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Basketball: Basket (scores) only come into being as the ball is thrown though the hoop) Failure to make a basket score might be noted. They too only come into being as the ball is thrown, but missing the hoop. Basket scores are not basket balls coming into being. The existential ball isn't really in a goes through and doesn't go through state prior to being thrown and a relation to hoop being established.

Schrödinger's cat: Cat encountering poison is like basket ball going through hoop; The existential relationship outcome. Opening the box and noting the condition of the animal is like writing on the score card. The score- like, state outcome has come into existence upon box opening, preceded by the existential condition of the animal.

Extract from most recent paper that can be found at http://viXra.org/abs/2212.0182

"In a relativistic spacetime, events at spacelike separation are taken to have no temporal order. Any system of coordinates will assign time coordinates to each of any pair of events, but, if the events are spacelike separated, the time coordinates assigned to a pair of events at spacelike separation will differ in their ordering, depending on which reference frame is being employed. If we take all of these reference frames to be physically on a par, it must be concluded that there is no temporal order between the events, as relations that are not relativistically invariant have no physical significance". [1.][1.]Myrvold, Wayne, Marco Genovese, and Abner Shimony, "Bell's Theorem", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),

URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/bell-theorem./

The issue of non simultaneity of same events seen by different observers is not relevant to the relation of existing rabbit and door or existing particle and apparatus. As they, the existing entities, are not within space-time but exist unseen within absolute uni-temporal space.

Space-time is relevant to observation products which are categorically different from things that are existing independent of observation.

When and where things happen, and the absolute relations between existing things in uni-temporal space is unknown but they are unitary and unambiguous, as there is only one time to be existing at, Uni-temporal Now.

The result not found-where does it go? It is never produced, so can't go /be anywhere. Occam's razor casts doubt (a great deal) upon a 'Many worlds' multiverse explanation.

Why rabbits and doorways

To be clear rabbits and movable walkways are representing photon polarization and movable doorways represent polarizers with changeable orientation. For facilitation of visualization of the coming together of polarizer and wave component of a photon and what will occur. For some people the analogy will be helpful for others an unnecessary layer of abstraction.

Rabbits and doorways. The basic apparatus

Set up similar to the doorways used in the paper called 'The unspooky violation of Bell's inequalities', but a suitable size for rabbits. Rectangular doorways are fixed into movable walls, allowing the door to be rotated. Rabbits are set moving in opposite directions, along fenced pathway to door from central point. A pair of rabbits are used in this way for each test. A movable barricade behind each rabbit, (or assistant's hand) can be used to prevent rabbits retracing path back to center.

Rabbits in space

Existential rabbit and existential doorway have an absolute orientation. Which is their unmeasured and unknown spatial orientation relation to all other existing things in the environment. How it appears to, the observation product generated by, an astronaut observer is a relative viewpoint.

(How can absolute orientation relate to, what is considered by mainstream physics, a point-like photon particle? There is a wave component associated with a photon that can account for wave like behavior. That wave can have an absolute orientation.)

What is important for a rabbit getting through a doorway is the relation between their absolute orientation, (rabbit-door), upon meeting. Non simultaneity for different observers is irrelevant to the coming together of existing things unseen in uni-temporal absolute space.

Imagine now the pathway the rabbits are on is fully rotate-able independent of the doorways.

Lets say this is a blind test and the result noting experimenter doesn't know anything about the rabbits being used. He only hears a noise such as a beep as a sensor in the floor is activated, or jingle bells being rung as rabbit passes by them upon entering the room beyond the doorway. Representing only knowing the outcome of particle test, and not the condition of the particle before testing.

A practicality, an attractive stimulus beyond doorway should encourage passing through. Eg. food or other rabbits.

Passes doorway, yes or no, is a score-like result added to model of the universe. It is not appearance of an existential rabbit in the universe. Likewise the particle test results are new, but they happen because of the relation of existential particle and apparatus. The particle is not becoming existentially real because of the result.

Preparation of rabbits

Rabbits can be prepared to be a correlated (test outcome0 pair.

In which case their walkways are level with each other. Meaning the rabbits approach the door at the same angle of approach. eg. Flat horizontal floors and vertical doors, or orientations giving the same relation relative to each other, allow both rabbits prepared have same orientations pass through. If both of the rabbits orientation is at 90 degrees to vertical because of a tilted walkway both will be stopped by the vertical doors.

The rabbits can be prepared as an anti correlated 9test outcome) pair.

In which case their walkways are at 90 degrees relative to each other. A pair of rabbits prepared to be anti-correlated will both pass though 90 degree difference in orientation doors, if their own rabbit orientation if sufficiently aligned. Either going through means the other goes through. Both fail to pass through if their own orientation is sufficiently misaligned. Either not going through means the other does not go through.

