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Action at a distance is realized. Quantum computer.

Jackson May 25, 2022 at 20:03 7150 views 111 comments
‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation

Their research, unveiled this week with a paper published in the science journal Nature, demonstrates the power of a phenomenon that Albert Einstein once deemed impossible. Quantum teleportation — what he called “spooky action at a distance” — can transfer information between locations without actually moving the physical matter that holds it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/quantum-internet-teleportation.html

Comments (111)

Jackson May 25, 2022 at 20:08 #700716
"Although it cannot move objects from place to place, it can move information by taking advantage of a quantum property called “entanglement”: A change in the state of one quantum system instantaneously affects the state of another, distant one.

“After entanglement, you can no longer describe these states individually,” Dr. Northup said. “Fundamentally, it is now one system.”
jgill May 25, 2022 at 23:32 #700754
There's something fishy about entanglement. Years ago, as a kid fishing in the gulf of Mexico I would experience it often. Why did Einstein make such a big deal of it? :chin:
Jackson May 25, 2022 at 23:34 #700755
Quoting jgill
Why did Einstein make such a big deal of it?


Einstein did not like the quantum model. He still understood physics under the old deterministic model.
jgill May 25, 2022 at 23:36 #700756
Quoting Jackson
Einstein did not like the quantum model. He still understood physics under the old deterministic model.


What does that have to do with fishing?
Jackson May 25, 2022 at 23:37 #700757
Quoting jgill
What does that have to do with fishing?


I am not a good audience for your stand up routine.
Wayfarer May 26, 2022 at 00:08 #700767
Here's a story from 2017 about using entanglement to secure communications:

a team of physicists reports that it sent eerily intertwined quantum particles from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous world record. The result is a stepping stone to ultrasecure communication networks and, eventually, a space-based quantum internet.


Quoting Jackson
Einstein did not like the quantum model. He still understood physics under the old deterministic model.


Einstein clung to the realist view. He absolutely believed that the Universe was just so, independently of anything the observer did. So he could never accept the uncertainty principle was anything other than a lack of knowledge about the object. 'The dependence of what is observed upon the choice of experimental arrangement made Einstein unhappy', wrote John Wheeler. 'It conflicts with the view that the universe exists "out there" independent of all acts of observation'. But Einstein's views on this question have been refuted by subsequent experimental evidence.
Jackson May 26, 2022 at 00:12 #700771
Quoting Wayfarer
But Einstein's views on this question have been refuted by subsequent experimental evidence.


Quantum mechanics is more in line with how I think. The deterministic model never made sense to me.
noAxioms May 26, 2022 at 02:56 #700800
Quoting Jackson
"A change in the state of one quantum system instantaneously affects the state of another, distant one.
If this is a quote from the story, it's pop nonsense.
Entanglement doesn't mean that you do something to one end and it can be measured at the other. Information could be sent faster than light with such a mechanism, and this is what they seem to be claiming here.
Entangled particle behavior isn't action at a distance, but only correlation of measurement at a distance.

Quoting Wayfarer
Einstein clung to the realist view. He absolutely believed that the Universe was just so, independently of anything the observer did.
He would not have liked what Bell contributed to it all. Einstein was very much a realist (the universe in a state independent of measurement) which sort of suggests a Bohmian attitude, but Einstein also clung to locality (that effect cannot precede cause) and Bell proved that you have to choose between the two principles. I prefer the locality principle, but my preference doesn't invalidate the strict realist (counterfactual) view. Poor Einstein couldn't have his cake and eat it too, but I don't think lived long enough to know that.

Teleportation has been demonstrated at least a decade ago, but it wasn't done faster than light. When asked if it was the same physical matter at the source and destination, they replied "does it matter?". The original object was destroyed in the process, similar to Star Trek transporter. It wasn't a cloning booth which is necessarily limited by Heisenberg.

Jackson May 26, 2022 at 03:02 #700804
Quoting noAxioms
Entangled particle behavior isn't action at a distance, but only correlation of measurement at a distance.


If you are a physicist you may prefer reading the journal article:

Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04697-y

180 Proof May 26, 2022 at 03:09 #700810
Reply to noAxioms :cool: :up:
Wayfarer May 26, 2022 at 05:37 #700850
Quoting noAxioms
He would not have liked what Bell contributed to it all.


[quote=John Stewart Bell, quoted in Quantum Profiles, by Jeremy Bernstein] The discomfort that I feel is associated with the fact that the observed perfect quantum correlations seem to demand something like the "genetic" hypothesis. For me, it is so reasonable to assume that the photons in those experiments carry with them programs, which have been correlated in advance, telling them how to behave. This is so rational that I think that when Einstein saw that, and the others refused to see it, he was the rational man. The other people, although history has justified them, were burying their heads in the sand. I feel that Einstein's intellectual superiority over Bohr, in this instance, was enormous; a vast gulf between the man who saw clearly what was needed, and the obscurantist. So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work.[/quote]

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Quoting noAxioms
Teleportation has been demonstrated at least a decade ago


The article I referred to was not about teleportation but about using the principles of entanglement for secure communications.

In their first experiment, the team sent a laser beam into a light-altering crystal on the satellite. The crystal emitted pairs of photons entangled so that their polarization states would be opposite when one was measured. The pairs were split, with photons sent to separate receiving stations in Delingha and Lijiang, 1200 kilometers apart. Both stations are in the mountains of Tibet, reducing the amount of air the fragile photons had to traverse. This week in Science, the team reports simultaneously measuring more than 1000 photon pairs. They found the photons had opposite polarizations far more often than would be expected by chance, thus confirming spooky action over a record distance (though the 2015 test over a shorter distance was more stringent).


All that said, I'm the first to admit that I'll never understand quantum computing.
Agent Smith May 26, 2022 at 05:50 #700857
[quote=jgill]There's something fishy about entanglement. Years ago, as a kid fishing in the gulf of Mexico I would experience it often. Why did Einstein make such a big deal of it? :chin:[/quote]

Same here! Einstein's worldview didn't allow for spooky action at a distance - it just didn't gel/jibe with his other ideas, whatever they were. The likely culprit was his light speed limit postulate + causality as understood in physics (cause must precede effect); it boils down to the same thing I suppose.

Last I checked, quantum entanglement was, for some reason, not communication-apt i.e. we can't use to transmit info. I was wrong then and so was Einstein. Too bad!
Jarjar May 26, 2022 at 06:58 #700883
No information is sent.
Jarjar May 26, 2022 at 06:58 #700884
Reply to noAxioms

Realism and non-locality are compatible. If the wave function is real, it constitutes a causal, non-local fork, causing both
Jarjar May 26, 2022 at 06:58 #700885
Reply to Jackson

Realism and non-locality are compatible. A wave function is a non-local real causal fork, correlating distant measurements.
noAxioms May 26, 2022 at 11:45 #700974
Quoting Wayfarer
This is so rational that I think that when Einstein saw that, and the others refused to see it, he was the rational man. The other people, although history has justified them, were burying their heads in the sand. I feel that Einstein's intellectual superiority over Bohr, in this instance, was enormous; a vast gulf between the man who saw clearly what was needed, and the obscurantist. So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work.
— John Stewart Bell, quoted in Quantum Profiles, by Jeremy Bernstein

Yes, that's the Einstein I've grown to know. When it came to putting together special relativity, several others were working on similar theories, but he was able to see what was needed and not let old biases get in the way of drawing a very unintuitive conclusion.
The first thing you do is the simple train thought experiment which trivially (without equations even) demonstrates the Relativity of Simultaneity (RoS), which even today many people cannot accept. Lorentz was one of the others and had a significant head start on the work, but 'buried his head in the sand', attempting to get a workable theory that didn't embrace RoS.

Teleportation has been demonstrated at least a decade ago
— noAxioms

The article I referred to was not about teleportation but about using the principles of entanglement for secure communications.
That comment was an admittedly poorly placed reply to the OP which suggests that entanglement is a form of teleportation, which it isn't. The teleportation of which I speak is real, but it doesn't work faster than light.

As for the secure communications, yes, entangled particles are used for that, although I could not describe how it works exactly without looking it up. It has nothing to do with fast messages, but it can be used to tell if the message had been seen/copied between source and destination. It sort of works like the self-destructing messages in Mission Impossible except the message isn't destroyed, but a detector says that the recipient isn't the first recipient.

"In their first experiment, the team sent a laser beam into a light-altering crystal on the satellite. The crystal emitted pairs of photons entangled so that their polarization states would be opposite when one was measured."
So their polarization states would be opposite when both were measured. Not sure what you're quoting, but it implies the unmeasured one has a determined state, which is demonstrably false. But the quote says how they manage to deliver an entangled pair to very different locations without having to 'mail' one of them.

"They found the photons had opposite polarizations far more often than would be expected by chance"
Better than random. That's all? I would have hoped for better reliability than that.

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Quoting Agent Smith
Einstein's worldview didn't allow for spooky action at a distance - it just didn't gel/jibe with his other ideas, whatever they were.
And said spooky action has never been demonstrated, so his 'other ideas' (principle of locality, or cause before effect as you put it) is quite safe. Only a non-local interpretation like Bohmian mechanics posits said spooky action, and also the effect-before-cause that comes with it. They've demonstrated effects caused by decisions that were made years into the future. A local interpretation would deny that description of the same experiment.

Last I checked, quantum entanglement was, for some reason, not communication-apt i.e. we can't use to transmit info. I was wrong then and so was Einstein. Too bad!
Did Einstein ever suggest otherwise, that entanglement could be used for communication? If so, then there really would have been falsification of locality, a principle which has never been falsified. Einstein was not wrong about that one, but he hasn't been proven right either, and never will. These things are simply interpretation dependent and not provably right or wrong. If they were, they'd be actual theories, not just interpretations.


