More realistic fundamentals: quantum theory from one premiss. by Gordon Watson

Steve, thanks for voting openly and providing your reasons; these actions are much appreciated.

I'm hoping that many of us will adopt the same procedure for the next essay. So please have a look at my comments on Terry Bollinger's essay-thread. (I'll also put a copy below.)

Looking forward to further discussions when you are ready, with my thanks again; Gordon

My voting suggestions/comments from Terry Bollinger's thread:

Fundamental as Fewer Bits. Please, at minimum, add your own comments there re Terry's voting ideas! His essay is pretty good and worthy of comment too. GW.

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Terry, some quick short notes as I work my way to your essay:

1. FQXi Essay Contestant Pledge = Suggested FQXi Voting Pledge

Your Pledge is so refreshing that I've hot-linked it above. LHS wording of the title is yours; to me, it reads "official" and is thus too hopeful (for now). RHS is my suggested edit as we work with FQXi to improve things!

2. Under current circumstances, my own position is clear:

(i) As an independent researcher, I'm here to discuss, learn, teach, debate, respond to every question, critique others, etc. Result = Fail; eg, next to no questions, few responses.

(ii) I'm not here for the votes: Result = Just-as-well; eg, given a 0 without explanation: how can I learn, respond, correct, defend, revise, acknowledge, etc?

3. While we await (with many others) for FQXi improvements, why don't we develop an OPEN voting system? Add to your Pledge a (say, for argument's sake) 5-category [each numbered; #1-5] scoring sheet [maximum vote per category = 2] with space for explanations, plus identifier (say, for you, hot-linked Terry Bollinger [or with hot-linked email-addresses also allowed] so that we ALWAYS get an alert with easy-return access. [You get the idea.]

Recipient can respond to Terry Bollinger#2, for all to see: thus promoting open learning, debate, progress, support for one view or the other, or a middle view, etc. Given the teaching/learning, who then here, as a serious researcher, would focus on "fake-scores"?

The advantage of this OPEN proposal is that you, with your background, could lead us to something truly useful, actionable, within the current rules, a worthwhile experiment, ready for the next "contest" (surely the wrong word here) -- which FQXi can monitor before refining (if need be), and accepting as the new gold-standard in OPEN teaching/learning/essay-exchange; etc: ready for the next 1 "contest"!

4. To your (for me) excellent essay:

(i) I counted 8 important fundamental symbols in Challenge #1.

(ii) Re Challenge #2: in my [hurried] essay, see hot-linked Reference [12], p.639! It's part of my theory.

(iii) NB: Your editorial red-pen will be very welcome there at any time; hopefully after you've read [in the first thread], the Background to my theory (which dates from 1989).

(iv) Maybe, with hard work and insight, you might just become the person who finds a hidden gemstone of simplicity by unravelling the threads of misunderstanding that for decades have kept it hidden.

PS: Terry, if/when you reply to my post (at any time), please copy it to my essay-thread so that I'm alerted to it. I will do likewise.

Enough (for now): With many thanks and much appreciation for your lovely work;

Gordon Watson More realistic fundamentals: quantum theory from one premiss.

Thanks Brian, please take your time; thanks too for not letting another FQXi bug beat you! Gordon

Dear snp, My thanks for your comments and support: I wish you well in this contest, with your research and long into the future. Best regards; Gordon.

Thanks Juan,

Let me rephrase my position in your terms: Locality is confirmed by experiment; it is a consequence of our universe containing independent components which are correlated (eg, in EPRB, paired-particles are correlated by the conservation of angular momentum). Without any reference to (nor use of) nonlocality (nor nonlocal interaction-energy) -- and consistent with SR -- we can therefore calculate the correlation that will be revealed when such particle-pairs are tested by Alice and Bob. Experiments [will/do] confirm our calculations: to thus resolve Bell's AAD dilemma and confirm the "silliness" (of his and his follower's position) that Bell foreshadowed (as late as 1990). QED.

I will welcome you comments on ¶13 in my essay: there you will see Bell's theorem refuted.

HTH; with my thanks again, Gordon