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Peter Morgan wrote on Nov. 19, 2015 @ 01:02 GMT
I pronounce on one problem with this article, that Jan-Åke is not Jan-Âke (in 3 of 4 places). Also, more proofreading, "contextulaity".
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Robert H McEachern wrote on Nov. 19, 2015 @ 20:52 GMT
"The quadrupole moment is three-dimensional, and you can choose two of three axes along which to measure it: the x-axis, the y-axis, ... you don’t expect that your choice to measure along the second or third axes should affect the result you get for the measurement along x-axis."
A cube is also three dimensional, and you can choose two of three axes along which to measure it too. But you do expect your measurements to directly effect the result of an additional measurement, precisely because merely being three-dimensional is not sufficient to cause the measurements to be independent.
QM assumes the things being measured are independent, simply because they are three dimensional, in theory. However, if they are not, then it is no surprise that the results seem "weird". The real question is, Why were the measurements ever assumed to be independent in the first place? Just because there are described, in the theory, via three parameters, that may or may not be independent of one another?
Rob McEachern
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Joe Fisher replied on Nov. 20, 2015 @ 14:18 GMT
Abstract finite "quadrupole moment is three-dimensional," have absolutely nothing to do with the real unique infinite Universe.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Thomas Howard Ray replied on Nov. 26, 2015 @ 14:59 GMT
That's an excellent point, Rob.
Without an extra degree of freedom, there is no way to show that quantum mechanics demonstrates more than it assumed in the first place.
With an extra degree of freedom, entanglement fails.
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Thomas Howard Ray replied on Nov. 26, 2015 @ 17:46 GMT
In fact. if anyone is interested, I have a draft paper on quantum contextuality at ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275962
863_Special_Relativity_and_the_Origin_of_Probability
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Eckard Blumschein replied on Nov. 27, 2015 @ 07:21 GMT
Rob,
I suspect that complex representation with Hermitian symmetry seemingly adds an additional dimension while it actually merely adds arbitrarily chosen redundancy. May physics suffer from unwarranted interpretation in this case too? I expect you to confirm that real part and imaginary part, magnitude and phase are not necessarily independent from each other. Shouldn't we ask ourselves how to interpret such degeneration? While Schroedinger still admitted being not sure, the crowd took his trick that is equivalent to Heisenberg's square matrices as a gospel up to now. I maintain that triangular matrices, IR+ instead of IR and cosine instead of Fourier transformation provide in principle an alternative to the unquestionably more advantageous use of the imaginary unit i.
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Steve Agnew replied on Nov. 29, 2015 @ 19:38 GMT
Thanks so much for that reference:
Thomas Howard Ray replied on Nov. 26, 2015 @ 17:46 GMT as "In fact. if anyone is interested, I have a draft paper on quantum contextuality at ResearchGate: Special relativity and the origin of probability"You do not mention Category theory or Moldoveanu's algebraic arguments,
elliptic composability. What about these?
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Thomas Howard Ray replied on Nov. 29, 2015 @ 21:10 GMT
Hi Steve,
Moldoveanu's contention that the laws of physics are invariant under additional degrees of freedom is fundamentally wrong-headed.
It would deny quantum mechanics any dimension at all, save the 1-dimension real line. And that is correct as far as it goes -- metric spaces. I agree that is the proper domain of quantum mechanics (as my proof for what I call Khrennikov's theorem establishes). A very useful concept for information theory, not for foundations.
The Hilbert space quantum formalism is two-dimensional. M's translation to a "para-Hilbert space" deprives complex analysis of its power to generate both real and complex solutions, since he has discarded the fundamental theorem of algebra. In any case, if my informal proof is correct -- the physical existence of reversibility in 2 dimensions contradicts irreversibility in 1 dimension, and favors a topological theory.
In any case, though M implies (reductio ad absurdum) that the only physics is either classical or quantum, there's nothing classical about his theory. Nor even necessarily physical.
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Thomas Howard Ray replied on Nov. 29, 2015 @ 21:13 GMT
My approach is compatible with category theory.
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Georgina Woodward wrote on Nov. 19, 2015 @ 23:59 GMT
The viewpoint of Gühne, Cabello, Larsson and their colleagues that was quoted reminds me of some of the discussion on the "spookiness" page. A question needs asking ; What is "reality" in the context of physics? The word may need differentiating to specify different kinds of reality in order to unambiguously deal with objective measurement outputs that are real in their own right but were not preexisting, and the concept of a reality that exists independently of the measurement process.
