebraic number field.
A field with no proper algebraic extensions is called algebraically closed. An example is the field of complex numbers. Every field has an algebraic extension which is algebraically closed (called its algebraic closure), but proving this in general requires some form of the axiom of choice.
An extension L/K is algebraic if and only if every sub K-algebra of L is a field."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula
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8;
"The original proof is based on the Taylor series expansions of the exponential function ez (where z is a complex number) and of sin x and cos x for real numbers x (see below). In fact, the same proof shows that Euler's formula is even valid for all complex numbers z."
"Now, taking this derived formula, we can use Euler's formula to define the logarithm of a complex number. To do this, we also use the definition of the logarithm (as the inverse operator of exponentiation) that
and that
both valid for any complex numbers a and b.
Therefore, one can write:
for any z ≠ 0. Taking the logarithm of both sides shows that:
and in fact this can be used as the definition for the complex logarithm. The logarithm of a complex number is thus a multi-valued function, because φ is multi-valued.
Finally, the other exponential law
which can be seen to hold for all integers k, together with Euler's formula, implies several trigonometric identities as well as de Moivre's formula."
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Irrational_number
"The first proof of the existence of irrational numbers is usually attributed to a Pythagorean (possibly Hippasus of Metapontum),[7] who probably discovered them while identifying sides of the pentagram.[8] The then-current Pythagorean method would have claimed that there must be some sufficiently small, indivisible unit that could fit evenly into one of these lengths as well as the other. However, Hippasus, in the 5th century BC, was able to deduce that there was in fact no common unit of measure, and that the assertion of such an existence was in fact a contradiction. He did this by demonstrating that if the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle was indeed commensurable with an arm, then that unit of measure must be both odd and even, which is impossible. His reasoning is as follows:
* The ratio of the hypotenuse to an arm of an isosceles right triangle is c:b expressed in the smallest units possible.
* By the Pythagorean theorem: c2 = a2+b2 = 2b2. (Since the triangle is isosceles, a = b.)
* Since c2 is even, c must be even.
* Since c:b is in its lowest terms, b must be odd.
* Since c is even, let c = 2y.
* Then c2 = 4y2 = 2b2
* b2 = 2y2 so b2 must be even, therefore b is even.
* However we asserted b must be odd. Here is the contradiction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98_%28set_theory%29
" In set theory, Θ (pronounced like the letter theta) is the least nonzero ordinal α such that there is no surjection from the reals onto α.
If the axiom of choice (AC) holds (or even if the reals can be wellordered) then Θ is simply , the cardinal successor of the cardinality of the continuum. However, Θ is often studied in contexts where the axiom of choice fails, such as models of the axiom of determinacy.
Θ is also the supermum of the lengths of all prewellorderings of the reals.
Proof of existance:
It may not be obvious that it can be proved, without using AC, that there even exists a nonzero ordinal onto which there is no surjection from the reals (if there is such an ordinal, then there must be a least one because the ordinals are wellordered). However, suppose there were no such ordinal. Then to every ordinal α we could associate the set of all prewellorderings of the reals having length α. This would give an injection from the class of all ordinals into the set of all sets of orderings on the reals (which can to be seen to be a set via repeated application of the powerset axiom). Now the axiom of replacement shows that the class of all ordinals is in fact a set. But that is impossible, by the Burali-Forti paradox."
http://en.w
ikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_theory
"This is a symmetric form for n even, in which case the signature of M is defined to be the signature of the form, and an alternating form for n odd"
"By Poincaré duality, it turns out that there is a way to think of this geometrically. If possible, choose representative n-dimensional submanifolds A, B for the Poincaré duals of a and b. Then λM(a, b) is the oriented intersection number of A and B, which is well-defined because of the dimensions of A and B. This explains the terminology intersection form."