Jarjar May 26, 2022 at 12:07 #700978
Reply to noAxioms

It is definitely true that a measurement on one part of system with spatially separated components doesn't influence a measurement on the other part but the outcome of the other part is fixed still. Of course you can't know what is fixed because the observer on the other side had to send that information FTL. Which is exactly which is not possible! The only thing the other observer measures is what you measure. He would know what you measured. Which is based on chance. So no useful information can be sent. Any popular shoutings that information has been teleported (and there are myriads!) is empty shouting.
jgill May 26, 2022 at 18:46 #701132
Quoting noAxioms
Better than random. That's all? I would have hoped for better reliability than that.


:up:
Gregory May 26, 2022 at 19:29 #701142
Can information go through wormholes in space?
Wayfarer May 26, 2022 at 22:06 #701198
Quoting noAxioms
Not sure what you're quoting


https://www.science.org/content/article/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance

‘Better than random’ I took to mean a re-confirmation of the Bell inequality i.e. if there had been no entanglement demonstrated then results would have been random.

Quoting noAxioms
And said spooky action has never been demonstrated,


Wait - wasn’t the Bell inequality, and its subsequent validation by Aspect and Zellinger, precisely a demonstration of that?

Quoting noAxioms
These things are simply interpretation dependent and not provably right or wrong. If they were, they'd be actual theories, not just interpretations.


Quanta Magazine has an explainer called How Bell's Theorem Proved Spooky Action at a Distance is Real, in case there is any question about that.
noAxioms May 26, 2022 at 23:46 #701235
Quoting Wayfarer
And said spooky action has never been demonstrated,
— noAxioms

Wait - wasn’t the Bell inequality, and its subsequent validation by Aspect and Zellinger, precisely a demonstration of that?

By 'spooky action', I'm referring to cause and effect events being separated by a space-like manner, in other words, faster than light. If such a thing (or reverse causality) could actually be demonstrated without begging additional postulates, that would be a falsification of all local interpretations.

Quanta Magazine has an explainer called How Bell's Theorem Proved Spooky Action at a Distance is Real, in case there is any question about that.
It seems to be pop-science nonsense. All of relativity would crumble if locality was falsifiable.

Some clues: "Bell demoted locality from a cherished principle to a testable hypothesis".
Bell did no such thing. The article also seems to presume that Bell's theorem demonstrates this violation of the principle of locality, when it fact it demonstrates that (with the exception of one loophole) one of two principles must be false, the other being the principle of counterfactual definiteness.

"correlated, even when the particles are far apart and measured nearly simultaneously". This wording suggests absolute simultaneity, evidence of a naive writer, or one simply pandering to a naive reader. I mean, when they take the two widely separated measurements, which measurement is the cause of the result (effect) of the other? Which way does the action 'go'?

"Hidden variable theories can explain why same-axis measurements always yield opposite results without any violation of locality"
This is opposite of what I know, that the hidden variable interpretations (Bohm in particular) are the ones that deny locality, while the local interpretations (MWI or RQM or even Copenhagen) do not require hidden variables. Once again, either the author seems uninformed, or Bohm has been spinning his view in a new way.

The article seems very much to assume something like Bohm's interpretation since the assume the electron already has a spin along a certain axis before it is measured. But that assumption doesn't invalidate the local interpretations.

"Let’s now assume the world is described by a local hidden variable theory, rather than quantum mechanics."
HVT (as they're calling it) is an interpretation of QM, not a theory separate from it. QM theory doesn't describle what's going on, but rather specifies what will be measured. It is an empirical theory, while HVT is metaphysical conjecture with zero empirical predictions.

"both labs will obtain the same result 75% of the time. This exceeds Bell’s upper bound of 67%.
That’s the essence of Bell’s theorem: If locality holds and a measurement of one particle cannot instantly affect the outcome of another measurement far away, then the results in a certain experimental setup can be no more than 67% correlated."
What bell actually demonstrated is that entanglement cannot be explained by classic means.
A classic entanglement is to split a coin edge-wise. If you look at one half here and see heads, you know the other guy has the tails, but it doesn't mean any faster-than-light action took place. Quantum correlations are stronger than that and cannot be a function of classical physics. This article totally misrepresents that conclusion and begs a principle that local interpretations do not.

I'm not claiming to be an expert on all this, but this article seems to be asserting things that Bell did not.
Agent Smith May 27, 2022 at 00:31 #701256
@noAxioms It's a bewildering labyrinth of ideas if you ask me. Merci beaucoup for the informative post; my suspicions were proven right, instantaneous communication is inconsistent with Einstein's views on causality.

A note: Maybe entanglement isn't a causal phenomenon, you know. True one particle's state is affected by the other particle's, but this isn't a case of one causing the other but...something else.
Wayfarer May 27, 2022 at 00:31 #701257
Quoting noAxioms
It seems to be pop-science nonsense.


Sorry but I believe Quanta’s article has it right, I think you’re the one misunderstanding the issue. (My physics is rudimentary but my English comprehension is ok.)

Quoting noAxioms
All of relativity would crumble if locality was falsifiable.


It's a challenge to realism. That's what is 'spooky' about it.

Quoting noAxioms
evidence of a naive writer


"Ben Brubaker is a freelance science journalist whose writing has appeared in Quanta Magazine, Scientific American and The Conversation.... He has a PhD in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder."
Agent Smith May 27, 2022 at 13:53 #701449
Quoting Wayfarer
It's a challenge to realism.


How?
Rocco Rosano May 27, 2022 at 15:56 #701524
RE: Action at a distance is realized. Quantum computer.
SUBTOPIC: The challenge? and Entanglement
?? Agent Smith, noAxioms, et al,

PREFACE: Establishing an attitude that accepts or denies a theory and be prepared to work with it is NOT so great a challenge.

Agent Smith: It's a challenge to realism.


Quoting Wayfarer
So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work.


(COMMENT)

  • ? My Acceptance, with respect to the realism challenge, is that "Relativity" has been tested a number of different ways, and has NOT failed a single examination over the last century. I call that track record the response in terms of "realism."? My Acceptance, with respect to the realism challenge, is that "Quantum Mechanics (QM)" may NOT be completely right (but then what I know about QM • and the implications it has opened up • can fit in the head of a pin), but has yet to be proven wrong.


But in both cases (1) the study of the very fast [Relativity], and (2) the study of the very small [QM], represent progress on a scale we have never seen before. And while the two do NOT currently interlock or mutually support the other (in all the critical ways), it is NOT likely that we will discard them any time soon.

We will still teach classical mechanics - and use it in all the same critical ways that Newtonian technology has dragged us over the last 300+ years, it may very well serve us over the next 300 years. The legacy of the giants ([I]Isaac Newton, James Maxwell, and Albert Einstein, each once members of the Royal Society[/i]) will be remembered forever. We stand on their shoulders.

Most Respectfully,
R
Wayfarer May 27, 2022 at 21:32 #701654
Quoting Wayfarer
So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work.


That quote was attributed to me, but they were not my words, it was a quote from John Bell.

Quoting Rocco Rosano
Establishing an attitude that accepts or denies a theory and be prepared to work with it is NOT so great a challenge.


That is not too far from the advice to 'shutup and calculate' - don't worry about the fact that it's weird, just use it.

Quoting Agent Smith
It's a challenge to realism.
— Wayfarer

How?


The very short version is, non-locality means that when you measure the properties of a particle in one position, the properties of the entangled particle are also fixed by that measurement at that instant of measurement, regardless of the distance between the two. So making a measurement here creates an outcome there without any apparent means for that information to be transmitted - because it's instantaneous, then it is faster than the speed of light which is the upper limit for any actual transmission. See this entry.

//PS// - I had questioned NoAxiom's claim that 'all relativity would crumble' if non-locality was falsifiable. As the video below explains, this is because it suggests that causal relationships seem to propogate at faster than the speed of light, so in that sense, this claim is correct.//
Wayfarer May 27, 2022 at 22:15 #701668
Agent Smith May 28, 2022 at 02:05 #701715
Quoting Wayfarer
The very short version is, non-locality means that when you measure the properties of a particle in one position, the properties of the entangled particle are also fixed by that measurement at that instant of measurement, regardless of the distance between the two. So making a measurement here creates an outcome there without any apparent means for that information to be transmitted - because it's instantaneous, then it is faster than the speed of light which is the upper limit for any actual transmission. See this entry.


Muchas gracias for the illimuinating explanation. I think I already said this before and it was probably to you that I said it to you. There's an alternative to giving up on Einstein's theory with its cosmic speed limit for physicists and that is to admit nonphysicalism of information (nothing physical can travel faster than light).
Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 02:20 #701721
Reply to Agent Smith But information is not travelling anywhere. It's not as if the properties of A are being communicated to B - that B can be 'informed about' A. That's the whole problem!

Have a look at the interview pinned to my profile page of Christian Fuchs who has originated an interpretation called Quantum Baynsianism (QBism for short, article name A Private View of Quantum Reality.) Some relevant passages:

QBism... treats the wave function as a description of a single observer’s subjective knowledge. It resolves all of the quantum paradoxes, but at the not insignificant cost of anything we might call “reality.” Then again, maybe that’s what quantum mechanics has been trying to tell us all along — that a single objective reality is an illusion....

Schrödinger thought that the Greeks had a kind of hold over us — they saw that the only way to make progress in thinking about the world was to talk about it without the “knowing subject” in it. QBism goes against that strain by saying that quantum mechanics is not about how the world is without us; instead it’s precisely about us in the world. The subject matter of the theory is not the world or us but us-within-the-world, the interface between the two.


I find that highly persuasive, because it lines up so well with phenomenology, as distinct from objectivism. Objectivism is 'what you see looking out the window'. Phenomenology is 'you looking out the window'. So it includes the observing subject.

