Dear Edwin Eugene,

As I told you in my Essay page, I have read your interesting Essay. I have a couple of comments:

1) I did not know Korzybski's work, thanks for pointing out it. I will take infos about.

2) Although I am not sure that the main claims of the Essay are correct, I find the work interesting and important within the debate determinism/randomness, classical/quantum physics. I find indeed the randomness of quantum mechanics to be neither completely satisfactory nor the final physical answer concerning our understanding of the world. More, the reading enjoyed me. Thus, I will give you an high score.

I wish you best luck in the Contest.

Cheers, Ch.

    Dear Eugene,

    As you have mentioned in your essay :FQXi asks why math is so 'unreasonably' effective in fundamental physics.

    The above feature extraction is based on distances obtained from these simplest math operations, and these math operations are easily constructed from physical structures ( atoms, molecules, DNA, proteins, cells, organisms, neural nets, and logic machines ) that can function as gates, implementing AND and NOT logic operations, which can be combined to count to produce integers and to add to produce distance maps and then compare distance maps to get difference maps (gradients) from measurements. The nature of the process of making math maps is thus rooted in the physical universe.

    Math maps imposed on the physical territory form the substance of physics."

    This is because mathematical and physical structures both are creations of Vibration as my Mathematical Structure Hypothesis states. As you have mentioned that Math maps the physical territory and mathematical operators structures,but even mathematical structures are mapped by some laws of invariance.The best example evident is the Riemann Zeta function structure which lies at the boundary of mathematics and physics.It can be deciphered that even certain laws of invariance maps the mathematical structure itself. So, mathematical structures are not only maps but their intrinsic structures are also mapped by certain laws of invariance.Its not mathematics explaining physics or physics explaining mathematics rather their intrinsic laws of invariance,order,symmetry match each other and thats why even Bell's locality-at-distance is also valid for mathematical structures because they are also creations of vibration like physical reality. Bell's locality-at-distance fundamentally exists because we are so addicted to the phenomenon of causation but the truth is that Time,Space & Causations are like the glass through which Absolute is seen.In the Absolute there is neither Time,Space or Causation;which I have described.

    Anyway your essay is great.

    Regards,

    Pankaj Mani

      Dear Edwin,

      Thank you for commenting on my wall and inviting me to read your essay. I just read it, and I have some questions. I apologize if they may seem naive to you.

      1. Is there a typo in your proof of the energy exchange theorem, in the box at page 4?

      2. Is theta the angle made by the particle's magnetic moment with the external magnetic field? This is what I understand from page 4. Or is it the angle between a and b, the directions in which Alice and Bob measure (this is what I understand from page 6)?

      3. Do the two particles share the same theta?

      4. When you apply the energy exchange theorem, what are the two modes M0 and M1? Are they the particle and the magnetic field of the SG device which measures its spin? Or they are the two particles?

      5. Could you show me more precisely where you derive the Bell correlations from your theory?

      6. Is your theory local? If so, where exactly you explain locally the correlations?

      Best wishes,

      Cristi Stoica (link to my essay)

        Dear Neil Bates,

        Thank you for your kind comment. As I noted on your thread I find your views generally compatible with my own, and found your treatment of dimension fascinating. I especially liked your statement

        "All that math knows and can tell us in effect, is about math. When we think it is telling us something about "the world", we are just finding out about the model that we're using."

        In my essay I discuss Bell's over-simplified physics model of Stern-Gerlach based on precession in a constant field, which leads to a null result; 0 not ±1. This contradiction is the basis upon which Bell builds his model, with well-known "logical" consequences. My model, of course does not lead to such a contradiction. Instead, it leads to local realism that produces the same correlation as quantum mechanics. As you indicate, the model did not fall together overnight, but the pieces do fall into place, after, as you say "teasing apart the background physics." It is a complex problem, and, as Jonathan noted above, of a "self-concealing nature", so I do not expect everyone to be convinced right off the bat. It does go against 50 years of gospel. But I am gratified by the number of people who make the effort to understand.