For 90 degree separation of door angle and 90 degree difference in rabbit angle there can be exact alignment or exact misalignment as we don't know which situation will occur, The 90 degree door may get a 0 degree or a 90 degree rabbit lets say. Both will pass or both will miss.

it is not my intention to describe what Bell's inequality violation looks like for each angle difference in orientation. As some critics seem to expect. The hypothesis though not explicitly stated as 'the hypothesis,' is that a sinusoidal rather than linear outcome of matched counting will be found. It was not necessary for me to discuss prediction for any particular angle combinations, I just thought then interesting cases. The 90 degree case shown above could/ ?should be included. This is a method/methods and apparatus for bringing together absolute orientations

Given in response to the declaration that 'You cannot violate Bell's inequality with macroscopic animals" Wolfgang Sturm

I think the analogy is ridiculous but not impossible. Care must be taken to ensure the only difference between tests is the difficulty of traversing doorway. To avoid interference of animal psychology on the results. Things like how well fed, ambient sounds, familiarity with the apparatus and so on.

The correlation of pairs at creation of the pairs, alone means there has to be correlated or anti-correlated outcomes for pairs at 0, 90,180 and a special relation outcome for 45 degrees [ignoring experimental errors in all cases] We have no measurement that shows their relation to all that's existing including each other and doors but the absolute orientation is nonetheless. Existing things, unseen and unmeasured have absolute orientation making the pattern of all existing at unitemporal Now. Other than the special cases mentioned the outcomes for other pairs of angles are uncorrelated. There are 4 possible outcomes 1,1 match,1,0 mismatch 0,1 mismatch and 0,0 match. lets say 1 is a pass through, 0 is stopped. The outcome is not entirely equally random between the given possible outcomes. The angle of the door affects the ease or difficulty of passing through presented. When they meet. If it is easy-ish i,e. close to easy there will be more 1s in the mix of outcomes .If it is hard i.e. closer to impossible there will be more 0s in the mix of outcomes. This gives the s shaped pattern of matched outcome probabilities said to be only accountable by quantum physics explanation.

The probability of a match is affected by the angle of rotation which is why I think we shouldn't expect a simple linear relationship.

I could have been clearer about the metaphysical background being used. I think I did mention in this one that absolute, uni-temporal space is a premise of this paper.

it would probably help if I set out the explanation as above for clarity . So thanks for pointing out the shortcoming.

We don't need to worry about the angle presented by the whole radius. We need to be concerned by the area closest to the walkway that is most easily accessed. Imagine a cat flap sized hole in the rotating wall. imagine a radius drawn pointing left horizontal, as we look at it. A bunny hole at the end if the radius is on average the impossible to jump, radius length above our floor height. That is in total, half the width of door subtracted from radius length to half the width of door added to radius. A radius drawn straight down vertical as we look sat it with a bunny hole at the bottom , The hole is at ground level at its lowest point. For each rotation with respect to the walkway there is an associated height compared to the walkway and position compared to the rabbit that could be jumped through or not not.

Reply to comment on viXra: I'm giving another way of thinking about the issue. Rather than buying into isn't it so strange hype. Such as...'There needs to be 'spooky' entanglement to account for correlations Definite states of being only come to exist upon measurement.' Not so I'm saying absolute orientation in absolute space and uni-temporal time there is what you need. Do not be fooled by the lack of info like the magic rabbit illusion, Things exist in absolute relation to other existing things even when an observation product or measurement hasn't been made. The moon material object exists even when the observer hasn't processed received signals into an observation product ,relative, semblance of the moon from his viewpoint. QM lacks observer independent reality and has problems because of it. So does special Relativity, with its paradoxes. There is no need for spookiness at any angle to account for results obtained. Above 45 degrees and rising; close to easy-ish, easy-ish, easy. 45 degrees= medium difficulty. Below 45 to 90 degrees; close to hard, hard , impossible. Chances of match affected by ease /difficulty, more 1s if easier, more 0s if harder.

Schrödinger's cat

"This thought experiment was devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 in a discussion with Albert Einstein to illustrate what Schrödinger saw as the problems of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics." Wikipedia

He was presenting a ridiculous scenario to point out the logical issue/problem with the model.

Quantum physics is about measurement outcomes, the absolute condition of the cat is an ignored fact and is not assumed to influence the outcome which is considered a random occurrence. Instead an 'impotent' neither live nor dead cat precedes the outcome in the model. The outcome then causes the definite state of being of the existential cat. Getting causality the wrong way around. Ignoring the influence of existing things upon measurement outcomes is a shortcoming of quantum physics.