So what is being called into question is not reality, but a mind independent reality - the purported reality that exists 'out there now', always already there that we either perceive, or not. That is what is called into question by quantum mechanics. But, he goes on to say:

It’s said that in earlier civilizations, people didn’t quite know how to distinguish between objective and subjective. But once the idea of separating the two gained a toehold, we were told that we have to do this, and that science is about the objective. And now that it’s done, it’s hard to turn back. I think the biggest fear people have of QBism is precisely this: that it’s anthropocentric. The feeling is, we got over that with Copernicus, and this has got to be a step backwards. But I think if we really want a universe that’s rife with possibility with no ultimate limits on it, this is exactly where you’ve got to go.


So again, what is being called into question is scientific realism, but in a very specific sense, one which I think is peculiar to what you could call the early modern or modern period.
T Clark May 28, 2022 at 02:30 #701722
Quoting noAxioms
By 'spooky action', I'm referring to cause and effect events being separated by a space-like manner, in other words, faster than light. If such a thing (or reverse causality) could actually be demonstrated without begging additional postulates, that would be a falsification of all local interpretations.


This is the question I've been wanting to ask - Did the action at a distance take place at a rate faster than the speed of light? If not what's the big deal. It is my understanding that data transfer at a speed greater than light is believed not to be possible, even given quantum entanglement. Does the experiment described contradict that?
Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 02:57 #701732
Quoting T Clark
Did the action at a distance take place at a rate faster than the speed of light?


'Instantaneous' means 'no time'. That's why Einstein couldn't accept it.

Quoting T Clark
Does the experiment described contradict that?


The 'Bell inequalities' experiments confirm that the correlation between the two particles that occurs at the measurement of one of the pairs is instantanous.

Quoting T Clark
If not what's the big deal.


That's why it's a big deal. Hence Niels Bohr's oft-quoted statement, 'Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum mechanics cannot possibly have understood it.'

(For the attribution of that quote, it's in Werner Heisenberg's book Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations, in the chapter on Positivism, Metaphysics and Religion. It relates to a lecture Bohr gave to representatives of the Vienna Circle when they came to Copenhagen. Bohr felt by their polite applause and lack of questions that they didn't understand what he was telling them, 'otherwise they would have been shocked by it'. I think this still holds true.)
T Clark May 28, 2022 at 03:10 #701735
Quoting Wayfarer
The 'Bell inequalities' experiments confirm that the correlation between the two particles that occurs at the measurement of one of the pairs is instantanous.


It is my understanding that is not the same as information being transmitted at a rate greater than the speed of light. I admit I don't understand why not. Wikipedia says:

Superluminal communication is a hypothetical process in which information is sent at faster-than-light (FTL) speeds. The current scientific consensus is that faster-than-light communication is not possible, and to date it has not been achieved in any experiment.

Yes, I know Wikipedia is not an unimpeachable source.
Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 03:12 #701737
Reply to T Clark The article is correct - information cannot be transmitted faster than light. Yet in the Bell experiments, the correlation between separated particles is instaneous. So, information is not being transmitted between the two particles, and yet the correlation is happening. By what means does that correlation happen, in the absence of tranmission of information? You see the question? Something done in one place seems to have an instaneous effect on something in another place. Hence, 'spooky action at a distance'.
T Clark May 28, 2022 at 03:15 #701741
Quoting Wayfarer
The article is correct - information cannot be transmitted faster than light. Yet in the Bell experiments, the correlation between separated particles is instaneous. So, information is not being transmitted between the two particles, and yet the correlation is happening. By what means does it happen? You see the question?


I've struggled with the whole idea. I keep holding on to the the no-superluminal-communication floatation device hoping someone will rescue me.
Deleted User May 28, 2022 at 03:17 #701742
Reply to T Clark

Not competent to speak on the subject - but it's still fun.

It seems the particles must be either, in some sense, the same particle or, in some sense, in the same location.


Madness.

Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 03:17 #701743
Quoting T Clark
I've struggled with the whole idea.


And you wouldn't be alone in that, but I've long since reconciled myself to it.
Agent Smith May 28, 2022 at 03:25 #701750
Reply to Wayfarer Interesting to say the least.

I don't know if this is related or not, but I recall reading that electrons/particles are only a fuzzy probability distribution (pure potential) and acquire a fixed locus i.e. pop into existence at the moment of observation (actualization of potential); in a sense, the mind via measurement/observation causes particles to be (mind-dependent reality).
jgill May 28, 2022 at 03:41 #701760
The Schrödinger equation is linear and so linear combinations of solutions are also solutions. This is the superposition concept in its mathematical garb. The superposition principle leads to quantum entanglement, since a measurement identifies a state and illuminates a solution. Thus entanglement can occur, since otherwise an entangled pair would be nothing more than the common example of a coin split into a head half and a tale half. So the roots of this notion arise in elementary differential equations or linear algebra. Or so it seems to me.

Not that this solves anything.
Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 03:44 #701763
Reply to Agent Smith that’s how I understand it too. This idea of there being permanent, unchangeable objects - the original meaning of ‘atom’! - no longer holds. So the answer to the question ‘does the electron exist’ just is the wave-function. The answer it gives is again a distribution of possibilities, not a yes/no. ‘Exists’ doesn’t apply. ‘Does not exist’ doesn’t apply. (Does that ring a Bell?)

Reply to jgill Of course! All of what we are talking about ‘fell out of the equations’ so to speak. Superposition, for instance, about which it’s difficult to form any kind of real concept.
noAxioms May 28, 2022 at 05:19 #701785
Quoting Wayfarer
So making a measurement here creates an outcome there without any apparent means for that information to be transmitted - because it's instantaneous, then it is faster than the speed of light which is the upper limit for any actual transmission.

Quoting Wayfarer
The 'Bell inequalities' experiments confirm that the correlation between the two particles that occurs at the measurement of one of the pairs is instantanous.

This wording suggests that there is a concept of 'instantaneous', or absolute simultaneity, which is an entirely naive wording.
What they have is two measurement events of these entangled particles and those two events are separated in a space-like manner. That means that there exists some frames where those two events are simultaneous, and many frames where one occurs first, and many where the other occurs first.
But the wording in the above statements suggests that there is but one measurement that somehow 'instantaneously' changes the state of the other particle, even in the absence of it being measured, which is exactly begging not only absolute simultaneity, but also that there is an objective state of reality independent of measurement. Begging the latter assumption voids any falsification of locality. Local interpretations cannot presume an objective reality (again, with that one loophole exception), per Bell.

Quoting T Clark
Did the action at a distance take place at a rate faster than the speed of light?
Faster than light yes. Into the past even in the case of delayed choice experiments, which have been performed with cause occuring years after the effect.

The thing that locality denies is not the faster than light relationship between measurements, but the 'action' part. No local interpretation suggests that anything changes at the far particle when the near one is measured. Copenhagen is about as local as it gets, and it being an epistemological interpretation, all it says is that a measurement here causes knowledge here of what the other measurement will be when we learn of it. Other local interpretations word it differently, but none suggest any FTL action.

Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 05:32 #701790
Quoting noAxioms
This wording suggests that there is a concept of 'instantaneous', or absolute simultaneity, which is an entirely naive wording.


I don't believe so. You haven't read the evidence about it. If it was as trivial a matter as you're suggesting, then there would be nothing to discuss.

Quoting noAxioms
the wording in the above statements suggests that there is but one measurement that somehow 'instantaneously' changes the state of the other particle,


The instantaneous nature of the correlation is precisely the point at issue. Whether the measurement of one changes the state of the other is another point at issue.

Quoting noAxioms
Copenhagen is about as local as it gets, and it being an epistemological interpretation, all it says is that a measurement here causes knowledge here of what the other measurement will be when we learn of it.


I'm not a physicist, but based on the plain English accounts that I've read of this matter, of which there are quite a few, I don't think this is so. If you would like to validate your intepretation with some sources (other than technical physics papers), please do.

Perhaps for a start you could explain why Einstein objected to the suggestion of entanglement with the word 'spooky'.
180 Proof May 28, 2022 at 06:13 #701799
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T Clark May 28, 2022 at 16:46 #701944
Quoting noAxioms
The thing that locality denies is not the faster than light relationship between measurements, but the 'action' part. No local interpretation suggests that anything changes at the far particle when the near one is measured. Copenhagen is about as local as it gets, and it being an epistemological interpretation, all it says is that a measurement here causes knowledge here of what the other measurement will be when we learn of it. Other local interpretations word it differently, but none suggest any FTL action.


Thanks. It's hard to grasp.
Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 22:06 #702118
Reply to Clarky Don't be mislead, the statement you've quoted is wrong in every particular, to my knowledge. Review Matt O'Dowd's PBS Space Time video above, he gives the correct account of the issue, and also of the Copenhagen interpretation.

[quote= Wikipedia entry on Quantum Entanglement; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement#Meaning_of_entanglement]Quantum entanglement is the physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance. The topic of quantum entanglement is at the heart of the disparity between classical and quantum physics: entanglement is a primary feature of quantum mechanics lacking in classical mechanics.

Measurements of physical properties such as position, momentum, spin, and polarization performed on entangled particles can, in some cases, be found to be perfectly correlated. For example, if a pair of entangled particles is generated such that their total spin is known to be zero, and one particle is found to have clockwise spin on a first axis, then the spin of the other particle, measured on the same axis, is found to be anticlockwise. However, this behavior gives rise to seemingly paradoxical effects: any measurement of a particle's properties results in an irreversible wave function collapse of that particle and changes the original quantum state. With entangled particles, such measurements affect the entangled system as a whole.

Such phenomena were the subject of a 1935 paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen, and several papers by Erwin Schrödinger shortly thereafter, describing what came to be known as the EPR paradox.Einstein and others considered such behavior impossible, as it violated the local realism view of causality (Einstein referring to it as "spooky action at a distance") and argued that the accepted formulation of quantum mechanics must therefore be incomplete.

