"No phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon."
Hiley shows by explicit calculations that there is no "retrocausality"
in Wheeler's delayed choice experiment nor in the variations with a
maser cavity in one channel of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Even
Aharonov & Vaidman made a mistake there! Hiley totally refutes the Asher
Peres interpretation of quantum theory, though the late Peres was
formidable - a powerful mind. Peter Woit suggest that string theory is
pseudoscience, but Hiley shows there has been a lot of bad mystical
physics at the foundations of quantum theory - that an ontological
reality can be maintained - that Bohr was wrong on that point and
Einstein was right, though many of Bohr's insights survive because the
opposite of a great truth is another great truth.
Thus Hiley's Bohmian analysis is consistent with the no cloning theorem
in which the denial of signal nonlocality imposes strict limits on
imperfect optimal cloning of an unknown quantum bit - something like 5/6
for maximal fidelity of the cloning beyond which one gets signal
nonlocality and true retrocausality as in the remote viewing and
presponse experiments on living matter. This is consistent with David
Deutsch's and Wigner's view that consciousness is a violation of
microscopic quantum theory. Note there is no measurement problem and no
"collapse" in the Bohmian view of micro-quantum theory although in many
experiments it's as if collapse. True retrocausality with signal
nonlocality is a fundamental breakdown microscopic quantum theory's
"sub-quantal equilibrium" (A. Valentini) in which macroquantum
spontaneous symmetry breaking leading to emergent phenomena like
conscious brains and our accelerating expanding pocket deSitter
horizoned universe on the cosmic landscape of the megaverse are prime
examples. There is no Hawking wave function of the universe in the
macro-world, although it is there in the initial cosmic trigger from the
future inflation bubble. The Hawking wave function of the universe is
replaced by the Landau-Ginzburg order parameter that in 3D + 1 is local,
which is why there are no giant Schrodinger Cats. Note however that 2D +
1 boundaries with "anyons" have nonlocal order parameters which have a
hologram nature.
On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Demystifies a lot of quantum
<DelayedChoice.pdf>
nonsense not only in pop books, but also in standard text books. Even
the great Wheeler may be wrong about the quantum?
Jack Sarfatti
sarfatti@pacbell.net
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
- Albert Einstein
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