[Fis] Fis: 25/7

[Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov]

Dear Alex and FIS,

what I can only say as (now) qualified non-expert in QT is that points 1-13
embrace a period in scientific research of really great minds (I did not
see Feynman”s name in the list, but he is certainly meant under “others") a
little bit more than 100 years. Please excuse my doubts, but I simply
cannot start believing that human knowledge will stay at that level for
ever. Some day there will be certainly another revolution in physics and/or
biology or even another discipline that could embrace the 13 domains as
special cases. I cannot understand why (quantum) physicists are sometimes
so egocentric like monks with their domain that they try to explain even
the behaviour of viruses with quantum interactions. I apologise for hurting
someone’s feelings.

Plamen


On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Alex Hankey <alexhankey at gmail.com> wrote:

> RE: I am not sure that QT is the ultimate theory of all things, but I think
> the effort is worth doing it, since we hardly have anything else to step on
> now.I invite all those interested in this endeavor to join hands!
>
> ME: Speaking as a theoretical physicist with 45 years experience and deep
> interests in the foundations of physics and the origins of quantum theory,
> I should like to comment that to really understand quantum theory so as to
> see how to patch up its faults is not easy, and requires many years study
> in many different subfields.
>
> It requires deep knowledge and understanding of all of the following
> subfields;
> 1. The Copenhagen interpretation as fully expressed by Henry Stapp.
> 2. John Von Neumann's formulation, together with its limitations.
> 3. The Many Worlds (Princeton) interpretation as most recently promoted by
> Tegmark.
> 4. Einstein's objections as expressed  in the EPR paradox, and
> 5. David Bohm's program of hidden variables to support Einstein, and
> 6. Bell's Theorem to experimentally distinguish Bohr;s and Bohm's
> approaches.
> 7. Aspect's experiments (and Clauser's preceding it) showing that Bohr was
> right.
> 8. Bernard D'Espagnat's important contributions, especially the Theorem
> for which he received the Templeton prize - physical reality is not
> 'strongly objective' on either macroscopic or microscopic levels.
> 9. All the debate initiated by Gell-Man and others on how wave-functions
> collapse. and what happens to quantum correlations that are generated.
> 10. David Deutsch's theory of quantum information.
> 11. Anton Zeilinger's use of quantum fluctuations for 'quantum
> teleportation'
> 12. The quantum theory of open systems by ECG (George) Sudarshan and
> others, the inherent limitations of their approach and its possible
> resolution.
> 13. The debates on the relationship between quantum theory and classical
> physics, the shortcomings of Bohr's Correspondence Principle and how to
> overcome them.
>
> I should hate to say that this is a field for specialists, because I truly
> believe that non-experts can often cut through the Gordian knot in the
> middle of a field, simply because they have not adopted the world view of
> the experts in following the debates for decades up to that point, and are
> therefore not indoctrinated with a paradigm that in fact needs updating -
> often not obvious to those in the field itself.
>
> But like most advanced scientific fields there is a lot to digest!
> (And my own views are radical, and almost as violent as the
> victor's approach to the Gordian Knot itself!)
>
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