The Hidden Domain: Home of the Quantum Wave Function, Nature's Creative Source by Norman Friedman
Author:Norman Friedman [Friedman, Norman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy / Science
Publisher: The Woodbridge Group
Published: 2015-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Implications of the wave function
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Interpenetrating levels and wholeness
We have noted that the wave function is linear, or passive, in that it requires an outside agent to select events from Heisenberg's potentia (level two) to take form as objective events in our world (level one). For us to enjoy the show we call physical reality, someone or something must act as director, and the need for such an agent implies yet another, or third, level of reality. That is, the first level is our three-dimensional world; the second is the domain of the wave function, housing all possible events that may occur in our world; and the third is that which selects among these events.
All levels are so intermeshed that we cannot consider one without including the others. This interconnection and interpenetration of levels is best expressed by the concept of wholeness. Basically, quantum theory states that the electron, or any object composed of elementary particles, does not have intrinsic properties, only incompletely defined potentialities. These potentialities are developed into “real” objects with intrinsic properties when the object interacts with an appropriate system. This refutes the classical view that the universe is made up of separate elements that interact according to exact causal laws, with the whole defined in a reductionist manner as the sum of its parts. In quantum theory, objects have properties defined only in interaction with other objects, and different interactions create different intrinsic properties. We now must come to terms with the fact that the universe is basically whole and indivisible, and we are enmeshed in innumerable underlying connections.
Physicists describe this wholeness by the concept of phase entanglement, in which quantum systems that interact are instantaneously interconnected. This nonlocal interconnection violates at least the spirit of relativity, and provides another good reason for assuming the existence of another level beyond level one: a second level is needed to establish the connection while still leaving the theory of relativity applicable in level one. Before Bell's theorem and Aspect's experiments, this interconnection was seen by some physicists as just a mathematical anomaly without any relationship to the real world. But we now know that Bell's theorem, which requires superluminal connections, is based on quantum fact, not just theory, and to dismiss phase entanglement as not real means disregarding experimental evidence. We can say with some confidence that the wholeness exhibited by the wave function redefines the mechanistic view of the universe as applicable only to a special case – level one – and therefore with limited validity.
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