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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Mind, Matter & QM re: "Gentle Action" by Peat.
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:39:09 GMT
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- Mind, Matter & Quantum Connection 4
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- More comments on Peat's article in the Mind Matter Conference proceedings
- edited by Dr. Beverley Rubik of Temple University Center for Fronteir
- Sciences. I am following up on Dr. Rubik's request to review the book - and
- am doing so in a sequence of short remarks.
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- p.202 0n "Gentle Action"
- "... a highly complex system in which its individual phases are subject to
- fine adjustments. By making a series of small adjustments globally across
- the system is becomes possible to lock these phases together so that the
- whole system becomes involved cooperatively in some new activity. Such a
- system may be quite resistant to any local, forceful intervention; however,
- tiny changes that are made in a co-operative or non-local way can result in
- entirely new behavior."
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- This is a very nicely written image and very enticing and I hope it is true
- - it would help to see a simple math model of it. Should we think
- classically of a distribution of systems across space at a fixed time with
- a field of little phasors? Or should we think quantum mechanically in
- Hilbert space. If we have several systems then we have an entangled sum of
- products of kets one for each system. So take the photon pair case in which
- we start with
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- |1,2> = (1/sqrt2)[|1+>|2+> + |1->|2->]
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- consider, for example
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- |1,2> -> |1,2>' = (1/sqrt2)[e^i&|1+>|2+> + |1->|2->]
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- where & is a relative phase - but it is not a phase attached to either
- photon 1 or photon 2.
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- Just what kind of math model would illustrate Peat's verbal picture? I am
- at a loss and would like to hear from Peat.
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