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FQXi Administrator Zeeya Merali wrote on Dec. 17, 2020 @ 20:13 GMT
A key assumption in the standard thermodynamic description of macroscopic systems is that the system’s interaction with its environment is very weak and can be neglected. For microscopic systems, however, this assumption breaks down. In this talk I will illustrate the impact of strong coupling between a quantum system and its environment in two instances: i) The modification of a harmonic oscillator's thermal energy when strongly coupled to an environment [1], and ii) the combination of thermal uncertainty with quantum uncertainty in a general energy-temperature thermodynamic uncertainty relation [2]. The energy-temperature uncertainty relation is valid for classical and quantum systems at all coupling strengths. But in the
quantum regime, strong coupling can lead to non-commutativity effects that create coherences even in equilibrium, which increase temperature uncertainty as well as modify a system's heat capacity. The strong coupling corrections are described by the average Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information, a quantity connected to measures of coherence.
Hi Zeeya, thanks for sharing , this thermodynamical method is very relevant.I thought about my idea considering this cold dark matter encoded also in nuclei permitting to balance and give these properties of heat and cold , that explains in my model also the quantum gravitation and the anti particles, all seems a question of distribution of cold and heat and the main codes are in the space vacuum in my model, I am persuaded that this cold has many secrets to give us if we find the technologies. This article was very interesting , regards
Steve Dufourny replied on Dec. 18, 2020 @ 15:51 GMT
In fact I beleive strongly that this thermodynamic is foundamental at all scales but it is correlated with the main codes of this vacuum space of this dark energy , that is why I consider 3 E8 superimposed with the finite series of 3D spheres having the finite primoridal number, the same than our cosmological number finite of 3D cosmol spheres. So you are going to understand, the cold dark matter...
In fact I beleive strongly that this thermodynamic is foundamental at all scales but it is correlated with the main codes of this vacuum space of this dark energy , that is why I consider 3 E8 superimposed with the finite series of 3D spheres having the finite primoridal number, the same than our cosmological number finite of 3D cosmol spheres. So you are going to understand, the cold dark matter and the dark energy permits the evolution also , we can even calculate the universal sphere and its mechanism of evolution considering the DE and DM disponible. The main codes are in this space vacuum and the two other series of spheres them are like fuels permitting the properties of matter from the central cosmological sphere sending the informations, it is like a super matter energy , so the two fuels, the photons and the cold dark matter them are encoded and permit the emergences of mass ,matter and their properties with the fields, the cold dark matter is for the quantum gravitational fields and for the antiparticles , the photons them are for the heat and electromagnetism, all this to tell that the main codes of this space emerge with the two fuels with the bosonic fields , so all has a specific code of comportments with the heat and cold, so that explains their properties thermodynamical simply and the liquid, solid, gas, this cold is more than we can imagine and is a foundamental piece of our universal puzzle, that balances, the same at this cosmological scale for a cold dark matter , the halos encircling the galaxies, this matter permits like I told the evolution but also the balance with this heat. The universe is very simple generally and the fields don t appear from strings or from cosmic fields, the particles these 3D coded spheres are sufficient if we have a superfluidity with these 3 ethers, all is in contact and so the duality waves particles and the explaination of fields is not a problem. I know that the strings are considered , but the universe for me has chosen these spheres 3D , there is a kind of conjecture betwenn all this, the spheres and the superstrings, branes MTheory with this pure 3D instead to consider the 1D towards the 11D , we have just fractalisations of scales in a pure 3D.
Steve Dufourny replied on Dec. 18, 2020 @ 18:13 GMT
It seems so evident that the universe plays with the cold and heat, and that this does not come from oscillations different and vibrations of strings inside these photons at this planck scales, it is probably due to distributions in function of codes and these two fuels, the quanta of E , photons and cold dark matter, It is this the meaning of my equation more the space vacuum energetical of this...
It seems so evident that the universe plays with the cold and heat, and that this does not come from oscillations different and vibrations of strings inside these photons at this planck scales, it is probably due to distributions in function of codes and these two fuels, the quanta of E , photons and cold dark matter, It is this the meaning of my equation more the space vacuum energetical of this DE, E=m(c^2+Xl^2)+Y , the matters and fields electromagnetic and gravitational come from these quanta of E of heat and of cold, the quanta of E like these photons are not the only one piece of puzzle, and the oscillations and vibrations of strings are not the distributions of properties and the creationaof geonmetries and topologies, we have a simple universal logic of distribution of properties with these two fuels merging with the main codes of this space vacuumm, this reasoning implies even a fith force farer than our nuclear forces in our standard model. I liked these strings before to discover my theory of spherisation and these spheres but frankly my reasoning seems more logic, the deformations of these spheres can be made with several mathematical tools like the synplectomorphisms preserving the volumes, why the persons want to explain our geometries and topologies with fields and geometrical algebras of these fields, it seems odd, because all our universe is made of particles and not fields, they are just emergent these fields. We can even consider a Fourth E8 for the main energy of consciousness philosophically speaking but this one is everywhere and is without dimensions, fields, matters, times, space, it is a pure energy of consciousness, it is this thing wich creates the 3 other ethers sent from the central cosmological sphere , a super matter energy able to code all informations. See that this reasoning is logic even if the strings are opposite, I can understand that it is a lobby but we have a pure 3D at all scales, the dimensions are not necessary to fractalise and to extrapolate, the 3D spheres can explain all.
Steve Dufourny replied on Dec. 19, 2020 @ 11:47 GMT
the degrees of freedom and the compression or expansioon in function of these main codes permit to play with the intrinsic heat and cold , we have main codes distributing the properties for each matter , that implies relevant experiments and technologies