In the example of the atom, one must stop knowing that one is stationed on the outside, looking in, and start imagining that one is on the inside, looking out.
In the example of the universe, flip that.
Tag Archives: physics
Nuclear Power
A single atom can exist for many billions of years; theoretically, for as long as the universe will. Such is the perfectly profound state of its integral unity. And yet, simple man, whose life is briefer than a moment in comparison, conflicted and contrasted as he is, can muster the understanding necessary to shatter such harmony in an instant even shorter than the universe’s experience of him.
In 10 Words, or Less… Gravity’s Force
proportionalised, contextual product of
mass, mass, and inversely squared distance
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..supplement for people who like pictures:
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Quantum Non-Locality?
As a fairly strict 4-dimensionalist (xyz+t), I’d have to say that Bell’s Theorem only seems to support the co-entanglement of wave functions (as across a wavefront), but not of atoms. I don’t believe that it will ever be properly shown to apply to free protons, for example, which are essentially positive ions of hydrogen.
Also, I don’t believe that most observed “violations” of Bell’s inequalities should be seen as emblematic of non-locality, but instead should be recognised as predeterminations imposed by each experiment’s “entanglement” process or parameters (i.e. generating, lensing, mirroring, polarising, detecting, etc.).
That being said, however, I do think that it’s possible to demonstrate apparent non-local behaviour across cohort waveforms, ostensibly as a coherence function of wavefront integrity, but that is a different sort of beast.
As our main platform for particular non-locality, even in its most corpuscular form, I believe that gravity deserves some reinvigorated attention.
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Anyway, here’s a brief, bold paper from C. S. Unnikrishnan on proving the absence of nonlocality in quantum physics.
the vexing concavity of gravity
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one aspect of gravity is convex, the other concave
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