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* Matter cannot move faster than information.
 
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* When particles are entangled, they cannot be measured. They arrive when an event occurs that establishes their reality.
 
* When particles are entangled, they cannot be measured. They arrive when an event occurs that establishes their reality.
* Our reality is just a string of events. The eye does not "see" photons, it records events.
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* Our reality is just a string of events. The eye does not "see" photons, it records events. In this case the absorption of one or more photons in a retinal cell.
  
 
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[[Category: Physics]]
 
[[Category: Physics]]

Revision as of 11:46, 2 June 2023

Full Title or Meme

The Particle Model was created for quantum mechanics to extended the physics of Newton's Planets to sub-atomic phenomenon.

That model is treated here as though it were a myth. Extraordinarily helpful perhaps, but, all the same, just a myth.

Context

Richard Feynman was ambivalent about the reality of either waves or particles, sometime talking about a particle being at a place at a time. The following though is what he told his students at Cal Tech.
Newton thought that light was made up of particles, but then it was discovered that it behaves like a wave. Later, however (in the beginning of the twentieth century), it was found that light did indeed sometimes behave like a particle. Historically, the electron, for example, was thought to behave like a particle, and then it was found that in many respects it behaved like a wave. So it really behaves like neither. Now we have given up. We say: “It is like neither.”[1]

Problems

The universe seems to be running with not\o energy loss although no one really knows what the boundary condition are. Eventful Universe#Irreversibility and Power Consumption

Solution

  • The results from using the particle and wave models (as appropriate) gives results of spectacular and consistent accuracy.
  • If something seems to good to be true, it typically is to good to be true.
  • Something there is that rebels against such complex solutions.
  • Nothing seems to be lost if we regard the wave equations as an information probe that is searching for a place to deposit a quantum of energy which just disappears at one point in spacetime are reappears at another.
  • In other words, energy is preserved even though some of it is in-transit and not in existence at any one point in spacetime.
  • The only purpose time serves (or derives from) is the measurement of the propagation of information.
  • Matter cannot move faster than information.
  • When particles are entangled, they cannot be measured. They arrive when an event occurs that establishes their reality.
  • Our reality is just a string of events. The eye does not "see" photons, it records events. In this case the absorption of one or more photons in a retinal cell.

References

  1. Richard Feynman Feynman Lectures III no 1 Cal Tech https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_01.html