Frequently Asked Questions
About
Why Quantum Mechanics is Non-sense?
Frequently Asked Questions
About
Why Quantum Mechanics is Non-sense?
Series #8
The Fundamental reasons for which we do not accept the interpretation of Modern Physics, as supported by the establishment, is because we believe that it is pure non-sense. We are convinced that a logical explanation exists to describe Nature. Let us prove that it is non-sense.
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The Copenhagen Interpretation
The
interpretation
of
Modern Physics is based on the Copenhagen
Interpretation. The Copenhagen Interpretation (described below)
is not
compatible with Physical Reality. Physical Reality is a model in
which
it is believed that physical phenomena exist independently of any
observer. We deeply believe in Physical Reality.
In
order
to
be compatible with the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics, we have to accept that Matter does not exist until an
observer looks at it. We do not accept that. On the contrary, we
firmly believe that all physical phenomena exist independently of any
observer. Consequently, the explanations in Modern Physics are
wrong
because they rely on the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics. Many physicists are not aware that the interpretation
of
modern physics implies that matter does not exist independently of the
observer. It is taught that it is the observer's knowledge that creates
the physical result. Mathematically, the result is called the
Collapse
of the Wave Function at the moment the observer makes the observations.
For example, the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics implies
that, when a tree falls in a forest, there is no noise if there is no
observer.
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What Exactly is the Copenhagen Interpretation?
It
is
an
interpretation given to the formalism of modern physics in
order to give a physical meaning of the terms used in the
equations.
The Copenhagen interpretation has been written by a few renowned
scientists at the beginning of the 20th Century. The main description
comes from papers written by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, M. Pauli
and others. The Copenhagen interpretation leads to the most
astonishing set of contradictions that ever existed in science. Those
contradictions are usually presented under the devious name of
paradoxes, because that expression seems less absurd.
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Causality
Causality
is
the
belief issued from logic, in which every physical
change implies a cause, to generate that change. Nothing is
created
from nonexistence. We firmly believe that a cause is always
essential. The Copenhagen Interpretation claims that Modern
Physics
does not always require a cause!
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Who proposed the Copenhagen Interpretation of Modern Physics?
The
most
renowned
physicists of the 20th Century. Very surprisingly,
they support the idea that Matter does not exist until an observer
looks at it.
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This seems quite unbelievable. Is that general compliance a
real fact?
That
is
unquestionable.
Here are some exact statements expressed by
those scientists. The complete references to all the citations below
are given at www.newtonphysics.on.ca/HEISENBERG/Contents.html
Heisenberg
wrote
[1]:
"The
law
of causality is no longer applied in quantum theory."
We
believe
that this is non-sense.
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Does the Copenhagen Interpretation solve the problems of Modern
Physics?
Certainly
not.
Murray Gell-Mann writes [2]:
"Niels
Bohr
brainwashed
the whole generation of theorists into thinking
that the job [that is an adequate presentation of quantum mechanics]
was done 50 years ago."
Also,
Feynman
said [3]:
"I
think
it is safe to say that no one understands quantum mechanics."
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Do some scientists recognize that it is some sort of hoax?
Some
scientists
recognize it. However, most of them keep
supporting it.
Mermin, one of the most respected
physicist wrote [4]:
"The
EPR
experiment is as close to magic as any physical phenomenon I
know of, and magic should be enjoyed."
Feynman
wrote
[5]:
"The
theory
of
quantum electrodynamics describes Nature as absurd from
the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with
experiments. So I hope you can accept Nature as she is - absurd."
Popper
mentions
[6]:
"The
Copenhagen
interpretation
- or, more precisely, the view of the
status of quantum mechanics which Bohr and Heisenberg defended - was,
quite simply, that quantum mechanics was the last, the final, the
never-to-be-surpassed revolution in physics. [...] These were claimed
to show that physics has reached the end of the road." .
. . "this epistemological claim I regarded, and still regard, as
outrageous."
On
page
9 of [6], Popper expressed his
deception in the following way:
"It was he [Heisenberg] who
led a generation of physicists to accept the absurd view that one can
learn from quantum mechanics."
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Wave-Particle Duality
One
of
the
most important and disastrous consequences of the Copenhagen
interpretation is revealed in the case of the dualist wave-particle
interpretation of light. It is believed that light is
simultaneously a
wave and a particle. The dualistic interpretation of light is a
consequence of the belief that Matter does not exist until an observer
looks at it. The dualistic model claims that if the observer
looks at
light as a particle, he finds a particle. If the observer looks
at
light as a wave, he finds a wave. Things are created by the
observer's
knowledge. We believe that this does not make sense.
