Essay Abstract

A consistent theory of nature must account for both microscopic quantum waves and macroscopic relativistic particle trajectories. In the recent "New Quantum Paradigm", locally realistic rotating vector fields comprise fundamental particles with spin. These same coherent quantum rotators constitute local clocks that define local time, in a way that agrees with general relativity to first order, but provides surprising new insights (e.g., no black holes). This paradigm avoids conventional paradoxes of quantum indeterminacy and entanglement. All information on quantum systems follows directly from the dynamics of real fields in real space; no further information is obtained by reference to abstract quantum Hilbert space. This simple but unconventional picture provides a consistent unified foundation for all of modern physics.

Author Bio

Alan M. Kadin has been thinking about quantum foundations for 40 years, since his Princeton undergraduate thesis on hidden variables in quantum mechanics. His Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard was on superconducting devices, followed by postdocs at SUNY Stony Brook and University of Minnesota. Dr. Kadin pursued a research career in superconducting devices, in both industry and academia, at Energy Conversion Devices (Troy, MI), University of Rochester, and from 2000-2012 at Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, NY). Last year he submitted an essay entitled "The Rise and Fall of Wave-Particle Duality". He now lives in Princeton Junction, NJ, USA.

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Alan

"The resolution to this paradox involves the use of the local quantum rotators as reference clocks".

The resolution of this paradox actually involves realising that the concept of relativity is incorrect. And one of the reasons for this was a misunderstanding of how timing works. There is no 'local time'. There is only 'the time'. Timing devices only 'tell' the time, ie the timing reference is a conceptual constant rate of change. That is why the devices are synchronised, otherwise the system is useless. This local time concept reflects Poincaré's flawed concept of simultaneity. Any given occurrence can only exist at a specific time. The concept of time is associated with the rate of alteration, ie the 'turnover' rate of realities. That is, it is not a feature of any given reality, but an aspect of the difference between realities.

And remember, light is the means by which we are enabled to have awareness of reality, ie it enables sight, it is not the reality.

Paul

    Paul,

    Thank you for your comment, but the concept of absolute Newtonian time is contrary to physical evidence. Time is defined by standard atomic clocks, which may vary at different locations. As discussed in my essay, such variations can be obtained from a simple quantum picture based on special relativity, without invoking general relativity or curved space. This is quite remarkable, and has not previously been obtained in this way. Furthermore, a self-consistent treatment shows that singularities associated with event horizons are avoided, and black holes do not exist. This is quite heretical; everyone from Hawking on down firmly believes in black holes.

    Alan

    In my essay, BITTERS, I have carefully explained how one real Universe actually operates. Your essay's opening contention that "A consistent theory of nature must account for microscopic quantum waves and macroscopic relativistic particle trajectories," is wrong. Fabricated microscopic quantum waves and fabricated macroscopic relativistic particle trajectories are completely unnatural and have nothing whatsoever to do with reality. As far as I can gather, there are holes all over the place. Each person totes around 9 major holes in their bodies and myriads of tiny holes in their skins everywhere they go. Although the smaller holes seem to be invisible, the majority of the larger bodily holes seem to be of a dark color. No building can be accessed except through a hole. All pipework requires a hole.

      Alan

      "Time is defined by standard atomic clocks, which may vary at different locations"

      Not so. The time is not defined by any given timing device. These just 'tell' the time. That is, within the realms of practicality, they all relate to a conceptual constant rate of change, otherwise the measuring system is useless. This is why atomic clocks are used as a manifestation of that conceptual reference, because they are accurate, and why all timing devices are synchronised, because they need to be related to this reference.

      Leaving aside what SR is, which Einstein defined (it is not 1905), no such variations can be identified through any route, because they do not occur. At any given time, there is a definitive physically existent state. The incorrect notion of the relativity of this state stems from his failure to understand timing (via Poincaré) and lack of differentiation between existent reality and an existent representation of this (eg light). In other words, the variation which he attributes to reality is in fact the timing differential in the receipt of light (ie observation). These mistakes are obvious in 1905, section 1 part 1.

