Dear Madam,
Discovery of the Higg's particle has not yet been confirmed with 100% certainty as the mass difference between the Atlas and CMS is huge. It does not provide mass to the universe, but is supposed to provide mass only through weak interaction. Most of the mass in the universe comes from the strong interaction.
Cutting across the clumsy jargon, it can be said that a bit represents whether something matches a concept or a product by signaling 1 or 0, where the answer yes or 'on's are coded (written in programming language) with 1 and the no or 'off's with 0. The superposition of states is really not a 'state' - there is nothing like an 'undead' cat - but indicates our lack of precise information in a sensational way. Every quantum phenomena including entanglement, spin, tunneling, and so on have macro equivalents. There is no quantum weirdness, but only weird ideas to be discarded. You can read our essay: "INFORMATION HIDES IN THE GLARE OF REALITY by basudeba mishra http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1776" published on May 31.
EPR sensationalized entanglement by stretching it to infinite distance, though in reality, it never exists beyond a limited distance. We cannot impose our ignorance or inability to measure to describe time evolution of the universe. The Moon will continue to exist and the up-down quark conversion will continue even when we are not looking at it. There is nothing like observer created reality, as observer is not part of any equation. It only observes and may be cognizes or communicates the state; but does not affect it.
The concepts of "information that isn't information", "outside of time" and "going backwards in time" are good fiction, but not physics. Consider: A + B → C + D.
Here a force makes A interact with B to produce C and D. The same force doesn't act on C and D as they don't exist at that stage. If we change the direction of the force, B acts on A. Here only the direction of force and not the interval between the states before and after application of force (time) will change and the equation will be:
B + A → C + D and not B + A ← C + D.
Hence it does not affect causality. There can be no negative direction for time or cause and effect.
"Quantum correlation is a basic (i.e. primary) concept", because macro objects like molecules and above do not have creative chemical capability that micro objects like atoms or below have. The quarks combine to produce an object with different characteristics from that of the individual quarks. Hydrogen and oxygen combine to produce water, whose characteristics are different from the individual components. But molecules combine like mixtures: linearly adding their characteristics. But the characteristics of quantum particles are also ordered and not random.
The problem with Gödel and others is that, they relied on abstract mathematical structures to build physical theories. But mathematical structures are different from physical structures. Mathematics is related to the measurement of time evolution of the state of something. These time evolutions depict rate of change. When such change is related to motion; like velocity, acceleration, etc, it implies total displacement from the position occupied by the body and moving to the adjacent position. This process is repeated due to inertia till it is modified by the introduction of other forces. Thus, these are discrete steps that can be related to three dimensional structures only. Mathematics measures only the numbers of these steps, the distances involved including amplitude, wave length, etc and the quanta of energy applied etc. Mathematics is related also to the measurement of area or curves on a graph - the so-called mathematical structures, which are two dimensional structures. Thus, the basic assumptions of all topologies, including symplectic topology, linear and vector algebra and the tensor calculus, all representations of vector spaces, whether they are abstract or physical, real or complex, composed of whatever combination of scalars, vectors, quaternions, or tensors, and the current definition of the point, line, and derivative are necessarily at least one dimension less from physical space.
The graph may represent space, but it is not space itself. The drawings of a circle, a square, a vector or any other physical representation, are similar abstractions. The circle represents only a two dimensional cross section of a three dimensional sphere. The square represents a surface of a cube. Without the cube or similar structure (including the paper), it has no physical existence. An ellipse may represent an orbit, but it is not the dynamical orbit itself. The vector is a fixed representation of velocity; it is not the dynamical velocity itself, and so on. The so-called simplification or scaling up or down of the drawing does not make it abstract. The basic abstraction is due to the fact that the mathematics that is applied to solve physical problems actually applies to the two dimensional diagram, and not to the three dimensional space. The numbers are assigned to points on the piece of paper or in the Cartesian graph, and not to points in space. If one assigns a number to a point in space, what one really means is that it is at a certain distance from an arbitrarily chosen origin. Thus, by assigning a number to a point in space, what one really does is assign an origin, which is another point in space leading to a contradiction. The point in space can exist by itself as the equilibrium position of various forces. But a point on a paper exists only with reference to the arbitrarily assigned origin. If additional force is applied, the locus of the point in space resolves into two equal but oppositely directed field lines. But the locus of a point on a graph is always unidirectional and depicts distance - linear or non-linear, but not force. Thus, a physical structure is different from its mathematical representation.
How long will we continue with such fiction? When will we end the superstitious belief in the 'established theories' and start applying our mind? Why must we continue with a 'cut & paste' job? When will we start doing some original work? Is there no future for physics?
Regards,
basudeba