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Article #4886SPACETIME AND BEYOND 1
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 04:08
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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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!well!sarfatti From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) Subject: SPACETIME AND BEYOND 1 Message-ID: <BvqGtn.GpK@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 04:08:10 GMT Lines: 48