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Introduction (2009): This website is primarily on the subjects of truth
and reality. We get about 300,000 page views each week and are one of the
top philosophy / physics sites on the Internet. The central thesis is best
stated in three parts;
i) We must know the truth to act wisely, and truth comes from physical reality.
ii) Our present and past societies are not founded
on truth and act unwisely (overpopulation, destruction of nature,
pollution, climate change, religious and economic wars, etc.).
iii) We now know the correct language for describing
physical reality (all matter interactions are wave interactions in space),
and this knowledge is critical for our future survival, being the source
of truth & wisdom.
So how do we prove that this is true? Everyone will agree that true
knowledge of reality must explain and solve the fundamental problems of
knowledge in physics, philosophy and metaphysics. This website
does exactly that. The above subject pages provide short summaries / simple
solutions to these central problems of knowledge. To begin it is useful
to read the Introduction
& Summary to this Physics Philosophy Metaphysics Website.
Short Summary of Quantum Physics These Quantum Physics pages (on either side) show how this new
understanding of physical reality (that all light and matter interactions
are wave interactions in Space) explains and solves the central problems
of Quantum Theory.
The mistake was to work from Newton's foundation of particles
and instantly acting gravity forces in space and time (many things) and
then have to add more things to explain light and electricity, i.e. charged
particles, continuous electromagnetic fields and waves (Faraday,
Maxwell,
Lorentz,
Einstein's
Special Relativity).
Thus by 1900 the central concepts of Physics were; Matter as discrete particles with both gravitational mass
and electrical charge properties (mass-charge duality). Light as continuous electromagnetic waves (velocity of
light c).
Continuous electromagnetic fields created by discrete charged particles
(discrete particle-continuous field duality). Local charge interactions limited by the velocity of electromagnetic
waves (velocity of light c).
The solution to this confusion and contradiction is simple once
known. Describe reality from One thing existing, Space (that we all commonly
experience) and its Properties. i.e. Rather than adding matter
particles to space as Newton did, we consider Space with properties of a
continuous wave medium for a pure Wave Structure of Matter. This is the
Most Simple Science Theory of Physical Reality (despite many claims
to the contrary, science does actually work, we just needed the correct
foundation of continuous Space rather than discrete matter).
Most importantly, this Dynamic
Unity of Reality provides simple solutions to all the 'strangeness'
of quantum physics that has resulted from this discrete / disconnected 'particle'
conception of matter.
i.e. Matter is a Wave Structure of Space - the Spherical Wave
Center creates the 'particle' effect. Light is a Wave Phenomena - however, spherical standing
waves (matter) act as spherical resonators and only interact (resonantly
couple) at discrete frequencies / energies which gives the effect of discrete
light 'quanta'. Reality is both Continuous (Space) and Discrete (Standing Wave Interactions). Reality is both Local and Non-Local - matter is causally
inter-connected in Space by its Spherical In and Out Waves (traveling at
velocity c, i.e. Einstein's Locality). However (and very importantly), with
relative motion these matter wave interactions form de
Broglie phase waves that travel at high velocities (c2/v),
explaining EPR and apparent Non-Locality / Instant-Action-at-a-Distance. Reality is Causally Connected but Non-Deterministic / Statistical.
The waves in quantum theory are real waves (not abstract 'probability waves')
but lack of knowledge of the interconnected whole (infinite Space) causes
statistical behaviour of matter (as Einstein believed).
I realise this is a pretty abrupt / radical introduction to a new way of
seeing things - that it will take some time to adjust. But the Wave Structure
of Matter is simple sensible and obvious once known. Each Quantum Physics
page has a short summary and important quotes, so it is easy to click around
and confirm things for yourself. Enjoy! Think! Geoff
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Quantum Mechanics: John Stewart Bell The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) explains Bell's Inequality & 'apparent' Non-Locality of EPR. From 'particle' to wave center of Spherical Standing Wave confirms hidden variables of Quantum Mechanics.
It has been argued that quantum mechanics is not locally causal and cannot be embedded in a locally causal theory. That conclusion depends on treating certain experimental parameters, typically the orientations of polarization filters, as free variables. But it might be that this apparent freedom is illusory. Perhaps experimental parameters and experimental results are both consequences, or partially so, of some common hidden mechanism. Then the apparent non-locality could be simulated. (John Bell, 'Free Variables and Local Causality', 'Epistemological Letters', 15, 1977)
The discomfort that I feel is associated with the fact that the observed perfect quantum correlations seem to demand something like the 'genetic' hypothesis. For me, it is so reasonable to assume that the photons in those experiments carry with them programs, which have been correlated in advance, telling them how to behave. This is so rational that I think that when Einstein saw that, and the others refused to see it, he was the rational man. The other people, although history has justified them, were burying their heads in the sand. I feel that Einstein's intellectual superiority over Bohr, in this instance, was enormous; a vast gulf between the man who saw clearly what was needed, and the obscurantist. So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work. (John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), author of 'Bell's Theorem' / 'Bell's Inequality', quoted in Quantum Profiles, by Jeremy Bernstein [Princeton University Press, 1991, p. 84] From Kelly Ross, http://www.friesian.com/space-2.htm)
That the guiding wave, in the general case, propagates not in ordinary three-space but in a multi-dimensional configuration space is the origin of the notorious "non-locality" of quantum mechanics. It is a merit of the de Broglie- Bohm version to bring this out so explicitly that it cannot be ignored. (John Stewart Bell)
John Stewart Bell (June 28, 1928 - October 1, 1990) was a physicist who became well known as the originator of Bell's Theorem, regarded by some in the quantum physics community as one of the most important theorems of the 20th century.