"Intersection theory in algebraic geometry:
William Fulton in Intersection Theory (1984) writes
... if A and B are subvarieties of a non-singular variety X, the intersection product A.B should be an equivalence class of algebraic cycles closely related to the geometr
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"This is a symmetric form for n even, in which case the signature of M is defined to be the signature of the form, and an alternating form for n odd"
"By Poincaré duality, it turns out that there is a way to think of this geometrically. If possible, choose representative...
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z
88;
"This is a symmetric form for n even, in which case the signature of M is defined to be the signature of the form, and an alternating form for n odd"
"By Poincaré duality, it turns out that there is a way to think of this geometrically. If possible, choose representative n-dimensional submanifolds A, B for the Poincaré duals of a and b. Then λM(a, b) is the oriented intersection number of A and B, which is well-defined because of the dimensions of A and B. This explains the terminology intersection form."
"Intersection theory in algebraic geometry:
William Fulton in Intersection Theory (1984) writes
... if A and B are subvarieties of a non-singular variety X, the intersection product A.B should be an equivalence class of algebraic cycles closely related to the geometry of how A∩B, A and B are situated in X. Two extreme cases have been most familiar. If the intersection is proper, i.e. dim(A∩B) = dim A + dim B − dim X, then A.B is a linear combination of the irreducible components of A∩B, with coefficients the intersection multiplicities. At the other extreme, if A = B is a non-singular subvariety, the self-intersection formula says that A.B is represented by the top Chern class of the normal bundle of A in X. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-one_reduction
"Formal languages
Suppose A and B are formal languages over the alphabets Σ and Γ, respectively. A many-one reduction from A to B is a total computable function f : Σ* → Γ* that has the property that each word w is in A if and only if f(w) is in B (that is, A = f − 1(B)).
If such a function f exists, we say that A is many-one reducible or m-reducible to B and write
If there is an injective many-one reduction function then we say A is 1 reducible or one-one reducible to B and write
"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Meromorphic_function
"In complex analysis, a meromorphic function on an open subset D of the complex plane is a function that is holomorphic on all D except a set of isolated points, which are poles for the function. (The terminology comes from the Ancient Greek meros (μέρος), meaning part, as opposed to holos (ὅλος), meaning whole.)
Every meromorphic function on D can be expressed as the ratio between two holomorphic functions (with the denominator not constant 0) defined on D: any pole must coincide with a zero of the denominator.
The Gamma function is meromorphic in the whole complex plane.
Intuitively then, a meromorphic function is a ratio of two well-behaved (holomorphic) functions. Such a function will still be well-behaved, except possibly at the points where the denominator of the fraction is zero. (If the denominator has a zero at z and the numerator does not, then the value of the function will be infinite; if both parts have a zero at z, then one must compare the multiplicities of these zeros.)
*KEY* From an algebraic point of view, if D is connected, then the set of meromorphic functions is the field of fractions of the integral domain of the set of holomorphic functions. This is analogous to the relationship between , the rational numbers, and , the integers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
"IIn field theory, the expression is only shorthand for the formal expression ab−1, where b−1 is the multiplicative inverse of b. Since the field axioms only guarantee the existence of such inverses for nonzero elements, this expression has no meaning when b is zero. Modern texts include the axiom 0 ≠ 1 to avoid having to consider the trivial ring or a field with one element, where the multiplicative identity coincides with the additive identity.."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruhat_decomposition
2288;
"Definitions
G is a connected, reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field.
B is a Borel subgroup of G
W is a Weyl group of G corresponding to a maximal torus of B.