        Thank you sincerely for your kind observations,

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Gary Hansen,

        Thanks for reading and commenting. As you note in your first paragraph, we do agree on the overview. Your second paragraph observes that my essay is rather technical and mathematical for a "well-educated but non-specialist audience". I plead guilty to that. I'm sure you are correct that many in the audience must be left wondering about the distinction between tricks and truth.

        Unfortunately, the local audience of other authors, which is the one I tend to address, generally have no problem identifying Bell, as he is almost a saint in the community. But they have been tricked by Bell for 50 years, and it is necessary to become quite technical to reveal the trick. Even then, many find it hard to believe, because it has been ingrained into them that local models cannot produce quantum results. After 50 years this has become a visceral conviction, and can not be successfully addressed with a physics-lite treatment.

        I'm very glad that you enjoyed what you understood. It is unfortunate that everything cannot be understood at first reading [not by me at least] but very fortunate that re-reading complex essays increases their understandability.

        Thanks for plowing through my essay. It's appreciated.

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Jayakar,

        Thanks for your very clear statement about use of math to map the physical state of structures. I agree that it is best to recognize mystery at the beginning of the universe, and not in our basic theories via such a mystical ideas as "collapse of the wave function" and "non-local entanglement".

        I will read your essay and respond. I'm very biased in favor of "continuum mechanics", but against "string-matter" [as I understand it] and look forward to seeing how you manage this.

        Thank you for reading and responding.

        Best wishes,

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Christian Corda,

        Thanks for reading my essay and responding. I'm glad that you have discovered Korzybski. His 'map' and 'territory' is always a good distinction to keep in mind.

        I'm even more pleased that you both enjoyed my essay and found it important in the context of the issues currently debated in physics.

        The issue of Bell is far too complex to be understood and decided on the basis of one essay, so I am not surprised that most of the serious physicists who have looked at my essay remain "unsure". That is quite appropriate. What I hoped for was to introduce the idea that, whereas Bell's math and logic have been tested for 50 years, his oversimplified physics has been accepted without question, because it agrees with the 1925 Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck view of 'spin' and with Pauli's simple constant-field eigenvalue equation. As Jonathan notes above, the problem has a "self-concealing nature" that must be seen through before progress can be made.

        And I hoped that, by showing that a local model that takes the inhomogeneous field into account actually yields the quantum mechanical correlation unless the physics information is thrown away by enforcing [unreasonable and unrealistic] constraints, it would catch the attention of serious physicists, who might then be stimulated to wonder how this is so, and thus begin the process of looking beyond Bell's overly-simply physics model. Valid math and logic applied to a faulty model, based on faulty assumptions, produce faulty conclusions, such as "no local model can...".

        Thank you very much for reading and providing very valuable feedback to me.

        I wish you the best also.

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Pankaj Mani,

        Thanks for your comments. We seem to agree that the math maps physical structures and that "math maps on physical territory form the substance of physics."

        I will look at your essay on vibration. As I tend to a continuum-based interpretation of reality, vibration certainly plays a significant role in my physics, but I will study your essay and respond on your page. I have some difficulty envisioning Bell's non-locality as purely vibration-based, although for the photon-based experiments I do not rule this out.

        Thanks for your kind words about by essay.

        Best regards,

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Cristi Stoica,

        Thank you for reading my essay, which I know is in conflict with your current view. Thus I'm really grateful to you for making the effort. I will try to answer your questions.

        1. Yes, there is a typo in my energy exchange theorem, as I note above on Mar 15, 2015 @ 00:19 GMT. My essay posted on Jan 9 and I tried to submit a corrected version on Jan 10, but the [correct] FQXi policy is to not change essays after they post. It is an obvious typo and has not seemed to throw anyone off, as it is cancelled in the same line.

        2. Also, as discussed in one of the many comments above, the angle θ (with one exception) always refers to the local angle between the spin and the magnetic field in the local Stern-Gerlach apparatus. Only in the figures on page 7 [where θ is shown as the horizontal axis) does θ represent the angle between Alice's setting a and Bob's setting b, which is the angle that appears in the QM correlation, -a.b. I apologize for any confusion. In Stern-Gerlach sources the angle is usually θ = (λ,B) while in Bell sources θ = (a,b).