Later, however, the counterintuitive predictions of quantum mechanics were verified in tests where polarization or spin of entangled particles was measured at separate locations, statistically violating Bell's inequality. In earlier tests, it couldn't be ruled out that the result at one point could have been subtly transmitted to the remote point, affecting the outcome at the second location. However, so-called "loophole-free" Bell tests have been performed where the locations were sufficiently separated that communications at the speed of light would have taken longer—in one case, 10,000 times longer—than the interval between the measurements.

According to some interpretations of quantum mechanics, the effect of one measurement occurs instantly. Other interpretations which don't recognize wavefunction collapse dispute that there is any "effect" at all. However, all interpretations agree that entanglement produces correlation between the measurements and that the mutual information between the entangled particles can be exploited, but that any transmission of information at faster-than-light speeds is impossible.

Quantum entanglement has been demonstrated experimentally with photons, neutrinos, electrons, molecules as large as buckyballs, and even small diamonds. The utilization of entanglement in communication, computation and quantum radar is a very active area of research and development. ...

Paradox
The paradox is that a measurement made on either of the particles apparently collapses the state of the entire entangled system—and does so instantaneously, before any information about the measurement result could have been communicated to the other particle (assuming that information cannot travel faster than light) and hence assured the "proper" outcome of the measurement of the other part of the entangled pair.

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T Clark May 28, 2022 at 22:47 #702134
Quoting Wayfarer
Don't be mislead, the statement you've quoted is wrong in every particular, to my knowledge. Review Matt O'Dowd's PBS Space Time video above, he gives the correct account of the issue, and also of the Copenhagen interpretation.


I watched the video and, as I understand it, it confirms the statement from Wikipedia I quoted before:

The current scientific consensus is that faster-than-light communication is not possible, and to date it has not been achieved in any experiment.

I'm just as confused as I was, but the guy in the video doesn't seem to be.
Wayfarer May 28, 2022 at 22:55 #702136
Quoting Clarky
The current scientific consensus is that faster-than-light communication is not possible, and to date it has not been achieved in any experiment.


That is true. But as the article then says. 'the paradox is that a measurement made on either of the particles apparently collapses the state of the entire entangled system—and does so instantaneously.'

I'm by no means suggesting a solution, but I think it's important to at least acknowledge what the paradox is. (Richard Feynman said 'Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.') That's why I think quantum physics is kind of like sorcery. ;-)


noAxioms May 28, 2022 at 22:56 #702137
Quoting Wayfarer
I don't believe so. You haven't read the evidence about it. If it was as trivial a matter as you're suggesting, then there would be nothing to discuss.
I'm talking about relativity of simultaneity (RoS). If you don't know what that is, then you don't have the tools to assess the validity of my criticism of the wording used in the article. If you do know what it means, then you know that the article wording implies absolute simultaneity, something often done in pop articles but not science papers. This is why you don't get your science from pop articles, despite the credentials of the author.

The instantaneous nature of the correlation is precisely the point at issue.
The correlation of the measurements is simultaneous (very different from instantaneous) in a few frames and not in most. The absence of a frame specification renders the assertion meaningless, and even if they did supply the frame specification, they've still only demonstrated simultaneity of correlated measurements, not action-reaction.

Whether the measurement of one changes the state of the other is another point at issue.
That of course has not been demonstrated. If for instance the measurement of one collapsed the state of the other, the abrupt cessation of superposition of the remote particles could be measured and that would constitute FTL communication and it would be news indeed. But no such thing has ever been demonstrated.

Copenhagen ...
— noAxioms

I'm not a physicist, but based on the plain English accounts that I've read of this matter, of which there are quite a few, I don't think this is so. If you would like to validate your interpretation with some sources (other than technical physics papers), please do.

Copenhagen was originated as an epistemological view: Back in the early days, quantum physics defied classic description, so they came up with a set of rules about what could be known about a system. You could have two people standing next to each other and one would know the result of a measurement and the other not. No metaphysical interpretation would suggest that the superposition of the measured system itself was collapsed for one of the two people and not the other simply pending verbal communication.

So Copenhagen was perhaps a poor example because there is now much writing about it, and many contradictory metaphysical assertions all bearing the same name. Metaphysically, I don't think there is one accepted version and no one accepted author of the interpretation. I don't think there is an accepted scientific paper that IS the Copenhagen interpretation. As for articles written in understandable language, you can find ones that support just about any assertion you like just like the Bible can be used to justify whatever evil you have in mind today. So I'll not link to one that supports my locality assertion since you can equally find one that asserts otherwise.

Perhaps for a start you could explain why Einstein objected to the suggestion of entanglement with the word 'spooky'.
Einstein was a realist and very held to the principle that there was an objective state of the universe even in the absence of measurement. But his theory of relativity strongly suggests he held to (heck, he defined) the principle of locality, that cause must precede effect. Bell showed that you must choose between the principles. No valid interpretation of QM can postulate both of them, and many postulate neither.
All the articles I've seen linked from this topic contain language that assert the objective reality, which of course must contradict locality, but to disprove locality, one must do so without begging the objective reality since none of the local interpretations list it as one of the premises.

Quoting Clarky
The current scientific consensus is that faster-than-light communication is not possible, and to date it has not been achieved in any experiment.

Ah, but the spooky-action folks are not claiming communication, they're claiming FtL action-reaction. But if there was a (remote) empirical test for this having actually happened at the reaction side, a message could be sent via this test, so it would constitute communication. So despite all the assertions, they've not falsified locality.
jgill May 28, 2022 at 22:57 #702138
The basic observation piece being subject to probability seems crucial. Once the superposition is resolved it would seem that it is like the coin split down the middle to a head half and a tail half. But it's got to be more than that. Wish I had studied QM years ago.

My best friend, a fellow math prof, departed a physics major after he enrolled in QM.
T Clark May 28, 2022 at 22:58 #702139
Quoting Wayfarer
That is true. But as the article then says. 'the paradox is that a measurement made on either of the particles apparently collapses the state of the entire entangled system—and does so instantaneously.'


Yes. The statements seem to be contradicting each other, but I'm confident they aren't because a lot of really smart people have said so. That doesn't mean I understand it. I am comfortable believing that something is true even though I don't understand how. It gives me something to think about.
T Clark May 28, 2022 at 23:00 #702140
Quoting noAxioms
Ah, but the spooky-action folks are not claiming communication, they're claiming FtL action-reaction. But if there was a (remote) empirical test for this having actually happened at the reaction side, a message could be sent via this test, so it would constitute communication.


It seems to me that what you call faster than light action-reaction is equivalent to communication. It seems I'm wrong about that.
Wayfarer May 29, 2022 at 01:06 #702158
Quoting noAxioms
I'm talking about relativity of simultaneity (RoS). If you don't know what that is, then you don't have the tools to assess the validity of my criticism of the wording used in the article.


To do with reference frames and the relativity of time of measurement, I guess.

I can only get information from popular science, like Quanta Magazine and PBS Space Time, but the writers in those media are qualified in physics, in fact both have PhD's in the subject. Nowhere have you referred to any sources, so I'm inclined to believe them over you.

And I can understand what they are saying, whereas I can't understand your objections. For instance:

Quoting noAxioms
(the) theory of relativity strongly suggests... the principle of locality, that cause must precede effect. Bell showed that you must choose between the principles


Choose between what principles?

Quoting noAxioms
I don't think there is an accepted scientific paper that IS the Copenhagen interpretation.


Of course not. The 'copenhagen interpretation' is not a scientific theory. Quantum theory is a scientific theory. The Copenhagen interpretation are philosophical speculations about what it means. The expression was coined by Werner Heisenberg, one of its advocates, in one of his popular science and philosophy books written in the 1950's

Here is one example quoted by Matt O'Dowd in the PBS video:

[quote=Neils Bohr]It is meaningless to assign reality to the Universe in the absence of observation.[/quote]

Here, it is explained, "object permanence" is being questioned. It is typical of the 'copenhagen interpretation'.

Quoting noAxioms
All the articles I've seen linked from this topic contain language that assert the objective reality, which of course must contradict locality, but to disprove locality, one must do so without begging the objective reality since none of the local interpretations list it as one of the premises.


:roll:

Quoting noAxioms
But if there was a (remote) empirical test for this having actually happened at the reaction side, a message could be sent via this test, so it would constitute communication. So despite all the assertions, they've not falsified locality.


That is the subject of the first article I quoted in this thread, about the Chinese communications satellite.

Quantum entanglement—physics at its strangest—has moved out of this world and into space. In a study that shows China's growing mastery of both the quantum world and space science, a team of physicists reports that it sent eerily intertwined quantum particles from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous world record. The result is a stepping stone to ultrasecure communication networks and, eventually, a space-based quantum internet.


So, you're disputing that this is evidence of 'spooky action at a distance'? That is what the article is about. There seems to be some major disconnect here. I know it's a tough topic and I'm not wanting to be discourteous. But I am going to say that I think to all intents, (a) simultaneous and instantaneous mean the same in this context, and (b) how this can happen is a mystery, but it can't be disputed that it does happen. Over and out.

T Clark May 29, 2022 at 02:22 #702190
Quoting Wayfarer
The Copenhagen interpretation are philosophical speculations about what it means.


It is my understanding that the Copenhagen Interpretation is not a "philosophical speculation." It represents a refusal to speculate. Metaphysics pared down to a minimum.

Quoting Wayfarer
Choose between what principles?


The video you provided talked about the violation of realism versus the violation of locality. According to the narrator, if realism is violated, but locality isn't, there is no superluminal causality or communication. Or is it the other way around. Please don't ask me to explain,
Agent Smith May 29, 2022 at 02:58 #702202
Quoting Wayfarer
that’s how I understand it too. This idea of there being permanent, unchangeable objects - the original meaning of ‘atom’! - no longer holds. So the answer to the question ‘does the electron exist’ just is the wave-function. The answer it gives is again a distribution of possibilities, not a yes/no. ‘Exists’ doesn’t apply. ‘Does not exist’ doesn’t apply. (Does that ring a Bell?)