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Georgina Woodward replied on Nov. 20, 2015 @ 00:31 GMT
The intrinsic reality seems to be related to the fundamental "dimensions" like mass, (amount of substance), charge. Length could be included in that list but it can also be a derived reality depending on how it is measured. Velocity, orientation and measured orientation of ordinary spin are not intrinsic reality. It seems to me there must be an intrinsic spin that is the rotation relative to the whole of the Object universe not relative to a measuring device. Position is an oddity. As everything is in absolute motion nothing has a precise intrinsic position but it is always somewhere. A definite unchanging position has to be an outcome of measurement, so a derived and not intrinsic property.
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Georgina Woodward replied on Nov. 20, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
Velocity, orientation and measured orientation of ordinary spin are not intrinsic reality but relative measurements.
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Georgina Woodward replied on Nov. 20, 2015 @ 04:53 GMT
Tying that in with my other writing; Object reality is intrinsic reality, Image reality (output of a reality interface subsequent to EM information receipt) is a form of derived reality.
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Joe Fisher replied on Nov. 20, 2015 @ 14:25 GMT
The real unique Universe am infinite. You all keep asking what reality is and guessing what reality could be or ever was instead of understanding what reality am.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Steve Agnew wrote on Nov. 24, 2015 @ 20:04 GMT
This article does not compute without a lot of background information. For example, someone invented an new term for quantum phase coherence which is renamed contextuality. Great, that is what we need...anopther term to describe something that we do not understand understand in the first place.
Here is a blurb from a past article that would have been helpful here:
"The term...
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This article does not compute without a lot of background information. For example, someone invented an new term for quantum phase coherence which is renamed contextuality. Great, that is what we need...anopther term to describe something that we do not understand understand in the first place.
Here is a blurb from a past article that would have been helpful here:
"The term "contextuality" simply refers to the weird way in which a property of a quantum particle can depend on the context of the experiments you do to investigate it, even if there seems to be no good reason why that should be so. "It’s like the colour of your socks affecting the experiment," says Joseph Emerson, an FQXi member and quantum physicist at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, who also researches this area of physics. (See "The Quantum Truth Seeker.") This doesn’t hold true in the everyday macroscopic world: a given playing card in a deck is either black or red, and it stays that way regardless of whether anyone looks at it or not, or the way in which they look. This steadfastness does not always apply to quantum systems, where properties may not be set until they are observed, and when and how measurements are carried out can change the outcome of the experiment."Yes. Ordinary classical reality does not decohere very fast and so we think of classical gravity reality as permanent. A playing card is either red or black...but that will that be true for all time. In ten years, one thousand years, or one million years, the playing card will indeed be something else. In other words, even our classical reality is subject to a very slow decoherence rate. The usually very slow classical decoherence gives us the illusion of permanence and locality.
In contrast to classical states, quantum states usually decohere very rapidly into classical states. What seems strange is that quantum states can actually remain coherent for very long times and over very long time separations. This kind of phase coherence makes no classical sense, i.e., that we can know the state of a particle across the universe just because we know the state of an entangled particle right here right now.
Any discussion about qubits that does not include decoherence rates leaves out a necessary factor for any quantum computer. Decoherence is more than just the inevitable scrambling of information. Decoherence provides the key for understanding all of our quantum reality.
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Joe Fisher replied on Nov. 25, 2015 @ 14:20 GMT
Why do you utterly confuse unreasonable codswallop with acceptable truth? You wrote: “Yes. Ordinary classical reality does not decohere very fast and so we think of classical gravity reality as permanent.” Did you mean that extraordinary unclassical reality does cohere very slowly while you think either that unclassical gravity, or classical levity was temporary? The real unique Universe am infinite.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Steve Agnew replied on Nov. 26, 2015 @ 00:06 GMT
I am afraid that I do not understand what you have said.
Do you believe in quantum computing with qubits?
Do you believe in quantum phase coherence?
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Joe Fisher replied on Nov. 27, 2015 @ 15:46 GMT
I know for an absolute fact that I can prove that the real unique Universe am infinite. I know for an absolute fact that I can prove that finite abstract quantum computing with finite abstract qubits is a real physical impossibility. I know that the statement of there being any finite abstract quantum phase coherence is utter codswallop.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Steve Agnew replied on Nov. 29, 2015 @ 19:07 GMT
Since you do not believe in quantum phase coherence, there is no sense to any discourse. It is not clear why you even bother to comment.
