Peter Jackson wrote on Jun. 18, 2014 @ 10:47 GMT
"Is it NOT 'odd'!? Even to Bell it's "unprofessionally vague and ambiguous" he continued; "Professional theoretical physicists ought to be able to do better." (beables.. p173) I think he was rightly concerned about the "intrinsic ambiguity in principle" and the "complacency" from familiarity with the ancient myths some now believe is all there can be."
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Steve Agnew wrote on Jun. 18, 2014 @ 03:14 GMT
"It is very interesting to me when quantum theory is called odd by a quantum theorist.
•COLIN STUART • Jun 17, 2014• "Quantum theory is one of the most successful frameworks in science. But it is also decidedly odd. Physicists cannot use the theory to calculate the precise outcomes of quantum experiments before they have been performed, for instance; they can only work out the probabilities of getting a certain result."
That statement naturally means that there is another reality that is not odd and where there are deterministic futures for all objects. In other words, the author has built in an implicit strawman of gravity action as the normal, intuitive reality."
Gravity action is very odd.
While we accept gravity action as the common and intuitive basis for our deterministic and macroscopic reality, it is the probabilities of quantum action and its coherence and exchange that allow us to calculate quantum action throughout the universe. Quantum action works quite well everywhere except in the various gravitational oddities.
That is, quantum action works well until we get to the very odd nature of gravity action. There is so much odd about gravity action that it is hard to know where to begin. First of all, gravity is a continuum force and so results in singularities at the center of every particle of matter. Science normally just ignores gravity action at these places.
When matter accretions grow large enough, the singularity is called a black hole. The nature of matter in a black hole is beyond knowing. There is no time in a black hole and so there is no quantum action. Even though there is spatial dimension to a black hole, we cannot apply quantum action without time. This is very odd.
One of the fundamental characteristics of quantum action is in the exchange of identical particles, and exchange force stabilizes particles beyond charge and allows particles to coexist in space and time. Yet gravity action does not seem to have any exchange forces and gravity action does not allow identical particles to coexist in space and time.
While the beamsplitter is a fundamental quantum device that prepares coherent states of both light and matter, there is no such thing as a gravitational beamsplitter and therefore no way to prepare coherent gravitational matter. All matter shows the properties of amplitude and phase and yet gravity action does not seem to show quantum coherence. And then there are the oddities of all this dark matter and dark energy, the big bang oddities, and so on.
Thus, gravity action is very odd.