On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 04:15:13PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > All, > > Someone asked somewhere if I cover quantum theory in my book. Yes, I do. > The entire 'Part III: Elementals' of the book covers reality at its finest > scale, the quantum world. I'll summarize here but can only gloss over some > of the main points..... > > As stated before reality, at its most fundamental level, consists of pure > computationally evolving information only. It is not physical. Thus there > is no dimensional spacetime. Dimensional spacetime is in fact something > that arises from quantum events, e.g. the conservation of particle > properties as they are computed in particle interactions that specify the > dimensional relationships between particles emerging from particle > interactions, such as relative energies and momenta. > > It is these purely numeric NON-physical computed dimensional relationships > that are part of the fundamental computational reality. Thus instead of a > single pre-existing all pervading spacetime that exists as a background to > all events, what really happens is that many independent mini-spacetimes > arise from networks of particle interactions. > > It is only when these networks connect via common events that their > spacetimes merge into larger mini-spacetimes, and the spacetime that we > think we inhabit is actually the end result of the merging of innumerable > mini-spacetimes as the result of all the billions of particle level events > we continually interact with, e.g. all the photons impinging on our retinas. > > These continual particle level interactions build up the simulacrum of a > classical spacetime and our minds then interpolate that and mentally > construct a fixed, pre-existing common spacetime that does not actually > exist in external reality itself even though our minds convince us that it > does. > > Now there is plenty of evidence this view is correct, part of which is that > it solves two of the most profound problems of physics..... > > > > The beauty of this insight is that it enables two very important advances. > > 1. First it enables the conceptual unification of general relativity and > quantum theory because the reason they seem incompatible is precisely the > pre-existing all pervading spacetime that quantum theory mistakenly > assumes. When it is understood that spacetime emerges from quantum events > rather than being a pre-existing background to them this incompatibility > vanishes and in fact it is easy to get the curved spacetime of general > relativity directly from this emergence by simply taking the mass-energy > particle property as the scale of the spacetime that emerges. > > 2. In one fell swoop it eliminates ALL quantum paradox. Why? Because > quantum processes only seem paradoxical again with respect to the > pre-existing fixed common spacetime mistakenly assumed. When the way > spacetime emerges FROM quantum processes is understood all the paradoxical > nature of quantum theory vanishes. > > > Now, I know this probably seems counter intuitive and is a lot to get one's > mind around in one post which is not as clearly stated as I'd like but I'd > be happy to explain further or you can read my book available on Amazon > under my name. When it is properly understood it becomes quite clear and > very obvious and it is so simple and straightforward one wonders why no one > discovered it before.... > > Edgar > >
Hi Edgar, In principle, this strikes me as being right. Spacetime must be emergent from quantum interactions via the process of observation, but getting the mathematical details right is tricky. I know of the PaW model, for example, which attempts to do this (eg see arXiv:1310.4691), but haven't really grokked the details. Is you model related, and do you have a shorter paper where you give the mathematical details? Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