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Eckard Blumschein wrote on Nov. 27, 2015 @ 18:04 GMT
Kuepfmueller's 1924 uncertainty refers to two different values either 1 or 1/2 where the latter one results from the assumption of positive and negative frequencies. I guess 1/2 is correct and agrees with Heisenberg's 1927 uncertainty. If only the physicists didn't doubt that the restriction to positive elapsed time necessarily implies to accept negative frequencies. Dirac rejected in a textbook negative frequency and he was certainly not the only one.
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Joe Fisher replied on Nov. 28, 2015 @ 16:06 GMT
Is certainty finite? If so, then one cannot be finitely uncertain about certainty can one?
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Frank Martin DiMeglio wrote on Nov. 29, 2015 @ 21:33 GMT
The FUNDAMENTAL quantum reality state balances being and experience AND is NECESSARILY one OF INVISIBLE AND VISIBLE SPACE IN FUNDAMENTAL EQUILIBRIUM AND BALANCE CONSISTENT WITH HALF GRAVITY AND HALF INERTIA.
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Nicholas I. Hosein wrote on Dec. 2, 2015 @ 14:01 GMT
I really enjoyed reading this article. See a response to Jozen-Bo which I wrote in 2008:
This theory of an information system directly affecting the physiological function of the eye is an absolutely true statement. Reality is entirely all-inclusive. It includes all the beliefs as well as the facts, all the mental and the physical sides. There is a complete absence of separation. The dark is absence of light. Light is truth and cannot be contradicted unless by lying. And information systems like the internet are consisted of elements of truth and false statements that are analogous to real and unreal. That which appears to the human eye is information and the mind creates the interpretation. As reality is an all-inclusive set containing mental and physical elements, mind and reality cannot be separated. Reality is contained in the mind via perceptual awareness all at once these processes are creating and containing information. Perception takes place and awareness is the complex network of the creative consciousness in which reality appears. Thoughts that are both true or false are governed by perception. Perception of both the inner and outer halves of the body concept or object are happening in but one reality or the monic term infocognition. Each moment the creative mind contains mental and "physical" information.
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 2, 2015 @ 16:27 GMT
Dear Fellow,
The real unique Universe am infinite. You wrote: “This theory of an information system directly affecting the physiological function of the eye is an absolutely true statement.” All finite statements are unrealistic. Any abstract theory of any abstract information system abstractly affecting the abstract physiological function of an abstract eye is utter codswallop. You need to get real.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 2, 2015 @ 20:33 GMT
WHY ONE MAY NEVER SEE GOD
Because reality is hard to see. (Also see this thread).
If we work on this premise, we can prevent deceiving ourselves by distinguishing the differences between God's work and blind nature's. One may walk around and experience one's fear rising in a pitch black room. Since mind is reality, you are transparent and your thoughts may become manifest unless one takes full control. According to Christopher Langan, we are transparent to the global conscious agency God, which means God is there in the room with us even in our most ignorant and fearful moments as God sees all. In regards to how and why God rarely responds to us I would think it is due to the fact that we must "go beyond" the everyday existence to reach Him and in return we may or may not be disappointed. I leave any further speculation on this matter to you the reader.
http://www.sciforums.com/threads/why-one-may-never-se
e-god.143202/
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 3, 2015 @ 14:51 GMT
My dear fellow,
Reality is easy to see, all you have to do is open your eyes. You mistakenly wrote: “Because reality is hard to see. (Also see this thread). If we work on this premise, we can prevent deceiving ourselves by distinguishing the differences between God's work and blind nature's.” Reality is not dependent on any abstract we abstractly working on any abstract premise so that abstract we can abstractly prevent abstractly deceiving abstract us from abstractly distinguishing the abstract differences between an abstract God’s abstract work and an abstract blind abstract nature’s abstract work.” Please stop thinking about abstract we and concentrate on the real you.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 2, 2015 @ 20:37 GMT
According to the configuration space intepretation of quantum mechanics, the world of our perception is just a projection of an incredibly high dimensional configuration space. Again, this interpretation of quantum mechanics is realist in that the space of all configurations has its existence and properties quite independent from our observations. But once again, this configuration space is perceptually inaccessible to us — we can only see the effects it has within our much smaller three-dimensional space. The upshot, as before, is that if you really believe quantum mechanics, then you believe that the physical world outruns our perceptions of it.