:smile: A particle feels more real than a wave function. It's got that tangible quality that (say) an apple/rock has. That should, in my humble opinion, count for something.
Wayfarer May 29, 2022 at 03:27 #702210
We’ll you can throw a rock, or eat an apple, but you can surf a wave.

Reply to Clarky Good pick up. Speculate is the wrong word. But it does concern meanings. You can find Heisenbergs Physics and Beyond on archive.org, it has many conversations with Bohr and Pauli.
T Clark May 29, 2022 at 04:05 #702226
Quoting Wayfarer
You can find Heisenbergs Physics and Beyond on archive.org, it has many conversations with Bohr and Pauli.


I appreciate the reference, but I'm not sure that anything I read is going to clarify things for me. I will take a look.
Wayfarer May 29, 2022 at 05:33 #702248
Reply to Clarky I meant to get more of a feel for the Copenhagen interpretation.
Bird-Up May 29, 2022 at 05:54 #702250
Interesting post. Always want to know more about how the universe works, but I don't subscribe to the religious belief that quantum mechanics is magical beyond all other physics. I think it's just more standard physics that we have yet to learn. Like Einstein said, don't get stumped by a lack of imagination. It makes sense somehow, even if we are struggling to understand it right now.

Quoting Jarjar
Realism and non-locality are compatible. If the wave function is real, it constitutes a causal, non-local fork, causing both


That's how I've always understood the quantum experiments. Like there is a misunderstanding about what exactly is being shown.

Walking in front of a mirror could constitute "spooky action at a distance". But I've never really had success teleporting myself with a mirror; even thought it appears that I have jumped across the room instantly.
Andrew M May 29, 2022 at 12:26 #702304
Quoting Clarky
Choose between what principles?
— Wayfarer

The video you provided talked about the violation of realism versus the violation of locality. According to the narrator, if realism is violated, but locality isn't, there is no superluminal causality or communication.


Spot on. As it happens, most physicists choose locality over realism [*]. This rejection of realism (precisely, counterfactual definiteness) is well summed up by physicist Asher Peres, one of the original developers of quantum teleportation, as "unperformed experiments have no results".

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[*] "What can we learn from Bell’s inequality? For physicists, the most important lesson is that their deeply held commonsense intuitions about how the world works are wrong. The world is not locally realistic. Most physicists take the point of view that it is the assumption of realism which needs to be dropped from our worldview in quantum mechanics, although others have argued that the assumption of locality should be dropped instead." - Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Nielsen and Chuang
T Clark May 29, 2022 at 16:03 #702366
Quoting Andrew M
Spot on. As it happens, most physicists choose locality over realism [*]. This rejection of realism (precisely, counterfactual definiteness) is well summed up by physicist Asher Peres, one of the original developers of quantum teleportation, as "unperformed experiments have no results".


Both of those links are really helpful. Thanks.
Frankly May 29, 2022 at 19:28 #702457
There are more interpretations than the Copenhagen one.
Frankly May 29, 2022 at 19:28 #702458
Why should one be shocked by QM? Why you don't understand it if you claim to understand it? Why your innocence is lost when the quantum apple has been bitten?
Landoma1 May 29, 2022 at 19:28 #702471
Why can't reality be non-local? Two features of a spatial extended system could be non-causally connected can't they? Why isn't this compatible with realism?
Jackson May 29, 2022 at 19:44 #702493
Quoting Landoma1
Why can't reality be non-local?


I agree.
180 Proof May 29, 2022 at 20:08 #702508
Reply to noAxioms :fire: Thanks for your clarifications!
noAxioms May 30, 2022 at 00:48 #702618
Quoting Wayfarer
If you don't know what relativity of simultaneity (RoS) is, then you don't have the tools to assess the validity of my criticism of the wording used in the article.
— noAxioms
To do with reference frames and the relativity of time of measurement, I guess.

It does, but you seem to be on thin ground to be agreeing with a pop site written for the lay public instead of say grad students. Argument from authority doesn’t help. These PhDs write differently for different audiences.

Per RoS, there is no unambiguous meaning to ‘instantly’ at a distance. Relative to a local measurement event, there are different times at the distant location, each simultaneous with the measurement event, but relative to different frames. That’s RoS in a nutshell.

If one asserts objective time and space (there’s only one time on say Mars that is actually simultaneous with a given moment on Earth), it is a rejection of Einstein’s theory which posits only that all frames are equally valid and speed of light is c in any inertial frame. Neither of those is true if one posits an absolute frame, which necessarily implies light speed being something other than c in any other frame.

That’s all besides the point of this entanglement topic. The point I’m really trying to get at is the implied assumption of Bohmian mechanics in the article. Only in Bohmian mechanics are the asserted statements true, and indeed, in that interpretation, locality is (and must be) violated. For the PhD to never explicitly call this out is bad form. There are other interpretations, including many well known that hold to the principle of locality.

I can only get information from popular science, like Quanta Magazine and PBS Space Time, but the writers in those media are qualified in physics, in fact both have PhD's in the subject. Nowhere have you referred to any sources, so I'm inclined to believe them over you.
Such articles are not accepted as evidence at a site like physicsforums.com. A college level textbook is, but most college courses teach quantum mechanics theory and barely touch on the interpretations, which is not theory.

Choose between what principles?
Principle of locality and principle of counterfactual definiteness, the latter being summarized in wiki thus:
In quantum mechanics, counterfactual definiteness (CFD) is the ability to speak "meaningfully" of the definiteness of the results of measurements that have not been performed (i.e., the ability to assume the existence of objects, and properties of objects, even when they have not been measured).

The articles you quote all speak meaningfully of unmeasured things, and rightfully drive that to demonstration of contradiction of locality.

The Copenhagen interpretation are philosophical speculations about what it means.
Agree, but the other interpretations are specific speculations about what it means. I’m saying there’s not one speculation that is the official Copenhagen speculation. With the other interpretations, one can point to one paper that defines the initial (and sometimes revised) view.

Quoting Clarky
It is my understanding that the Copenhagen Interpretation is not a "philosophical speculation." It represents a refusal to speculate. Metaphysics pared down to a minimum.
This sounds close to the mark.
[quote=Clarky]The video you provided talked about the violation of realism versus the violation of locality. According to the narrator, if realism is violated, but locality isn't, there is no superluminal causality or communication. Or is it the other way around. Please don't ask me to explain,[/quote]I didn’t watch any videos, but that sounds right: CFD vs locality. Yes, if locality isn’t violated, there isn’t superluminal causality. That’s what locality means.
With CFD, there’s not only superluminal causation, there’s reverse causation, with effect demonstrated years before the cause.

It is meaningless to assign reality to the Universe in the absence of observation.
— Neils Bohr
This is a rejection of CFD, but if CFD is accepted (as your articles do), then that’s a different speculation. CFD can’t be proved, but neither can it be falsified.

[quote=Wayfarer]Here, it is explained, "object permanence" is being questioned. It is typical of the 'copenhagen interpretation'.[/quote]Copenhagen indeed does not typically list CFD as a premise (on wiki say), but I went hunting for an article you might like, and they all say different things, and the vast majority of the articles I found made meaningful statements about unmeasured things.

Quantum entanglement—physics at its strangest—has moved out of this world and into space. In a study that shows China's growing mastery of both the quantum world and space science, a team of physicists reports that it sent eerily intertwined quantum particles from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous world record.
They put a beam splitter in space. Is that so remarkable? There is no maximum distance to entanglement, so ‘smashing’ some kind of distance record seems news worthy only to the lay public. I’ve seem similar claims of smashing the speed record, which, per RoS, is utterly meaningless.

So, you're disputing that this is evidence of 'spooky action at a distance'?
Yes, for the reasons I posted, not one of which has been refuted by somebody who understands the basics.

I don’t deny the correlation at a distance. I deny that this is necessarily any kind of ‘action’, which would constitute a falsification of, among other things, all of relativity theory. There are several interpretations that ‘speculate’ local physics that account for the correlation. None of them presume CFD (yet again, with a single loophole exception, which is superdeterminsim)

Quoting Landoma1
Why can't reality be non-local?
It can be. Nobody has proven locality. It just hasn’t been falsified.
Wayfarer May 30, 2022 at 00:53 #702621
Quoting noAxioms
Such articles are not accepted as evidence at a site like physicsforums.com .


That's because physics forum gives short shrift to anything the classify as philosophy. I've posted there a bit.

Quoting noAxioms
I don’t deny the correlation at a distance.


Thanks for clearing that up. That's what I had thought you were doing. But I still don't think you've come to terms with Einstein's objection, and the subsequent experiments that falsify it.

//ps// and there's no correlation until a measurement is made. That is another important point. It's not as if the correlation pre-exists the measurement - that is precisely what the Bell inequality disproves.//

Here's the wiki article on counterfactual definiteness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_definiteness
noAxioms May 30, 2022 at 01:22 #702634
Quoting Wayfarer
That's because physics forum gives short shrift to anything the classify as philosophy. I've posted there a bit.

They have a whole subforum for quantum interpretations, and yes, it's all philosophy in there. But they have standards for what constitutes an authoritative source, so say Everett's paper on Relative State Formulation is an authoritative source, but the wiki page on MWI is not. The latter is much easier to understand, and actually gets it reasonably correct.

Metaphysician Undercover May 30, 2022 at 01:45 #702646
Quoting Wayfarer
Here, it is explained, "object permanence" is being questioned. It is typical of the 'copenhagen interpretation'.


In mysticism, the principle is that every object must be recreated at each moment of passing time. This is the moment of the present. The principles employed by modern physics make the moment of the present observer dependent. This renders the moment of recreation of the object as vague.

