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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: The New Physics of "The Force" of "Star Wars".
- Message-ID: <C0B988.A5D@well.sf.ca.us>
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:48:08 GMT
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-
- Progress Report on The New Age Physics of "The Force" of "Star Wars".
-
- ABSTRACT
- Precognition is put on a sound basis in terms of a new physics that can be
- tested. The new physics involves a minimal generalization of standard
- quantum mechanics (NSQM) but reduces to standard quantum mechanics (SQM) in
- the relevant limit the way general relativity reduces to special relativity
- when curved spacetime flattens out.
-
- 1. Looking at Feynman's classic 1949 papers on quantum electrodynamics
- (QED) from the 1992 perspective of quantum gravity suggests that the
- "ultra-violet catastrophe" is easily avoided by using the Planck length
- (i.e. 10^-5 grams = 10^-33 cm etc.) as the high-momentum/short wavelength
- cut-off.
-
- QED is "semi-classical" in that the spacetime metric is classical only the
- photon and electron fields are quantized. The metric quantum fluctuates so
- strongly at the cut-off that Lorentz symmetry breaks down. There is no
- smoothness, no differentiability there. The geometry of quantum gravity is
- fractal! Note that in semiclassical QED the worldlines of photons and
- electrons are fractal but the metric is not.
-
- The renormalization "shell game" of Feynman et-al neglects gravity and has
- infinite bare mass ( i.e., -m(0)) and bare charge (i.e., -e(0)) with
- infinite self-energy (virtual photons and virtual pairs) mass shift (i.e.,
- +@m) and vacuum polarization charge shift (i.e. +@e) such that the observed
- mass (i.e. m) and charge (i.e. e) of the electron is finite
-
- m = -m(0) + @m > 0
-
- -e = -e(0) + @e < 0
-
- It is also shown that the observed real photon mass is zero (Lorentz-
- invariant gauge invariance) in spite of virtual electron-positron pairs in
- the real photon propagation.
-
- All of this was done without any thought of gravity. We have seen how a
- simple classical model of a point electron with gravity gives a finite
- self-energy. That is the clue.
-
- By simply sticking in the Planck cut-off into Feynman's formulas for the
- lowest-order leading diagrams of perturbation we get that @m and @e are not
- infinite but very close to the observed values consistent with
-
- m(0) = 0
-
- e(0) = 0
-
- so that gravity in a sense causes both the mass and the charge of the
- electron. This is a very different philosophy which may also connect
- gravity to the Higgs mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in the
- quantum vacuum.
-
-
- 2. Quantum -connection communication.
- If it exists it may explain "telepathy", "precognition", "mind-matter
- interaction" and how the designed universe comes into being from the
- advanced intelligence inside it but in the far future!
-
- The "transactional interpretation" of QM (John Cramer), a spinoff of the
- Feynman path picture, as well as the Wheeler "delayed choice" and the
- "quantum eraser" experiments, suggests that when an atom emits a photon or
- a photon pair, that the state created is not a local phenomenon but depends
- on how that photon or photon pair is going to be detected in the future. I
- am also using a Bohmian "quantum potential" picture here in which there is
- real nonlocal action at a distance that exerts forces and torques
- originating in the future detection on the atom emission in the past.
-
- For example, in the Aspect experiment
-
- 1 2
- +' --------<-------------------| |----------------------->-------- +
- / pair source \
- I / \ II
- / \
- -' / \ -
-
- For this total experimental arrangement the photon pair state is
-
- |1,2> = (1/rt2)[|1+>|2+> + |1->|2->] = (1/rt2)[|1+'>|2+'> + |1-'>|2-'>] (1)
-
- where <+|+'> = <-|-'> = cos@ (2a)
-
- <+|-'> = -<-|+'> = sin@ (2b)
-
- from the theory of group representations (i.e. spin 1 rep of orthogonal
- rotation group around line of flight of back-to-back photon pair).
