quantum mechanics: Kastner\'s brilliant blog (Introduction)

by rekastner , Thursday, July 18, 2013, 22:19 (3936 days ago) @ dhw

Indeed, people have had long debates about knowledge, and these continue. I'm just pointing out, in view of these debates, that one can't assume 'out of the starting gate' that there is no way to gain knowledge about entities beyond spacetime.-Transactions in a nutshell: An emitter emits an offer wave OW (that's the entity described by the usual quantum state). An absorber responds to the OW with a confirmation wave which is an 'advanced' wave characterized by negative energy. (The CW is what is missing in other interpretations of QM.) However, both the OW and the CW carry possible energy, not actual energy. -In general, there are many absorbers for one emitted OW and each responds with a CW corresonding to the capabilities of the absorber. This process sets up a set of possible transactions, which are the interactions of OW and CW between the emitter and each absorber. Only one of these can be actualized, and when that happens, a quantum of real, positive energy is transferred from the emitter to the absorber in a spacetime process.-More details in the audiolecture and ppt on my website.