        3. No, the particles do not show the same θ. The local θ in Alice's device is θ = (λ,a) while the local θ in Bob's device is θ = (-λ,b). Only the local θ has relevance for the local physics that leads to the non-±1 scattered deflection.

        4. The energy modes M0 and M1 are local. M0 is the θ-dependent precession energy associated with configuration -λ.B that is initially not aligned but vanishes when the spin λ aligns with the local field. M1 is the θ-dependent vertical component of the kinetic energy that did not exist when the particle entered on the horizontal axis with only horizontal velocity. Thus the precession energy vanishes and the deflection energy appears locally, and the local conservation follows the Energy-Exchange theorem. And as the deflection is θ-dependent, this dependence can be seen in the measurment data, but is not present in the [incomplete] quantum mechanical formulation, hence is 'hidden'.

        5. The theory [based on energy exchange] calculates a local deflection for Alice denoted by A(λ,a) where both the spin λ and the setting a are randomly generated. Similarly for Bob. These produce scattering or deflections represented by the local θ-dependent position of the particle on the detecting screen. A(λ,a) is read from Alice's screen (as calculated by the theory) and B(-λ,b) is read from Bob's screen, (also calculated by the theory.) It is these two values that are multiplied in pairwise fashion to produce the correlation. But the definition of the expectation value also contains the distribution of values AB, so, as A and B are calculated for 3,000,000 sets of random numbers, the distribution of the results is determined by computer, not from a formula, but from actual data, in a multichannel-analyzer-like analysis. This is used to compute the correlation shown on page 7. The basic formula or definition of expectation value is

        < AB > = SUM [ p(AB) (AB) ]

        6. Yes, my theory is local, in that critical settings a and b never appear together, unlike quantum mechanics where a and b do occur in the expectation value. Of course a goes into the calculation of A(λ,a) but it is combined into a product term and cannot be factored out, so it is not present as a in the result. [Just as, if a = 4 and λ = 9, the product term 36 implicitly contains both a and λ but they cannot be explicitly factored out.] Nor is b factorable from Bob's numeric result B(-λ,b). Thus only the [computed or measured] numbers,not containing a and b, are used, and yet, given the physics of energy exchange - based on local conservation - the correlation that results is -a.b. Mine is the only theory that is truly and provably local.

        The above is a very subtle point, and if you still have questions on this point I will be happy to try to answer them.

        Thank you for your best wishes, and especially thanks for taking the time to read and study what you viewed ahead of time as almost certainly a waste of time (kind of like perpetual motion).

        My best wishes for you Cristi,

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Armin,

        I regret that the thread of your well formed comment was broken by nonsense.

        Thanks for returning after you've had more time to review my essay. You boil it down to opposition arising from my presenting an answer to a question no one is asking. You you are probably correct in this. The treatment of Joy Christian, for example, has certainly deterred many from asking this question. It has apparently even prevented many of the establishment from reading my essay, and certainly from commenting. In short, it is a taboo question to ask whether Bell was wrong.

        You correctly observed that "in order for someone to seriously consider [my] argument, they have to first be willing to question whether the Stern-Gerlach experiment really has been misinterpreted all along for the last 90 years, which is what [my] assertion amounts to."

        You suggest that I collect all the SG data and statistically analyze it to show that interpreting its outcomes and binary terms is a mistake. You make a good point. But as I have a personal subscription to Phys Rev Letters, I am not in a university environment with access to all different journals, and therefore I frequently run into pay-walls. Moreover, there is abundant evidence on other FQXi threads (JC's, specifically) that people will argue statistics until the cows come home. So while your suggestion is a good one, it seems not best for me with neither access to the data nor much competence in statistics.

        I certainly agree with you that the burden of proof is on me. And as others have reminded me, great claims require great proof. In my opinion, it will be easier to conduct a new SG type experiment to explicitly test for θ-dependence than it will be to gather all data and statistically analyze it, so it is my intent to perform or have performed this specific experiment. Of course, even experiments can be and are ignored, if they go against the grain (see, e.g. Martin Tajmar).