John Stewart Bell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and graduated in experimental physics at Queen's University, Belfast, in 1948. He went on to do a PhD in Birmingham, specialising in nuclear physics and quantum field theory. His working career started with the British Atomic Energy Agency, in Malvern, Britain, then Harwell. After several years he moved to the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). Here he worked almost exclusively on theoretical particle physics and on accelerator design, but found time to persue a major "hobby", investigating the fundamentals of quantum theory.
In 1964, after a year's leave from CERN that he spent at Stanford, the University of Wisconsin and Brandeis University, he derived his famous inequality. This must be satisfied by any local hidden variable theory but can be violated under quantum mechanics. He had first shown that von Neumann’s proof against deterministic quantum mechanics lacked rigor and that Bohm’s work got around von Neumann’s objections through the use of superluminal signalling. (Interestingly, the flaw in von Neumann's proof was previously discovered by Grete Hermann in 1935, but did not become common knowledge until rediscovered by Bell.)
In 1972 the first of many experiments that have shown a violation of Bell's Inequality was conducted. The fate of local hidden variable theories is currently generally regarded as sealed. Bell's Theorem has come to be regarded a proof that the underlying theory of the universe must be a quantum-mechanical one, although Bell's original goal was just the opposite.
Bell became a supporter of the Bohm interpretation, a nonlocal hidden variable theory involving superluminal signaling, calling its suppression a "scandal" within physics, and took to defending his work against those whom he perceived as distorting its meaning to favor indeterministic quantum mechanics such as the Copenhagen and Everett "many-worlds" interpretations.
The outcomes of the experiments, showing as they did a violation of his inequalities, did not make John Bell particularly happy: he had hoped that they would always be satisfied in Nature, and that experiments would eventually falsify quantum mechanics. Despite the observed violations, he kept some belief that future experiments would change the situation. Nevertheless he was ready to accept the validity of the orthodox quantum mechanics. Referring to the Bell test experiments, a remark of his is frequently quoted:
"It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency ..." (Ref 1, page 109)
Some people continue to believe that the probabilistic quantum mechanics must be incorrect. They argue that future, much more precise, experiments could reveal that one of the known loopholes, for example the so-called "fair sampling loophole", had been biasing the interpretations. This latter loophole, first publicised by Philip Pearle in 1970 (ref below), is such that increases in counter efficiency decrease the measured quantum correlation, eventually destroying the empirical match with quantum mechanics. Most mainstream physicists are highly skeptical about all these "loopholes", admitting their existence but continuing to believe that quantum mechanics is correct. It is claimed, after all, never to have failed any other test.
Bell died unexpectedly of a cerebral haemorrhage in Belfast in 1990. Believers in local realism and quantum theory alike continue to search for ways of making sense of the apparent failure of local realism in the Bell test experiments.
References:
Bell, John S, The Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, Cambridge University Press 1987
Pearle, P, Hidden-Variable Example Based upon Data Rejection, Physical Review D, 2, 1418-25 (1970)
Aczel, Amir D, Entanglement: The greatest mystery in physics, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_Bell
Quantum Physics The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) and Spherical Standing Wave Interactions explains Discrete Energy States of Quantum Physics (Quantum Theory / Quantum Wave Mechanics).
A Simple Solution to the Particle / Wave Duality of Light and Matter & Quantum Entanglement
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Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially
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... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which
the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions
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to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm
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It has been argued that quantum mechanics is not locally causal and cannot be embedded in a locally causal theory. That conclusion depends on treating certain experimental parameters, typically the orientations of polarization filters, as free variables. But it might be that this apparent freedom is illusory. Perhaps experimental parameters and experimental results are both consequences, or partially so, of some common hidden mechanism. Then the apparent non-locality could be simulated. (John Bell, 'Free Variables and Local Causality', 'Epistemological Letters', 15, 1977)
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(Mohandas Gandhi)
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. ...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe - the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the intuitions of the ancient philosophers and mystics.
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