1. Negative or complex probability appears in quantum mechanics due to the wave-particle duality of quantum objects and the non-commutativity of measurements.
2. It can be modeled by considering the phase space of a quantum system, where probabilities are mapped between phase space cells and Hilbert space qubits in a way that allows for negative values.
3. The Wigner transformation provides a way to represent the quantum state using a quasi-probability distribution over phase space, even though it can take on negative values due to quantum effects like interference.
The document presents a theory of conformal optics for studying classical optics using conformal invariants. It defines conformal optics as the study of optical phenomena properties that are invariant under conformal mappings, analogous to Felix Klein's Erlanger program that conceived geometry as the study of properties invariant under transformations. The theory is based on a fundamental axiom that when an optical phenomenon occurs, there exists at least one non-zero quanta property invariant under conformal mappings from the phenomenon scene to the unit disk. Various optical phenomena like refraction, reflection, interference, and diffraction are then analyzed using this axiom and conformal mappings.
This document summarizes work exploring the Klein-Gordon field near the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. Near the horizon, the radial equation of motion for the scalar field is approximated and shown to have oscillatory solutions. Using Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, the solutions are recast into outgoing and ingoing waves with different properties on each side of the event horizon. Future work is outlined to examine the parametrized wave solutions, Fourier components, and derive Hawking radiation and temperature from the black body spectrum at infinity.
Impacts of a New Spatial Variable on a Black Hole Metric SolutionIJSRED
This document discusses the impacts of introducing a new spatial variable in black hole metrics. It begins by summarizing Einstein and Rosen's 1935 paper which introduced a variable ρ = r - 2M in the Schwarzschild metric to remove the singularity. The document then introduces a similar new variable p = r - 2√M and analyzes how this impacts the Schwarzschild metric. Specifically, it notes that this new variable allows for negative radii values and multiple asymptotic regions beyond just two, introducing concepts of probability and imaginary spatial coordinates. Overall, the document explores how different mathematical variables can impact theoretical physics concepts like wormholes.
This document discusses Born reciprocity in string theory and how it relates to the nature of spacetime. It argues that while string theory is formulated in terms of maps into spacetime, this breaks Born reciprocity. The document suggests that quasi-periodicity of strings without assuming a periodic target spacetime better respects Born reciprocity. This leads to a phase space formulation of string theory without assuming locality of spacetime at short distances.
Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution of the Cosecant-squared Potential WellJohn Ray Martinez
This is a thesis under Theoretical Physics in journal article format. The paper was accepted for oral presentation and published in SPVM (Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao) publication. This was presented during 10th SPVM National Physics Conference and Workshop and won the Best Paper Presentor award.
Galadriel's Mirror uses transformation optics to mimic a curved spacetime that allows for closed timelike curves, enabling time travel. The presentation discusses:
1) Using a curved spacetime metric from general relativity that allows time travel, even if not physically realistic. Transformation optics can then create an equivalent material.
2) A curved spacetime example that tips light cones, making a path that circles the angular direction both null and closed, enabling light to travel in time.
3) The proposed mirror material would use this curved spacetime, curving light along a closed null curve that takes it into the past, allowing users to see into the future or past through the mirror.
Outgoing ingoingkleingordon spvmforminit1 - copy - copyfoxtrot jp R
This document summarizes the solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation of motion for a scalar field in the background of a Schwarzschild spacetime metric near a black hole. Very near the event horizon, the radial equation is approximated as an oscillatory solution in the Regge-Wheeler coordinate. These solutions are then expressed as outgoing and ingoing waves using Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. While the outgoing waves have regular behavior at the future event horizon, the ingoing waves hit the future event horizon in finite coordinate time as the radial coordinate approaches negative infinity.
1) The document discusses the exact solution to the Klein-Gordon shutter problem, finding that the wave function does not resemble the optical expression for diffraction but the charge density does show transient oscillations resembling a diffraction pattern.
2) It presents the exact solution for the Klein-Gordon shutter problem using discontinuous initial conditions, finding the wave function solution differs from Moshinsky's approximation.
3) When the exact relativistic charge density is plotted over time, it shows transient oscillations that resemble a diffraction pattern, despite some relativistic differences, demonstrating that diffraction in time exists in relativistic scenarios.
The document presents a theory of conformal optics for studying classical optics using conformal invariants. It defines conformal optics as the study of optical phenomena properties that are invariant under conformal mappings, analogous to Felix Klein's Erlanger program that conceived geometry as the study of properties invariant under transformations. The theory is based on a fundamental axiom that when an optical phenomenon occurs, there exists at least one non-zero quanta property invariant under conformal mappings from the phenomenon scene to the unit disk. Various optical phenomena like refraction, reflection, interference, and diffraction are then analyzed using this axiom and conformal mappings.
This document summarizes work exploring the Klein-Gordon field near the event horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. Near the horizon, the radial equation of motion for the scalar field is approximated and shown to have oscillatory solutions. Using Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, the solutions are recast into outgoing and ingoing waves with different properties on each side of the event horizon. Future work is outlined to examine the parametrized wave solutions, Fourier components, and derive Hawking radiation and temperature from the black body spectrum at infinity.
Impacts of a New Spatial Variable on a Black Hole Metric SolutionIJSRED
This document discusses the impacts of introducing a new spatial variable in black hole metrics. It begins by summarizing Einstein and Rosen's 1935 paper which introduced a variable ρ = r - 2M in the Schwarzschild metric to remove the singularity. The document then introduces a similar new variable p = r - 2√M and analyzes how this impacts the Schwarzschild metric. Specifically, it notes that this new variable allows for negative radii values and multiple asymptotic regions beyond just two, introducing concepts of probability and imaginary spatial coordinates. Overall, the document explores how different mathematical variables can impact theoretical physics concepts like wormholes.
