On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:50:02 PM UTC-4,
ben...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I very much like Mike's use of logic to derive quantum equations,
> including the Born rule, but I am not clear where he is going on
> his (sort of?) Theory of Everything. So I can't yet say I like it,
> but I am not against it either. My problem is the difference
> between the rule of logic itself and the application of that rule.
> Mike seems to be implying that if the rule of logic is followed then
> there is only one outcome for the state of the world. I don't
> understand that.
Thanks, Ben, for your comments. I should never be so complacent as to
refuse to consider how I can make myself more clear.
The logic portion of my effort is pretty straight forward logical
manipulations. I manipulate a conjunction (ANDs) of many (infinite)
statements into a disjunction (ORs) of every possible "path" of
implications. A path is a conjunction of implications where the
consequence of one implication is the premise of the next
implication. Hopefully you've had some logic courses.
What's not so conventional is then representing each implication as
a Dirac delta function. This is not a difficult step, and I can try
to explain that if you wish. But the use of the Dirac delta for
implication does introduce a probabilistic distribution at a very
fundamental level. It seems from this I'm not going to get a
deterministic theory, and some physical entities will be
probabilistic at best.
Your concern about differentiating between "the rules of logic
itself with the application of those rules" I take to mean that you
feel that the rules of logic apply to propositions that are
obtained independent of the rules. And I don't really explain where
I get and what exactly are the propositions I use to start with.
I suppose what I'm doing is similar to what's done in special and
general relativity, where each point in the spacetime manifold is
considered to be an "event". Events in this case are where something
might happen which we could just as well describe with a
proposition. So like in GR, I'm representing propositions with
points in a point-set. Then one can consider whether those points
are an element of a set and use the Dirac measure to represent set
inclusion. You can consider my propositions to be points in a
point-set where something may happen.
> You can't expect to use the rule to determine that all houses must at
> this instant be skyscrapers, or all must be mud huts etc. Can you use
> the rule to say that spontaneous symmetry breaking must have led to
> 1 here and 0 over there? I can't see how. It could lead to identifying
> possible optional outcomes for symmetry breaking? But not identifying,
> from logic alone, which way the symmetry broke in particular places?
>From above, I explain how my theory is inherently probabilistic
because of the introduction of the Dirac delta distribution at a
fundamental level. I don't really know at this point if my theory
explains symmetry breaking. I've got some ideas about that, but
they're not fleshed out. But at least I do seem to be getting which
symmetry groups are involved from principle alone before any kind of
breaking occurs. I get the U(1)SU(2)SU(3) symmetry groups by
iterating my formalism.
For those interested, my theory is described at:
http://webpages.charter.net/majik1/QMlogic.htm
Mike