Corruption of Modern Physics 15: Dogma before Reality?
Modern physics represents a return to a top-down process from Dogma to Reality. It comes to full expression as a Quantum Mechanical Model QMM based on a theoretical mathematical model of atom physics in the form of a multi-dimensional linear Schrödinger wave equation, which does not describe physical actualities (like the state of an atom), but instead possibilities/probabilities.
In particular, the linearity of Schrödinger’s equation makes QMM include superposition of (many) states as the richness of possibilities, as the Schrödinger cat being alive and dead in all different portions at the same time.
QMM is derived from a classical deterministic wave equation describing actualities in a purely formal procedure into a probabilistic wave equation describing possibilities. The basic dogma is that predictions made by solving QMM always are in precise (probabilistic) agreement with observational reality.
If an experiment does not agree with QMM, then something is wrong with the experiment. QMM cannot be falsified by experiment. This is an extreme form of top-down physics from Dogma to Reality away from Enlightenment as a return to Dark Age. The dogma of QMM was formed in the 1930s and still reigns.
That QMM cannot be falsified by experiment hinges on the fact that QMM is uncomputable because of the multi-dimensionalty of the Schrödinger wave equation including (all) possibilities and thus asking for exponentially increasing computing power with polynomially increasing system size, beyond the capacity of any thinkable digital computer of known non-quantum design.
When confronted with this difficulty in the 1960s, Richard Feynman, as the sharpest modern physicist after Schrödinger, came up with the idea of a fictional quantum computer based on QMM as a fictional computer capable of computing possibilities by using the richness of superposition reducing demand of computing resources from exponential to polynomial. Feynman was not sure that such a thing could be realised, and this is still not known. See previous post.
So what are the odds? What do we have? Well, we have QMM as a theoretical model which is not derived from principles of real physics and has no direct physical meaning/interpretation and which is uncomputable on a non-quantum computer. The question is if QMM is computable on a real quantum computer as a physical realisation of QMM?
We can compare with the following question: Can you build real objects from this design/theory:
Is then modern physics troubled by a return to a Dark Age of Dogma before Reality?
If modern physics represents todays modernity, is then modern society a form of 1984 with the following troublesome equalities:
- War is Peace.
- Ignorance is Knowledge.
- True is False.
- Man is Woman.
- Inequality is Equality
- Friend is Foe.
- Dogma is Thought Freedom.
- …
Compare with Real Quantum Mechanics presenting a model of atom physics derived from physical reality which is computable on a standard non-quantum computer and so agrees with observation.
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Climate Heretic
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“That QMM cannot be falsified by experiment hinges on the fact that QMM is uncomputable because of the multi-dimensionalty of the Schrödinger wave equation including (all) possibilities and thus asking for exponentially increasing computing power with polynomially increasing system size, beyond the capacity of any thinkable digital computer of known non-quantum design”
“If it cannot be falsified then it is not science or physics” Karl Popper
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Howdy
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“Modern physics represents a return to a top-down process from Dogma to Reality.”
Then to call it ‘physics’, is wrong. It’s craving, want, glorification. It’s a need to be in the limelight and the benefit is solely for the would-be celebrity making the claim.
Planet X: Can’t be proven, but it’s there because ‘I say it is, plus I have power and position. You believe anything I say’.
It’s ridiculous.
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Climate Heretic
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Lysenkoism comes to mind!
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Mervyn
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In 2016, at a campaign rally he was filling in for his wife, Hillary Clinton, I heard Bill Clinton state, “In this post truth era, facts no longer matter.”
That told me everything I needed to know about why the elites push so much woke bull. They really don’t care about facts and reality. They believe what they want to believe. SO if a man believes he is a woman, then he is a woman.
These people are insane.
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Robert Beatty
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“The scientific revolution of the Enlightenment was a movement towards realism as a bottom-up process from practice/reality to theory, in opposition to a top-down process from theory/dogma to practice. In religion it took the form of bottom-up Protestantism in opposition to top-down Catholicism, and in politics as democracy with power from the people in opposition to autocracy with power from the King or Pope.“
The inherent strength of a bottom-up system is that it unlocks the combined intelligence of the whole population. A top-down system only has access to the autocrat and theIr elite associates. The greater impediment that a top-down system faces is a preoccupation with staying in control. We see live examples of this in every political system in the world today – with only one exception, Switzerland.
IMO the Swiss are missing a huge business opportunity by not commercialising their system of government and exporting the product to whoever wants the benefit.
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