      Timing is a measuring system which is calibrating the rate a which alteration occurs, ie a physically existent state is superseded by another.

      Paul

      Joe,

      Thank you for your comment, but I can't make any sense out of what you're saying. You talk about "holes", but this word does not appear at all in your essay.

      Alan

      Alan, Nice essay. You have certainly gone for the heretical approach, but it would solve a lot of problems if you are right. Question is, does it create nre ones that are worse?

      Since you are making radical claims that must affect known physics can you provide any predictions or observations that would distinguish your theories from the standard models, or are all consequences beyond current technology?

        Alan

        Whether the tick rate of a timing device is subject to physical influence is another matter, but is irrelevant to time. The device is a device, it 'tells' the time, it is not time.

        The same applies to spatial measuring devices. Within the realms of practicality, rulers are made to exacting standards and of material which resists external influence (eg heat). But if a ruler expands with heat we do not presume the reality has altered. That is because, as with timing, the reference for the system is a conceptual constant, in this case a spatial matrix. In timing it is a rate of change.

        Paul

        Philip,

        Thank you for reading my essay. There should certainly be phenomena that differ from orthodox theories. I am currently thinking about some of these issues.

        One difference would be in the field of quantum computing, which may be slightly beyond current technology, but not by much. The exponential speedup predicted for QC is the primary driver for research funding. That prediction requires quantum entanglement; without this, the entire approach should fail.

        With respect to optical quantum entanglement experiments, I have suggested that a linearly polarized single photon is an oxymoron, that this really represents a 2-photon state. This should be directly observable using an appropriate photon detector with high quantum efficiency that can count simultaneous photons.

        In my own research field of superconductivity, the standard BCS theory is based on Cooper pairs, a composite quantum state of two electrons. But in my quantum picture, only primary quantum fields (single electrons, photons, and quarks) are true quantum waves; a Cooper pair wavefunction cannot exist. I have developed an alternative theory for superconductivity that requires coherent phonon oscillations; these should be detectable via inelastic scattering.

        In particle physics, recent attention has focused on observations of the Higgs boson, a spin-0 fundamental particle that is believed to be responsible for mass in the weak interaction. But in my picture, all fundamental particles have spin; that is the quantity that is quantized. So I would suggest that the recently detected resonance may instead represent a metastable bound state of two primary particles with opposite spin, rather than the long-sought Higgs.

        Finally, cosmologists have recently focused on understanding the implications of dark energy, a mysterious antigravity force that pervades the universe, as inferred from observations of red-shifts of distant supernovae. But the same gravitational model that eliminates black holes also appears to eliminate the need for dark energy. This also has some important implications for the early stages of the Big Bang expansion.

        But the point of this theory is not that it makes heretical predictions. Instead, I am proposing a natural, elegant theory that provides a unified foundation for all of modern physics, based on real objects with deterministic continuous dynamics in real space. The physics community should not have discarded these classical concepts quite so blithely.

        Alan

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        Dear Alan,

        Very interesting easy because I also am on the real spin and real vector field track.

        I thought about possible experiments.

        I think I could propose an experiment to show a large scale entanglement effect between single silver atoms and their origin evaporation oven content by and alternative double Stern Gerlach experiment.

        John S. Bell described his doubts about the Stern Gerlach experiment interpretation in his book: "Speakable and unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics on chapter 16 page 140-141.

        Ref, [7].

        John Bell argued that there is no logic to be found behind the fact, that there is a so called "absence of smearing" of the particle impact pattern on the screen.

        The silver atoms should come out the oven with random orientation, as a consequence Joh Bell argued, the impact on the screen of silver atoms should have a smeared effect.

        The proposal for my experiment , is based on the hypothesis that all heated and vaporized silver atoms inside the silver oven are entangled as a whole and that magnetic measurement of one atom travelling outside the oven influences the magnetic polarity of all the other atoms in the oven.