Quoting Wayfarer
But I am going to say that I think to all intents, (a) simultaneous and instantaneous mean the same in this context,


Simultaneous means at the same time, and as noAxioms explained, in relativity theory whether or not two events are simultaneous may be dependent on the frame of reference. This implies that whether one event is prior to another, or posterior to the other, is also frame dependent.

Instantaneous is more of a mathematical concept derived from calculus I believe. I think it represents an infinitesimal period of time. So for instance, if one event causes another, the one is prior to the other, and there must be an infinitesimal amount of time which separates the two. The concept is useful for applying mathematics to acceleration. Acceleration has never been adequately understood by human beings.
jgill May 30, 2022 at 03:36 #702690
Quoting Metaphysician Undercover
Acceleration has never been adequately understood by human beings.


From past posts I assume you refer to instantaneous acceleration.
Wayfarer May 30, 2022 at 05:49 #702721
Quoting noAxioms
They (physics forum) have a whole subforum for quantum interpretations


Indeed they do. The current top thread is on interpretations of non-locality. Hey, I could spot the error in the first sentence of the second paragraph straight away, so I must understand something.

I've participated in a few discussions on Physics Forum and even started a thread, but one of the later discussions I posted - I can't remember exactly the substance, but I think it was about the reality of number - was locked immediately on the grounds of being too philosophical (the mod said nobody there had expertise on questions of that kind).

Quoting Metaphysician Undercover
Simultaneous means at the same time, and as noAxioms explained, in relativity theory whether or not two events are simultaneous may be dependent on the frame of reference.


According to some interpretations of quantum mechanics, the effect of one measurement occurs instantly. Other interpretations which don't recognize wavefunction collapse dispute that there is any "effect" at all. However, all interpretations agree that entanglement produces correlation between the measurements and that the mutual information between the entangled particles can be exploited.


But logically, as the superposition refers to all of the elements in an entangled system, then to measure the one is to measure the other.
Metaphysician Undercover May 30, 2022 at 10:57 #702768
Quoting jgill
From past posts I assume you refer to instantaneous acceleration.


Acceleration in general, is not well understood. If an object is at rest, and later it is in motion, then there must be a time when acceleration is infinite, when it goes from zero motion to having some motion. This
problem, of accurately representing acceleration, is tied together with the problem of representing how a force acts on an object, such as when one object hits another. I believe the acceptable way of representing this (application of force), is through the means of fields, so that the kinetic energy of the one object is represented as potential energy in relation to the other object. There is always a discrepancy between the two which is written off as entropy.

Quoting Wayfarer
But logically, as the superposition refers to all of the elements in an entangled system, then to measure the one is to measure the other.


The issue is with those who "dispute that there is any 'effect' at all". Of course measurement has an affect, because that is how measurement in quantum systems is done, by eliciting an effect. If there is an effect in the measuring device then by Newton's third law there is also an effect on the thing measured. That thing being measure is the system. I believe the mode of measurement is to measure a part of the system, then through logic and extrapolation, extend this to the entirety of the system.

The problem of entanglement is an extension of the simple measurement problem; physicists have no accurate way to measure any part of a quantum system. A "particle" does not have independent existence, it is always a part of something. Be wary of the use of "system" as well. A system is always artificial, or else it is how something natural is represented as "a system". If it is artificial, there is losses of energy to the system, accounted for with entropy. And representing something natural as "a system", is to neglect aspects of the reality of the thing, accidentals in Aristotelian terms.
Andrew M May 30, 2022 at 23:35 #703131
Quoting Clarky
Both of those links are really helpful. Thanks.


:up:

Here's some more from Peres that argues for the locality point-of-view.

Quoting Quantum Information and Relativity Theory - Asher Peres, Daniel R. Terno, 2003
Bell’s theorem (1964) asserts that it is impossible to mimic quantum theory by introducing a set of objective local “hidden” variables. It follows that any classical imitation of quantum mechanics is necessarily nonlocal. However Bell’s theorem does not imply the existence of any nonlocality in quantum theory itself. In particular relativistic quantum field theory is manifestly local. The simple and obvious fact is that information has to be carried by material objects, quantized or not. Therefore quantum measurements do not allow any information to be transmitted faster than the characteristic velocity that appears in the Green’s functions of the particles emitted in the experiment. In a Lorentz invariant theory, this limit is the velocity of light.

In summary, relativistic causality cannot be violated by quantum measurements. The only physical assumption that is needed to prove this assertion is that Lorentz transformations of the spacetime coordinates are implemented in quantum theory by unitary transformations of the various operators. This is the same as saying that the Lorentz group is a valid symmetry of the physical system (Weinberg, 1995).

T Clark May 30, 2022 at 23:43 #703134
Reply to Andrew M

Thanks again. I downloaded the paper, although it may be a bit over my head.
Wayfarer May 31, 2022 at 00:24 #703145
Quoting Andrew M
The world is not locally realistic.


What does 'locally realistic' mean? It doesn't make a lot of sense as plain English.

Incidentally, I've been reading an article on QBism. As far as I understand it, it makes sense to me.

[quote=Chris Fuchs]Schrödinger thought that the Greeks had a kind of hold over us — they saw that the only way to make progress in thinking about the world was to talk about it without the “knowing subject” in it. QBism goes against that strain by saying that quantum mechanics is not about how the world is without us; instead it’s precisely about us in the world. The subject matter of the theory is not the world or us but us-within-the-world, the interface between the two.[/quote]

That really nails it for me, because, if you think about it, it actually lines up with Kant.
Andrew M May 31, 2022 at 01:18 #703157
Quoting Clarky
Thanks again.


:up:

Quoting Wayfarer
What does 'locally realistic' mean? It doesn't make a lot of sense as plain English.


Below is the broader quote that that phrase was taken from, describing Bell's Theorem. Both locality and realism are technical terms. Don't equate the latter with philosophical or scientific realism. In the sense used here, realism is the assumption that a superposition has a well-defined value independent of measurement (also termed counterfactual definiteness). So, for example, that a particle described by a superposition as being "here + there" really is just here or there independent of measurement, we just don't know which it is.

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Nielsen and Chuang:There are two assumptions made in the proof of (2.225) which are questionable:

(1) The assumption that the physical properties PQ, PR, PS, PT have definite values Q, R, S, T which exist independent of observation. This is sometimes known as the assumption of realism.
(2) The assumption that Alice performing her measurement does not influence the result of Bob’s measurement. This is sometimes known as the assumption of locality.

These two assumptions together are known as the assumptions of local realism. They are certainly intuitively plausible assumptions about how the world works, and they fit our everyday experience. Yet the Bell inequalities show that at least one of these assumptions is not correct.

What can we learn from Bell’s inequality? For physicists, the most important lesson is that their deeply held commonsense intuitions about how the world works are wrong. The world is not locally realistic. Most physicists take the point of view that it is the assumption of realism which needs to be dropped from our worldview in quantum mechanics, although others have argued that the assumption of locality should be dropped instead. Regardless, Bell’s inequality together with substantial experimental evidence now points to the conclusion that either or both of locality and realism must be dropped from our view of the world if we are to develop a good intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics.

Andrew M May 31, 2022 at 01:25 #703160
Quoting Wayfarer
Incidentally, I've been reading an article on QBism. As far as I understand it, it makes sense to me.

Schrödinger thought that the Greeks had a kind of hold over us — they saw that the only way to make progress in thinking about the world was to talk about it without the “knowing subject” in it. QBism goes against that strain by saying that quantum mechanics is not about how the world is without us; instead it’s precisely about us in the world. The subject matter of the theory is not the world or us but us-within-the-world, the interface between the two.
— Chris Fuchs

That really nails it for me, because, if you think about it, it actually lines up with Kant.


:up: As Fuchs implies with "us-within-the-world", there's no view from nowhere.

Quoting Wayfarer
But logically, as the superposition refers to all of the elements in an entangled system, then to measure the one is to measure the other.


Just to be precise here, measurement involves an interaction between a measurer and what is being measured. That Alice measures her entangled particle doesn't imply that a measurement has been made or ever will be made on Bob's entangled particle. Instead, if both Alice and Bob do measure their particles and later meet up to compare notes, then they will find that their measurements are correlated per the predictions of quantum theory. That is, Alice needs to not just perform her local experiment, she also needs to locally interact with Bob and his measurement.
T Clark May 31, 2022 at 01:27 #703161
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Nielsen and Chuang:For physicists, the most important lesson is that their deeply held commonsense intuitions about how the world works are wrong.


Then again, physicists and the rest of us can count on both realism and locality in the world where we live our lives. I'm not saying the results of quantum mechanics aren't important, but they are scale-dependent. Here at human scale, we can live our lives as we always have.
Andrew M May 31, 2022 at 01:58 #703168
Quoting Clarky
Then again, physicists and the rest of us can count on both realism and locality in the world where we live our lives. I'm not saying the results of quantum mechanics aren't important, but they are scale-dependent. Here at human scale, we can live our lives as we always have.


Yes, for macroscopic systems at low velocities in weak gravitational fields, QM and relativity approximate classical Newtonian mechanics (as an emergent classical limit).
Wayfarer May 31, 2022 at 02:55 #703183
Quoting Andrew M
That Alice measures her entangled particle doesn't imply that a measurement has been made or ever will be made on Bob's entangled particle.


I was referring to this thread on physics forum. I felt I had spotted an error that the first response set straight but this is obviously not the place to discuss Physics Forum threads. I only went there because @noAxioms mentioned there was a sub-forum on interpretations, and that was the first thread I looked at.

"Quantum Computation and Quantum Information - Nielsen and Chuang"]For physicists, the most important lesson is that their deeply held commonsense intuitions about how the world works are wrong.


