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Peter Morgan
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- I invite a conversation about QM (and about QFT) that begins from a more operational perspective than is usual, taking care not to discuss 'particles', 'fields', or 'systems' in the first instance, but that pushes towards a more realist understanding of QFT by the end.
On May 18th, I presented a Colloquium for the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, with the title "A Dataset & Signal Analysis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", by Zoom. I attach a PDF of the slides and the YouTube video is here. I am told by a Yale undergraduate who attended a Yale Physics seminar on May 1st and who subsequently dived into my work that this is the clearest presentation of my work.
A few days later, a student in Dhaka who is a Facebook Friend invited me for a followup Q&A on June 3rd, also by Zoom (the first 7:51 are introduction and biographical: there are links in the video description that allow jumping past that.) That material will only be interesting to someone who wants to deep dive into the ideas.
The abstract and the outline slide for the NSU Dhaka talk are:
People may find it helpful to have a quick look at a brief but perhaps revealing profile of me and my work in an article on 3 Quarks Daily by a physicist who is the head of a physics department at a small college in Louisiana. He took a 6 week-long look and decided that he wasn't sure whether there was something there or not. My bad! If he had understood my work clearly enough I suppose he would have written an article that would have been much more about my work, but the end of Summer and his article deadline was approaching.
Responses to this approach are sometimes very positive indeed, but there are of course holes that can be picked in both the material and how I present it. Part III is more a research topic than would be OK for a colloquium and in any case it would take about 20 minutes more than the time allotted. A presentation of material close to that can be found, however, at the end of the Yale Physics Seminar on May 1st, beginning at 38m57s. I invite a conversation. If one or more people are willing to participate over Zoom, I will set up a call (hopefully in a way that accommodates time zones).
I have labeled this post "Intermediate" because some undergraduates have said that they found the material accessible. If admin wants to reclassify it, delete it, or move it, I'm OK with whatever.
A few days later, a student in Dhaka who is a Facebook Friend invited me for a followup Q&A on June 3rd, also by Zoom (the first 7:51 are introduction and biographical: there are links in the video description that allow jumping past that.) That material will only be interesting to someone who wants to deep dive into the ideas.
The abstract and the outline slide for the NSU Dhaka talk are:
People may find it helpful to have a quick look at a brief but perhaps revealing profile of me and my work in an article on 3 Quarks Daily by a physicist who is the head of a physics department at a small college in Louisiana. He took a 6 week-long look and decided that he wasn't sure whether there was something there or not. My bad! If he had understood my work clearly enough I suppose he would have written an article that would have been much more about my work, but the end of Summer and his article deadline was approaching.
Responses to this approach are sometimes very positive indeed, but there are of course holes that can be picked in both the material and how I present it. Part III is more a research topic than would be OK for a colloquium and in any case it would take about 20 minutes more than the time allotted. A presentation of material close to that can be found, however, at the end of the Yale Physics Seminar on May 1st, beginning at 38m57s. I invite a conversation. If one or more people are willing to participate over Zoom, I will set up a call (hopefully in a way that accommodates time zones).
I have labeled this post "Intermediate" because some undergraduates have said that they found the material accessible. If admin wants to reclassify it, delete it, or move it, I'm OK with whatever.