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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Why I don't use regular journals.
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:47:51 GMT
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- Several people have asked why I don't publish in regular journals.
- I have one 22 page paper on this faster than light stuff in a peer
- reviewd journal called Physics Essays (Vol 4, No 3, Sept 91) from
- University of Toronto Press.
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- They billed me over a $1100.00 in page charges which I did not pay since
- I am generally broke and do not have an institution to pay page charges
- much less put ms in proper formats etc. Physical Review is even more
- expensive - what would 22 pages cost in Physical Review?
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- So no more elitist cracks or pot shots about regular journals - we
- homeless hobos can't afford them, also they are too slow anyway. It's
- a new world of instant communications with feedback - gorget 16th century
- technology it's the 21st century.
-
- The Feynman picture suggests connection communication is possible but the
- Dirac kets with unitary maps, completeness, orthogonality absolutely forbid
- it - problem with Feynman picture is ambiguity of decifing when alternatives
- are indistinguishable or not.
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- Invariance of the bra-ket forbids the connection signal - what kind of
- theory could break that invariance? Does Weinberg's (if any one has access
- to Weinberg's paper in Annals of Physics please let me know. I am not near a
- proper library.
-
- *replace "decifing" by deciding above*
-
- I need a device that will transform <ae+|ao-> = 0 to <ae+|ao+> = e^ix
- that is a device such that
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- <ae+|D*D|ao-> = e^ix when <ae+|ao-> = 0, this D is not unitary I agree
- so it is not allowed in standard quantum mechanics. Brian Joesphson in
- Fdn of Physics Letters implies that living matter can make such a D - the
- elan vital?
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- Also if we look at Penrose's claim that quantum gravity affects ordinary QM
- measurment collapse - we might get back into the FTL business. But as of now
- it looks like a long shot and I'm not placing bets or holding my breath any
- more - good thing I got super-lungs!
-