        On the other hand, I think it is incontrovertible that Bell's interpretation of Stern-Gerlach leads to a contradiction. He interprets SG as a constant field through which dipoles precess, which leads to zero deflection, while the entire content of his theory requires ±1 deflection, an obvious contradiction. And it does not take much to see that when the non-constant (gradient) term is added to the Hamiltonian, then Pauli's eigenvalue equation should be affected. These are simply issues of logic that any physicist should be able to follow, and one would think they might be caused to wonder about this aspect of Bell.

        In addition it is easy to show that the local model I derive does reproduce the quantum mechanical correlations [see page 7] against all gospel, and one would think this would arouse curiosity among 'real' physicists, especially when the correlation fails if Bell's constraints are imposed.

        Finally, there is matter of intuition. In this contest at least Phil Gibbs and Ken Wharton have expressed that "intuition" is a thing to be wary of. Most of us are familiar with the theory that says we evolved in a macro-sized world, and therefore our intuition - whatever it is - is simply not suited to the microworld and should not be expected to be so. But my own theory of consciousness does not view consciousness as an artifact, but more as inherent in nature, not quite panpsychism, but close, and in this view intuition is less 'scale-dependent' and more in tune with the true nature of the world, in which case the intuitive rejection of non-locality is not to be dismissed.

        Nevertheless, you have put quite a bit of effort into analyzing the context in which my theory is presented, and have made quite sensible suggestions. For this I thank you sincerely. Yet, as Tom Phipps remarks, the establishment knows how to close ranks in defense of the status quo, and "this means that progress can only occur from inside, and at a snail's pace."

        I am not quite as old as Tom, but I am not well suited to a 'snail's pace' at my age. Better to present the logic, the history, the analysis, the model, the results, and the interpretation that contradicts Bell and then focus on an experiment that will prove [or not] my theory.

        Thank you very much for your well thought out and friendly, supportive, suggestion.

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

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        Gordon

        Last year, you sent me several papers for review and comment, and at that time it appeared you may have shown the mathematical basis for my physics-based Bell argument, and you have been given full credit for your relevant contributions in my QSLR paper [reference 2]. However after several months of examining that path, I became convinced that your math did not solve the Bell problem, and yours is, in fact, a non-local approach as you depend upon bringing both Alice's and Bob's remote settings into your local calculation, as does quantum mechanics. As I am only interested in a local model, this disqualifies your approach as far as I'm concerned. As to this paper, I have properly credited all the contributions and sources.

        After developing my computer simulation, I realized that it is Bell's insistence on suppressing the physics by imposing the ±1 constraints that is at the root of Bell's error. As you continue to apply these constraints, your model does not resemble my model in any way, nor does it address the problem. You have a formal, non-physical, approach that yields a non-local calculation of Bell's theorem.

        As witnessed on other threads, when the code from models is introduced, all physics discussion goes out the window and the topic focuses on coding. My objective is to provide enough insight into the physics that others, skilled in both physics and computing, can independently generate the same results by following the logic I lay out, without being influenced by whatever code I have used. Bell's theorem must be discussed at the level of physics. It is not a math problem, per se, nor does your mathematical approach, devoid of physics, solve Bell's problem.

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear Edwin,

        Sorry for taking so long to come back but this isn't a facile topic. I had to read your paper a few times, revisit both Bell and SG and then go through (almost all) the comments, since I had some questions and I suspected I can find the answers there (and I did). I can say it was an interesting and exciting read so I felt motivated to put some effort into understanding it.

        I think your writing style is both enjoyable and clear, though I'm sure that you would have been more comfortable if you had a couple of extra pages, option that was taken away by the contest rules. I think that if Scientific American or any other magazine would want to write an article for the public, they could because everything you present is a problem of logic. Surely some readers have problems with the physics because it's difficult to imagine moving scenarios, but a short animated clip can very easily show how and why precession and deflection in magnetic fields influence where a particle lands in an experiment. When I started I wasn't very familiar with the topic, but right now I have at least a feeling of understanding or intuition, so you shouldn't be worried that your paper would be unclear for most readers; I know you mentioned this was a concern for you.