Add 'and naturalists' :wink:


Quoting Clarky
Here at human scale, we can live our lives as we always have.


People do say that often when encountering the paradoxical quality of quantum mechanics. But don't forget that the subject concerns what has always been thought of as the 'fundamental constituents of reality'.
Landoma1 May 31, 2022 at 07:19 #703292
Position and momenta can be in superposition like spin. If position of one electron is measured then the global becomes local but the spin is still globally, non-locally, attached to the other.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 10:21 #703767
Reply to noAxioms
Reply to Wayfarer
I may be demonstrating my limited physics knowledge here but does the theory that 'dark energy,' (which I take to infer an energy type that is undetectable using any current known scientific technology) is the cause of the accelerating expansion rate, not contradict the evidence that the total energy of the spatial vacuum is zero?
Wayfarer June 01, 2022 at 10:30 #703769
Reply to universeness That’s a question fir physics forum (although I’ve looked it up there before and the answer was ‘no’ for reasons I couldn’t follow).
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 10:40 #703772
Yes. A lamda is added to the energy-mass-momentum tensor. The DE is an energy that doesn't dilute if space grows. If you put giant springs between all galaxies you could stop expansion.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 10:43 #703778
Reply to Wayfarer
:up: Yeah I've read some of it as well and I felt the familiar whoosh as the explanations went above my head. I was hoping you or @noAxioms could improve my grasp of it a little.
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 10:47 #703785
An isolated piece of vacuum contains huge power. If you put two particles in it they get pushed away with huge force.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 10:58 #703789
Quoting Landoma1
The DE is an energy that doesn't dilute if space grows. If you put giant springs between all galaxies you could stop expansion.


Yes but surely the 'force' of dark energy must overcome the 'negative' pull of gravitation to create an accelerating expansion. So does the dark energy effectively add to the positive 'push' of the 5% matter content of the universe? So that the totality of energy from the vacuum > 0.
There is also the issue of dark matter? Does that proposed 95% of all 'matter' not also not add to the positive push and gravitational pull of the vacuum? One clump of dark matter will be gravitationally attracted to another clump, yes? I think I will take @Wayfarer's advice and post this as a question on quora. I will direct it at some of the physicists there.
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 11:06 #703791
Reply to universeness

DE isn't worn by particles. Its a property of space that pushes matter away from each other. There are no force exchange particles involved. There is a question on quora: "Is it possible to use DE to do work?" A similar one (the same, I guess) on PSE.

Look here
Wayfarer June 01, 2022 at 11:09 #703792
Reply to universeness I’m no authority on physics but I’m interested in the philosophical implications.
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 11:15 #703794
Reply to Wayfarer

Maybe physics is philosophy. Or at least a part of it. Like metaphysics is a part too.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 11:22 #703795
Quoting Wayfarer
I’m no authority on physics but I’m interested in the philosophical implications


Me neither, to my shagrin! I am interested in all the implications of science and of philosophy to a lesser degree due, to its dalliances with the esoteric and the metaphysical/supernatural but I am still interested in those aspects as I have to know and be able to explain and provide evidence for why I disagree with their significance/existence.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 11:30 #703798
Quoting Landoma1
DE isn't worn by particles. Its a property of space that pushes matter away from each other.


Doesn't help me, as QFT suggests there are no particles, just field excitations which can be labeled such for the purposes of scientific calculations. Is energy a 'property of space?' Why do some forms of it 'push' and others 'pull.' I don't expect you to have answers as science does not know what energy is. I don't think the term 'space' is currently understood much beyond the terms 'expansion' or '3D volume.' I am merely airing some of my confusions.
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 11:35 #703800
Reply to universeness

Well, in a sense graviton field oscillations do the trick. Gravitons can travel in higher dimension. Which could be the reason it's so weak. But for a philosophy forum this is too much, I guess. You could ask on a physics forum.
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 11:38 #703803
Quoting universeness
as science does not know what energy is


Science doesn't know?

What if the total energy in the universe is not zero? This is the case for gravity. The amount of matter energy indeed equals the amount of gravitational potential energy. But there is expansion.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 11:53 #703806
Quoting Landoma1
Science doesn't know?


Are you indicating surprise at the fact that science does not yet have all the answers?

Quoting Landoma1
What if the total energy in the universe is not zero? This is the case for gravity. The amount of matter energy indeed equals the amount of gravitational potential energy. But there is expansion


What point are you making?
Landoma1 June 01, 2022 at 12:18 #703815
Quoting universeness
What point are you making?


That the total energy is not zero.

Energy is motion. Half mass times velocity squared. Or mass times SoL squared.
noAxioms June 01, 2022 at 13:24 #703833
Quoting universeness
So does the dark energy effectively add to the positive 'push' of the 5% matter content of the universe? So that the totality of energy from the vacuum > 0.
There is also the issue of dark matter? Does that proposed 95% of all 'matter' not also not add to the positive push and gravitational pull of the vacuum?
The numbers, as I know them, is 68% dark energy, 32% matter and a smidge of radiation. Of that 32% matter, about a sixth is normal matter and the rest is dark matter.

As Landoma1 says, dark energy doesn't dilute with expansion, but matter does, so as we expand, the density of matter drops, as does its total percentage.
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About 6 billion years ago the dark energy and total matter balanced and expansion was linear. It has been accelerating from that 'stop' ever since.

And no, I'd not be able to explain vacuum energy better than the sites you visit.

Wayfarer's advise and post this as a question on quora.
I hesitate to use quora since they've no mechanism to propagate better answers to the top. There is a lot of very wrong info on quora. I look things up on say physics stack exchange, but don't have an account there.

Quoting Wayfarer
I’m no authority on physics but I’m interested in the philosophical implications.
That's pretty much my purpose in delving into the phyiscs. I want to know it well enough to glean the implications, but not so well that it's critical that I learn tex.

Quoting universeness
science does not know what energy is.
Science is in the business of predicting what something does, and not so much declaring what something is.

Quoting Landoma1
That the total energy is not zero.
No so sure that is meaningful. For one, most kinds of energy are not conserved in a cosmological frame. In the absence of a net force, a moving rock will slow over time. Light energy drops as expansion stretches out its wavelength. But negative energy also tends towards zero, so you can't know if total energy is on the rise or not, or maybe is always zero.


universeness June 01, 2022 at 15:00 #703864
Quoting noAxioms
The numbers, as I know them, is 68% dark energy, 32% matter and a smidge of radiation.


I don't get those numbers, if 68% is undetectable dark energy then where is the detectable energy like electromagnetism? Not part of the 32% matter I assume?

Quoting noAxioms
so as we expand, the density of matter drops, as does its total percentage.


Yep, I get that but not the individual density within galaxies as they are gravitationally bound.
New 'matter' is also created is it not? new stars, new galaxy formations, does this not also add to the density per unit area of space or is it balanced by star deaths etc? or is this factor insignificant to the 'big picture.?'

Is there an equivalence, such as dark e = dark m dark c squared?

Quoting noAxioms
I hesitate to use quora since they've no mechanism to propagate better answers to the top. There is a lot of very wrong info on quora. I look things up on say physics stack exchange, but don't have an account there


I appreciate the advice but I tend to pay most attention to those on quora who declare their qualifications but I still look for confirmation and dissension on places like the physics stack exchange and on youtube offerings from the established cosmology/physics community. I like to read the 'crank' stuff on quora as well as it's good to see the ways in which skewed thinking can operate. It helps me better recognise it in myself.

Quoting noAxioms
Science is in the business of predicting what something does, and not so much declaring what something is


I know what you mean but I think science makes a great effort to explain what IS, and rightly so. This will always be demanded of science imo. I want to predict what a system does, absolutely, but I don't want to see the universe as a black box I can never peer inside of. I want to know its inner workings and so does science imo. I think science does seek to know what something IS.
universeness June 01, 2022 at 15:04 #703865
Quoting noAxioms
a moving rock will slow over time


Surely this is not true in a frictionless vacuum, like space. If you push a rock in space it will go on forever unless it meets something along its path.
Sean Caroll makes this very point, when he describes motion that does not need a sustaining cause.
Agent Smith June 01, 2022 at 15:07 #703866
[quote=Landoma1]physics is philosophy[/quote]

PhD?

noAxioms June 01, 2022 at 16:27 #703917
Quoting universeness
if 68% is undetectable dark energy
Dark energy is detectable, else it would not be part of our theories. It isn't directly detectable, but neither is any other force/energy by that argument.

where is the detectable energy like electromagnetism? Not part of the 32% matter I assume?
Part of the 5% baryonic matter, the only energy that participates in EM.

New 'matter' is also created is it not? new stars, new galaxy formations, does this not also add to the density per unit area of space or is it balanced by star deaths etc?
Birth and death of stars doesn't create or destroy matter. Stars are made of pre-existing matter. Trivial amounts of matter are formed by processes like pair production, but such matter isn't long lived.
Matter is definitely destroyed (converted to radiation) via nuclear combustion.

I know what you mean but I think science makes a great effort to explain what IS, and rightly so. This will always be demanded of science imo.
Agree. That's why I'm here, and not just on the science sites. I'm a moderator on one science site, but I mostly have to deal with cranks and spammers.

Quoting universeness
"in a cosmological frame, ... a moving rock will slow over time"
— noAxioms
Surely this is not true in a frictionless vacuum, like space.
I had to put back the context you took out. Newton's laws (the rock moves at the same speed forever, what Carroll is talking about) works in an inertial metric, but not an expanding one. It's why no galaxy has a peculiar velocity (speed relative to the cosmic frame) much greater than a couple percent of c, despite the fact that they usually have something pulling (accelerating) them in some preferred direction. Virgo cluster is our most significant influence, and our peculiar motion (the motion of our local group relative to that cosmic frame) is indeed in that direction, but that motion is slowing as Virgo grows further away. Our local group will never reach even that, let alone the bigger masses like the Great Attractor or the much more massive Shapley Attractor, all in more or less the same direction, or the Dipole Repeller in the opposite direction giving us a push. All that force in the same direction and yet we're slowing (relative to that cosmic frame).

universeness June 01, 2022 at 18:02 #703938
Quoting noAxioms
Dark energy is detectable, else it would not be part of our theories. It isn't directly detectable, but neither is any other force/energy by that argument


So its affects are detectable, ok I see the distinction.