Taken from: https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/content/what-does-quantum
-mechanics-suggest-about-our-perceptions-reality
Nicholas I Hosein, Idealist
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 3, 2015 @ 15:04 GMT
My Dear Fellow,
You bewilderingly wrote some more abstract codswallop: “According to the configuration space intepretation of quantum mechanics, the world of our perception is just a projection of an incredibly high dimensional configuration space” Forget about any abstract “our” abstract perception. No matter in which direction you look, you will always see a plethora of real intermeshed flattish surfaces. As only real surface can be really observed, there can be no space.
Glad to set you straight,
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 2, 2015 @ 21:51 GMT
The fundamental starting point for this alternative paradigm has to be speculations about Universal Consciousness as laid out in the Vedanta of Indian Philosophy.
“The identity between the world and Brahman is explained. On this ground that all is known when the “one” is known is accounted for. Since all entities are real only as the effects of Brahman and as ensouled by Brahman, it has been said, “That is True”. In no other way are they real. Just as, in the illustration of clay and its products, the products are real only as of the nature of clay, even so the world is only as sustained by the indwelling Brahman. [10]
The universal, omniscient backdrop of Brahman as the primary stage for all further acts and scenes of the evolutionary drama, Maya, as described in Vedanta, explains the onset of the multiple layers of differentiated Consciousness, Mind, Brain, Matter, actually in the reverse, as manifestations, that are distinct and yet one and the same as the original consciousness. A logical fallacy it would seem but defended as follows. “The signfication of an identical entity by several terms which are applied to that entity on different grounds is coordinated predication. In the illustration of (say) a Purple Robe, the basic substance is one and the same, though purpleness and robeness are different from it as well as from each other. That is how the unity of a Purple Robe is established. The central principle is that whatever exists as an attribute of a substance, that being inseparable from the substance is one with that substance.” [11]
Taken from: http://sciforum.net/conference/isis-summit-vienna-2015/paper
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 3, 2015 @ 15:17 GMT
Dear Hosein,
GET REAL. Please stop repeating abstract codswallop: “The fundamental starting point for this alternative paradigm has to be speculations about Universal Consciousness as laid out in the Vedanta of Indian Philosophy.” Only real surface is always observable by real eyes that have real surface. Real surface has no abstract fundamental starting point.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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idontknowanything wrote on Dec. 4, 2015 @ 14:25 GMT
lets say we view quantum theory to counting from 1 to infinity (start with one because we cant start at nothingness), when going from a number to the next you can find similarity and rules etc... that govern what the next number with no duplication's. However there are events that do not have any context except that of themselves and the original starting point. in the case of counting this would be prime numbers. So as we may find ways to describe events such as odds/even multiples of 3 etc... there is nothing that can definitively define primes. Anyway if you apply what you are saying to my statement above then you are saying the starting point of your observation is the phenomenon creating this "quantum contextuality" ... i leave the rest for your own conclusion/judgment
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 4, 2015 @ 15:14 GMT
Dear One,
Please stop offering poorly written codswallop ruminations of an: “lets (sic) say (abstract) we (abstractly) view (abstract) quantum theory to counting from 1 to infinity (abstractly) (start with one because we cant (sic) (abstractly) start at nothingness), Open your real eyes and take note of the fact that no matter in which direction you look, you will only always see a plethora of real enmeshed flattened partial surfaces.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Thomas Howard Ray replied on Dec. 4, 2015 @ 15:25 GMT
I agree that prime numbers are the context for quantum domain. See "Khrennikov's theorem" pp. 10 - 13 in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/T_H_Ray/contributions
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YOUKNOWHOWTOSPEAKENGLISH wrote on Dec. 5, 2015 @ 16:07 GMT
Existent and non-existent are one.
See: http://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Is-True-Reality-the-
Immaterial-Influencing-the-Material
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 5, 2015 @ 17:02 GMT
One what?
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Bertrand Ducharme wrote on Dec. 6, 2015 @ 15:45 GMT
Let’s see that a real observable with contextuality can exist thus showing that a hidden variable model of QM could possibly be contextual, thus not obeying the premises of the Kochen-Specker Theorem. The definition of noncontextuality given in the reference
The Kochen-Specker Theorem is :
«If a QM system possesses a property (value of an observable), then it does so independently of any measurement context, i.e. independently of how that value is eventually measured.»