        I will shortly outline my key take-aways to check my understanding. You are noticing that Bell starts with quantized spin so we revisit the experiment which established that. We start with a formulation of the movement of an uncharged particle through a magnetic field and show that there exists energy exchange between the particle's precession (magnetic moment) and the deflection on the field gradient, and thus the trace of the real spin is preserved (I mean real as in 3D coordinate system of real numbers) through the position of the particle on the SG screen. So in a set of two anticorrelated particles, one shouldn't expect to find two values of spin, but any two opposite values of spin, a more general result meaning that spin is not necessarily quantized. The usual entanglement correlation is due to conservation of the original angular momentum of the particles from source to screen. The SG quantization depends on the length (and strength?) of the field generated by the device.

        What hasn't been asked before, and therefore I can ask now without asking you to revisit the same topic time and again, is about the experiment you mention close to the end. You said that theta-dependent scattering should be testable; are you referring to the Alice and Bob setup in page 6 (a spin correlated SG pair) or do you have something else in mind? If you do have something else in mind, do you develop it in another paper? I'd like to try to read it. To rephrase, what is the experiment you'd like to do if you would receive funding? Also since my understanding is that the same correlations can be obtained with a classical model, do you expect to find any difference between an experiment you might set up and a Bell experiment? I know that in your setup you can calculate the results in advance but what I mean is, will the shape on the screen be different or should the result look the same? Should the reasoning allow you to make different predictions from Bell or SG? Again, if you develop a setup anywhere else, I'd be interested to try to understand it.

        Warm regards,

        Alma

          I realized that I forgot to ask you something. I tried to search online for new revisions of the SG experiment but for me it proved impossible to find relevant information. Upper on the page in the comments, there's mentioning of a serial SG where particles are prepared in one spin position, then go through a second field and still end up in both the upper and the lower half plane. Do you know if that experiment has ever been performed and what's the result? I know you did a lot of research on the topic, so I tried to find answers to my questions in the references you used in the other two papers but couldn't; there's just too much information. If you encountered a paper that acts as a hub and points out the most known SG type experiments, can you please tell me which one is it?

          I know you already have lots of comments and I'm sorry to burden you further but you made me curious and you're very nice and answer everyone.

          Alma

          Alma,

          If I may interject, it is frustrating finding reference to SG experimentation and I've noticed that there is often more about deflection of electrons than there is about neutral atoms with a magnetic moment. I think in searching, one must be aware that the focus is on the typical shaping of the magnets themselves which produces an inhomogeneous field intensity, whereas uniform magnets with flat surfaces facing each other produce a homogeneous intensity at least throughout the region bounded by the surface area of the faces.

          But electron streams behave differently than do neutrons (or neutral atoms) which possess a magnetic moment, and the Quantum Mechanical standard model treats electrons as point particles because the electrical charge does not exhibit a pole. The 'negative' charge is uniformly spherical so it doesn't present a differentiated directional attitude at any time in crossing the field, it will be deflected the same amount relative only to magnetic field intensity in accord with Faraday's right hand rule. Like in a cathode ray tube. Also, science lacks a general definition of 'charge', positive and negative are merely operational definitions and though the inverse square law holds true in experimental measurement, there is no theoretical basis that limits the intensity of charge and so mathematically it goes to a singularity of infinite intensity. So it gets treated as a point particle.

          "Spin" is a property of the electron point particle which has no correlation to a classical physical rotation. It is a measurement function that can be used to establish an ad hoc directional attitude in the otherwise homogeneous spherical negative charge field of the elusive electron. IF (!) there is a physical rotation experienced by an electron giving rise to a magnetic dipole moment, that magnetic moment is overwhelmed by interaction of the charge field and the directional field of the magnets. And IF (!) it exists and persists it aligns as if it were the same as the axis of the ad hoc measurement schemata, and consequently has no 'wobble' which would precess.