This
idea
is reported by Messiah when he writes [7]:
"Microscopic
objects
have
a very general property: they appear under
two apparently irreconcilable aspects, the wave aspect on the one hand,
exhibiting the superposition property characteristic of waves, and the
corpuscular aspect on the other hand, namely localized grains of energy
and momentum."
Heisenberg
writes
[8]:
"The
paradoxes
of
the dualism between wave picture and particle picture
were not solved; they were hidden somehow in the mathematical scheme."
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Philosophical Support
Following
Descartes,
Bishop Berkeley believed that observations are
merely mental constructions.
Berkeley
wrote
[9]:
"It
is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses,
mountains, rivers, and in word all sensible objects have an existence
natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the
understanding."
Berkeley
also
writes [10]:
"Some
truths there are so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only
open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to
wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word
all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world have not
any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or
known."
Heisenberg
writes
clearly that he agrees with Berkeley's philosophy.
Let us recall Heisenberg's own words [11]:
"The
next step was taken by Berkeley. If actually all our knowledge is
derived from perception, there is no meaning in the statement that the
things really exist; because if the perception is given it cannot
possibly make any difference whether the things exist or do not exist.
Therefore, to be perceived is identical with existence."
Berkeley's
absurd
ideas
are so respected in the 20th Century that they
named the famous university of Berkeley in California in his
honor.
Also, the city of Berkeley in California is also named after him.
This
is reported in [12]:
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Schrödinger's Cat
Schrödinger's
cat
experiment
illustrates the problem of realism and
non-causality in quantum mechanics. This experiment can be described in
the following way. An ideally isolated system is prepared so that it
contains a Geiger counter placed near a radioactive source emitting g
rays. The intensity of the source of g rays is adjusted so that, in a
period of one hour, it has exactly 50% probability of causing the
Geiger counter to record one count. The counter mechanism is connected
to a device which, if a count occurs, will shatter a flask of deadly
poison that will then fill the box where the cat is located.
There is
a 50% probability that no count will occur leaving the flask intact.
The
experimenter
seals
the box and leaves the system undisturbed for
one hour. At the end of the hour, Schrödinger's question is:
"What
is
the quantum-mechanical state of the system immediately before
the box is opened and the observation is made?"
John
J.
Cramer writes [13] that the
result of the experiment is not decided and does not exist
"until
such
time
as the observer collapses the state vector into one or
the other of these states by making an observation, since it is the
change in the observer's knowledge that precipitates the state vector
collapse."
Of
course,
such
a description does not make sense. Without an observer,
there is no collapse of the wave function. Davies writes [14]:
"Its
(cat)
fate is only determined when the experimenter opens the box
and peers in to check on the cat's health."
Davies
[14] adds:
"The
cat
must
continue to endure its suspended animation, until either
finally dispatched from its purgatory, or resurrected to a full life."
Heisenberg
suggested
a third possibility in which it is neither true
nor false that the cat is alive. He [15]
writes :
"In
classical
logic
it is assumed that, if a statement has any meaning
at all, either the statement or the negation of the statement must be
correct. Of "here is a table" or "here is not a table", either the
first or the second statement must be correct. "Tertium non datur", a
third possibility does not exist. It may be that we do not know whether
the statement or its negation is correct; but in "reality" one of the
two is correct".
In
quantum
theory
this law "tertium non datur" is to be modified."
Heisenberg
insists
even more. He writes [15]:
"Let
us
consider
an atom moving in a closed box which is divided by a
wall into two equal parts. The wall may have a very small hole so that
the atom can go through. Then the atom can, according to classical
logic, be either in the left half of the box or in the right half.
There is no third possibility: "tertium non datur". In quantum theory,
however, we have to admit - if we use the word "atom" and "box" at all
- that there is other possibilities which are in a strange way mixtures
of the two former possibilities. This is necessary for explaining the
results of our experiments."
Heisenberg's
paradox
has been substituted by a human by Wigner.
Davies writes [16]:
"According
to
Wigner's theory before there was intelligent life, the
universe did not really exist."
Arthur
Fine
reports [17].
"The
usual
way
is to say nothing about the actual experimental
situation. In the tranquilizing philosophy of the schools - to use
Einstein's lovely phrase - we are simply told, Don't ask!"
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Freedom of Speech and Censorship.
Let
us
give a citation by Lovelock about the freedom of expression in
research. He wrote [18]:
"To
cap it all, in recent years, the "purity" of science has been ever more
closely guarded by a self-imposed inquisition called the peer review.
[...] Like the inquisition of the medieval church, it has teeth and can
wreck a career by refusing funds for research or by censoring
publications."
There is no hope for new scientists to write new papers to rationalize physics, unless they accept to end up their career. This is what you have to pay now. Some centuries ago, they burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo.
Paul Marmet
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Series #8 Quantum Mechanics November 2000