New principle may help explain why nature is quantum

[Sam Wormley]

New principle may help explain why nature is quantum
> http://phys.org/news/2013-05-principle-nature-quantum.html

> We know that things that follow quantum rules, such as atoms,
> electrons or the photons that make up light, are full of surprises.
> They can exist in more than one place at once, for instance, or exist
> in a shared state where the properties of two particles show what
> Einstein called "spooky action at a distance", no matter what their
> physical separation. Because such things have been confirmed in
> experiments, researchers are confident the theory is right. But it
> would still be easier to swallow if it could be shown that quantum
> physics itself sprang from intuitive underlying principles.

> One way to approach this problem is to imagine all the theories one
> could possibly come up with to describe nature, and then work out
> what principles help to single out quantum physics. A good start is
> to assume that information follows

> Einstein's special relativity and cannot travel faster than light.
> However, this alone isn't enough to define quantum physics as the
> only way nature might behave. Corsin and Stephanie think they have
> come across a new useful principle. "We have found a principle that
> is very good at ruling out other theories," says Corsin.

> In short, the principle to be assumed is that if a measurement yields
> no information, then the system being measured has not been
> disturbed.
>
>
> Read more at:
> http://phys.org/news/2013-05-principle-nature-quantum.html#jCp

[oriel36]

"Like small children, scientists are always asking the question
'why?'. One question they've yet to answer is why nature picked
quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave."

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-principle-nature-quantum.html#jCp

That is not a question Sam,it is a declaration that nature is 'weird'
which in turn is one of the main reasons that astronomy plays such a
small role in the thinking of the wider community and in the education
system.Given half a chance people will get involved in astronomy and
imaging,the Canadian astronaut and his ability to converse on a
popular level is a testament to that but this 'quantum physics' s is
designed to uphold the salaries and reputations of those promoting
them rather than any validity to the topics themselves.I would have
thought that quasicrystal growth would ring a few bells that
background conditions for their growth exclude the possibility of
either/or states at a local level but that is not weird,it is just
interesting and puzzling -

http://www.scienceu.com/geometry/articles/tiling/penrose.html

Not weird but a 'method in the madness' so to speak just as the
article rightly admits where efficiency and beauty extends throughout
nature.