Let’s take a macroscopic spinning object like a pencil with a central spinning axis. It can have a clockwise or anticlockwise sense of rotation when viewed from its top.
Let’s define what I call the «relative sense of rotation». Instead of refering to the topview of the pencil for the sense of rotation, we will refer to an observer’s Z axis of reference making an angle with the spinning axis of the pencil. We will measure the sense of rotation relative to that axis. In that case, its value, clockwise or anticlockwise, depends upon the angle between the spinning axis of the pencil and the Z axis. Rotate suffisantly the Z axis towards or away from the pencil, as could be done with an astronaut in a weightlessness state, and you change the «relative sense of rotation» of the pencil from clockwise to anticlockwise or from anticlockwise to clockwise.
The measured sense of rotation here is a «contextual» value of the observable I called the «relative sense of rotation». We deal with a real observable with contextuality. I therefore see no reason why hidden variables models in QM should be presumed to be non-contextual. The key of the matter should lie in the three dimensional spatial behavior «perceived» by the measuring apparatus of the quantum phenomenon or particle under study. No «magic» there.
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 7, 2015 @ 14:49 GMT
Dear Bertrand,
Could you possibly try a bit harder to write understandable English? You mystifyingly wrote: “Let’s see that a real observable with contextuality can exist…” All observations made with real eyes are real because they are seen with real eyes. You do not need to see if any abstract context could exist, the fact that you are really looking at a real plethora of real surfaces automatically provides all the context you will need.
Glad to have been of health,
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Bertrand Ducharme replied on Dec. 7, 2015 @ 15:51 GMT
You are right. «Real observable» should be replaced with something like «an observable taken from a classical physics context». Sorry for the confusion between the word «real» and the intended idea of giving a «realist» example!
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Luca Valeri replied on Dec. 19, 2015 @ 11:06 GMT
Hi Bertrand
I don't think this is, what contextuality means. Your observation is relative but not contextual. An observer in one direction can share its information with another observer in another direction. If they know their relative location (rotation or distance or whatever), they can agree, that they observed the same thing. This is not possible any more in QM.
A easy introduction to contextuality seems to be
in this blog.
Regards
Luca
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Bertrand Ducharme replied on Dec. 20, 2015 @ 00:32 GMT
Hi Luca,
I refered to the following definition of noncontextuality in QM: «If a QM system possesses a property (value of an observable), then it does so independently of any measurement context, i.e. independently of how that value is eventually measured.» Applying the same definition in classical physics, the sense of rotation relative to the observer is contextual. It has a measurable value that clearly depends on the context, that depends on the observer.
The fact that there is a unique objective reality behind the different measurements made by two observers has nothing to do with the definition of noncontextuality that is given to us in the citation. You may give another definition to noncontextuality and contextuality, but I refered precisely to the above mentioned definition.
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 8, 2015 @ 21:28 GMT
Joe,
One reality. Where reality is dual. Immaterial wavefunction and material particle. Metaphysical/ subjective and physical/ objective.
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 9, 2015 @ 14:51 GMT
Dear Nicholas,
Reality cannot have a finite whereabouts.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 8, 2015 @ 21:31 GMT
Robert,
The one spirit;
Every conscious being is one conscious being existing in parallel, experiencing themself as separate and distinct lifeforms.
See http://www.sankaracharya.org/i_am_that.php
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 9, 2015 @ 14:55 GMT
Dear Nicholas,
Reality cannot contain a finite spirituality. Please think for yourself.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 8, 2015 @ 23:59 GMT
From Article:
"God’s Omniscience?
It was through these interviews that Cabello discovered that Specker wanted to study quantum reality—whether it was indeterministic, as standard quantum theory asserts, or could instead be described by a deterministic hidden-variables theory—in part, to better understand deep religious questions. Could God be omniscient, if reality itself is...
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From Article:
"God’s Omniscience?
It was through these interviews that Cabello discovered that Specker wanted to study quantum reality—whether it was indeterministic, as standard quantum theory asserts, or could instead be described by a deterministic hidden-variables theory—in part, to better understand deep religious questions. Could God be omniscient, if reality itself is not set until it is observed by humans?"
