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Quantum Reality

1987nick herbert

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If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.De Broglie-Bohm Interpretation vs. Copenhagen: "Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics by Nick Herbert“A gravity wave is a ripple in the curvature of space-time. Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts that gravity waves ought to be generated wherever huge masses accelerate - for instance, in binary star systems. If Einstein is right, gravity waves from all parts of the sky pass through the Earth every day. A gravity wave slightly warps every object in its path, squeezing it in one direction and stretching it in the orthogonal direction. Because of the ubiquity of gravity waves, every object we see is continually pulsing to the gravitational rhythm of distant stars.”In “Quantum Reality” by Nick Herbert“Bell’s theorem has immensely clarified the quantum reality question. For instance we now know for certain that no local model can explain quantum facts. Bell’s theorem has important consequences for all models of quantum reality including the Copenhagen Interpretation, and its effects continue to reverberate in physics circles.”In “Quantum Reality” by Nick Herbert“It’s beginning to look as if everything is made of one substance - call it ‘quantumstuff’ - which combines particles and wave at once in a peculiar quantum style all its own.”In “Quantum Reality” by Nick Herbert“The manner in which an electron acquires and possesses its dynamic attributes [e.g., ‘position’; to distinguish them from the ‘static’ attributes mass, charge, and spin] is the subject of the quantum reality question. The fact of the matter is that nobody really knows these days how an electron, or any other quantum entity [or ‘quon’ by using Nick Herbert’s coinage], actually possesses its dynamic attributes.”In “Quantum Reality” by Nick Herbert“In its most up-to-date version Bell’s theorem reads: ‘The quantum facts plus a bit of arithmetic require that reality be non-local. In a local reality, influences cannot travel faster than light. Bell’s theorem says that in any reality of this sort, information does not around fast enough to explain the quantum facts: reality must be non-local.[...] Bohm’s model is an example of such a world. In this model an invisible field informs the electron of environmental changes with a superluminal response time. [...] Bell’s theorem proves that any model of reality, whether ordinary or contextual, must be connected by influences which do not respect the optical speed limit. If Bell’s theorem is valid, we live in a superluminal reality. Bell’s discovery of the necessary non-locality of deep reality is the most important achievement in reality research since the invention of quantum theory.”In “Quantum Reality” by Nick Herbert“Thus Eberhard’s proof [of no-communication between quantum entities] permits nature to send perfectly encrypted messages along FTL channels but denies humans access to such channels so long as their actions are bound by the rules of quantum theory. [...] Skeptical scientists [and SF authors] compare the attempt to construct real superluminal communicators based on strong quantum correlations in the face of Eberhard’s impossibility proof with attempts which flourished in the last century to devise perpetual motion machines in the face of the law of energy conservation.”In “Quantum Reality” by Nick HerbertIn 2015 gravitational waves were “observed by the LIGO consortium.” It was a only a question of time but it took physicists 30 years since Nick’s book...

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