Alternative Models of Reality

A photon particle, quantum of vision, provides the wavelength of visible light that a phoreceptor cell is able to respond to via interaction with the pigment contained by the cell. Or it can activate a photocell belonging to a device such as a ditgital camera or robot. OR cause reaction in a light sesitive film of a film camera. Photons also give relative position information , of the many photons input -after passing through a suitable lens. The relative position of parts of the source object, when the photons were shed is knowable from this. The multiples of photons arriving at a photoreceptor gives total energy or intensity (brightness) information. The various inputs , suitable quantum , position, intensity are used in processing that eventually leads onto subject recognition process and image/semblance formed. Often along with associations, such as name , memories and learning connected with the source object identified. Wavelength is converted to Colour product if its a bright light adaption cone cell that's stimulated, lower intensity input is insufficient to stimulate a cone cells but can stimulate monochrome rod cells.

Georgina Woodward
Re. measurement problem,
see my post a month ago in George Ellis on Existene thread.

We need a correct understanding of passage of time, including why two dimensions that relate to it are needed, in order to include what we see there, as well as material existence.
Also we need to be using the correct number of spatial dimensions that apply to the real material World / Universe, existing -Now. and vision, Treating block time as history of the material world, that isn’t extant laid out along an imagined time line.
Correct or better understanding of photons and how light is transmitted together with self similarity of nature at different scales, Using the corrections together with relativity. To have both what occurs unseen and products of vision as parts of physics. Both important but not the same.

Gravity Two models are needed as the background for each is different.

1.Einstein /Minkowski curved space-time fabric corresponds to what we see, by the process of vision. It is a perdurant model in which matter bodies / objects and background are spread over time due to vision being possible because of photon particles being transmitted and the photon particles being delayed by gravity, affecting time of receipt.

The other model pertains to actual matter, existing wholly-Now. That can’t be seen. We see 1. This is an endurant model. Objects and background exist wholly at -Now. Their existing is not spread over time. Here we can use Newtonian gravity,which doesn’t take notice of time. matter with gravity affects other matter atracting it and particles if matter in the environment, non matter-bound particles in the environment (plasma) and other space filling substance, through which light is transmitted. In this model rather than having a constant speed of light assuming the vacuum of apace to be everywhere a vacuum,. objects of matter are affected by the density of what they pass through, the more dense the more light slows and bends casing refraction.
Space that we think of as empty may not be. It may contain matter, or non matter-bound particles or gravitationally significant other unseen substance. This could be the elusive dark matter ,which is hypothesized to exist but is absent from most models.

Georgina Woodward
No need to fret any longer over the meaning of model 1.Space time represented as a continuious background, like a sinlge deformed elastic sheet. Curved in response to the presence of the gravitational mass, the gravitational mass acted upon by the curvature of the sheet. This is what is produced by regarding the sensory information. It is not material reality but a model of a vision generated observation product. Light rays are said to be curved in proximity to the gravitational mass. This means the photon is delayed compared to what it would be undfelected. As space-time is a generated product, caused by delay of receipt of photon carried sensory information ,the non eucidean nature of space-time need not concern us, it is not a model of what exists.

21 December 2024
Modified from unanswered FQxI [blog] posts .[ forum replies]
21 December 2024

Science should not propose [a] phenomenn [/a] or entity that is entirely unknown in type, not adequately describable by the English language unlike any thing else in existence.[,when]
[T]the same happenings can be explained by waves. They are divisible can be recombined causing interference. That interference couold potentially effect the location in which the particle is detected. It just needs the void not to be empty but filled either with a very fine grained substance, smaller than the particles we know-maybe 'quark soup'. Or even less, a medium to host waves.

Entanglement is not something that really happens, It explains why under such circumstances the second measured particle has just the right state, as one would expect of a partner even though it has just become a singular material Universe. That is the universe of real existing things. There of having to be part of what does or has existed. A superposition is unlike anything known. So difficult to accurately describe with words because, we are told it is, though foundational, not a part of our experience, which words describe, limited to the macroscopic and astronomic scales.
Waves. however, are known., Waves are known at different scales. They don't require suspension of disbelief. Fractals or their quality,having been identified in a process that generated a fractal or the fractal product. it is unlikely that the very small quantum scale is utterly unlike lager scales rather than a smaller version of what exists. It is unlikely that the very small quantum scale is utterly unlike larger scales, That non locality applies to the smallest scale but not elsewhere and is not known from larger scales; It doesn't fit with self similarity found throughout nature.

Georgina Woodward

Georgina Woodward
Consider , for example, a cat absolute, material being. A patchwork coat will work best. Then consider 3 men, observers, surrounding the cat at different distances from it. All exposed surfaces of the absolute cat object release photon particles into the surrounding environment. The photon particles travel to the men. Each man individually generates a semblance of the cat using the sensory data he has recieved and processed. All Are equally correct althouigh different from each other. None is the absolute object. Just a limited, incomplete, viewpoint .
I am aware this is a macroscopic example.

Georgina Woodward

It has been assumed that particles are in superpostion of both particle and wave of no singular location, prior to selecting apparatus orientation or viewpoint to apply, a particle pair must also have no intrinsic properties
or location. Rather than the partner particles being, albeit tiny, absolute, whole particles that exist though they don’t need observation to exist.
As real whole particles, they cause vibration of the environment that surrounds them and are acted upon by the wave interference caused by division and recombination of environmental waves. they are created as a pair behaving as opposites and conserving angular momentum. They just behave in a way that is fitting what they are, the first measured pqaeticle does not need to communicate with the other so it knows what behaviour is required. It just does what it must because of what it is.

Georgina Woodward
Conventional QM is a non local theory. the first particle to be measured can communicate over a very large distance, with the other. There is talk of superluminal speed that allows this to happen. non locality is not found elsewhere in nature.
The alternative is a local theory. Self similarity is found throughout nature, where similar processes occur at different scales leading to fractal patterns. Waves are known to happen at many scales. It would be strange and unlikely if the smallest scale was completely different from the rest of nature. In this theory there is no supperposition, no non local behaviour, no entanglement, no proposal of faster than light communication.