This document discusses Born reciprocity in string theory and how it relates to the nature of spacetime. It argues that while string theory is formulated in terms of maps into spacetime, this breaks Born reciprocity. The document suggests that quasi-periodicity of strings without assuming a periodic target spacetime better respects Born reciprocity. This leads to a phase space formulation of string theory without assuming locality of spacetime at short distances.
Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution of the Cosecant-squared Potential WellJohn Ray Martinez
This is a thesis under Theoretical Physics in journal article format. The paper was accepted for oral presentation and published in SPVM (Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao) publication. This was presented during 10th SPVM National Physics Conference and Workshop and won the Best Paper Presentor award.
Galadriel's Mirror uses transformation optics to mimic a curved spacetime that allows for closed timelike curves, enabling time travel. The presentation discusses:
1) Using a curved spacetime metric from general relativity that allows time travel, even if not physically realistic. Transformation optics can then create an equivalent material.
2) A curved spacetime example that tips light cones, making a path that circles the angular direction both null and closed, enabling light to travel in time.
3) The proposed mirror material would use this curved spacetime, curving light along a closed null curve that takes it into the past, allowing users to see into the future or past through the mirror.
Outgoing ingoingkleingordon spvmforminit1 - copy - copyfoxtrot jp R
This document summarizes the solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation of motion for a scalar field in the background of a Schwarzschild spacetime metric near a black hole. Very near the event horizon, the radial equation is approximated as an oscillatory solution in the Regge-Wheeler coordinate. These solutions are then expressed as outgoing and ingoing waves using Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates. While the outgoing waves have regular behavior at the future event horizon, the ingoing waves hit the future event horizon in finite coordinate time as the radial coordinate approaches negative infinity.
1) The document discusses the exact solution to the Klein-Gordon shutter problem, finding that the wave function does not resemble the optical expression for diffraction but the charge density does show transient oscillations resembling a diffraction pattern.
2) It presents the exact solution for the Klein-Gordon shutter problem using discontinuous initial conditions, finding the wave function solution differs from Moshinsky's approximation.
3) When the exact relativistic charge density is plotted over time, it shows transient oscillations that resemble a diffraction pattern, despite some relativistic differences, demonstrating that diffraction in time exists in relativistic scenarios.
A young astronomer’s by now ten years old
results are re-told and put in perspective. The implications are
far-reaching. Angular-momentum shows its clout not only in
quantum mechanics where this is well known, but is also a
major player in the space-time theory of the equivalence
principle and its ramifications. In general relativity, its
fundamental role was largely neglected for the better part of a
century. A children’s device – a friction-free rotating bicycle
wheel suspended from its hub that can be lowered and pulled
up reversibly – serves as an eye-opener. The consequences are
embarrassingly far-reaching in reviving Einstein’s original
dream
Nonlinear inversion of absorptive/dispersive wave field measurements: prelimi...Arthur Weglein
We consider elements of the nonlinear inversion of primaries with a particular em-
phasis on the viscoacoustic, or absorptive/dispersive case. Since the main ingredient
to higher-order terms in the inverse scattering series (as it is currently cast) is the
linear, or Born, inverse, we begin by considering its “natural” form, i.e. without the
corrections and/or assumptions discussed in Innanen and Weglein (2004). The absorp-
tive/dispersive linear inverse for a single interface is found to be a filtered step-function,
and for a single layer a set of increasingly smoothed step-functions. The “filters” char-
acterizing the model shape are analyzed.
We next consider the nature of the inversion subseries, which would accept the
linear inverse output and via a series of nonlinear operations transform it into a signal
with the correct amplitudes (i.e. the true Q profile). The nature of the data event
communication espoused by these nonlinear operations is discussed using a simple 1D
normal incidence physical milieu, and then we focus on the viscous (attenuating) case.
We show that the inversion subseries correctly produces the Q profile if the input signal
has had the attenuation (or viscous propagation effects) compensated. This supports
the existing ansatz (Innanen and Weglein, 2003) regarding the nature of a generalized
imaging subseries (i.e. not the inversion subseries) for the viscous case, as carrying out
the task of Q compensation.
This document discusses the quantization of electromagnetic radiation fields within the framework of quantum electrodynamics (QED). It begins by introducing the classical description of radiation fields in terms of vector potentials that satisfy the transversality condition. Next, it describes quantizing the classical radiation field by treating it as a collection of independent harmonic oscillators, with each oscillator characterized by a wave vector and polarization. Finally, it discusses how the quantization of these radiation oscillators leads to treating their canonical variables as non-commuting operators, in analogy to the quantization of position and momentum in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. This lays the foundation for a quantum description of radiation phenomena using the formalism of QED.
This document provides an overview of quantum electrodynamics (QED). It begins by discussing cross sections and the scattering matrix, defining cross section as the effective size of target particles. It then derives an expression for cross section in terms of the transition rate and flux of incident particles. Next, it summarizes the derivation of the differential cross section and decay rate formulas in QED using relativistic quantum field theory and Feynman diagrams. It concludes by briefly reviewing the historical development of QED and the equivalence of the propagator approach and other formulations.
Accuracy of the internal multiple prediction when a time-saving method based ...Arthur Weglein
The inverse scattering series (ISS) is a direct inversion method for a multidimensional acoustic,
elastic and anelastic earth. It communicates that all inversion processing goals can be
achieved directly and without any subsurface information. This task is reached through a taskspecific
subseries of the ISS. Using primaries in the data as subevents of the first-order internal
multiples, the leading-order attenuator can predict the time of all the first-order internal multiples
and is able to attenuate them.
