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SPACETIME AND BEYOND 1

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From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 04:08
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The GOD(D) Drive of the most advanced Star Ships uses this psycho-geometric
mode of propulsion - requiring an Omega class bionic man at the helm...

Starting again from the cold mechanical computer-driven voice of Hawking:
Is Hawking a trance-receiver of telepatypes from the future super-
intelligence? Is Hawking a contactee of advanced extra-terrestrial
intelligence?
"If spacetime is quantized, one has to abandon the idea of a metric which
is independent of the observer ... The reason is that to determine where
one is in spacetime one has to 'measure' the metric,.and this act of
measurement places one in one of the different branches of the wave
function in the Everett-Wheeler [many worlds] interpretation."

Zeh [A German Professor of Physics at University of Heidelberg]
remarks:"This is not in conflict with the normal objectivizability of the
values of macroscopic quantities in quantum theory, since an observer
falling into a black hole certainly cannot communicate anymore with one who
remains outside of it." p.127 If my space-like quantum connection
communicator works Zeh's remark will be false so then there would be a
conflict with 'normal objectivizability' or macro objects coming into being
in the classical limit.

Zeh continues: "the global state to be described by a quantum theory of
gravity necessarily has to be correlated with (or even contain) its
observer. The same problem had arisen in connection with the nonlocality of
ordinary quantum theory. If the background geometry is unavoidably and
continuously measured ... simply by the awareness of proper time to us
observers by means of some intrinsic physiological clock [Wigner would say
"consciousness" not "physiological clock" - JS] - it represents a dynamical
superselection rule ... the nonunitarity and CPT-violation of quantum
gravity concluded by Wald (1980,81) is thus in fact simply a manifestation
of the quantum mechanical collapse (or branching) - in no essential way
different from that which leads to the 'coming into being' of other
macroscopic quantities." p.128 Direction of Time Springer-Verlag 1992

"Thes considerations which led to the conclusion that the spacetime
geometry must possess thermodynamical properties in the presence of quantum
fields, and which call for the quantization of geometry, indicate an
unexpected and revolutionary unification of fundamental physical concepts
which goes far beyond a mere unification of fields and forces. Unruh's
locally defined relation between acceleration [of particle detectors] and
temperature [of ambient thermal radiation of virtual particles in the
vacuum] may thereby turn out to be as fundamental [for the as yet unknown
quantum theory of gravity] as for example de Brogl;ie's relation between
wavelength and momentum was for quantum theory." p.128
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