Peter Jackson wrote on Feb. 17, 2018 @ 17:30 GMT
https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3099#post_144251
Dear Terry,
I was most impressed, even inspired. Your ability to find the right questions is leagues above most who can't even recognize correct answers! Lucid, direct, one of the best here.
I entirely agree on simplicity as the title of my own essay suggests, but isn't a reason we haven't advanced that our brains can't quite yet decode the complex puzzle (information)?
But now more importantly. I'd like you to read my essay as two of your sought answers are implicit in an apparent classical mechanism reproducing all QM's predictions and CSHS>2. Most academics (& editors) fear to read, comment or falsify due to cognitive dissonance but I'm sure you're more curious and honest. It simply follows Bell, tries a new starting assumption about pair QAM using Maxwell's orthogonal states and analyses momentum transfers.
Spin 1/2 & 2 etc emerged early on and is in my last essay (scored 8th but no chocs). Past essays (inc. scored 1st & 2nd) described a better logic for SR which led to 'test by QM'. Another implication was cosmic redshift without accelerating expansion closely replicating Euler at a 3D Schrodinger sphere surface and Susskinds seed for strings.
By design I'm quite incompetent to express most thing mathematically. My research uses geometry, trig, observation & logic (though my red/green socks topped the 2015 Wigner essay.) But I do need far more qualified help (consortium forming).
On underlying truths & SM, gravity etc, have you seen how closed, multiple & opposite helical charge paths give toroid... ..but let's take things 2 at a time!
As motion is key I have a 100 sec video giving spin half (+, QM etc.) which you may need to watch 3 times, then a long one touching on Euler but mainly Redshift, SR, etc. But maybe read the essay first.
Sorry that was a preamble to mine but you did ask! I loved it, and thank you for those excellent questions and encouragement on our intellectual evolution.
Of course I may be a crackpot. Do be honest, but I may also crack a bottle of champers tonight!
Very best
Peter
Peter Jackson replied on Feb. 18, 2018 @ 20:16 GMT
Terry,
I omitted the link to the Ridiculously Simple; 100 second video glimpse.
Peter
Peter Jackson replied on Feb. 18, 2018 @ 20:19 GMT
..this time with the first 'h'(ttp); https://youtu.be/WKTXNvbkhhI 100 sec..Classic QM
Peter Jackson wrote on Feb. 21, 2018 @ 12:35 GMT
https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3099#post_144803
Terry,
Did you see my 17.2.18 post above & 100sec video deriving non-integer spins from my essays mechanism resolving the EPR paradox? (I've just found the 'duplet state' confirmation in the Poincare sphere)
That all emerged from a 2010 SR model http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1330 finally able to resolve the ecliptic plane & stellar aberration issues and a tranche of others (expanded on in subsequent finalist essays).
i.e you'll be aware of George Kaplans USNO circ (p6) following IAU discussions.
(Of course all including editors dismiss such progress as impossible so it's still not in a leading journal!)
Hope you can look & comment
Peter
Hi Peter,
Wow, what generous comments! I am very pleased in particular that you said I may have inspired you a bit. That makes me feel better than anything else you could have said, because in the end that was the hidden intent of the essay: To encourage folks to look at themselves as capable of more than they ever imagined. Sometimes nothing more than writing up a new idea in a way that people can understand is the best way to help them realize their own potential. There are just too many distractions sometimes, and that in turn keeps us from realizing that we can focus our minds and efforts to develop powerful new ideas. Take that to a community level and wow, the threads and bundles of possible positive futures opens up in ways no one could have anticipated.
On to other issues! The first is that you accidentally and very innocently stepped on what recently has become a hot button of mine, which is this:
OMG how can you even kiddingly call yourself a 'crackpot' for believing and advocating an extremely common sense compatible position that Einstein, Bell, and any number of very smart people feel must be correct??
Entanglement is always an interesting debate, but I don't think even kiddingly using that particular term for self-deprecation is a good idea. It is one of the most overused ad hominem phrases in all of science, and for that reason it is also one of the most damaging mental toxins that limit the overall ability of such communities to increase their collaborative intelligence. Intelligence at the delicate community level simply cannot function well if at the individual level its members can with impunity inject such mental toxins to kill off any cross-community communication that they don't happen to like.
And that is not even getting into the ethics of using such mental toxins specifically to harm other human beings!
That said, sigh, I've used that term myself, more than once, although usually with accompanying definitions of the behaviors for which I was using it. Usually it was more frustration for the lack of a better word for describing a certain set of strongly self-defeating behaviors and analytical approaches. Physician heal thyself indeed!
But let's get back to the issue of entanglement.
