Space, Time and Matter
The realization that unification of quantum and relativity theories can only be achieved under four-dimensional formulation resolves most of the vexing quantum aberrations, without explaining the assumed nonlinearity of quantum effects. The remarkable eff
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Space, Time and Matter
The realization that unification of quantum and relativity theories can only be achieved under four-dimensional formulation resolves most of the vexing quantum aberrations, without explaining the assumed nonlinearity of quantum effects. The remarkable effectiveness of wave mechanics in the elucidation of all quantum phenomena argues convincingly for a linear theory. However, the collapse or reduction of a wave function, and even quantum jumps, are nonlinear events, not governed by the wave equation; an inference carefully avoided by quantum philosophers. Primas [1] summarized a common perception in the words: : : : that consciousness modifies the usual laws of physics and that the action of the mind on matter is associated with a grossly nonlinear time evolution equation for the state vector. Since the introduction of ad hoc modifications can ruin any theory, the proposals of nonlinear time evolutions for quantal states have no power to convince.
What an amazing cop-out. Why does the ad hoc assumption of quantum jumps and wave-function collapse not ruin the Copenhagen theory? However, without the complicating factor of consciousness, dragged into the argument by ‘reduction of the wave packet’, the conclusion on nonlinearity is in total accord with those reached in the previous chapter. Only the origin of a nonlinear term needs to be clarified and verification is not too hard to find in the non-Euclidean geometry of general relativity. Cosmologists distinguish between an underlying curved space-time and the local Euclidean tangent space of common experience. Physical laws formulated in tangent space are linear approximations of the nonlinear laws of general relativity. That is why the concept of curved space-time is hard to swallow: the local tangent environment appears and responds as a Euclidean construct. All of the philosophical speculation about space, time and the vacuum amounts to groping for an understanding of the origin and nature of matter. It is agreed fairly generally, but not universally, that matter is the product of a curved aether, according to the general theory of relativity. The form in which elementary matter emerges is
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more contentious. The theories of particle physics favour a model of point particles endowed with mass, due to the Higgs mechanism and symmetry breaking. The alternative scenario of matter waves that occur as distortions of the curved aether results in a different model of elementary matter. It will be argued that the way in which to understand elementary matter is by reinterpretation of the data that underpin the physics theory of elementary particles, but in terms of standing waves. A possible limitation exists therein that the theory of quantum chromodynamics that underpins the standard model is by orders more complicated than Schrödinger wave mechanics. Wave mechanics was used in the previous t
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