Reply on vixra, in The unspooky violation of Bells inequality, discussion

Entanglement does not exist, it is a misunderstanding of what is really occurring. First of all the correlations are not from spooky matching of random states that happen to pop into existence, as if from nowhere. Like a basket ball score just randomly appearing in the universe without a pre existing basket ball with a relation to the hoop creating the score or miss. The score effect is not causing the basket ball cause. Absolute space and unitemporal time restores causality to physics. The existing element of Object reality exists in absolute relation to everything else existing. That absolute orientation is influencing the 'score like' measurement outcomes. Like pairs have like orientation and provide like outcomes without any spookiness. I am currently re-writing the paper and am including mention of peekaboo: "Not existing and not being seen are not the same situation. The fun of peekaboo is in the 'magical' reappearance of an object, often a face, that had disappeared from view. Older children are not amused by the game, having awareness that objects obscured from view probably still exist unseen. Coming into and out of view is ordinary. "Psychologist Jean Piaget conducted experiments with infants which led him to conclude that this awareness was typically achieved at eight to nine months of age." "He claimed that infants before this age are too young to understand object permanence." Wikipedia peekaboo, https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Theoretical premise

If the child observer isn't constructing an observation product semblance in 'observation product spacetime', where is the unseen existing object located?

The observation independent existing thing exists in another space. A space that is not relative to an observer, (there is no reason for it to be relative), but absolute. Here things are existing in relation to other existing things forming a unitary pattern of all existing." G. woodward.

The [later] rabbit thought experiment shows another way of obtaining correlation and matching of outcomes in sinusoidal distribution when plotted against angle between tests. That would seem to be due to entanglement but It is to do with the effect of rotation on likelihood of transmission of a subject having absolute orientation influencing outcome and that consequently affecting pair matching occurrence. The classical distribution is usually shown for comparison having linear variation. G.Woodward

Failed to link . I'll try again. Confirmation. received by viXtra Wednesday 4th January

Restoring causality and a seriously unspooky matter

Starting with a little background and history of quantum mechanics. Then considering the fact of 'object permanence' and where existing things, rather than products of observation reside. Pulling a rabbit from a magicians hat as an analogy for measurement is considered. The history and purpose of the Schrödinger's cat scenario is discussed followed by an explanation of what would really occur in such a situation. The 'Many worlds' theory is mentioned briefly. Presenting a thought experiment that helps us to think about at how the statistical pattern of matched detection is formed for prepared photon pairs encountering polarizers with different angles between their orientations etc.

7 days later

I'll try linking the new paper submitted to vira today. Called 'Because simply'

Abstract: Choosing premises, or first principles, or base of argument, from which further deductions are made. Discussion of the following subjects: Existence, space from an argument about object permanence and the question: is the Moon there when nobody looks?, vision: seen things, categorization error, time; answering what does uni-temporal mean?, measurements (likened to scores), beables, the relation of existing and probability and scores, quantum physics including what happens to results not measured, an answer to: what is quantum mechanics about? Superposition including description of and history and analysis of schrödinger's cat thought experiment, the entanglement idea, thought experiment showing 'unspooky' correlation is to be expected, predicting the effect of non quantum correlations. 21 pages

Sorry still not linking. I can share the conclusions.

Uni-temporalism will provide unambiguous sequential time necessary for restoring causality to physics , while allowing retention of relativity too. Relating primarily to electromagnetic signal transmission and processing into visual images. Other stimuli and products can also be considered similarly.

Argument for a space, other than seen relative spacetime, in which there is a uni-temporal configuration of all that is existing, has been given.

There has been discussion of the relationships between existing, probability and measurement outcomes (individual scores). Measurement outcomes (individual scores) are shown to be new abstract products.

Entanglement is shown to be un-necessary as an explanation of correlations of pairs of measurements of prepared pairs of particles; if the metaphysical background, in which physical interaction occurs, is taken to be absolute spatial relations and uni-temporal passage of time. This is preferable to proposals of faster than light communication between particles in spacetime or their being spatially separated but somehow connected in spacetime.

By changing the metaphysics thought to apply as herein recommended, not only does the matter of supposed entanglement get resolved but causality is restored and the reasons for the various paradoxes of Special relativity can be understood as being consequences of using an incorrectly interpreted and incomplete metaphysical background, or of not understanding the necessity of having a reality interface in observation.

I'm pleased to be able to tell you my paper is available now ,for free , on viXra. Here is where http://viXra.org/abs/2301.0068 If you'd prefer tp copy and paste into our browser. I will also provide a link Exploration on the Relationships of Existence, Probability and Measurement Outcomes and Their Implications for Entanglement and Causality Re named by viXra to comply with scholarly norms. The link works I've tried it.