The Bruhat decomposition of G is the decomposition
of G as a disjoint union of double cosets of B parameterized by the elements of the Weyl group W. (Note that although W is not in general a subgroup of G, the coset wB is still well defined.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubert_cell
"I
n algebraic geometry, a Schubert variety is a certain subvariety of a Grassmannian, usually with singular points. Described by means of linear algebra, a typical example consists of the k-dimensional subspaces V of an n dimensional vector space W, such that
for j = 1, 2, ..., k, where
is a certain flag of subspaces in W and 0 < a1 < ... < ak ≤ n. More generally, given a semisimple algebraic group G with a Borel subgroup B and a standard parabolic subgroup P, it is known that the homogeneous space X = G/P, which is an example of a flag variety, consists of finitely many B-orbits that may be parametrized by certain elements of the Weyl group W. The closure of the B-orbit associated to an element w of the Weyl group is denoted by Xw and is called a Schubert variety in G/P. The classical case corresponds to G = SLn and P being the kth maximal parabolic subgroup of G."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_L-function
2288;
"These functions are named after Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet who introduced them in (Dirichlet 1837) to prove the theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions that also bears his name. In the course of the proof, Dirichlet shows that L(s, χ) is non-zero at s = 1. Moreover, if χ is principal, then the corresponding Dirichlet L-function has a simple pole at s = 1."
"Just as the Riemann zeta function is conjectured to obey the Riemann hypothesis, so the Dirichlet L-functions are conjectured to obey the generalized Riemann hypothesis."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_problem_for_groups
"In mathematics, especially in the area of abstract algebra known as combinatorial group theory, the word problem for a recursively presented group G is the algorithmic problem of deciding whether two words represent the same element. Although it is common to speak of the word problem for the group G strictly speaking it is a presentation of the group that does or does not have solvable word problem. Given two finite presentations P and Q of a group G, P has solvable word problem if and only if Q does.[citation needed] So in this case no confusion is caused by speaking of the word problem for G. When the group is recursively presented but not finitely presented, the distinction becomes important.
The related but different uniform word problem for a class K of recursively presented groups is the algorithmic problem of deciding, given as input a presentation P for a group G in the class K and two words in the generators of G, whether the words represent the same element of G. Some authors require the class K to be definable by a recursively enumerable set of presentations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobordism
"A cobordism is a manifold W with boundary whose boundary is partitioned in two, .
Cobordisms are studied both for the equivalence relation that they generate, and as objects in their own right. Cobordism is a much coarser equivalence relation than diffeomorphism or homeomorphism of manifolds, and is significantly easier to study and compute. It is not possible to classify manifolds up to diffeomorphism or homeomorphism in dimensions because the word problem for groups cannot be solved, but it is possible to classify manifolds up to cobordism. Cobordisms are central objects of study in geometric topology and algebraic topology. In geometric topology, cobordisms are intimately connected with Morse Theory, and h-cobordisms are fundamental in the study of high dimensional manifolds, namely surgery theory."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequate_equivalence_relation
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"Definition:
Let Z*(X) := Z[X] be the free abelian group on the algebraic cycles of X. Then an adequate equivalence relation is a family of equivalence relations, ∼X on Z*(X), one for each smooth projective variety X, satisfying the following three conditions:
(Linearity) The equivalence relation is compatible with addition of cycles.
(Moving lemma) If are cycles on X, then there exists a cycle such that α ~X α' and α' intersects β properly.
(Push-forwards) Let and be cycles such that β intersects properly. If α ~X 0, then ~Y 0, where is the projection.
The push-forward cycle in the last axiom is often denoted
If β is the graph of a function, then this reduces to the push-forward of the function. The generalizations of functions from X to Y to cycles on X × Y are known as correspondences. The last axiom allows us to push forward cycles by a correspondence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_%28algebraic_geo
metry%29
"In algebraic geometry, a motive (or sometimes motif, following French usage) denotes 'some essential part of an algebraic variety'. To date, pure motives have been defined, while conjectural mixed motives have not. Pure motives are triples (X, p, m), where X is a smooth projective variety, p : X ⊢ X is an idempotent correspondence, and m an integer. A morphism from (X, p, m) to (Y, q, n) is given by a correspondence of degree n - m."
