<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span><span id="misspell-0"><span id="misspell-0"><span id="misspell-0"><span id="misspell-0" class="mark">Scerir</span></span></span></span> wrote:</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>"As for QM there are really strange situations. So </span></div><div><span>strange that nobody is even able to think of some </span></div><div><span>"radical" conceptual "change"."</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>"So, there are new and huge conceptual problems here. </span></div><div><span>And nobody can even imagine what kind of "radical </span></div><div><span>change" is needed."</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>A version of <span id="misspell-1"><span id="misspell-1"><span id="misspell-1"><span id="misspell-1" class="mark">Bohm</span></span></span></span>-like mechanics [<span
id="misspell-2"><span id="misspell-2"><span id="misspell-2"><span id="misspell-2" class="mark">de</span></span></span></span> <span id="misspell-3"><span id="misspell-3"><span id="misspell-3"><span id="misspell-3" class="mark">Broglie</span></span></span></span>-<span id="misspell-4"><span id="misspell-4"><span id="misspell-4"><span id="misspell-4" class="mark">Bohm</span></span></span></span>]</span></div><div><span>using in part the work of Gregory S. Duane to explain both</span></div><div><span>the mechanism for entanglement and the source of</span></div><div><span>"pilot" waves provides the "radial change" needed in</span></div><div><span>terms of not so radial classical mechanics.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>I have been discussing this for a number of years at</span></div><div><span>physics_frontier on <span id="misspell-5"><span id="misspell-5"><span id="misspell-5"><span id="misspell-5"
class="mark">YahooGroups</span></span></span></span>.</span></div><div><span><font size="3"></font> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Duane, G.S., 2001: Violation of Bell’s inequality in
synchronized <span id="misspell-6"><span id="misspell-6"><span id="misspell-6"><span id="misspell-6" class="mark">hyperchaos</span></span></span></span>, <i>Found. Phys. <span id="misspell-7"><span id="misspell-7"><span id="misspell-7"><span id="misspell-7" class="mark">Lett</span></span></span></span></i>., <b>14</b>, 341-353.</font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Duane, G.S., 2005: Quantum <span id="misspell-8"><span id="misspell-8"><span id="misspell-8"><span id="misspell-8" class="mark">nonlocality</span></span></span></span> from synchronized
chaos, </font><font size="3"><i>Int. J. <span id="misspell-9"><span id="misspell-9"><span id="misspell-9"><span id="misspell-9" class="mark">Theor</span></span></span></span>.<br>
Phys., </i><b>44</b>, 1917-1932.</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"></font> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>Not so sexy physics doesn't get lots of airplay. What is</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>required are vast numbers of small particles traveling</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>at speeds much faster than the speed of light allowing</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>complex systems to interact. Large numbers, fast</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>speeds, and small complex objects seem to be conceptual </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>barriers. People are </span><span>apparently more comfortable doing </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"
class="MsoNormal"><span>away with </span><span>causality. </span><span>postulating hidden dimensions, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span><span>unseen </span><span>universes, and creating arbitrary assertions </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span><span>leading to logical </span><span>paradoxes.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>For over 30 years now I have been trying to understand </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>why the classical physics </span><span>conceptual barriers are so</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>difficult for so many.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"
class="MsoNormal"><span>I have concluded the primary barrier is a form of </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>innumeracy </span><span>plaguing even those with advanced </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>mathematical </span><span>backgrounds. Instead of one-two-many </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>even well </span><span>educated people reach a conceptual barrier </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>where they </span><span>throw up their hands and come to believe </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>another </span><span>explanation involving smaller numbers and</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>simple forms must be at </span><span>work.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </div><div
style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/">http://numberwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/is-one-two-many-a-myth/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>There are other issues - cultural, educational, and philosophical</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>at work but at root these other factors would not take hold</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>so strongly if there were not also a basic genetic/biological </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>issue in brain development and ability to conceptualize</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>in play.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"
class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>A sense of mystery is a powerful cultural artifact. This kind</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>of quantum mechanics leaves no sense of mystery.</span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span>Dennis May</span></div><div><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var><br><br></div></div></body></html>