Recent content by UglyDuckling

Recognising the boundaries between the two is the problem?

Its sometime since I read Marcella’s paper but from recollection its purpose was to demonstrate, to students, that quantum mechanics could be rigorously applied to the mediation of light. I do seem to recall, light being referred to as a free particle, However, I suspect this is merely a...

I’m glad you said invented. I think its an invention that’s managed to survive long past its sell by date. Although the idea of a photon seems to have captured the public imagination the actual evidence for its existence is scant! True it provides an explanation for the photoelectric effect...

OK Point Taken Unless asked directly for a reply I'll keep off the subject of proper interval locality. I'm away until the end of June so I will submit a compliant post probably sometime in July. Cheers

Hi Farsight Perhaps not exactly? What the Bell Local theory is saying, is there is no requirement for a photon at all! The geometry of space-time, demanded by the special theory of relativity, creates zero interval paths that link directly spatially separated quantum systems. This allows...

Hi Hans Your second expression is Euclidian and is not applicable to a universe characterised by the constancy of the speed of light relative to all inertial frames of reference. The interval between a pair of events in space-time must be calculated (for flat space-time) using the Minkowski...

Sorry I haven't replied earlier I don't get much chance to spend time on the forum. The idea that there is backward in time causation seems to have crept into the interpretation of the proposed Bell Local Theory on its own accord. The theory itself does not contain this element. Therefore it...

Hi ttn I’m still waiting for a valid argument showing that direct interaction between quantum systems, at events on their world lines where their proper interval of separation has zero magnitude, cannot happen. Your parody was inconsistent with SRT and did not address the issue of nature...

Thanks for this amusing parody. However your challenge was for a Bell local theory that agrees with experiment. The particle in your argument is superluminal therefore violates the constraints of special relativity. Therefore your case cannot be Bell local and I know of no experiment which...

Bell Local Theory The speed of light is constant and invariant relative to the inertial state of the observer. Let us consider two spatial positions A and B which are fixed on an inertial reference frame. Let A and B lie on the x-axis and be positioned at x = 0 and x = X respectively. On a...

Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Will someone please put me out of my misery regarding “the locality loophole”? ttn says “I don’t know what I’m talking about”, I have tried to find a rational valid reason why he should make this allegation but so...

OK if I don't Know what I'm talking about! Explain to me why spatially separated quantum objects should not become super-positioned at locations on their world lines where their "proper" separation has zero magnitude.

The information dosen't have to fly anywhere. Three events are contiguous and therefore can/will share information about their states. Of course nature does not permit us to see what goes on at quantum level. We must rely on our ability to measure distance and time with rules and clocks and then...

You start off OK but then lose the plot about half way through when you start talking about information traveling backwards in time. Special relativity does not require a signal to go backwards in time. This is merely an illusion caused by the way we have to measure and represent distance and...

I agree! The universe ought to be simple and elegant not distasteful. Personally I believe the ideas of non-locality, MWI, Bohmian mechanics, entangles particles are all spawned from a near universal misunderstanding of the special theory of relativity. The problems of quantum weirdness...