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Article #488Feynman 25 Influence of future on present?
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:04
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:04
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From James Gleick's GENIUS: Feynman 25 Influence of future measurement on present dynamics. p.146 "The field is a 'derived concept,' ... 'The field in actuality is entirely determined by the the particles.' ...Just as radically, he deprecated the wave function of Schrodinger, the now-orthodox means of describing the fill state of a quantum-mechanical system at a given time. It was practically useless, after all, when the interaction of particles involved a time delay. 'We can take the viewpoint, then, that the wave function is just a mathematical construction, useful under certain conditions ... but not generally applicable.' p.147 Measurement was a problem: 'In the mathematics we must describe the system for all times, and if a measurement is going to be made in the interval of interest, this fact must be put somehow into the equaitons from the start." Time was a problem: his approach required, ... 'speaking of states of the system very far from the present." This is clue why unitary proofs against FTL signals are not adequate. Unitary evolution is only valid from one measurement to next in closed system - a future measurement can reach back to determine initial ket. That is how the photon pair polarization correlation of cos^2(theta)/2 for e-e' or o-o' coincidences is established. One measurement prepares, the other analyses.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!well!sarfatti From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) Subject: Feynman 25 Influence of future on present? Message-ID: <Bx7Jqw.8FA@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 20:04:08 GMT Lines: 24