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  1. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    Not to the poster. No. You seem to be asserting something to the effect that there is some generic property of uncertainty in QM and that somehow in this case its magnitude is small. This is wholly false. The uncertainty principle in QM has to do with the algebra of observables: operators that...
  2. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    No, I'm not. Images can be formed in all kinds of physical theories, and QM isn't a particularly appropriate one here, but there is nothing in the example of images forming that conflicts with the uncertainty principle in QM. Images are formed by the interaction of light with some detector. This...
  3. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    Having said that I don't agree that was the question asked (if it were, we wouldn't be talking about the uncertainty principle and QED like this), but granting that I can give you the answer in a sentence: it doesn't violate the uncertainty principle because the required commutation relations...
  4. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    No, I wouldn't agree. And if that were the question, then the answer would be first that when we refer to the formation of any images, then we are asking about how macroscopic systems (like mirrors or photosensitive screens or whatever) interact with photons by causing them to have a definite...
  5. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    The problem with any answer to the OP's question beyond that of "this question takes a bunch of differing concepts and mashes them together in a nonsensical way" is that such an answer would have to deal with the problematic presentation of said concepts. Also, this is not the first time this...
  6. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    The Feynman path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (including QED, which was the first successful quantum field theory and remains a fundamental component of the standard model) refers to possibilities such as possible "paths" that e.g., a photon or electron may...
  7. LegionOnomaMoi

    Why are multiple universes science?

    There is an edited volume from a peer-reviewed series published by Springer (the largest scientific press in the world, I believe) that is unusually non-technical because it seeks to address questions just such as these and apparently the editors wished it to be readable by a large audience or...
  8. LegionOnomaMoi

    Why are multiple universes science?

    First and perhaps most fundamentally they are because perhaps the most successful physical theory in existence (quantum theory, and in particular the non-relativistic quantum mechanics whence relativistic QFT, particle physics, etc., are derived) involves a description of physical systems which...
  9. LegionOnomaMoi

    Should we believe in Free Will?

    This is the only world that exists. Classical physics is an approximation scheme, and a useful one, but ultimately no system is governed by any classical laws whatsoever. Another more relevant fact is that the deterministic structure of classical mechanics (and classical field theory, etc.)...
  10. LegionOnomaMoi

    Consciousness

    Similar to that of Schrödinger: "Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else." Everything that any physicist (or anyone at all, for that matter) would seek to discover about the...
  11. LegionOnomaMoi

    Consciousness

    "We now know that the moon is demonstrably not there when nobody looks." Mermin, N. D. (1981). Quantum mysteries for anyone. The Journal of Philosophy, 78(7), 397-408. “The only reality is mind and observations” Henry, R. C. (2005). The mental universe. Nature, 436(7047), 29-29.
  12. LegionOnomaMoi

    Consciousness

    Yes, many would. First, a number of physicists today (prominent among them Henry Stapp, Roger Penrose, J. A. Wheeler, David Bohm, Bernard D'Espagnat, just to name a few) have not only explicitly repeated the priority and importance of consciousness to the most fundamental structures of all...
  13. LegionOnomaMoi

    Free Will and an Open Mind

    It hasn't been established that an external reality exists. It is certainly true that one can hold (for whatever reasons) that our ability to make choices such that we could have, had we so decided, chosen otherwise, is illusory and that the experience of volition is as well. However, such a...
  14. LegionOnomaMoi

    The Purpose of Gender

    Because it may be of some interest to anyone interested in gender as a linguistic phenomenon: "Dyirbal has a system of four genders (including one which refers just to edible plants)...There is no absolute limit on the number of terms in a gender system but it is generally between two and ten...
  15. LegionOnomaMoi

    There is a problem with equation E = h f

    I'm not entirely certain what you mean to refer to here. If by "'all-path' argument" you mean the sum-over-all-paths approach to quantum theory better known as the (Feynman) path integral approach, then this is neither an argument nor relevant. Photon numbers are not in general well-defined in...
  16. LegionOnomaMoi

    There is a problem with equation E = h f

    AM radio signals are classical phenomena. They tell us nothing really useful here. But for some novel views on light and photons that aren't fundamentally useless (but in some cases may be controversial or contentious), see below: The Nature of Light: What is a Photon?
  17. LegionOnomaMoi

    There is a problem with equation E = h f

    In QED there are no individual photons. There are no single particles at all in relativistic QFT (and QED is a relativistic QFT) which is fundamentally a many-body theory. But yes, in a manner of speaking in QM individual "particles" have amplitude.
  18. LegionOnomaMoi

    There is a problem with equation E = h f

    AM radio, like all technology which relies on classical electromagnetism, runs on principles that fail to operate or retain any validity at small scales. Photons are fundamentally quantum-mechanical entities and have no place in any physical theory in which radio waves or any other...
  19. LegionOnomaMoi

    Paranormal and Science

    There is no such thing. That's a lie found in textbooks that was known to be fundamentally flawed when it was proposed as an easy oversimplification to reduce "science" to an algorithmic process that could be taught easily to pre-college students and even to some college students rather than the...
  20. LegionOnomaMoi

    Paranormal and Science

    Paranormal isn't just "outside the norm". After all, almost the entirety of clinical psychology, psychiatry, and many other fields are entirely devoted to phenomena outside the norm (as are whole swathes of researchers in sociology and other sciences). However, as concerns the paranormal, the...
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