This document discusses different notions of convergence for sequences of graphs as studied in graph theory, statistical physics, and probability. It addresses three main notions of convergence for both dense and sparse graphs:
1) Left convergence, which requires subgraph counts to converge.
2) Convergence of quotients, which requires properties like MaxCut to converge as graphs are colored and collapsed.
3) Right convergence, which requires free energies of graphical models on the graphs to converge.
For sparse graphs with bounded degrees, the document shows these three notions are not equivalent, and introduces a new notion of large deviation convergence, which implies the other three notions. The large deviation principle characterizes the probability distribution of random color
1) John Nash presents an equation that is a 4th order covariant tensor partial differential equation applicable to the metric tensor of spacetime. This equation is formally divergence free like the Einstein vacuum equation.
2) The equation can be derived from a specific Lagrangian involving terms quadratic in the scalar curvature and Ricci tensor. Previous theorists had considered such Lagrangians in attempts at quantum gravity theories but had not focused on this specific choice.
3) The equation may allow a wider variety of gravitational waves, including compressional waves not excluded in electromagnetic theory. Standard GR only allows transverse gravitational waves.
This document provides a basic refresher on Green's functions as applied to scalar field theories. It outlines the Lagrangian for a basic Higgs boson theory and considers perturbative solutions. The Green's function is expressed as a Fourier integral, and contour integration is used to derive forms for both massless and massive scalar fields. For a massless scalar, the Green's function is shown to be proportional to the difference of two delta functions representing forward and backward traveling waves.
"When the top is not single: a theory overview from monotop to multitops" to...Rene Kotze
This document discusses potential deviations from the standard model in top quark pair production (ttbar) due to beyond standard model (BSM) physics. It summarizes that ttbar production is well measured but sensitive to BSM effects like resonant contributions from new particles that decay to top quark pairs. Non-resonant effects are also possible and can be parameterized using effective field theory operators. The document provides examples of limits set on specific BSM models like Z' bosons by the CMS experiment through analyses of the ttbar invariant mass spectrum and other observables.
The document summarizes key concepts from quantum mechanics and symmetries. It states that physical states are represented by rays in a Hilbert space, with observables represented by Hermitian operators. The probability of measuring a state is given by the inner product of the state vectors. Symmetries are represented by either unitary or antiunitary operators on the Hilbert space. Symmetries that can be continuously connected to the identity must be represented by unitary operators. Symmetries form a group, with transformations combining according to the group multiplication rule.
1) The document provides an overview of the contents of Part II of a slideshow on modern physics, which covers topics such as charge and current densities, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations, special relativity, tensors, blackbody radiation, photons, electrons, scattering problems, and waves.
2) It aims to provide a brief yet modern review of foundational concepts in electromagnetism and set the stage for introducing special relativity, quantum mechanics, and matter waves for undergraduate students.
3) The overview highlights that succeeding chapters will develop tensor formulations of electromagnetism and special relativity from first principles before discussing applications like blackbody radiation and early quantum models.
This document discusses outgoing and ingoing Klein-Gordon waves near the event horizons of black holes. It first presents the Klein-Gordon equation of motion in the background of the Schwarzschild spacetime metric. Near the event horizon, the radial equation is approximated in the Regge-Wheeler coordinate, leading to oscillatory solutions. The time and radial solutions are then expressed in outgoing and ingoing coordinates, resulting in outgoing and ingoing waves with different analytic properties in the future and past event horizons.
1) The document proposes a theory of statistical geometrodynamics derived from novel statistical postulates about fundamental constituents of spacetime called "geomets".
2) Key results include deriving the Einstein field equations as a first law of geometrodynamics, and relating the Ricci curvature tensor to the entropy of a holographic surface bounding spacetime via a second law.
3) A third law and zeroeth law of geometrodynamics are also proposed, relating the mean curvature of the holographic surface to bit saturation in the bulk and on the surface.
Loop quantum gravity (LQG) provides a non-perturbative and background independent approach to quantizing general relativity. In LQG, spacetime is not a fixed background but rather dynamical, with the metric represented as a quantum operator. LQG represents spacetime discreteness at the Planck scale and derives black hole entropy from quantized horizon area. However, LQG has not yet demonstrated a clear semiclassical limit recovering general relativity and makes no experimental predictions beyond other theories. Both LQG and string theory aim to solve problems in quantum gravity like black hole entropy and information loss, but each has open challenges around uniqueness, observability, and reproducing general relativity in an appropriate limit.
Fisika Modern 11 statistical physics_boseeinsteinjayamartha
The document discusses statistical physics and ideal quantum gases. It introduces the grand partition function and how it is used to describe the partition functions of ideal Fermi and Bose gases. The Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions are derived from the partition functions. These distributions are compared to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. The key differences between fermions, bosons, and classical particles are also summarized.
(10) electron spin & angular momentum couplingIbenk Hallen
- Electrons have intrinsic angular momentum called spin. Spin takes values of ±1/2.
- Pauli exclusion principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of quantum numbers (n, l, ml, ms).
- Atomic orbitals are characterized by principal quantum number n, azimuthal quantum number l, and magnetic quantum number ml.
- Electrons first fill up lowest energy orbitals according to Aufbau principle.
- Spin-orbit coupling arises from the interaction of an electron's magnetic moment with the magnetic field generated by the nucleus. This leads to splitting of energy levels.
Alpha decay - physical background and practical applicationsAndrii Sofiienko
This document provides background information on alpha decay, including its discovery, experimental observations, and theoretical explanations. It discusses how alpha decay was first observed in uranium salts and describes the four main types of radioactivity. The document outlines experiments showing that alpha particles have a charge of +2 and consist of two protons and two neutrons. It also summarizes George Gamow's 1928 quantum tunneling theory of alpha decay, which explained how alpha particles can escape the nucleus despite facing a Coulomb barrier. The theory predicts the relationship between half-life and emission energy that had previously been observed empirically.
