On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:35:16PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 1/24/2014 2:58 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >Indeed - with my derivation of QM, octonions, or more general measure > >are preferred over the complex. Which naturally leads to the question > >of why complex. Either octonions make no empirical difference, or a > >reason will be found why commutativity of the measure is necessary, > > Measurements in standard QM is not generally commutative. You mean > associativity?
No I meant commutativity of the measure (which is the complex field of QM). If a more general measure is used - eg quaternions, then the axiom of commutativity is the first to go. > > Baez and Heurta have written several papers on the relation of the > four division algebras to physics. > http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.0551v2.pdf > Thanks - I'll take a look, although, superficially it looks like its is dealing with a different question - maybe Lisi's theory? > Brent > > >or > >some experiment will be devised showing that complex number QM (ie > >standard QM) is empirically wrong. Any of these three options would be > >fascinating! > > > >Cheers > > > > -- > 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