"The theory of motives was originally conjectured as an attempt to unify a rapidly multiplying array of cohomology theories, including Betti cohomology, de Rham cohomology, l-adic cohomology, and crystalline cohomology. The general hope is that equations like
* [point]
* [projective line] = [line] + [point]
* [projective plane] = [plane] + [line] + [point]
can be put on increasingly solid mathematical footing with a deep meaning. Of course, the above equations are already known to be true in many senses, such as in the sense of CW-complex where "+" corresponds to attaching cells, and in the sense of various cohomology theories, where "+" corresponds to the direct sum.
From another viewpoint, motives continue the sequence of generalizations from rational functions on varieties to divisors on varieties to Chow groups of varieties. The generalization happens in more than one direction, since motives can be considered with respect to more types of equivalence than rational equivalence. The admissiable equivalences are given by the definition of an adequate equivalence relation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Zorn%27s_lemma
"Zorn's lemma, also known as the Kuratowski–Zorn lemma, is a proposition of set theory that states:
Suppose a partially ordered set has the property that every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset) has an upper bound. Then the set contains at least one maximal element.
It is named after the mathematicians Max Zorn and Kazimierz Kuratowski.
The terms are defined as follows. Suppose (P,≤) is a partially ordered set. A subset T is totally ordered if for any s, t in T we have s ≤ t or t ≤ s. Such a set T has an upper bound u in P if t ≤ u for all t in T. Note that u is an element of P but need not be an element of T. A maximal element of P is an element m in P such that for no element x in P, m < x.
Zorn's lemma is equivalent to the well-ordering theorem and the axiom of choice, in the sense that any one of them, together with the Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms of set theory, is sufficient to prove the others. It occurs in the proofs of several theorems of crucial importance, for instance the Hahn–Banach theorem in functional analysis, the theorem that every vector space has a basis, Tychonoff's theorem in topology stating that every product of compact spaces is compact, and the theorems in abstract algebra that every nonzero ring has a maximal ideal and that every field has an algebraic closure."
Comment: Again, I am stating to consider here the Bruhat decomposition, the Schubert cell, the Dirichlet L-function, the Word Problem for groups, Cobordisms, adequate equivalence relations, Motives, and Zorn's Lemma can all be said to display a relative consistency using finitistic methods and all are more analogues of the sets a and b of the Contniuum Hypothesis and the groups of the P-NP Problem. Here are just a few more areas of math that may be relevant to the ideas of this paper;
http://en.wikipedia.or
g/wiki/PR_%28complexity%29
"The Ackermann function is an example of a function that is not primitive recursive, showing that PR is strictly contained in R."
"PR functions can be explicitly enumerated, whereas not all functions R can be. This shows that 'PR' has a syntactic definition, whereas R lacks one.
On the other hand, we can "enumerate" any recursively enumerable set (see also its complexity class RE) by a primitive-recursive function in the following sense: given an input (M, k), where M is a Turing machine and k is an integer, if M halts within k steps then output M; otherwise output nothing. Then the union of the outputs, over all possible inputs (M, k), is exactly the set of M that halt."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
lgebraically_closed_field
""If a proposition which can be expressed in the language of first-order logic is true for an algebraically closed field, then it is true for every algebraically closed field with the same characteristic. Furthermore, if such a proposition is valid for an algebraically closed field with characteristic 0, then not only is it valid for all other algebraically closed fields with characteristic 0, but there is some natural number N such that the proposition is valid for every algebraically closed field with characteristic p when p > N"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler's_phi_f
unction
"He introduced a replacement for the prime numbers in the cyclotomic field Q(ζp), expressed the failure of unique factorization quantitatively via the class number hp and proved that if hp is not divisible by p (such numbers p are called regular primes) then Fermat's theorem is true for the exponent n = p."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_bond
"Quantum theory also indicates that molecular orbitals (MO) of identical symmetry actually mix. As a practical consequence of this mixing of diatomic molecules, the wavefunctions s+s and pz+pz molecular orbitals become blended. The extent of this mixing (or blending) depends on the relative energies of the like-symmetry MO's."