I had wanted a short catchy title because the sub title was too long to be the title itself. That is what it's really about: Metaphysics and understanding the relationships between existing, probability and measurement outcomes (individual scores), denying entanglement and restoring causality

It can be demonstrated that ordinary correlation of macroscopic objects (leading to a sinusoidal patter of pair matching, when angle of separation between tests is plotted against likelihood of a correlated or anticorrelated pair; depending on preparation used) can be obtained if prepared and then utilized in a certain way. The pattern of pair matching for quantum objects, looks like the correlations predicted for the proposed macroscopic pair matching experiment. This calls into question whether we are actually seeing entanglement or just an ordinary correlation with a connection to rotation. It is said that either faster than light communication or a 'connection' of the objects over separated space is needed to explain the finding of the pair matching polarizer experiments. This is a theoretical implication of the metaphysics being used. If the metaphysics is adjusted the theoretical implications are different. Allowing the particle results to be explicable without faster than light communication or a 'connection' of the objects over separated space. Addressing the specific concern that quantum effects are only detectable at the exceedingly small scale of 'quantum' objects: I'm trying to show how we do not need the 'quantum effects' explanation. It is not a law of nature. The pattern of results is real, the interpretation isn't. Size doesn't matter in establishing that.

I'm sorry if that was unclear in the paper. I will add the above explanation to an improved version. Also addressing issues of presentation such as heading style and contents section agreement, and adding page numbering.

9 days later

Quantum physics isn't the end of reality; we just need better rulers that plunge deeper than the Planck length. Here are some tools to get past QM and into string theory. The sextic is the key. Don't need a quantum computer necessarily, but using exact equations for combining linear equations to make them non-classically linear. This is the hypothetical three body problem solved: https://academic.oup.com/ptep/article/2020/4/043A01/5823816

Yet to bump up to the sextic, there needs to be multiplicative three-photon splitting math. For that, here you are:https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahep/2021/6645678/

And just general help to get to a functioning sextic equation using heterodox means:

Linear algebra can produce the sextic in simulacra; for sextic operability, one needs the deformed quantum computer in three photons, which then multiply to form a sextic field when electromagnetic edge matrices are aplied. The multiplication exact solutions I sent you in 2020.

Here you can do it just as easily, creating a string computer: https://www.science.gov/topicpages/q/quantum+rings+perturbative

The reason I am able to find these things: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340373126_Quantum_effects_in_the_brain_A_review

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00669395

http://mirror.xmission.net/gutenberg/3/6/1/5/36154/36154-pdf.pdf

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mCOtbqBPNhQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA225&dq=Sextic+Journal+of+mathematics+Hyperspace+electromagnetism&ots=UCO_oTwXJ0&sig=W_pUa0ERmvTkDfstTU-v-eFb3Ho#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36154/36154-t/36154-t.tex

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/2/383

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Photon splitting:

https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-17-25-22689&id=190731

https://www.osti.gov/pages/servlets/purl/1610519

https://hal.science/hal-01802908/document

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334220266_Emission-Frequency_Separated_High_Quality_Single-Photon_Sources_Enabled_by_Phonons

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.03022.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01683.pdf

REF: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/12/split-photon-provides-new-way-see-light

https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.033706

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.013096

https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1610.08950/

https://rsl.yale.edu/sites/default/files/physreva.74.pdf.qubit-photon_interactions_0.pdf

    8 days later

    Space is volumetric - fact. Time acts throughout space.

    Therefore, time is volumetric. "arrow" when moving volumes, can only be from the expansion or compression of Space or time .

      Hi Aleksandr,

      You say 'time acts throughout space' but, IMO, that's not quite the right expression. Energy acts, time applies It is more like labelling ,identifying. lets say you have as far as you can tell a complexly empty volume of space. Nothing to identify it from any other similar volume. Now imagine you can see a dot, which divides into two ,then 4 dots. Now there was a time of 1 dot followed by a time of 2 dots followed by a time of 4 dots, The time pertains to the existence in the space, its distribution and arrangement are useful descriptors. The sequence of the dots gives the 'direction' of the arrow of time.

      Hi Georgina You can share "something = that." It is useless to divide zero. There is no past as a place for processes. You can call the past a point only on the abstract axis of measuring the duration of events.

      The universe is voluminous. The universe is always in the present. If the present was a line or plane, then in the present there was a part of the Universe and the Universe could travel through time (from one present to another). The IMO Universe creates a process of time movement. Each process determines thermodynamics. Thermodynamics gives the 'direction' of the arrow of time.

      Hi Aleksandr,

      I agree with you that processes do not occur in the past. Instead of past time realms we have memories, records and artifacts of formerly existing configurations of matter and happenings.

      You need to be clear what you mean by 'universe'. You are not referring to what is observed. That being space-time observation products So this is another version, an exiting universe not observed. Be clear what you mean by Present is it the seen content of observations currently produced (general parlance ) or when your unseen universe exists. Does time create thermodynamics or is thermodynamics and other movement processes perceived by us (via our senses) as time passing. I know what I think. Biological processes can act against thermodynamics but still progress in the 'direction' of the arrow of time.