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    I Does Time-Symmetry Imply Retrocausality? How does the Quantum World Say “Maybe”?

    Are you familiar with these experiments? https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15759
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    I QM Qubit state space representation by Projective Hilbert space

    Exactly. All the physics lives on the projective space ##\mathbb C\mathrm P^1## (or Bloch sphere); ##\mathbb C^2## is just a convenient, basis‑dependent coordinate chart.
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    I QM Qubit state space representation by Projective Hilbert space

    Exactly right. You’re drawing the perfect analogy. Point [a:b] in ##\mathbb C\mathrm P^1## isn’t literally the qubit state, but represents the unique physical pure state (ray) in the abstract ##\mathcal H##. All the physics lives in the projective geometry; picking ##\mathbb C^2## is only a...
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    I QM Qubit state space representation by Projective Hilbert space

    $$H \rightarrow \mathbb{C}^2,\quad a|0\rangle + b|1\rangle \mapsto \begin{pmatrix}a \\b\end{pmatrix}$$ This is already the realization of an abstract space, and not the physical state itself. The physical state of a qubit is a class of vectors {λ(a,b)} = point ([a:b]) in ##\mathbb{CP}^1##
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    I QM Qubit state space representation by Projective Hilbert space

    The vectors ∣0⟩ and ∣1⟩ are not cubit states in themselves, but only their representatives. The only physical content is the rays, that is, the points of the project space.
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    I Would gravitons theoretically act like photons?

    Gravity’s coupling G is dimensionful, so you only get a meaningful gravitational fine‑structure constant once you specify masses or energies. In hydrogen: ##\alpha_g=\frac{Gm_em_p}{\hbar c}\sim3\times10^{-42}## In particle scattering at energy E: ##\alpha_g(E)\sim\frac{GE^2}{\hbar c}## This lets...
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    I QM Qubit state space representation by Projective Hilbert space

    The chosen basis provides a convenient coordinating, but does not change the geometry of the state space itself
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    I Would gravitons theoretically act like photons?

    You can of course be skeptical about my previous post, but: If it does exist, then formally the "graviton" should be very similar to the photon, and many techniques (Feynman rules, soft theorems, double copy) can be transferred. They share the same quantum‑wave duality, but that’s where most of...
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    A A couple of long questions on positivity bounds for UV-complete EFTs

    Without convexity and canonical form you will not get a powerful geometric tool for calculation or classification. It is possible to make a "negative EFT-hedron", but its usefulness is unlikely to be comparable to the positive one: the main properties are lost. I have not yet seen a single fully...
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    A Baryon CP Violation Observed at CERN

    why is CP violation in baryons so small compared to mesons? paradox?
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    A Geometry Topology and Physics: Nakahara, Chapt. 1: Weyl Ordering

    Trotter splits ##e^{−i(T+V)ε}## into “purely kinetic” and “purely potential”. The Gaussian integral yields the leading term ##exp[im(x−y)^2/(2ε)]## and normalization. Taylor potential around the midpoint 𝑧=(𝑥+𝑦)/2 yields −iεV((x+y)/2) plus ##𝑂(𝜀(𝑥−𝑦)^2)##. All remaining inconsistencies are...
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    A What happens when an operator maps a vector out of the Hilbert space?

    Exactly so—multiplication operators fit the same pattern as the differential ones: Multiplication by an unbounded function is fundamentally not everywhere defined, so it doesn’t contradict Hellinger–Toeplitz. Any physically meaningful unbounded operator—differential or multiplicative—lives on a...
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    A What happens when an operator maps a vector out of the Hilbert space?

    Differential operators are unbounded because they’re only defined on a proper dense subset of the Hilbert space, not on every vector. If you insist on “full” domain, the only unbounded ones you get are pathological, non‑continuous algebraic beasts with no symmetry or spectral story.
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    A What happens when an operator maps a vector out of the Hilbert space?

    If you drop symmetry, you get pathological, discontinuous, unbounded maps—but they’re of almost no use in analysis or physics.
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    I Would gravitons theoretically act like photons?

    I think it is too early to talk about "graviton" at all for obvious reasons: 1. quantum gravity has not been built 2. "graviton" has not been discovered Quantum field theory predicts a lot, but creates more problems.
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