Quoting noAxioms
Part of the 5% baryonic matter, the only energy that participates in EM


I assume that massless photonic energy is part of the 32% matter you mentioned. I think I just got sidestepped by the label 'matter' placed next to the 32% as I assumed matter to mean 'has mass.'

Quoting noAxioms
I had to put back the context you took out

Ok, I just didn't understand the significance of 'cosmological frame.' I thought all reference frames are 'cosmological' as they exist within the Cosmos. But I see now you are referring to the largest frame there is, the cosmic or universal frame. How galaxy clusters influence the motion of each other etc.
noAxioms June 01, 2022 at 20:01 #703980
Quoting universeness

I assume that massless photonic energy is part of the 32% matter you mentioned. I think I just got sidestepped by the label 'matter' placed next to the 32% as I assumed matter to mean 'has mass.'
We seem to be talking past each other. 'Matter' has mass, and is the Magenta line in the pic I posted a few posts up. A sixth of that matter is Baryonic matter, which means, via mostly the EM effect, you can see and feel it. The rest of it is dark matter which you can neither see nor feel since it does not interact with the EM field.
I don't know what you mean by 'massless photonic energy'. Perhaps you mean the radiation (the blue line in the pic. It arguably has mass since it has momentum. If it goes into a black hole, it stays there and adds its energy to the black hole's mass.


Ok, I just didn't understand the significance of 'cosmological frame.'
I'm speaking of a different coordinate system. Inertial frames can be used, but technically the laws of inertial frames only apply to Minkowskian (flat) spacetime, and on the whole, the universe isn't Minkowskian.

Cosmological coordinates, as I'm using them, typically refers to comoving coordinates with proper distances, as opposed to comoving coordinates with comoving distances, which is yet another way of assigning values to distant events.

I can get into more detail, but let's just pick an example of the most distant known galaxy *: In inertial coordinates, (in Earth's inertial frame) that galaxy cannot move faster than c (per special relativity) and is moving away from us at about 0.98c. The light we see was emitted from about 6 billion light years (GLY) away, and it is currently about 13.5 GLY away.
In comoving coordinates (an expanding metric), that same galaxy is currently about 31 GLY away, is receding at about 2.3c (technically a rapidity, not a velocity), and the light that we see now was emitted only about 2.5 GLY proper distance from here.

You see all kinds of distances to super-distant objects posted on the web, but in the absence of a coordinate system or some other statement of in what way the quoted figure was computed, the statement is meaningless. Clue: Distances to things is often not expressed in either of these methods called light-travel time, which is not a valid method at all. There's been articles written why that's the worst possible choice.


* I suspect J-Webb telescope is going to break the record for spotting an even more distant object. CMB doesn't count, it not being an object.
universeness June 02, 2022 at 07:32 #704142
Quoting noAxioms
I don't know what you mean by 'massless photonic energy'. Perhaps you mean the radiation (the blue line in the pic. It arguably has mass since it has momentum


I think we are talking past each other a little but it's just nomenclature issues I think.
My physics level is 1st-year uni plus some online courses I completed but its not even graduate standard.
Photons(photonic), massless, energy (packets), radiation, yes. Energy has a mass equivalence but it does not have mass.

Quoting noAxioms
It arguably has mass since it has momentum. If it goes into a black hole, it stays there and adds its energy to the black hole's mass.


All info in a black hole will eventually come back out via Hawking radiation so it doesn't stay there forever.

Quoting noAxioms
In inertial coordinates, (in Earth's inertial frame) that galaxy cannot move faster than c (per special relativity) and is moving away from us at about 0.98c. The light we see was emitted from about 6 billion light years (GLY) away, and it is currently about 13.5 GLY away.
In comoving coordinates (an expanding metric), that same galaxy is currently about 31 GLY away, is receding at about 2.3c (technically a rapidity, not a velocity), and the light that we see now was emitted only about 2.5 GLY proper distance from here


I have heard of GLY as a billion light years. Its not a unit I have ever used. Parsecs and its kilo or mega multiples is more familiar. I do have some a little knowledge of 'comoving coordinates,' 'an expanding metric,' which takes the rate of expansion into account when considering the motion of an object such as a galaxy through space. Is this 2.3c motion for this 'furthest away galaxy,' not part of the 'eternal inflation' idea? I am probably not using the correct terminology here but I am more interested in getting the basic proposals correct without worrying too much about terminology/nomenclature.

Yeah. GO J-Webb and the re-start of the LHC! Exciting times!
Metaphysician Undercover June 02, 2022 at 10:57 #704179
Quoting universeness
I think we are talking past each other a little but it's just nomenclature issues I think.
My physics level is 1st-year uni plus some online courses I completed but its not even graduate standard.
Photons(photonic), massless, energy (packets), radiation, yes. Energy has a mass equivalence but it does not have mass.


The trick of modern physics, energy has inertia, without mass. But we need to be careful not to confuse the inertia pf energy with the inertia of mass.
universeness June 02, 2022 at 15:16 #704233
Quoting Metaphysician Undercover
The trick of modern physics, energy has inertia, without mass. But we need to be careful not to confuse the inertia pf energy with the inertia of mass.


But does energy actually move? A human 'Mexican wave' looks like movement in the horizontal but its actually each individual human moving up and down in the vertical,
Same with water waves, it's just undulating water until it meets land and the breaker wave 'falls over' or crashes into the land. If QFT is correct and particles are field excitations then particle movement would be similar undulations, would they not? So energy inertia would be a change in velocity due to some underlying quantum effects/fluctuations happening within field structures.
My thinking is probably inaccurate and too simplistic here. No doubt, I would greatly benefit from a much deeper delve into areas like classical mechanics and comparing it with quantum mechanics. Another entry on my wish list.
Alkis Piskas June 02, 2022 at 15:55 #704244
Quoting Jackson
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/quantum-internet-teleportation.html

I got the ridiculous message, i]"You’ve reached your limit of free articles. Already a subscriber? Log in."[/i]. What is my limit??? I guess, zero. Because it's the first time I opened this page and even visited nytimes.com!! Why don't they say simply "You must be a subscriber to read articles" or even more silmply, just ask me to log in! Yes, even reknown places like New York Times can be ridiculous.

OK, this may be off topic, but one should not refer to articles which, in order to be read, one must subscribe to a website!!
Jackson June 02, 2022 at 15:55 #704245
Quoting Alkis Piskas
OK, this may be off topic, but one should not refer to articles which, in order to be read, one must subscribe to a website!!


I have no problem reading it and I am not a subscriber.
Alkis Piskas June 02, 2022 at 18:05 #704318
Quoting Jackson
I have no problem reading it and I am not a subscriber.

Good that you can. I can't.

This is what I get:
https://pasteboard.co/xQcRnLsIb06Y.jpg

EricH June 02, 2022 at 20:51 #704377
Reply to Alkis Piskas If I had to make a guess, I'd say that you visited NY TImes sometime in the past (could be years ago) and just forgot about it.

I could be wrong, but the way these things usually work is that the website stores the # times you visited - but this is stored on your browser cache. Try clearing your browser cache and see if that works.
Alkis Piskas June 03, 2022 at 06:55 #704528
Reply to EricH
Thanks for the tip. My browser's cache is cleared everytime it closes. It's impossible that NY Times remembers me.
Bah, simply, there are perverse minds. Some more than others. These ones have no parallel! :smile:
noAxioms August 03, 2022 at 21:18 #725342
Speaking of the most distant galaxy.
This topic apparently referenced GN-z11, which held the most-distant record for a long time, with a redshift of 11.09.
It was broken last April where data collected from other telescopes found one at z=13.6 or so.
JWST now is going to break that record on a regular basis. It has found one at z=16.7, and even more distant objects are likely to be found. It is detecting light beyond the redshift ability of say Hubble.

My comment here was about the z=11 one.
It highlights the differences between coordinate systems.
[quote=noAxioms]
In inertial coordinates, (in Earth's inertial frame) that galaxy cannot move faster than c (per special relativity) and is moving away from us at about 0.98c. The light we see was emitted from about 6.5 billion light years (GLY) away, and it is currently about 13.5 GLY away.
In comoving coordinates (an expanding metric), that same galaxy is currently about 31 GLY away, is receding at about 2.3c (technically a rapidity, not a velocity), and the light that we see now was emitted only about 2.5 GLY proper distance from here[/quote]

Quoting universeness
I have heard of GLY as a billion light years. Its not a unit I have ever used.Parsecs and its kilo or mega multiples is more familiar.
Fine.
In inertial coordinates, the z=11 light was emitted from ~2000 mpc away and the galaxy is currently around 4100 mpc away.
In comoving coordinates, the light was emitted around 750 mpc away and the galaxy is currently around 9500 mpc away.

The new record holder isn't much further away, and the light from it was emitted from even closer than 750 mpc away (proper distance at the time).

Is this 2.3c motion for this 'furthest away galaxy,' not part of the 'eternal inflation' idea?
No, it isn't something specific to eternal inflation. With regular inflation (just a bang, with no inflation still going on anywhere), you still get this same metric. The metric does include dark energy, without which there would be no acceleration of expansion, and the scalefactor would be everywhere negatively curved.

Yeah. GO J-Webb and the re-start of the LHC! Exciting times!
Yea, I seem to be reading articles regularly about new records being broken. Glad it survived the mishap with the 'rock'.