[ExI] Judging radical possibilities

[Dennis May]

Scerir wrote:
 
"As for QM there are really strange situations. So 
strange that nobody is even able to think of some 
"radical" conceptual "change"."
 
"So, there are new and huge conceptual problems here. 
And nobody can even imagine what kind of "radical 
change" is needed."
 
A version of Bohm-like mechanics [de Broglie-Bohm]
using in part the work of Gregory S. Duane to explain both
the mechanism for entanglement and the source of
"pilot" waves provides the "radial change" needed in
terms of not so radial classical mechanics.
 
I have been discussing this for a number of years at
physics_frontier on YahooGroups.
 
Duane, G.S., 2001: Violation of Bell’s inequality in
synchronized hyperchaos, Found. Phys. Lett., 14, 341-353.
Duane, G.S., 2005: Quantum nonlocality from synchronized
chaos, Int. J. Theor.
Phys.,  44, 1917-1932.
 
Not so sexy physics doesn't get lots of airplay.  What is
required are vast numbers of small particles traveling
at speeds much faster than the speed of light allowing
complex systems to interact.  Large numbers, fast
speeds, and small complex objects seem to be conceptual 
barriers.  People are apparently more comfortable doing 
away with causality. postulating hidden dimensions, 
unseen universes, and creating arbitrary assertions 
leading to logical paradoxes.
 
For over 30 years now I have been trying to understand 
why the classical physics conceptual barriers are so
difficult for so many.
 
I have concluded the primary barrier is a form of 
innumeracy plaguing even those with advanced 
mathematical backgrounds.  Instead of one-two-many 
even well educated people reach a conceptual barrier 
where they throw up their hands and come to believe 
another explanation involving smaller numbers and
simple forms must be at work.
 
http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/
 
There are other issues - cultural, educational, and philosophical
at work but at root these other factors would not take hold
so strongly if there were not also a basic genetic/biological 
issue in brain development and ability to conceptualize
in play.
 
A sense of mystery is a powerful cultural artifact.  This kind
of quantum mechanics leaves no sense of mystery.
 
Dennis May
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