          So electrons are not what were used in the original Stern-Gerlach experiments that John Bell referred to. S-G used neutral silver atoms which possess a magnetic dipole moment which precesses. Good Luck finding reference to S-G type laboratory studies of that sort. SG magnet arrays seem to be used primarily for electron traps. Cheers jrc

          JRC,

          Thanks for your comment. I am not sure why you mention electrons. I explicitly mentioned uncharged particles so, worst case scenarios, I was thinking neutrinos or you haven't read my comment :)

          All of my 2 questions to Edwin are genuine and I am not making any assumptions. I asked what kind of experiment would he make should he receive funding and if he can point me out some direction for further reading. I'm sure he would gladly answer the first and if he won't answer the second I guess I'll just remain curious, tough luck. I did spend a lot of time trying to understand his work (because it's very interesting) and reply to him and I am sure he does rather appreciate it. Thanks for wishing me good luck in finding SG type experiments. Cheers Alma

          Dear Edwin,

          Your thorough and well-presented technical argument is something I need to spend more time with. But the point of the essay is very interesting and probably worthy of a good deal of discussion. When I began studying mathematics I was most intrigued by, what my teachers often called, counter-intuitive results. I enjoyed the fact that a formalism of our own making could produce these kinds of surprises. There was some non-obvious thing about the relationship between mathematical thought and intuition. This relationship is even more interesting when one recognizes the crucial role mathematical intuition plays in developing mathematics. And so while I very much enjoy the way you use mathematics to bring a physical idea more in line with our intuition, I think I will be slow to accept that the counter-intuitive ideas are incorrect.

          I do appreciate your comment on my essay and hope we find opportunities to continue to communicate,

          Best,

          Joselle

            Dear Edwin,

            Thank you for the answers. Although you provided detailed answers to my questions, I still don't get it. I think I need more details. Could you please show me the formula by which Alice and Bob calculate A(λ,a), and what are the inputs? Then how to calculate from these the expectation value, so we can see if we get the same correlations as QM? Perhaps if you have a concrete example, that would be great. Sorry for not being able to find these myself, I also looked in your references [2,3], but I missed them.

            Best regards,

            Cristi

            Dear Alma,

            As this comment will probably be hidden, I will answer you in a new thread below.

            Edwin Eugene Klingman

            Dear Alma,

            Thank you for the effort you have put into understanding my theory. As you note in your essay

            "Mathematical physics is only as good as physical insight."

            The mathematical physics surrounding Bell is primarily logic-based and is based on very simple physics that leads to a contradiction. You note in a comment that "it's easier to find a certain logical theory - one only needs a brain - than build the LHC - one needs a bit more than a brain."

            Fortunately, answering the physical questions underlying my theory will not require an LHC-size expenditure of money or effort, and, from my perspective, it will have greater payback than LHC has had. The Higgs has been assumed for years, and now supposedly exists, although proving 'zero spin' should be interesting. SUSY has also been assumed for years and apparently doesn't exist. So years-long assumptions in physics do not always imply much for reality. The 50-year long assumption that "local models cannot produce QM correlations" can be overthrown by just one model that does produce QM correlations, as I have shown. But, in the spirit of FQXi, one must ask whether I have just played another mathematical trick on physicists. That is best answered by experiment, which you focus on in your comment.

            As John noted, and as you had correctly qualified in your comment, Stern-Gerlach is based on uncharged particles, as the interaction of charged particles with the magnetic field is so strong as to effectively swamp the signal (deflection) from magnetic moment interactions with the field. Like me, your brain may decouple from your fingers, so that when you thought neutron, your fingers typed neutrino. I mention this because neutrons are uncharged but do possess spin and magnetic moment, the moment deriving from the charged quark constituents. Neutrinos are, as far as we know, fermions with spin but not possessing a dipole moment as they are not constructed from charged constituents. Thus neutrinos perfectly exemplify Dirac's fundamental helicity eigenvalue equation, but Pauli's provisional spin eigenvalue equation, based on the interaction of the moment with the constant field, does not apply at all. Very interesting. If that was a typo, thank you for making the typo.

            Referring to the iconic postcard [p.3] it is obvious that the distribution of deflections [positions on the detector] cannot be characterized as a "point", +1 or -1. But the question is "What causes the distribution?" The assumption, for 90 years, has apparently been that variations in temperature, hence velocity, of the atoms is responsible for the data spread. Thus the key to an experiment to test θ-dependence of deflection is to 'fix' velocity, which should not be overly difficult.