Sum Over Futures
Sum Over Futures (SOF) is the CTMU interpretation of quantum mechanics. In SOF, quantum phenomena are not random (acausal), but obey higher-order causal invariants. These invariants tend to maximize generalized utility as the universe evolves. Langan observes that due to quantum uncertainty,
Chris Langan said:
[T]he last states of a pair of interacting particles are generally insufficient to fully determine their next states. This, of course, raises a question: how are their next states actually determined? What is the source of the extra tie-breaking measure of determinacy required to select their next events ("collapse their wave functions")?[1]
The answer, he writes, is neither "randomness" nor distributed laws of causality, but rather higher-order causation, involving nonrandom temporally-extensive relationships not wholly attributable to distributed laws. In this picture, the universe sums over timelines to extract the utility of possible futures and selects the most utile configurations for actualization. This "sum over futures" is enabled by the Extended Superposition Principle (ESP) under the guidance of the Telic Principle.
Sum over futures involves an atemporal (existing or considered without relation to time) generalization of “process” (from past participle stem of procedure "go forward"), telic recursion (before determining the next state, Reality takes all of the past and future into account and then chooses a particular state on the basis of its own values), through which the universe (Reality) effects on-the-fly (as time passes, in other words, at every moment) maximization of a global (over all of Reality) self-selection parameter (measurement), generalized utility (what the universal Desire hopes to achieve).
http://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/Sum_Over_Futures
The CTMU is based on the premise that not only does life evolve, but the universe does as well. And the collapse of the wave-function plays a fundamental role in its evolution. In other words, it is atemporally communicating between past, present and future in order to maximize a quantifiable self-selection parameter to produce the best outcomes. The Uncertainty Principle states that pairs of properties of particles such as position and momentum cannot be determined simultaneously, this then leads us to the conclusion that reality branches off into many possible futures. This is good news, because if it atemporally communicated a doomed future for mankind it can always retroactively adjust itself for the greater good. It appears that the CTMU is empirical after all.
Further reading on Sum Over Futures: https://warosu.org/sci/thread/6658825
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Joe Fisher replied on Dec. 9, 2015 @ 15:00 GMT
Dear Nicholas,
Reality cannot be studied. Only unrealistic abstract information about abstract reality can be abstractly studied.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Dec. 9, 2015 @ 16:31 GMT
Joe,
I wish there was an ignore option for you.
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Bertrand Ducharme wrote on Jan. 1, 2016 @ 17:15 GMT
Let me reframe clearly the question of noncontextuality and hidden variable models.
With their theorem, Kochen and Specker showed that noncontextual theories that invoke hidden variables cannot explain the outcome of quantum measurements. But it says nothing about the nature, quantum or classical, of contextual measurements.
In classical physics, the sense of rotation relative to the observer or to a measuring apparatus is clearly a contextual property. A rotating object impacting a measuring apparatus will deviate accordingly to this sense of rotation. The «subjective» act of measurement is as important here as the intrinsic rotation of the classical object. So Kochen and Specker and its reference to contextuality in no way exhausts the question of the deterministic or non-deterministic nature of quantum reality.
Let me finish by stating my own opinion on the Bohr-Einstein controversy : as proven and stated repeatedly by modern physicists, Einstein was wrong to refer implicitly to noncontextual hidden variable models but he was quite right is thinking that QM in its current form is incomplete…
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Steve Agnew replied on Jan. 2, 2016 @ 16:35 GMT
Thanks for the Kochen and Specker reference. I continue to be amazed at the large number of different approaches to the quantum versus classical dilemma...is reality real?
I tend to like
Category Theory as a more general approach to the algebras of either classical reality (parabolic, commuting) without phase coherence or quantum reality (elliptic, noncommuting) with phase coherence. Category Theory includes one more quantum algebra, hyperbolic, that I find especially intriguing.
However, at the root of all of these algebras is the phase coherence of matter and the quantum dilemma and all of these restatements using words like context and Hilbert space and commutation tend to obfuscate the basic notion of the quantum phase coherence of matter.
The missing piece in our quantum dilemma is gravity phase coherence, which is a very much weaker effect than charge, but phase coherence must be somehow just as important for quantum gravity as it is for quantum charge.
One of the pieces that is always missing in quantum phase arguments is the role of quantum phase of gravity with charge. Just because we can ignore gravity phase in much of our classical reality does not mean that gravity phase coherence plays no role in our quantum reality.
