BTW Victor, as far as I know I am the only one who has linked RV to signal
nonlocality with possible exception of Brian Josephson and Fotini
Pallikari though I am not aware if they explicitly say it definitively in
writing? This is the main focus of my talk in Santa Fe, New Mexico on
April 24, 2005 http://www.bizspirit.com 7th International Conference on
Science and Consciousness. This is the physics for the CIA/DIA/SRI RV work
of Puthoff & Targ. This is discussed in my two books on http://amazon.com

On Jan 16, 2005, at 8:05 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:

DOC:

Here's a paper I found which purports to explain Drs Puthoff/Targ's RV
work; I like his explanation much better than Antony Valentini's at:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112151

I have a degree/teaching credential in journalism/English, NOT in
physics! –

http://mist.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/qm_nl.html

Yes, this is exactly what I have been talking about. The macro-quantum
theory is nonlinear in the sense below. The giant vacuum coherent Tsunami
local "world hologram" wave Psi obeys an equation in ordinary space
something like

D^uDuPsi + m^2Psi + b|Psi|^2Psi ~ 0

Where Du is the Einstein general relativity covariant partial derivative

m^2 < 0, b > 0

The all important nonlinearity is the term b|Psi|^2Psi

We also have a formally similar local hologram giant quantum wave that
pilots our brain function. That is our conscious mind field. We are
conscious because there is direct feedback from the material brain to the
mind field from the nonlinearity presponse term absent in micro-quantum
theory. PW Anderson in "More is different" showed that the giant quantum
wave has a "phase rigidity" that makes it immune to the environmental
decoherence of Zurek that Tegmark attacked Penrose and Hameroff with.

Stapp had a detailed model of a nonlinear QM of mind with application to
retro-PK paranormal data. Physics Today virtually roasted Stapp alive for
his heresy even though his paper is not wrong.


This is the important part:

"3. NONLINEAR QUANTUM MECHANICS AND SUPERLUMINAL LOOPHOLES
This prohibition against superluminal communication, as stated above, is a
part of standard quantum mechanics. However, this prohibition is broken if
quantum mechanics is allowed to be slightly "non-linear", a technical term
meaning that when quantum waves are superimposed they may generate a small
cross-term not present in the standard formalism. Steven Weinberg, Nobel
laureate for his theoretical work in unifying the electromagnetic and weak
interactions, investigated a theory which introduces small non-linear
corrections to standard quantum mechanics [13]. The onset of non-linear
behavior is seen in other areas of physics, e.g., laser light in certain
media, and, he suggested, might also be present but unnoticed in quantum
mechanics. Weinberg's non-linear QM subtly alters certain properties of
the standard theory, producing new physical effects that can be detected
through precise measurements.

Two years after Weinberg's non-linear QM theory was published, Joseph
Polchinski published a paper demonstrating that Weinberg's non-linear
corrections upset the balance in quantum mechanics that prevents
superluminal communication using EPR experiments [14]. Through the new
non-linear effects, separated measurements on the same quantum system
begin to "talk" to each other and faster-than-light and/or
backward-in-time signaling becomes possible. Polchinski describes such an
arrangement as an "EPR telephone".

The Weinberg/Polchinski work had implications that are devastating for the
Copenhagen representation of the wave function as "observer knowledge".
Polchinski has shown that a tiny non-linear modification transforms the
"hidden" nonlocality of the standard QM formalism into a manifest property
that can be used for nonlocal observer-to-observer communication. This is
completely inconsistent with the Copenhagen "knowledge" interpretation.

Thus, the Copenhagen interpretation is not "robust" because it is
inconsistent with a tiny modification of the standard formalism. The
transactional interpretation, on the other hand, can easily accommodate
this modification of the formalism and is robust enough to be tested and
verified (or falsified) by the same effect. If quantum mechanics has any
detectable nonlinearity, we get a faster-than-light and backwards-in-time
telephone.

But is quantum mechanics non-linear? Atomic physics experiments have been
used by several experimental groups to test Weinberg's non-linear theory.
So far, these tests have all been negative, indicating that any
non-linearities in the quantum formalism are extremely small, if they
exist at all. These negative results are not surprising, however, because
the atomic transitions used involve only a few electron-volts of energy.
If quantum mechanics does have non-linear properties, they would expected
to depend on energy and to appear only at a very high energy scale and
particularly at the highest energy densities. Weinberg-Polchinski tests
should be made, if possible, with the highest energy particle
accelerators. Perhaps then we can find out what connections might be made
with Polchinski's EPR telephone."