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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: re: Physics: The Good, The Bad, and The Bogus
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:44:10 GMT
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- "Make my day!" Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood.
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- Sarfatti replies to:
- comments between *...*
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- From: mjh22@cl.cam.ac.uk (M.J. Hardcastle)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Physics - the Good, the Bad and the Bogus 1
- Summary: silly question
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:27:29 GMT
- Organization: Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Hasn't Sarfatti pinched the title of this thread more or less from a Martin
- Gardner book?
-
- *Yes, that was my humorous intention. "My object all sublime, I shall
- achieve in time. To let the punishment fit the crime. The punishment fit
- the crime!"*
-
- Come to think of it, I remember one or two less than complimentary remarks
- about one Jack Sarfatti in there...
-
- *Maybe so, but at one point referring to my assertion that quantum
- connection communication is possible, Gardner writes:
- "I know of no other physicist who thinks it will work. If it does, Sarfatti
- will become one of the greatest physicists of all time." Indeed, Gardner's
- colleague Marcello Truzzi writes of me:
- "I admire that he has always emphasized the testability and falsifiability
- of his hypotheses and urged their submission to empirical tests. Unlike
- many others working on radical scientific theories, Dr. Sarfatti has always
- been clear about what evidence would show that his ideas were wrong....
- Dr. Sarfatti is very much an individualist, but I have always found him
- highly articulate and a warm personality...Obviously he has gone his own
- way certainly an academically unconventional path ... In the process he has
- attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of persons both within the
- science community and government. Clearly, he has taken a large risk in
- pursuing his highly novel, creative, and controversial work; but he has
- always understood that he is playing for very large stakes. If he is right
- .... the rewards would be immense."
-
- It is interesting that quantum connection communication only demands a very
- minimal extension of the standard formalism that sacrifices only "off-
- diagonal unitarity" and which conserves the sum of locally observable
- probabilities to unity on each side of the apparatus. All that is needed
- formally is a non-unitary transformation that collapses orthonormal states
- to parallel states while preserving the norms of all states. Of course we
- need a physical process to implement it. Such a process may be the
- polarization sensitive transmitter interferometer with a half-wave plate
- for photons in one path, or a spin flip coil for electrons or neutrons.
- Specifically a minimally non-unitary quantum mechanics that permitted the
- "quantum eraser" or "disentanglement" transformation
-
- [|1+>|2+> + |1->|2->] -> |1+>[e^i&|2+> + |2->]
-
- gives the testable quantum connection signal at the receiver of sin2@cos&
- where @ is angle between transmitter and receiver polarizer beam splitters
- and & is the transmitter interferometer phase shift. Both @ and & are
- controlled from the transmitter which can act from the time-like future of
- the receiver event in a delayed choice geometry. It can also act from the
- absolute elsewhere outside the light cone of the receiver event. Paradoxes
- are inhibited according to the "global self-consistency" constraint on
- Feynman histories advocated by Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov as well as
- anticipated by Godel, Hoyle and myself - independently.
-
- Martin Gardner also wrote:
-
- "Sarfatti is a leading theoretician among U.S. paraphysicists ... he began
- to have 'odd subliminal experiences' ... He found he could practise
- 'automatic writing' ...and several of his published scientific papers ...
- were written that way ....Think of the world as an immense, intricate
- puppet show. Everything has a 'string' attached to it, and the strings are
- all held by the Great Puppeteer ... its infinite strings provide a
- connectedness that permits the transfer of information at instantaneous
- speeds through space and time .... There are no instant signals in the
- sense that energy is transferred... It is Sarfatti's persuasion that the
- human mind has natural detectors of deBroglie waves on the quantum
- molecular level. 'The introduction of this kind of direct quantum
- information into waking consciousness often appears as paranormal ..."
- excerpted from Martin Gardner's "Magic and Paraphysics" in Science Good Bad
- and Bogus (1981) before the model now on the WELL and before the book by
- Barrow and Tipler The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.
-
- In quantum mechanics the measurement creates the measured property. Indeed,
- Gardner's articles about me created me as a world figure in the New Age
- more than anything else . Why did he do it. Whose influence operation? Is
- Gardner a "Messenger of Deception"? Those of you who have read Robert Anton
- Wilson's "The Illuminati Papers" and "The New Inquisition" as well as "The
- Cosmic Trigger" and those of you who have read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's
- Pendulum" know what that means.Is Gardner is one of the "Masters of the
- Illuminati" who only pretends to be a skeptic? Indeed, at the time I was a
- young fool - a Parsifal with Gardner as the Fisher King! Do not be fooled
- by appearances!
-
- There are some obvious questions nobody is asking. Questions of a political
- nature dealing with "psychic warfare". I suggest you all go back and
- download Mondo 112 is it. And think a little about the politics! (e.g. Ron
- Mc Rae's MIND WARS, St. Martin's Press, Washington DC). Much of the work in
- "remote viewing" has been funded by covert intelligence operations from
- several nations whose successful objective was the defeat of the Soviet
- Regime (e.g. Esalen-Soviet exchange program with Moscow Institute of US and
- Canada which brought Boris Yeltsin to USA before he took power and which
- now runs the Gorbachev Foundation USA).
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