How the heck can you being in the company of no less than Einstein on that point merit anyone calling you names? Forget spin entanglement, Einstein alone had the brilliance back in the early 1900s to see that no quantum probability wave function can be reconciled with classical physics. His very first shot across the bow was a pointed thought experiment that he posed to his audience of fellow quantum physicists: If you have a large wave function, say one a light year across, how do you keep multiple people from finding the same electron as they individually search that wave function?
The only resolutions Einstein could see were either (a) there was never more than one point-like electron in the wavefunction to begin with (de Broglie's pilot wave model), or (2) the quantum wave function had to collapse "instantly" across its entire lightyear diameter, removing itself at faster-than-light speeds so that no one else could find the same electron. To Einstein, for whom the principle of locality was absolute, that was enough to prove that wave functions as defined then (and now) could not possibly be complete descriptions of physical reality. It was and is an amazingly perceptive argument.
Having said all that, allow me now to shock a few folks with another disclosure: My position on quantum entanglement is precisely the opposite of those who believe that locality is the primary reality. That is, not only do I accept the reality of quantum entanglement for both experimental and theoretical reasons, I consider space and time as we know them to be secondary to the world of quantum entanglement.
Our universe emerged from a fully quantum place, and we continue to "mine" what remains of that initially infinite range of undefined futures through the process we call entropy. The two are opposite sides of the same coin: a past that is closed to any further change via accumulation of classical information ("history"), and a future that remains partially open through a sort of mining of the many shreds and fragments of indefinitely broad, undefined futures that existed before the Great Break, and which have not yet been consumed by entropy. We call that two-faced coin space, and it is a place where the original quantum symmetries from before the Great Break now can be seen only within the nooks and crannies of smallness or coldness or indifference (transparency) in which entropy can be held at bay for a while longer. Everywhere else the coin of space displays itself as the eternally changing Hamiltonian of "now". This universe-encompassing Hamiltonian grasps in one hand the statistically irreversible givens of the past, and in the other hand the freedoms of the yet-to-be-defined quantum future, and from them both forges still more pages to add to the ever-expanding annals of entropy.
And life is there, snatching its opportunity to persist and expand by setting up the givens of the past to ensure a future that ensures their continuity into the future.
Back to entanglement, again.
Given all I said earlier about Einstein's amazingly perceptive arguments against entanglement, how can I possibly also believe that entanglement is real?
Peter, on page 8 of your 2017 FQXi essay you say: "The entanglement experiments of Aspect34 and Weihs et al35 reported unexplained 'rotational inconsistencies' but results followed predictions when ignored, so they were."
Fact-based turnabout is fair play, I think. So here is my own pro-entanglement anomaly for you and others either to accept or to discount as you see fit:
My main point is that things have, um, moved along quite a bit since the now-ancient days of Aspect. A lot of hard-nosed business folks figured out years ago that arguments against the very existence of such phenomena do not matter much if you can simply build devices that violate Bell's inequality, use them to encrypt critical data transmissions, and last but not least make a lot of bucks by selling them.
I'll make two additional remarks on your many interesting comments:
First, spin.
I like to think of spin as a bit like gearing. The outside gear is the observer turning the entire system around a few times, like a pot on a pottery wheel. The inner gear is the "spin state" or degree of resulting rotation in response to the external maniputations of the observer.
Spin 1/2 has a half-speed gear inside that doesn't finish one full circle until the outside one spins twice, so the observer would see it lagging noticeably in comparison to her potter's wheel. For spin 1 the inner gear (observed object rotation) and outside gear (rotation of the potter's wheel) are locked together. For spin 2 the object is geared for high speed, circling around twice per observer induced wheel rotation.
All of this is very easy to visualize, since we've all seen gears e.g. on bicycles that go faster or slower than the driving gear. However, for spin 1/2 I assure you that this simple visualization is not the one that usually gets presented, which is an odd sort of thing that doubles the outer gear instead. I would suggest that this much more continuous view is a better way to understand half spin, and that this continuity could even help provide some insights into why 1/2 is so different. Even in this simple model, for example, it is the only spin that is slower than the driving spin. Spin 1/2 (and also the higher fermion spins of n+1/2, n=1,2,...) also has the very interesting property of causing the object to half-turn in response to one normal turn.
Think about that in terms of phases. If the opposite sides of the object represent plus and a minus phases of some sort, then half-spins have the potential to match positive and negative phases of adjacent identical fermions in ways that integer phases do not. Could this be related to the zero-probability surfaces that form in xyz space between adjacent antisymmetric fermion wave solutions? I honestly do not know, since one has to be careful how one interprets such models But it certainly smells interesting...
The second topic is your video. I'm sorry, but I watched it several time and never saw even a hint of anything other than classical Bertlmann's socks propagation of correlated spin, which does not violate Bell's inequality and so doesn't explain why customers do not sue the bejeebers out of the makers of the ID230 for false advertising. Oddly, their market instead is expanding.
Cheers,
Terry