This document discusses statistical mechanics and the distribution of energy among particles in a system. It provides 3 main types of statistical distributions based on the properties of identical particles: Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics applies to distinguishable particles, while Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac apply to indistinguishable particles (bosons and fermions respectively), with the key difference being that fermions obey the Pauli exclusion principle. The document also discusses applications of these distributions, including the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law for molecular energies in an ideal gas.
The 5th state of matter - Bose–einstein condensate y11hci0255
The document discusses Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), a state of matter that occurs when bosons are cooled to near absolute zero. BECs have unusual properties like flowing without friction. They were first theorized in the 1920s but were not produced in a lab until 1995 using lasers, magnets and evaporative cooling. Potential applications of BECs include precision etching due to their coherent properties when formed into beams.
A young astronomer’s by now ten years old
results are re-told and put in perspective. The implications are
far-reaching. Angular-momentum shows its clout not only in
quantum mechanics where this is well known, but is also a
major player in the space-time theory of the equivalence
principle and its ramifications. In general relativity, its
fundamental role was largely neglected for the better part of a
century. A children’s device – a friction-free rotating bicycle
wheel suspended from its hub that can be lowered and pulled
up reversibly – serves as an eye-opener. The consequences are
embarrassingly far-reaching in reviving Einstein’s original
dream
Nonlinear inversion of absorptive/dispersive wave field measurements: prelimi...Arthur Weglein
We consider elements of the nonlinear inversion of primaries with a particular em-
phasis on the viscoacoustic, or absorptive/dispersive case. Since the main ingredient
to higher-order terms in the inverse scattering series (as it is currently cast) is the
linear, or Born, inverse, we begin by considering its “natural” form, i.e. without the
corrections and/or assumptions discussed in Innanen and Weglein (2004). The absorp-
tive/dispersive linear inverse for a single interface is found to be a filtered step-function,
and for a single layer a set of increasingly smoothed step-functions. The “filters” char-
acterizing the model shape are analyzed.
We next consider the nature of the inversion subseries, which would accept the
linear inverse output and via a series of nonlinear operations transform it into a signal
with the correct amplitudes (i.e. the true Q profile). The nature of the data event
communication espoused by these nonlinear operations is discussed using a simple 1D
normal incidence physical milieu, and then we focus on the viscous (attenuating) case.
We show that the inversion subseries correctly produces the Q profile if the input signal
has had the attenuation (or viscous propagation effects) compensated. This supports
the existing ansatz (Innanen and Weglein, 2003) regarding the nature of a generalized
imaging subseries (i.e. not the inversion subseries) for the viscous case, as carrying out
the task of Q compensation.
This document discusses the quantization of electromagnetic radiation fields within the framework of quantum electrodynamics (QED). It begins by introducing the classical description of radiation fields in terms of vector potentials that satisfy the transversality condition. Next, it describes quantizing the classical radiation field by treating it as a collection of independent harmonic oscillators, with each oscillator characterized by a wave vector and polarization. Finally, it discusses how the quantization of these radiation oscillators leads to treating their canonical variables as non-commuting operators, in analogy to the quantization of position and momentum in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. This lays the foundation for a quantum description of radiation phenomena using the formalism of QED.
This document provides an overview of quantum electrodynamics (QED). It begins by discussing cross sections and the scattering matrix, defining cross section as the effective size of target particles. It then derives an expression for cross section in terms of the transition rate and flux of incident particles. Next, it summarizes the derivation of the differential cross section and decay rate formulas in QED using relativistic quantum field theory and Feynman diagrams. It concludes by briefly reviewing the historical development of QED and the equivalence of the propagator approach and other formulations.
Accuracy of the internal multiple prediction when a time-saving method based ...Arthur Weglein
The inverse scattering series (ISS) is a direct inversion method for a multidimensional acoustic,
elastic and anelastic earth. It communicates that all inversion processing goals can be
achieved directly and without any subsurface information. This task is reached through a taskspecific
subseries of the ISS. Using primaries in the data as subevents of the first-order internal
multiples, the leading-order attenuator can predict the time of all the first-order internal multiples
and is able to attenuate them.
This document discusses different notions of convergence for sequences of graphs as studied in graph theory, statistical physics, and probability. It addresses three main notions of convergence for both dense and sparse graphs:
1) Left convergence, which requires subgraph counts to converge.
2) Convergence of quotients, which requires properties like MaxCut to converge as graphs are colored and collapsed.
3) Right convergence, which requires free energies of graphical models on the graphs to converge.
For sparse graphs with bounded degrees, the document shows these three notions are not equivalent, and introduces a new notion of large deviation convergence, which implies the other three notions. The large deviation principle characterizes the probability distribution of random color
1) John Nash presents an equation that is a 4th order covariant tensor partial differential equation applicable to the metric tensor of spacetime. This equation is formally divergence free like the Einstein vacuum equation.
2) The equation can be derived from a specific Lagrangian involving terms quadratic in the scalar curvature and Ricci tensor. Previous theorists had considered such Lagrangians in attempts at quantum gravity theories but had not focused on this specific choice.
3) The equation may allow a wider variety of gravitational waves, including compressional waves not excluded in electromagnetic theory. Standard GR only allows transverse gravitational waves.
This document provides a basic refresher on Green's functions as applied to scalar field theories. It outlines the Lagrangian for a basic Higgs boson theory and considers perturbative solutions. The Green's function is expressed as a Fourier integral, and contour integration is used to derive forms for both massless and massive scalar fields. For a massless scalar, the Green's function is shown to be proportional to the difference of two delta functions representing forward and backward traveling waves.