            If, as I assume, and as fits the facts, the spin of the particle exiting the SG-device is aligned with the field, then one can "prepare" a known spin, say 'up' in the z-direction. One must then select particles with very tightly controlled velocity and input such particles to a second Stern-Gerlach apparatus, oriented it angle θ to the z-axis, and obtain precise position measurements from the second SG-device. By varying the angle θ and comparing the deflection observed to that predicted by my theory, it should not be difficult to determine whether my theory is confirmed or not.

            One assumes that, using 2015 technology, it will be possible to obtain much better results than did Stern-Gerlach in 1922. There is anecdotal evidence that it was Stern's cheap cigar whose sulfides were responsible for oxidizing the silver atoms and making them visible. We could probably do it today without the cheap cigar.

            As you mention Alice and Bob, I should clarify that only one spin is needed to prove θ-dependence, whereas two (anti-correlated) spins are required for the EPR correlation test. Thus my experiment requires one SG-device to prepare the known spin, a filter to restrict velocity input to the second SG-device and a sensitive detector of position.

            Alma, your bio implies that you are a non-physicist. It is fascinating to me (and very admirable) that you could work through my essay several times, and all comments above, and obtain the understanding you evidence in your comment. Contrast this with world-class experts some of whom are participating as authors in this contest who apparently will not look, let alone comment. This speaks to the social control of the established institutions, who control funding, and publications, and do not like rocking boats.

            Your third paragraph in your 10:22 comment above is very well stated and proves that you clearly understand my theory. I would modify only the statement that "the spin is not necessarily quantized" [which is correct] to state that spin is a vector with magnitude and direction. The magnitude is quantized, but the direction is not. In a constant field the projection of spin on the field axis is also quantized, but this changes in an inhomogeneous field.

            Your second question is the harder of the two to answer. There are very many quantum textbooks available, most of which present the classical Bell picture of precessing particles described by Pauli's eigenvalue equation and then generate the simple qubit eigenvalue equation, [see my endnotes, page 11] and go from there. In my references [2] and [4] I include more specific references. I think you might either start with my reference [2] or perhaps with, JR Stenson, 2005, "Representations for Understanding the Stern-Gerlach Effect", thesis BYU, both of which are available online free.

            Let me repeat how pleased I am that a non-professional-physicist can read my essay, understand it, summarize it in a brief paragraph, ask intelligent and relevant questions that had not been asked before, and look for further information. That has brightened my day.

            My very best regards

            Edwin Eugene Klingman

              Dear Joselle,

              Thank you for reading my essay closely. As you state in your essay,

              "Statistics is not only intuitive, but part of our intuition. Biologically, the brain seems to be good at a kind of statistical calculation."

              As I indicated, this is quite compatible with my own understanding of the brain and consciousness. But you state specifically that when you began studying mathematics you were most intrigued that your intuitive grasp of mathematics could lead to counter-intuitive results. Thus you think you "will be slow to accept that the counter-intuitive ideas are incorrect."

              I think perhaps I should state more clearly that I am not opposed to all non-intuitive results of math and physics, only those that do violence to such powerful intuition as local realism. This is the most basic intuition of nature.

              On the other hand I am thoroughly convinced that quantum physicists and other physicists are missing some fascinating physics exactly because non-linearity is non-intuitive and thus few can employ their intuition to profitably exploit non-linear phenomena. This is, perhaps, a matter of degree, but it is still significant from the aspect of physics. For an example of this, I refer you to the figure on page 4 of my 2013 FQXi essay: Gravity and the Nature of Information. The curve becomes almost 'straight up' at a certain point. This does not happen with linearity, for which our intuition is finely tuned.

              So I highly value non-intuitive non-linearity and hope to extract real gold from this field. At the same time I reject non-locality for the physics reasons I describe in my essay. I hope this makes you a bit more comfortable with my approach to intuition.

              Thank you sincerely for reading and communicating,

              Best wishes,

              Edwin Eugene Klingman