Happy In the Sky With New Logics: Einstein’s Error II










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Patrice Ayme’


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7 Responses to “Happy In the Sky With New Logics: Einstein’s Error II”

  1. Gmax Says:

    Oh great eminence with the infinite wisdom, I still do not understand, notwithstanding your elaborate explanations, in this essay and others prior, how Einstein caused the multiverse


    • Patrice Ayme Says:

      When a subatomic particle is in transfer (aka “fundamental process”) it is potentially in many states. Einstein insisted one state was real, then. But then why not the others? The number of potential states is not just many, but “infinite”. More later, got to run…


  2. ianmillerblog Says:

    I am not so sure about some of this. In my view, in the Stern Gerlach experiment, the magnetic field interacts with the detector [the observer is irrelevant, other than placing the detector 🙂 ] and it can only give two values because action is quantised (and angular momentum, allegedly the cause of the magnetic field, is effectively or dimensionally action). In essence, it is the orientation of the detector that determines the location of the spots. As an aside, this experiment has a piece of further confusion: everybody says that since the spin has given its effect, there is no orbital angular momentum. That cannot be right, because it violates the Uncertainty Principle (you have precise angular orientation and exactly zero angular velocity). The correct angular momentum is surely hbar/2, but it is plus AND minus in a period, and therefore cancels.

    I think also you may be being a bit unkind to Einstein. When he made his “grain” statement, he obviously did not know about spin – that had to be established years later. But when he said “grain”, he did not mean, surely, the next best thing to a point? If it were the size of a grain of wheat, that could be described as a grain, but also not exactly as localised as one might think.

    As a minor additional point, I was under the impression that the zero point error of space on a cosmological scale was actually 10^120. It could be argued the difference is unimportant, but . . .


    • Patrice Ayme Says:

      Dear Ian: Thank for your thoughtful comment. I do not understand some parts of it. Right, the detector’s orientation determine where the spots are going to be. So the detector determine the particle, with no input we can see from the particle. THAT is MUCH of the mystery.

      Being “a bit unkind to Einstein” is not felt from my side. I used to adore Einstein in his fight against Bohr. I have found otherwise in the last decade or so. Einstein, not Bohr, made the initial mistake. And he did not see this (nor did others, i am the first to do so, it seems.) That “GRAIN” thingie. I explained it caused the madness known as the Multiverse. I feel pretty sure that Einstein would understand, and agree with what I say. It is his dumb, blind, bleating, arrogant followers who cannot get it. (BTW, as I said, I suspect that is why Planck smelled a rat.)


  3. Kevin Berger Says:

    Well above my paygrade, not to mention my understanding, but still, always a bit amusing to see how rather abstract, intense, change of pace like this entry tend to discourage comments (unless you get to lock horns with one of your fellow physicists).
    On a more mundane level, since I can’t wrap my head around the actual gist of the text : what did (collective) we lose, if you are right? Just time? Or is there a kind of a harmful conceptual cul-de-sac that will need to be escaped from, one funeral at a time? A time-consuming detour, or an all-together wrong path?


    • Gmax Says:

      I had the same question. What’s the general interest for the general population? Is that what you were talking about with ‘ new logics’?


    • Patrice Ayme Says:

      Very interesting questions, Kevin, I am writing an essay about it, as an answer.
      In a few words:
      Physics is another word for knowledge. Knowledge about how we get to knowledge is itself the most important knowledge.




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