"When the top is not single: a theory overview from monotop to multitops" to...Rene Kotze
This document discusses potential deviations from the standard model in top quark pair production (ttbar) due to beyond standard model (BSM) physics. It summarizes that ttbar production is well measured but sensitive to BSM effects like resonant contributions from new particles that decay to top quark pairs. Non-resonant effects are also possible and can be parameterized using effective field theory operators. The document provides examples of limits set on specific BSM models like Z' bosons by the CMS experiment through analyses of the ttbar invariant mass spectrum and other observables.
The document summarizes key concepts from quantum mechanics and symmetries. It states that physical states are represented by rays in a Hilbert space, with observables represented by Hermitian operators. The probability of measuring a state is given by the inner product of the state vectors. Symmetries are represented by either unitary or antiunitary operators on the Hilbert space. Symmetries that can be continuously connected to the identity must be represented by unitary operators. Symmetries form a group, with transformations combining according to the group multiplication rule.
1) The document provides an overview of the contents of Part II of a slideshow on modern physics, which covers topics such as charge and current densities, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations, special relativity, tensors, blackbody radiation, photons, electrons, scattering problems, and waves.
2) It aims to provide a brief yet modern review of foundational concepts in electromagnetism and set the stage for introducing special relativity, quantum mechanics, and matter waves for undergraduate students.
3) The overview highlights that succeeding chapters will develop tensor formulations of electromagnetism and special relativity from first principles before discussing applications like blackbody radiation and early quantum models.
This document discusses outgoing and ingoing Klein-Gordon waves near the event horizons of black holes. It first presents the Klein-Gordon equation of motion in the background of the Schwarzschild spacetime metric. Near the event horizon, the radial equation is approximated in the Regge-Wheeler coordinate, leading to oscillatory solutions. The time and radial solutions are then expressed in outgoing and ingoing coordinates, resulting in outgoing and ingoing waves with different analytic properties in the future and past event horizons.
1) The document proposes a theory of statistical geometrodynamics derived from novel statistical postulates about fundamental constituents of spacetime called "geomets".
2) Key results include deriving the Einstein field equations as a first law of geometrodynamics, and relating the Ricci curvature tensor to the entropy of a holographic surface bounding spacetime via a second law.
3) A third law and zeroeth law of geometrodynamics are also proposed, relating the mean curvature of the holographic surface to bit saturation in the bulk and on the surface.
Loop quantum gravity (LQG) provides a non-perturbative and background independent approach to quantizing general relativity. In LQG, spacetime is not a fixed background but rather dynamical, with the metric represented as a quantum operator. LQG represents spacetime discreteness at the Planck scale and derives black hole entropy from quantized horizon area. However, LQG has not yet demonstrated a clear semiclassical limit recovering general relativity and makes no experimental predictions beyond other theories. Both LQG and string theory aim to solve problems in quantum gravity like black hole entropy and information loss, but each has open challenges around uniqueness, observability, and reproducing general relativity in an appropriate limit.
Fisika Modern 11 statistical physics_boseeinsteinjayamartha
The document discusses statistical physics and ideal quantum gases. It introduces the grand partition function and how it is used to describe the partition functions of ideal Fermi and Bose gases. The Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions are derived from the partition functions. These distributions are compared to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. The key differences between fermions, bosons, and classical particles are also summarized.
(10) electron spin & angular momentum couplingIbenk Hallen
- Electrons have intrinsic angular momentum called spin. Spin takes values of ±1/2.
- Pauli exclusion principle states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same set of quantum numbers (n, l, ml, ms).
- Atomic orbitals are characterized by principal quantum number n, azimuthal quantum number l, and magnetic quantum number ml.
- Electrons first fill up lowest energy orbitals according to Aufbau principle.
- Spin-orbit coupling arises from the interaction of an electron's magnetic moment with the magnetic field generated by the nucleus. This leads to splitting of energy levels.
Alpha decay - physical background and practical applicationsAndrii Sofiienko
This document provides background information on alpha decay, including its discovery, experimental observations, and theoretical explanations. It discusses how alpha decay was first observed in uranium salts and describes the four main types of radioactivity. The document outlines experiments showing that alpha particles have a charge of +2 and consist of two protons and two neutrons. It also summarizes George Gamow's 1928 quantum tunneling theory of alpha decay, which explained how alpha particles can escape the nucleus despite facing a Coulomb barrier. The theory predicts the relationship between half-life and emission energy that had previously been observed empirically.
This document discusses statistical mechanics and the distribution of energy among particles in a system. It provides 3 main types of statistical distributions based on the properties of identical particles: Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein, and Fermi-Dirac statistics. Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics applies to distinguishable particles, while Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac apply to indistinguishable particles (bosons and fermions respectively), with the key difference being that fermions obey the Pauli exclusion principle. The document also discusses applications of these distributions, including the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law for molecular energies in an ideal gas.
The 5th state of matter - Bose–einstein condensate y11hci0255
The document discusses Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), a state of matter that occurs when bosons are cooled to near absolute zero. BECs have unusual properties like flowing without friction. They were first theorized in the 1920s but were not produced in a lab until 1995 using lasers, magnets and evaporative cooling. Potential applications of BECs include precision etching due to their coherent properties when formed into beams.
Concepts and Problems in Quantum Mechanics, Lecture-II By Manmohan DashManmohan Dash
9 problems (part-I and II) and in depth the ideas of Quantum; such as Schrodinger Equation, Philosophy of Quantum reality and Statistical interpretation, Probability Distribution, Basic Operators, Uncertainty Principle.
Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy by arjuArjun kumar
Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy is a technique used to study materials with unpaired electrons. It detects transitions between spin energy levels induced by a microwave source in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The three key points are:
1. ESR detects the absorption of microwaves by unpaired electrons in a material when it is exposed to a strong magnetic field, which splits the electronic energy levels.