-
- @ = @(I) - @(II) (3)
-
- where @(I) is actual orientation of the polarizer beam splitter at the
- local event when photon 1 scatters from it etc.
-
- *Note that Budnik's objection against Aspect's experiment is totally
- meaningless operationally.
-
- The standard quantum prediction for the nonlocal joint probability that
- violates Bell's locality inequality is then
-
- p(1+'|2+) = |<1+'|<2+|1,2>|^2 = (1/2)(cos@)^2 (4)
-
- which is observed to a precision of 5 standard deviations away from the
- Bell-inequality prediction in Aspect;s 1982 exeriment in Paris.
-
- But now let us consider a different total experimental arrangement:
-
-
- 1 2 +
- +' --------<------| |----------->--------------------------------
- / pair source \ |
- I / \ II |
- / \ |
- -' / \ ----||--#
- - +
- RECEIVER TRANSMITTER
-
- ANSATZ: the "ab-initio" photon pair state is not |1,2> as in eq (1) but is,
- rather,
-
- |1,2>' = (1/rt2)|2+>[e^i&|1+> + |1->] (5)
-
- where & is the translational phase shift controlled at II but detected at
- I. Note that the space-time separation between the local detections at
- events I and II is irrelevant. This is pre-geometrical phenomenon. The
- idea is that real nonlocal quantum forces and quantum torques from II
- distort the usual J = 0 ->1->0 cascade of Aspect's experiment to create
- |1,2>'.
-
- Note that the "transmitter" event II for photon 2 is a kind of
- interferometer with a half-wave plate (i.e.,"polarization quantum eraser")
- in one alternate path which rotates the plane of polarization of photon 2
- by 90 degrees in space from - to +. The symbol # represents a special
- "clamped" detector in which photon 2 excites a delocalized elementary
- excitation in such a way that there is no trace of which path phton 2 took
- through the interferometer (i.e. "space path quantum eraser").
-
- We already know that the time-evolution |1,2> -> |1,2>', that is,
-
- (1/rt2)[|1+>|2+> + |1->|2->] -> (1/rt2)|2+>[e^i&|1+> + |1->] (6)
-
- is not unitary even though it conserves local probabilities. It is not
- unitary because it does not respect the invariance of the inner product
- <2+|2-> = 0. Therefore, it is not permitted in standard quantum mechanics
- (SQM), although it would be permitted in a non-standard quantum mechanics
- (NSQM) which still conserved local probabilities. The relation of SQM to
- NSQM would parallel that of Euclidean geometry to non-Euclidean geometry.
- NSQM violates "retarded causality" that causes are always before their
- effects. Feynman's propagator boundary condition for contours in the
- energy plane about poles in quantum electrodynamics (QED) also violates
- retarded causality.
-
- A similar problem arose in classical relativity because it takes infinite
- energy to push a subluminal particle up to the Einstein classical barrier
- of the speed of light. However, nothing prevents a faster-than-light
- (tachyon) particle being created ab-initio. Such a particle would violate
- retarded causality but it would not violate the symmetry group structure of
- special relativity.
-
- I have leap-frogged over the non-unitarity problem by conjecturing that (5)
- is not necessary to conceive as happening as a time - evolution. The
- "transaction" between the future detection events I and II with the past
- source event S conspire to make |1,2>' rather than |1,2> in the new total
- experimental arrangement. If this is the way the world works then the
- locally decodable nonlocally transmitted quantum connection signal S(I)
- received at I but transmitted from II is
-
- S(I) = |<1+|1,2>'>|^2 - |<1-|1,2>|^2 = sin2@cos& (7)
-
- in which the nonlocal un-hidden variables @ and & are controlled from II
- and modulate the signal received at I.
-
- In the delayed choice mode the signal is transmitted from the frame-
- invariant timelike future of its reception. This would be genunie
- precognition. Any attempt to create a time paradox would fail in this sort
- of situation. In other words there would be no free-will and equipment
- would malfunction to prevent a time paradox. The Force of Star Wars keeps
- the universe globally self-consistent in such a case!
-