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/32
""But Aharonov, together with David Albert and Lev Vaidman [3] understood where the problem was. They realized that measuring Sπ/4 was tantamount to simultaneously measuring the spin along the x and z directions, an impossible task since they would disturb each other. But one could in fact limit the mutual disturbance if one is willing to pay the penalty of allowing the measurements be less precise. They called such measurements “weak” because of the reduced disturbance and these outcomes are called “weak values.” When such measurements are performed, Sπ/4 does indeed take the impossible value of √2/2."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subset_sum_problem
"The complexity of the best known algorithms is exponential in the smaller of the two parameters N and P. Thus, the problem is most difficult if N and P are of the same order. It only becomes easy if either N or P becomes very small.
If N (the number of variables) is small, then an exhaustive search for the solution is practical. If P (the number of place values) is a small fixed number, then there are dynamic programming algorithms that can solve it exactly.
What is happening is that the problem becomes seemingly non-exponential when it is practical to count the entire solution space. There are two ways to count the solution space in the subset sum problem. One is to count the number of ways the variables can be combined. There are 2N possible ways to combine the variables. However, with N = 10, there are only 1024 possible combinations to check. These can be counted easily with a branching search. The other way is to count all possible numerical values that the combinations can take. There are 2P possible numerical sums. However, with P = 5 there are only 32 possible numerical values that the combinations can take. These can be counted easily with a dynamic programming algorithm. When N = P and both are large, then there is no aspect of the solution space that can be counted easily."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numb
er
" To encode an entire formula, which is a sequence of symbols, Gödel used the following system. Given a sequence x1x2x3...xn of positive integers, the Gödel encoding of the sequence is the product of the first n primes raised to their corresponding values in the sequence:
"
"Once a Gödel numbering for a formal theory is established, each inference rule of the theory can be expressed as a function on the natural numbers. If f is the Gödel mapping and if formula C can be derived from formulas A and B through an inference rule r; i.e.
then there should be some arithmetical function gr of natural numbers such that
This is true for the numbering Gödel used, and for any other numbering where the encoded formula can be arithmetically recovered from its Gödel number.
*KEY*Thus, in a formal theory such as Peano arithmetic in which one can make statements about numbers and their arithmetical relationships to each other, one can use a Gödel numbering to indirectly make statements about the theory itself. This technique allowed Gödel to prove results about the consistency and completeness properties of formal systems.
Generalizations:
In computability theory, the term "Gödel numbering" is used in settings more general than the one described above. It can refer to:
Any assignment of the elements of a formal language to natural numbers in such a way that the numbers can be manipulated by an algorithm to simulate manipulation of elements of the formal language.
More generally, an assignment of elements from a countable mathematical object, such as a countable group, to natural numbers to allow algorithmic manipulation of the mathematical object.
Also, the term Gödel numbering is sometimes used when the assigned "numbers" are actually strings, which is necessary when considering models of computation such as Turing machines that manipulate strings rather than numbers."
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Part 6: Conclusion
In attempting to prove relative consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis and the P-NP Problem by finitistic methods, I have shown many, many, relative empirical math principles usually involving sets or pairs of sets with an axiom applied to show the relative qualities observed which are relevant to the objective of this paper (to show the relative duality of the Contiuum Hypothesis and the P-NP Problem). If, in the very least, you agree I have used an Extended Diophantine Mean equation to prove the relative consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis, then I feel you should understand the 2 Venn diagrams (one addressing the Continuum Hypothesis and the other addressing the P-NP Problem) I showed are both the very same chart but only the variables renamed. If you agree they are the same chart then you would haveto agree the problems they address must be the same.
I hope you enjoyed the paper and I look forward to, if possible, future discoverys or solutions to come from it.
Regards,
GF
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Dear Lisi,
You bring up a good question about the role of the observer in quantum mechanics. Answers to all the fundamental questions lie in answer to a simple question, who am I? A fully realized observer becomes one with the absolute or attains singularity. Everything emerges from this state of singularity from with in the absolute. We are all capable of attaining this state if we carefully follow ourselves to that ultimate
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george james ducas wrote on Jul. 10, 2011 @ 14:45 GMT
All form is the result of resonances of space or D, which are products of velocity and time. Particles are merely the interference patterns of those resonances and can be associated with various matrices associated with resonances. In certain conditions it is clear that certain particles are associated with resonances, but then again when at scales that subdivide those resonances, those...