2. The absorbed frequency is dependent on factors like the local electron environment and applied field strength, allowing structural information to be obtained.
3. Hyperfine interactions with neighboring atomic nuclei further split the energy levels and provide details like the number and identity of interacting nuclei.
This document discusses thermodynamic properties and relations. Some key points:
- Thermodynamic properties that cannot be directly measured must be related to measurable properties.
- Properties are continuous point functions that have exact differentials and can be written as functions of two independent variables like z(x,y).
- The Maxwell relations relate the partial derivatives of properties like pressure, specific volume, temperature and entropy.
- The Clapeyron equation relates the enthalpy change of phase change to the slope of the saturation curve on a pressure-temperature diagram.
- Specific heats, internal energy, enthalpy and entropy changes can be expressed in terms of pressure, specific volume, temperature and specific he
We introduce a new class of division algebras, the hyperpolyadic algebras, which correspond to the binary division algebras R, C, H, O without considering new elements. First, we use the matrix polyadization procedure proposed earlier which increases the dimension of the algebra. The algebras obtained in this way obey binary addition and a nonderived n-ary multiplication and their subalgebras are division n-ary algebras. For each invertible element we define a new norm which is polyadically multiplicative, and the corresponding map is a n-ary homomorphism. We define a polyadic analog of the Cayley-Dickson construction which corresponds to the consequent embedding of monomial matrices from the polyadization procedure. We then obtain another series of n-ary algebras corresponding to the binary division algebras which have a higher dimension, that is proportional to the intermediate arities. Second, a new polyadic product of vectors in any vector space is defined. Endowed with this product the vector space becomes a polyadic algebra which is a division algebra under some invertibility conditions, and its structure constants are computed. Third, we propose a new iterative process ("imaginary tower"), which leads to nonunital nonderived ternary division algebras of half the dimension, which we call "half-quaternions" and "half-octonions". The latter are not subalgebras of the binary division algebras, but subsets only, since they have different arity. Nevertheless, they are actually ternary division algebras, because they allow division, and their nonzero elements are invertible. From the multiplicativity of the introduced "half-quaternion" norm we obtain the ternary analog of the sum of two squares identity. We prove that the unitless ternary division algebra of imaginary "half-octonions" we have introduced is ternary alternative.
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The Einstein field equation in terms of the Schrödinger equationVasil Penchev
The Einstein field equation (EFE) can be directly linked to the Schrödinger equation (SE) by meditation of the quantity of quantum information and its units: qubits
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One qubit is an “atom” both of Hilbert space and Minkovski space underlying correspondingly quantum mechanics and special relativity
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Pseudo-Riemannian space of general relativity being “deformed” Minkowski space therefore consists of “deformed” qubits directly referring to the eventual “deformation” of Hilbert space
This document summarizes a research paper that investigates cosmological particle creation in Weyl geometry, which differs from Riemannian geometry by including a Weyl vector. The paper finds that a homogeneous and isotropic cosmological solution can exist in Weyl geometry if there is direct interaction between the Weyl vector and matter fields. Assuming a perfect fluid matter Lagrangian, the paper derives an expression for the rate of particle production from the vacuum that is conformally invariant. It is shown that while the vacuum may persist against producing non-dust matter, it cannot resist producing dust particles, which could be dark matter candidates.
Gravity as entanglement, and entanglement as gravityVasil Penchev
1) The document discusses the relationship between gravity and quantum entanglement, exploring the possibility that they are equivalent or closely connected concepts.
2) It outlines an approach to interpret gravity in terms of a generalized quantum field theory that includes entanglement, which could explain why gravity cannot be quantized.
3) The key idea is that entanglement expressed "outside" of space-time points looks like gravity "inside", and vice versa, with gravity representing a smooth constraint on the quantum behavior of entities imposed by all others.
CHAPTER 6 Quantum Mechanics II
6.0 Partial differentials
6.1 The Schrödinger Wave Equation
6.2 Expectation Values
6.3 Infinite Square-Well Potential
6.4 Finite Square-Well Potential
6.5 Three-Dimensional Infinite-Potential Well
6.6 Simple Harmonic Oscillator
6.7 Barriers and Tunneling in some books an extra chapter due to its technical importance
This document is a research essay presented by Canlin Zhang to the University of Waterloo in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master's degree in Pure Mathematics. The essay introduces some basic concepts in operator theory and their connections to quantum computation and information. It discusses topics such as quantum algorithms, quantum channels, quantum error correction, and noiseless subsystems. The essay is divided into six sections that cover these topics at a high-level introduction.
(1) The document discusses linear perturbations of the metric around a Schwarzschild black hole. It derives the Regge-Wheeler equation, which governs axial perturbations and takes the form of a wave equation with an effective potential.
(2) It shows that the Regge-Wheeler potential has a maximum just outside the event horizon. This allows it to be considered as a scattering potential barrier for wave packets.
(3) It concludes that Schwarzschild black holes are stable under smooth, compactly supported exterior perturbations, as these perturbations will remain bounded for all times according to properties of the Regge-Wheeler equation and solutions to the Schrodinger equation.
The generalization of the Periodic table. The "Periodic table" of "dark matter"Vasil Penchev
The thesis is: the “periodic table” of “dark matter” is equivalent to the standard periodic table of the visible matter being entangled. Thus, it is to consist of all possible entangled states of the atoms of chemical elements as quantum systems. In other words, an atom of any chemical element and as a quantum system, i.e. as a wave function, should be represented as a non-orthogonal in general (i.e. entangled) subspace of the separable complex Hilbert space relevant to the system to which the atom at issue is related as a true part of it. The paper follows previous publications of mine stating that “dark matter” and “dark energy” are projections of arbitrarily entangled states on the cognitive “screen” of Einstein’s “Mach’s principle” in general relativity postulating that gravitational field can be generated only by mass or energy.