In a sense, the hidden variable of quantum charge lies in the nature of quantum gravity, which bonds each particle of matter to the universe as well and therefore to each other as well. Quantum gravity is ever so much weaker than quantum charge that it appears as our classical reality without phase coherence. However, gravity phase coherence is there and is simply hidden by a lack of understanding, not by its absence.
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Nicholas I. Hosein wrote on Jan. 2, 2016 @ 14:06 GMT
Does Commonsense really run counter to Quantum Mechanics?...
http://sciforums.com/threads/does-commonsense-r
eally-run-counter-to-quantum-mechanics.153740/
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NARSEP wrote on Jan. 10, 2016 @ 16:22 GMT
- “Could God be omniscient, if reality itself is not set until it is observed by humans? “ –
First, let us change the word “God” with “Nature” in order to avoid any offense. A simple dialogue follows:
- What if a cat observed the “particle” of the exp? Will the result be changed?
– Of course it would. But no cat is able to observe the “particle” as it...
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- “Could God be omniscient, if reality itself is not set until it is observed by humans? “ –
First, let us change the word “God” with “Nature” in order to avoid any offense. A simple dialogue follows:
- What if a cat observed the “particle” of the exp? Will the result be changed?
– Of course it would. But no cat is able to observe the “particle” as it does not have the appropriate equipment for this.
– OK. What if another “particle” (e.g. electron, photon) observed our “particle”?
– Hm. This is a good quest, but we consider living creatures as observers and not “particles”.
– The equipment of measurement we have used for observation is a living creature?
– What do you mean, the “particle” of exp is always observed by something and this is contextuality?
– YES. In a sense, contextuality, as humans like to say it, is the same thing with "entanglement" because anything has been born by an entanglement procedure in the past. This interconnection of anything with anything in the Universe is one of the causes that weirdness quantum theory seems to have. The other missing part is the duality of the reality we are all living in. We tried to host two realities into one without success.
– Though you went too far for me, can you explain what do you imply?
– Let us suppose that reality is consisted by two (sub-)realities, red(R) and blue(B). These two are inseparable and they both shape our whole reality (R+B). We are able to sense only the R one. So far we have formalized two theories (GR and QM) that are not compatible.
– So what?
– You always wait for a ready solution. Try to get your brain to work. Anyway, What if one theory (GR) is dealing with R part and the other (QM) incorporates both R and B?
– Stop, I think I got you. These two theories would seem incompatible because QM would be like having some “hidden variables” that would be undetectable through GR. Furthermore, whenever these “hidden variables” play a role, by enforcing R to “strange” results, we would discover a new “paradox”.
– I think you got the point …
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ioannis hadjidakis (narsep) replied on Jan. 10, 2016 @ 16:47 GMT
The dialogue could finish like this:
- OK, I will try to find some more paradoxes.
I would hopping to a different response ...
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Frank Martin DiMeglio wrote on Jan. 16, 2016 @ 20:12 GMT
Your approach to quantum physics is incomplete and flawed. We always begin with typical and ordinary experience in establishing physical fundamentals/truths. Also, it is a great and fundamental truth/fact in physics that the self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of experience in general by combining conscious and unconscious experience. Moreover, it seems that we want to balance being and experience AS WELL. Indeed, if we did not represent, form, and experience a comprehensive approximation of experience in general by combining conscious and unconscious experience, we would then be incapable of growth and of becoming other than we are. Should we not then also carefully consider experience as it is seen, felt, AND touched? So, in carefully examining ALL of the above, and for other reasons as well, it seems clear that the ultimate unification (AND understanding) of physics balances being and experience. It does seem clear that we want to balance (and match up) being and experience.
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Nicholas I Hosein wrote on Feb. 11, 2016 @ 14:48 GMT
In the past couple months I've witnessed God a number of times. He is the self-aware reality.
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Rob wrote on Feb. 15, 2016 @ 02:13 GMT
Why does God have to mentioned in this article? Enough God. More science. God particle. God in the universe. Blah blah. The more God the less I want to read the article.
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Shaikh Raisuddin wrote on Mar. 16, 2016 @ 09:35 GMT
Contextuality is undefined without definition of INSTANT of time.
And instant of time can only be axiomatic because speed of light is axiomatic.
INSTANT OF TIME is the key concept.
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