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All form is the result of resonances of space or D, which are products of velocity and time. Particles are merely the interference patterns of those resonances and can be associated with various matrices associated with resonances. In certain conditions it is clear that certain particles are associated with resonances, but then again when at scales that subdivide those resonances, those measurements fail since the subdivisions and associated particles are less than the products that resulted in said resonances. But all form is the result of matrices of velocity and time acting in various dimension of resonance D of the ether space.
The concept of ether field means that there would be propagation of effects and action at a distance, but also since due to the inductive nature of fields there also has to be immediate action since the existence of 1 is tied automatically unto another in v and t. The differences between the nature of related fields is merely functions related to time and velocity. The difference between magnetic field and current is time and velocity respectively, and the similarity is D or resonance space. The force is a product of space or D. so maybe in evaluation of those differences, some are instantaneous and others a propagating, and thus from my point what has value in assigning which as special, related to time, and related to velocity, has meaning through propagation and induction. And then perhaps a propagating resonant field does both, act at a distance and those that are instantaneous are related to time and velocity.
All things are products of time and velocity. Equivalency means that all things through all dimensions are products of time and velocity held together by a math or matrix and related as scalar, (additive), proper (multiplicative) within various dimensions connected through states of resonance and induction. Space is made from loops of a velocity and time matrix, woven together with properties almost like a fluid. The geometry, compression, and configuration of this through multiple dimensions of inductive states through dipole action result in a continuous continuum that is multidimensional. So therefore the atom is the perfect Trans dimensional model, exhibiting all states and transitions of the matrix or space, so there is no distinguishing between the cores or the space. The particle is merely the overlapping of the matrix in nodes of interference. The centres of all particles are the singularities, of the boundaries that go from the interval to infinity. One of the controls is the number pi. The motion of these various dimensional or resonant states act together one relating to another. So therefore the entire system of space and particle is an inertial field or matrix. All these relationship at the smallest level are products of time and velocity. So then the idea of mass, particularity used to define force and energy, are arbitrary assignments. Since the smallest denominator has nothing to do with mass directly, and the defining of systems of ether and atomic states in terms of a larger configuration or "energy" in joules is not periodic, meaning not in system of the assignment of parts and properties as we have in a periodic table of chemistry. If we redefine all properties as arising from three units, to include v and t, then the associated properties are an adjunct to the real structure, and that v or t is the energy (new word) that is in all things, and particles associated with various states. The Higgs is more a test of the system of units, the defining of mass, than the finding of a particle.
The evaluation of all particles in terms of mass and energy is linear and not periodic. Mass is a higher periodic state than velocity and time which are at the bottom. v and t as the basics and through the periodic development of v and t we finally get the effect of mass. Therefore to evaluate those things which arise out of more simple relationships of vt, such as mass less particles, with something much more evolved, such as mass, is not providing the clarity to the structure of the real universe.
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X-Phy wrote on Aug. 12, 2011 @ 22:56 GMT
Close scrutiny of QM shows that there is no such thing like a classical probability. For example, there is no joint probability for position and momentum. The observer can decide up to the last moment which he will measure, and the remainding of the entangled system, that may be very far, can't know, and though behaves as if it did.
Consider a very simple thought experiment that yet contains the gist of the measurement problem: a particle is emitted in a sperical symetric state, and there are two detectors diametrically opposed and at the same distance from the source. As soon as a detector sees the particle, the other detector can't, although there have not be time enough to signal it that the particle has already been detected. Still worst, the description of the process depends on the frame from which it is seen.
A purely classical probabilitic description can't be used because of this seemingly non local behavior. It is not an issue of lack of information, it is much more fundamental.
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