This document provides an overview of Cedric Weber's background and research interests, which include dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and its application to oxide materials. Some key points:
- Cedric Weber received his PhD in quantum magnetism and superconductivity from EPFL and has worked on DMFT at Rutgers and the University of Cambridge. He is currently a researcher at King's College London.
- His research focuses on developing DMFT software and studying phase diagrams of high-temperature superconductors and other oxide materials using techniques like DMFT, GW+DMFT, and the Bethe-Salpeter equation.
- He collaborates with theorists and experimentalists on topics like laser
1. The Stern-Gerlach experiment demonstrated the quantization of electron spin by splitting a beam of silver atoms into two distinct beams based on their magnetic orientation.
2. This was represented mathematically using a two-level quantum system and Bloch sphere, where the spin states are written as vectors and manipulated using Pauli matrices.
3. The Stern-Gerlach device is modeled as a Hermitian operator whose eigenstates correspond to the "aligned" and "anti-aligned" spin measurements, and different device orientations are represented by rotating the Pauli matrices.
This article continues the study of concrete algebra-like structures in our polyadic approach, where the arities of all operations are initially taken as arbitrary, but the relations between them, the arity shapes, are to be found from some natural conditions ("arity freedom principle"). In this way, generalized associative algebras, coassociative coalgebras, bialgebras and Hopf algebras are defined and investigated. They have many unusual features in comparison with the binary case. For instance, both the algebra and its underlying field can be zeroless and nonunital, the existence of the unit and counit is not obligatory, and the dimension of the algebra is not arbitrary, but "quantized". The polyadic convolution product and bialgebra can be defined, and when the algebra and coalgebra have unequal arities, the polyadic version of the antipode, the querantipode, has different properties. As a possible application to quantum group theory, we introduce the polyadic version of braidings, almost co-commutativity, quasitriangularity and the equations for the R-matrix (which can be treated as a polyadic analog of the Yang-Baxter equation). Finally, we propose another concept of deformation which is governed not by the twist map, but by the medial map, where only the latter is unique in the polyadic case. We present the corresponding braidings, almost co-mediality and M-matrix, for which the compatibility equations are found.
MORE THAN IMPOSSIBLE: NEGATIVE AND COMPLEX PROBABILITIES AND THEIR INTERPRET...Vasil Penchev
What might mean “more than impossible”? For example, that could be what happens without any cause or that physical change which occurs without any physical force (interaction) to act. Then, the quantity of the equivalent physical force, which would cause the same effect, can serve as a measure of the complex probability.
Quantum mechanics introduces those fluctuations, the physical actions of which are commensurable with the Plank constant. They happen by themselves without any cause even in principle. Those causeless changes are both instable and extremely improbable in the world perceived by our senses immediately for the physical actions in it are much, much bigger than the Plank constant.
I. Cotaescu - "Canonical quantization of the covariant fields: the Dirac fiel...SEENET-MTP
The document discusses the canonical quantization of covariant fields on curved spacetimes, specifically the de Sitter spacetime. It introduces covariant fields that transform under representations of the spin group SL(2,C) and have covariant derivatives ensuring gauge invariance. Isometries of the spacetime generate Killing vectors and induce representations of the external symmetry group, which is the universal covering group of isometries and combines isometries with gauge transformations. Generators of these representations provide conserved observables that allow canonical quantization analogous to special relativity. The paper focuses on applying this framework to the Dirac field on de Sitter spacetime.
11.final paper -0047www.iiste.org call-for_paper-58Alexander Decker
This document discusses generating new Julia sets and Mandelbrot sets using the tangent function. It introduces using the tangent function of the form tan(zn) + c, where n ≥ 2, and applying Ishikawa iteration to generate new Relative Superior Mandelbrot sets and Relative Superior Julia sets. The results are entirely different from existing literature on transcendental functions. It describes using escape criteria for polynomials to generate the fractals and discusses the geometry of the Relative Superior Mandelbrot and Julia sets generated, which possess symmetry along the real axis.
A relationship between mass as a geometric concept and motion associated with a closed curve in spacetime (a notion taken from differential geometry) is investigated. We show that the 4-dimensional exterior Schwarzschild solution of the General Theory of Relativity can be mapped to a 4-dimensional Euclidean spacetime manifold. As a consequence of this mapping, the quantity M in the exterior Schwarzschild solution which is usually attributed to a massive central object is shown to correspond to a geometric property of spacetime. An additional outcome of this analysis is the discovery that, because M is a property of spacetime geometry, an anisotropy with respect to its spacetime components measured in a Minkowski tangent space defined with respect to a spacetime event P by an observer O who is stationary with respect to the spacetime event P, may be a sensitive measure of an anisotropic cosmic accelerated expansion. The presence of anisotropy in the cosmic accelerated expansion may contribute to the reason that there are currently two prevailing measured estimates of this quantity
Quantum-Gravity Thermodynamics, Incorporating the Theory of Exactly Soluble Active Stochastic Processes, with Applications
by Daley, K.
Published in IJTP in 2009. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009IJTP..tmp...67D
The document presents research on using a binary reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) approach to solve a Wick-type stochastic Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation with variable coefficients. It introduces the stochastic KdV equation model and discusses previous work analyzing it. The research aims to formulate white noise functional solutions for the stochastic KdV equations by applying Hermite transform, white noise theory, and binary RKHS. It explores representing the exact solution in a reproducing kernel space and investigating uniform convergence of approximate solutions.
