Reply to A. Zeilinger

(c) 2000 Roger Y. Gouin

Preamble: My proposal about a "True" Quantum Theory, as can be found in my thesis, complies with all the requirements Prof. Zeilinger has outlined in his 1996 paper for a "sensible" Quantum Theory. I shall start from the end of his paper and identify the basic point missed by QT as Rabi wonders about (Comment 20): What I advance is indeed a point which has been glaring at us for centuries: SPACE IS NOT AN ARENA! (Einstein reminded us of that idea one year before his death) - In all its formulations QT has taken space as a given, not connected at all with its content, including the Special Relativity version introduced by Dirac all the way to String Theory. This basic point must be qualified by the idea identified by Pauli (Comments 2 and 21), that we may be in an "anima mundi", a world in motion: As Feynman saw in recent years, everything in our world must go at the speed of light, there is no such thing as "rest" of one object versus another one. I advance that we only see the shadows of the ephemerous associations of EOR's which occur in higher dimensions, and such a narrow vista leads us to the wrong conclusions, the conclusions we draw from present Quantum Theory.


Comment #1: The statistical character of QT is a fundamental principle because our world is made out of unseparable eternal entities (the EOR's or monads) which create and maintain our space while continually discovering the future via an infinite parallel computation. Right now we do not have the mathematics to deal with the unseparable, that's why we had to use a statistical formalism. We can only see this computation as a statistical process even though it is deterministic, being an infinite continuous parallel computation made consistent by continually creating a space canvas of relations all at the speed of light. The "dissection into constituent parts" is impossible since our world is essentially unseparable. We get a glimpse at some of the separated parts under the form of shadows called "elementary particles" thanks to the bounded manifolds we call nuclei of atoms that must exist within a 3 times 3D evolution of otherwise unbounded and unseparable EOR's (the e-m "field"). All the variational principles come from the adaptive nature of the infinite parallel computations: We do not see the "unsuccessful" computation results that fail to maintain our space in order to continue on to create the infinite future of our world. Formalisms such as the Feynman path integral automatically disregard such results by assuming space as an arena.

Comment #2: We are ourselves made out of eternal EOR's or monads in a world constantly in motion ("anima mundi") going always and all at the speed of light. The Principle of Relativity comes from this fundamental nature of our Reality, including the space we are in that we mistook for a mathematical concept. Space is as real as fire and the other 3 elements of the Ancient Greeks.

Comment #3: We are classical animals due to the vast number of bounded elements (atomic nuclei) we are made of. Our instruments are of that same sort. We are "separated" entities (classical) within an unseparable world (the quantum).

Comment #4: The "quantum phenomenon" is the act of separation from the unseparable. It occurs continually creating the classical world we see. It does not need us and our instruments to exist.

Comment #5: The "observer" is the instrument we use, not us! The instrument selects which kind of separation is made, not us, we merely select the instrument itself, which we can distinguish since already separated. We ARE hidden spectators once we have selected the instrument. The instrument is NOT an extension of ourselves, it has an objective (classical) existence separate from us, an existence we classically manipulate as a separate object like we are. Ourselves are unseparated holistic quantum entities who can identify the separated world parts due to our internal self-recognizing unseparable uncollapsing quantum evolution and manipulate the external objects in their separated ways. Only humans can do that meaningful recognition due to their self-awareness, they can think.

Comment #6: Bohr recognized the difference between the instrument (the true observer) and the other separated entity deciding on the instrument function, the human (free will).

Comment #7: QT has no meaningful basis since it does not consider space as built by its content.

Comment #8: QT is an attempt at seeing the unseparable world from a separated world. Since this unseparated world contains the separated (classical) world, QT cannot make sense.

Comment #9: The quantum of action comes from the fact everything goes at the speed of light. There is only one way to create content manifolds from EOR monadic relations all rotating at the speed of light.

Comment #10: The numerical value of the quantum of action is computed with the mass of the "elementary particles" to adjust to the pre-existing scale of our world. Such a value is found again and again in galaxies active nuclei products knowing that pre-existing scale of our eternal universe.

Comment #11: See Comment #9.

Comment #12: The "complex roots of probabilities" result from a process in higher dimensions perceived as a projection on our space. Waves are projections of manifold rotations in higher dimensions.

Comment #13: If separation has already been done then we are dealing with manipulation of shadows in our space, therefore normal probabilities need to be used.

Comment #14: The "observer" is the instrument. By its physical arrangement containing nuclei in a definite separated location, it will be capable of separating the unseparable in certain ways and not in others.

Comment #15: Interference phenomena occur when the instrument (the true "observer") cannot separate a single possible outcome of the unseparable evolution.

Comment #16: The instrument selects the kind of outcome, not the outcome.

Comment #17: The instrument cannot select a given outcome since an infinite evolution of EOR's is being separated by that already separated entity, the instrument.

Comment #18: The kind of outcome is selectable by the observer (the instrument - a separated object), not the outcome itself (see above). The instrument needs not be in a single location - if non-local the instrument selects a global outcome for the EOR collective associations called quanta that it is set to observe.

Comment #19: Holistic phenomena non-local in our space require a higher dimensionality for the EOR's associations we call quanta. My theory deals with 3 times 3D monadic relations which form manifolds in higher dimensions separated by a non-local separated apparatus. The unseparable manifolds form a whole themselves, and thus are not "non-local," only holistic. Non-locality only applies to separated objects doing the separation, not what they "observe."

Comment #20: See introductory paragraph.

Comment #21: Pauli is the only one who had a feel we were dealing with a world in motion all at the same speed and we were experiencing only its shadows.


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