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  1. LegionOnomaMoi

    A fifth force of nature just discovered? It appears so.

    Not the first time this news has been heralded. I can't link you to the book, obviously (now in its second edition) but here is a short article on it from Physics Today: The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force: Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics As we don't currently have any...
  2. LegionOnomaMoi

    Proven Science says there is No Universe without Conscious Man to Observe it.

    "...Dick Feynman told me about his ‘sum over histories’ version of quantum mechanics. ‘The electron does anything it likes’, he said. ‘It goes in any direction at any speed, forward and backward in time, however it likes, and then you add up the amplitudes and it gives you the wave-function.’ I...
  3. LegionOnomaMoi

    Why Scientists need to accept Eastern thought

    True, but we have to do even more than this. In a number of ways, we are actually trying more to develop the mathematical tools necessary in order to enable us to "get the calculations to fit what we observe about the universe" on the theoretical side, and on the empirical side in a number of...
  4. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

    Not quite. The term "non-destructive" is second probably only to "teleportation" in being highly misleading and is only slightly superior to tests or experiments which are supposed to describe single photons. But it is certainly true that in quantum optics (terminology aside) a number of...
  5. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

    Unfortunately, there is no simple way even to characterize the interpretation which is commonly called the orthodox, standard, or Copenhagen interpretation. For one thing, this textbook-style category is usually attributed to Bohr and Heisenberg and is given in terms of fairly simply axioms that...
  6. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

    The definition includes all such measurements and observations specifically to highlight the kinds of issues that the measurement problem involves. It is phrased in about the most general way possible (as is typical in such papers and discussions) so that one cannot make claims about the nature...
  7. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

    Both in his original 1964 and in later formulations, Bell explicitly showed how his inequality was (to use your word) "broken" by quantum theory. In section IV of his paper, entitled "contradiction", the "main result" the "will be proved" was how quantum theory violated the inequality Bell gave...
  8. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

    No. This goes back all the way to EPR and to the (better) reformulation of EPR given by Bohm in his 1951 textbook Quantum Theory. When EPR, mostly following Einstein (whose idea formed the basis for the paper) questioned the completeness of quantum mechanics it was because Einstein though he had...
  9. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

    So long as the empirical results are in accordance with known, objective facts (actual "facts") which are, thanks to the objective nature of quantum theory, independent of any individual observer or experiment. The best that can ever be said of any test of reality that claims to have...
  10. LegionOnomaMoi

    Newton - The Last Of The Magicians

    Most of the discussions about what counts as a "theory" in the sciences take place in the philosophy of science literature, politics, and in popular/sensationalist stuff. Most scientific literature doesn't use the concept of a "theory" the way one is taught even as an undergrad in the natural...
  11. LegionOnomaMoi

    Newton - The Last Of The Magicians

    We have many theories, most of them untested (and of these not many are even all that well formulated). However, restricting ourselves only to the well-tested theories explaining gravitation and/or fundamental forces, we immediately run into the problem that 1) The most used theory of...
  12. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum Mechanics

    Consciousness isn't the issue. I'm not arguing for quantum mind or anything like that. There are those who have, including those who built the theory. But 1) The wave function fails utterly for all but elementary quantum mechanics and tends to be the topic of discussion because one hopes it can...
  13. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum Mechanics

    I started writing a number of responses to many posts on this thread and these became far too numerous and far too lengthy. I still intend to post these responses, but I am including a small number of references I have scanned or linked to that are worth reading in general but which relate...
  14. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    I should note note one rather vital issue at play when considering the uncertainty principle in the context of photons in QED. In QED, as in particle physics/HEP and QFT more generally, most of the processes relevant to any physical situation under consideration (from many-bodied collision...
  15. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    No, but even were we really discussing a meaningful question regarding photons in practice here we can't treat Planck's constant as negligible. In fact, the question in the OP reads like a kind of attempt at treating popular explanations of Einstein's 1905 light quanta, which means that "photon"...
  16. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    I think before any further conversation on issues regarding photons and the "thought-experiment" in the OP's question it may be useful to give some brief remarks on the nature of photons from actual physics literature rather than my personal explanations, partly so that I can refer to them if...
  17. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum Mechanics

    It remains uncertain as to how the laws of thermodynamics apply within any world. Despite some textbook assertions and presentations, thermodynamics doesn't reduce to statistical mechanics, and even if it did statistical mechanics itself is built upon increasingly shaky assumptions that don't...
  18. LegionOnomaMoi

    Quantum Mechanics

    I think an important lesson that is usually missed in discussions such as these is that in a very real sense quantum mechanics is actually a very simple form of classical mechanics and is if anything more deterministic. In classical mechanics, an absolutely fundamental assumption built into the...
  19. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    The above confuses the issue of classical-to-quantum transition or how the "classical" realm is supposed to be able to be recovered from the quantum world by taking the limit where Planck's constant goes to 0. This simplistic account (given in many textbooks and widely repeated!) of how we...
  20. LegionOnomaMoi

    Physicist, PLEASE answer this puzzle

    Again, the uncertainty principle concerns non-commuting observables. images always involve the detection of the positions of photons and tell us nothing about momentum of these photons. Thus, the uncertainty principle is irrelevant.
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