Hi Anton,
I'm simply trying to make the point that the sort of nonlocality I'm talking about is compatible with relativity. There are certainly other perspectives in which relativity is taken to be merely phenomenological (e.g., in deBroglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory), or in which it is understood in non-standard fashion (e.g. DSR: doubly-special relativity). I think that the main thing any theory needs to account for is the invariance of Maxwell's equations under Lorentz transformations.
Steve
Thank you!
Steve
Thanks, Michael! I'm glad you pointed that out. Your model is an excellent example of the sort of thing I'm talking about, and I wish I'd included a reference in my essay.
Steve
Thank you, George. I had not thought about the connection with your top-down causation ideas, but am now going to delve back in and refamiliarize myself. I've referenced your work many times, but not (yet) in this context!
Steve
Not only faster than light, as well as slower than light.
I'm glad you enjoyed my essay. I did take a look at yours, and I would say that one of the reasons people may not have commented is that it seems largely metaphorical, and so it is not clear exactly whether and how current fundamental assumptions in mainstream physics are implicated.
Thanks, Peter, I'll take a look!
By "properties at a point", I mean things like the values of the electric and magnetic fields at a point in space (at a given time). Particle properties are more obviously "point" properties, because particles are by localized, pointlike objects to begin with.
Hope that makes sense.
Hi Steve, congratulations with your essential essay. The only thing I am strugling with is that information does not exeed the speed of light, what about entanglement ?
I would be honoured if you could read (and rate) "THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION"
Wilhelmus
Dear Steve,
very interesting essay. The role of nonlocality especially in quantum mechanics troubles me also for a long time. I always thought that a solution has a strong connection to the spacetime structure.
I studied very intesive the theory of manifolds (differential topology). Two linked curves in a 3-space are also a non-local phenomenon: the properties of the two curves are strongly influenced by the linking. Some of these non-local properties are discussed in my essay (but with a stronger focus to quantum gravity)
Best
Torsten
PS: I have to read your essay once again.
Glad you like the essay. Could you be more specific about entanglement? There's a sense in which a theory with a nonlocal constraint inevitably demonstrates entangelment, but there's no speed of entanglement.
Steve
Thanks, Torsten, I'l check out your essay!
Steve
Superdeterminism and free will not contradicted itch other.
As Yakir Aharonov's says: "...is somewhat Talmudic: everything you're going to do is already known to God, but you still have the choice." http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/aug/03/can-the-future-affect-the-past
See also my essay 1413
Dear Steve:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
it explains the whome idea.
Wilhelmus
Hi, an addendum:
you state "there are correlations between spatially separate degrees of freedom," This occurs at the lower levels of structure because of the relations that exist at higher levels in the hierarchy of structure. At least that's one way of describing it.
George
Dear Steven,
great piece of paper, easy to anticipate and to read, but nonetheless well-elaborated. Partly very speculative, nonetheless your approach is surely fully worth to be followed further. My own essay here gives a somewhat similar picture of the puzzles in QM. If you like, check it out. It is speculative too, but i think it's consistent with the known facts. I in any way would be happy about a comment for my QM-interpretation from a professional, be it critics or other statements.
All the best,
Stefan
Dear Steve
What is your attitude to Gerard 't Hooft
Discreteness and Determinism in Superstrings ?
arXiv:1207.3612 (replaced) [pdf, ps, other]
Dr Ellis
What is your attitude to Gerard 't Hooft
Discreteness and Determinism in Superstrings ?
arXiv:1207.3612 (replaced) [pdf, ps, other]
Slower case
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1209/1209.3765.pdf
I think you may have meant to send this to George Ellis?