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Dear members, "never say never more"
commentaries in my mouth are perhaps not so relevant as commentaries coming from a professional staff. But, if you give me the permission, I shall try to give point of view as “amateur”.
Steven Carlip in his book: “Quantum Gravity in 2 +1 dimensions” mentions a lot of arguments (page 2) sketching the essential differences between the Quantum mechanical approach and the relativistic one. They agree with the analyze made by Lee Smolin at the beginning of the article arXiv: quant-ph/0609109v1 14 September 2006; example: the question of non-locality. (see other sub-forum: beyond the standard model)
For me, the essential question-answer asked by L. Smolin is (page 2): “Is it possible to solve the measurement problem with a realistic ontology that is not doubled, as Boehm’s is? The idea that quantum mechanic is an approximation to a non-local, cosmological theory offers new possibility for doing this because the missing information, which makes quantum theory statistical, would be found, not in a more detailed description of the sub-system, as it is in the Bohmian mechanics, but in hidden variables which describe relationship between the subsystem and the rest of the universe.”
I would like to say thank you to Mr. Smolin because he is just saying with words what I was saying with my calculations in my investigations devoted to the following question: “Is there any possibility to analyze the Lorentz-Einstein Law as a PDE of second order?”
Even if it does not appear clearly at the beginning of the investigation, the later owns a deep relationship with the way of thinking proposed by L. Smolin. Why? The answer to my modest question is: yes, it is quasi-unique and it is compatible with a space time that would be for a short while without curvature. What do we learn with this? In fact that we can begin a Sturm Liouville analysis of the Lorentz-Einstein Law that is a Law describing locally a long distance effect of some masses and (or and) electrical charges repartitions in the universe. And this analysis can be done in a temporary flat space time which is exactly the frame where the quantum mechanics seems to take place.
For me, the sub-system where things are quantized is the slice of time where we live in; at each instant of our life. And naturally, we get informations inside of our sub-system from the rest of the universe around us via the natural time evolution which is only a temporary and local translation of the laws describing how the nature of the things are changing every where at any time. In other words, the quantum mechanic is a tool developed in accordance with our extremely strong locality. It reports on the apparent flatness of every slice of universe as soon as the slice is tiny enough. And our life is a very tiny thing.
I hope I could help to increase the understanding of the position developed by a) Smolin and b) by my self.
Dear members, "never say never more"
commentaries in my mouth are perhaps not so relevant as commentaries coming from a professional staff. But, if you give me the permission, I shall try to give point of view as “amateur”.
Steven Carlip in his book: “Quantum Gravity in 2 +1 dimensions” mentions a lot of arguments (page 2) sketching the essential differences between the Quantum mechanical approach and the relativistic one. They agree with the analyze made by Lee Smolin at the beginning of the article arXiv: quant-ph/0609109v1 14 September 2006; example: the question of non-locality. (see other sub-forum: beyond the standard model)
For me, the essential question-answer asked by L. Smolin is (page 2): “Is it possible to solve the measurement problem with a realistic ontology that is not doubled, as Boehm’s is? The idea that quantum mechanic is an approximation to a non-local, cosmological theory offers new possibility for doing this because the missing information, which makes quantum theory statistical, would be found, not in a more detailed description of the sub-system, as it is in the Bohmian mechanics, but in hidden variables which describe relationship between the subsystem and the rest of the universe.”
I would like to say thank you to Mr. Smolin because he is just saying with words what I was saying with my calculations in my investigations devoted to the following question: “Is there any possibility to analyze the Lorentz-Einstein Law as a PDE of second order?”
Even if it does not appear clearly at the beginning of the investigation, the later owns a deep relationship with the way of thinking proposed by L. Smolin. Why? The answer to my modest question is: yes, it is quasi-unique and it is compatible with a space time that would be for a short while without curvature. What do we learn with this? In fact that we can begin a Sturm Liouville analysis of the Lorentz-Einstein Law that is a Law describing locally a long distance effect of some masses and (or and) electrical charges repartitions in the universe. And this analysis can be done in a temporary flat space time which is exactly the frame where the quantum mechanics seems to take place.
For me, the sub-system where things are quantized is the slice of time where we live in; at each instant of our life. And naturally, we get informations inside of our sub-system from the rest of the universe around us via the natural time evolution which is only a temporary and local translation of the laws describing how the nature of the things are changing every where at any time. In other words, the quantum mechanic is a tool developed in accordance with our extremely strong locality. It reports on the apparent flatness of every slice of universe as soon as the slice is tiny enough. And our life is a very tiny thing.
I hope I could help to increase the understanding of the position developed by a) Smolin and b) by my self.