        If the oven sends the silver atoms (by shutters) alternately to the two magnets, then the resulting impact pattern on both screens will show an additional BAR in the middle of the original impact pattern. (see figure )

        Why? because if the first atom leaves the oven it will have a horizontal spin state perpendicular to the N-S axis of the S_G magnet as left over from the former process of ejection with the entanglement effect on the oven to the opposite 90 degree rotated S-G magnet

        See perhaps also: http://vixra.org/pdf/1103.0015v1.pdfAttachment #1: Dual_Stern_Gerlach_experiment.jpg

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        • Post #12

        Sorry for my mistake;

        I wrote:

        Very interesting easy because I also am on the real spin and real vector field track.

        It should have been:

        Very interesting essay because I also am on the real spin and real vector field track.

          Alan,

          I may have bit off more than I could eschew!

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          • Post #14

          GPS might not actually be operating 'correctly' and in fact might be dragging things around unnecessarily due to indirect couplings over the internet and geolocation IP databases...

          Stephen

          You may or may not be correct. But attempting to 'solve' The GPS 'issue' misses the point. Timing devices are not time, they tell the time. Physicaal existence (as knowable to us-and this is science not religion) can only occur in a sequence of discrete existent states with no form of indfiniteness or alteration therein. So the issue becomes how does that work in practice and how does this impact on certain well known 'theories'.

          Paul

          5 days later

          Hi Alan,

          In my opinion this is the best essay in this edition, congratulations. It is nice to finally meet someone who prefers physical intuition rather than pure abstract formalism. Nowadays that approach is very rare.

          You claim that "NQP provides a unified basis for classical and modern physics on all scales. All matter and energy are comprised of primary relativistic vector fields (electrons, photons, quarks, etc.) which form into coherent wave packets in real space, similar to solitons." I have never used the soliton notion but only a more general wavepacket. The reason is that the soliton is to restricted e.g it will never merge. Moreover I start from GR and not SR (I do not need the Einstein equations but the idea that a force field is a manifestation of spacetime geometry) and try to apply that idea to all known fundamental "forces".

          Despite the differences I could not criticize your essay because generally it supports mine and vice versa. The idea of real wave instead of an abstract one is the base. Your "true quantum waves are only present at the bottom of the hierarchy" (taken from your publication http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5794) comes together with "Quantum waves are not universal aspects of all particles, but rather provide a way to quantize the primary fields". If I understand well the outcome may mean e.g. that gravity is not a fundamental but emergent force?

          Our ideas have a lot of important issues in common e.g. no need for dark matter or energy, no wave-particle duality, no Copenhagen interpretation and the most important scale invariance. However in my case the scale invariance means an universal metric (that I am looking for and it is not FLRW or Einstein metric as they are not really universal).

          The Schrödinger's and Einstein's ideas of true waves were similar but they were too early in history and their visions were burdened with the yoke of the ether and another initial problems and eventually destroyed for barely 90 years.

          In my essay I have tried to focus more on the contest subject so I have not described fully my concept and it can be found in references. I have created the prediction and the experiment proposal based on the spacetime geometry.

          As I have mentioned I understand that our ideas are far from identical but as Einstein said "fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment."

          I have rated your essay 10 so you shall take the first place at the moment (with Community Rating 7)! Congratulations.

            I have rated you with 10, but you do not have 7 and only 5,3. Probably the method of rating calculation is more complicated?

            Jacek,

            Thank you for your comments and your rating (which I think should be kept confidential!).

            In terms of the role of physical intuition vs. abstract formalism, Einstein also commented, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. "

            Alan

            Leo,

            Thank you for your interest and your comments. I will review your proposal related to the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

            Alan

            Alan,

            It's good to see you present another perspective on your theory. We agree in many particulars, but not all. I found your discussion of linearly polarized single photons intriguing. You say:

            "This linearly polarized light beam is attenuated until the very low count rate corresponds to discrete single photons. But can one really distinguish that from counterrotating photon pairs?"

            Are you ignoring the 'herald' photons, or are you suggesting that, even with the herald's trigger, another photon accompanies the heralded photon?

            Best,

            Edwin Eugene Klingman