Dear Alex and FIS, what I can only say as (now) qualified non-expert in QT is that points 1-13 embrace a period in scientific research of really great minds (I did not see Feynman”s name in the list, but he is certainly meant under “others") a little bit more than 100 years. Please excuse my doubts, but I simply cannot start believing that human knowledge will stay at that level for ever. Some day there will be certainly another revolution in physics and/or biology or even another discipline that could embrace the 13 domains as special cases. I cannot understand why (quantum) physicists are sometimes so egocentric like monks with their domain that they try to explain even the behaviour of viruses with quantum interactions. I apologise for hurting someone’s feelings.
Plamen On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Alex Hankey <[email protected]> wrote: > RE: I am not sure that QT is the ultimate theory of all things, but I think > the effort is worth doing it, since we hardly have anything else to step on > now.I invite all those interested in this endeavor to join hands! > > ME: Speaking as a theoretical physicist with 45 years experience and deep > interests in the foundations of physics and the origins of quantum theory, > I should like to comment that to really understand quantum theory so as to > see how to patch up its faults is not easy, and requires many years study > in many different subfields. > > It requires deep knowledge and understanding of all of the following > subfields; > 1. The Copenhagen interpretation as fully expressed by Henry Stapp. > 2. John Von Neumann's formulation, together with its limitations. > 3. The Many Worlds (Princeton) interpretation as most recently promoted by > Tegmark. > 4. Einstein's objections as expressed in the EPR paradox, and > 5. David Bohm's program of hidden variables to support Einstein, and > 6. Bell's Theorem to experimentally distinguish Bohr;s and Bohm's > approaches. > 7. Aspect's experiments (and Clauser's preceding it) showing that Bohr was > right. > 8. Bernard D'Espagnat's important contributions, especially the Theorem > for which he received the Templeton prize - physical reality is not > 'strongly objective' on either macroscopic or microscopic levels. > 9. All the debate initiated by Gell-Man and others on how wave-functions > collapse. and what happens to quantum correlations that are generated. > 10. David Deutsch's theory of quantum information. > 11. Anton Zeilinger's use of quantum fluctuations for 'quantum > teleportation' > 12. The quantum theory of open systems by ECG (George) Sudarshan and > others, the inherent limitations of their approach and its possible > resolution. > 13. The debates on the relationship between quantum theory and classical > physics, the shortcomings of Bohr's Correspondence Principle and how to > overcome them. > > I should hate to say that this is a field for specialists, because I truly > believe that non-experts can often cut through the Gordian knot in the > middle of a field, simply because they have not adopted the world view of > the experts in following the debates for decades up to that point, and are > therefore not indoctrinated with a paradigm that in fact needs updating - > often not obvious to those in the field itself. > > But like most advanced scientific fields there is a lot to digest! > (And my own views are radical, and almost as violent as the > victor's approach to the Gordian Knot itself!) > > -- > Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD (M.I.T.) > Distinguished Professor of Yoga and Physical Science, > SVYASA, Eknath Bhavan, 19 Gavipuram Circle > Bangalore 560019, Karnataka, India > Mobile (Intn'l): +44 7710 534195 > Mobile (India) +91 900 800 8789 > ____________________________________________________________ > > 2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, > Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy > <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3> > > _______________________________________________ > Fis mailing list > [email protected] > http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > >
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