Saxon and Stueckelberg provide complementary arguments that complex numbers are necessary for quantum theory. Saxon argues that the state function must be complex to allow arbitrary transformations while maintaining its form. Stueckelberg shows that assuming a real Hilbert space leads to trivial or unusable uncertainty principles, inconsistent with quantum theory. Both conclude quantum theory is impossible without the imaginary unit i, as complex numbers are fundamental to its description of probability amplitudes and uncertainty.
This document discusses Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper that introduced quantum mechanics. It aims to provide more clarity on the calculations Heisenberg likely performed that were missing from his original paper. As an example, it reconstructs how Heisenberg may have solved the quantum anharmonic oscillator problem to second order perturbation theory, arriving at the standard quantum mechanics results. The approach is based on directly calculating transition frequencies and amplitudes. The document suggests including a discussion of Heisenberg's calculational method could aid student understanding of quantum mechanics.
What is quantum information? Information symmetry and mechanical motionVasil Penchev
The concept of quantum information is introduced as both normed superposition of two orthogonal subspaces of the separable complex Hilbert space and invariance of Hamilton and Lagrange representation of any mechanical system. The base is the isomorphism of the standard introduction and the representation of a qubit to a 3D unit ball, in which two points are chosen.
The separable complex Hilbert space is considered as the free variable of quantum information and any point in it (a wave function describing a state of a quantum system) as its value as the bound variable.
A qubit is equivalent to the generalization of ‘bit’ from the set of two equally probable alternatives to an infinite set of alternatives. Then, that Hilbert space is considered as a generalization of Peano arithmetic where any unit is substituted by a qubit and thus the set of natural number is mappable within any qubit as the complex internal structure of the unit or a different state of it. Thus, any mathematical structure being reducible to set theory is representable as a set of wave functions and a subspace of the separable complex Hilbert space, and it can be identified as the category of all categories for any functor represents an operator transforming a set (or subspace) of the separable complex Hilbert space into another. Thus, category theory is isomorphic to the Hilbert-space representation of set theory & Peano arithmetic as above.
Given any value of quantum information, i.e. a point in the separable complex Hilbert space, it always admits two equally acceptable interpretations: the one is physical, the other is mathematical. The former is a wave function as the exhausted description of a certain state of a certain quantum system. The latter chooses a certain mathematical structure among a certain category. Thus there is no way to be distinguished a mathematical structure from a physical state for both are described exhaustedly as a value of quantum information. This statement in turn can be utilized to be defined quantum information by the identity of any mathematical structure to a physical state, and also vice versa. Further, that definition is equivalent to both standard definition as the normed superposition and invariance of Hamilton and Lagrange interpretation of mechanical motion introduced in the beginning of the paper.
Then, the concept of information symmetry can be involved as the symmetry between three elements or two pairs of elements: Lagrange representation and each counterpart of the pair of Hamilton representation. The sense and meaning of information symmetry may be visualized by a single (quantum) bit and its interpretation as both (privileged) reference frame and the symmetries of the Standard model.
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Modal History versus Counterfactual History: History as IntentionVasil Penchev
The distinction of whether real or counterfactual history makes sense only post factum. However, modal history is to be defined only as ones’ intention and thus, ex-ante. Modal history is probable history, and its probability is subjective. One needs phenomenological “epoché” in relation to its reality (respectively, counterfactuality). Thus, modal history describes historical “phenomena” in Husserl’s sense and would need a specific application of phenomenological reduction, which can be called historical reduction. Modal history doubles history just as the recorded history of historiography does it. That doubling is a necessary condition of historical objectivity including one’s subjectivity: whether actors’, ex-anteor historians’ post factum. The objectivity doubled by ones’ subjectivity constitute “hermeneutical circle”.
Both classical and quantum information [autosaved]Vasil Penchev
Information can be considered a the most fundamental, philosophical, physical and mathematical concept originating from the totality by means of physical and mathematical transcendentalism (the counterpart of philosophical transcendentalism). Classical and quantum information. particularly by their units, bit and qubit, correspond and unify the finite and infinite:
As classical information is relevant to finite series and sets, as quantum information, to infinite ones. The separable complex Hilbert space of quantum mechanics can be represented equivalently as “qubit space”) as quantum information and doubled dually or “complimentary” by Hilbert arithmetic (classical information).
A CLASS OF EXEMPLES DEMONSTRATING THAT “푃푃≠푁푁푁 ” IN THE “P VS NP” PROBLEMVasil Penchev
The CMI Millennium “P vs NP Problem” can be resolved e.g. if one shows at least one counterexample to the “P=NP” conjecture. A certain class of problems being such counterexamples will be formulated. This implies the rejection of the hypothesis “P=NP” for any conditions satisfying the formulation of the problem. Thus, the solution “P≠NP” of the problem in general is proved. The class of counterexamples can be interpreted as any quantum superposition of any finite set of quantum states. The Kochen-Specker theorem is involved. Any fundamentally random choice among a finite set of alternatives belong to “NP’ but not to “P”. The conjecture that the set complement of “P” to “NP” can be described by that kind of choice exhaustively is formulated.
FERMAT’S LAST THEOREM PROVED BY INDUCTION (accompanied by a philosophical com...Vasil Penchev
A proof of Fermat’s last theorem is demonstrated. It is very brief, simple, elementary, and absolutely arithmetical. The necessary premises for the proof are only: the three definitive properties of the relation of equality (identity, symmetry, and transitivity), modus tollens, axiom of induction, the proof of Fermat’s last theorem in the case of n=3 as well as the premises necessary for the formulation of the theorem itself. It involves a modification of Fermat’s approach of infinite descent. The infinite descent is linked to induction starting from n=3 by modus tollens. An inductive series of modus tollens is constructed. The proof of the series by induction is equivalent to Fermat’s last theorem. As far as Fermat had been proved the theorem for n=4, one can suggest that the proof for n≥4 was accessible to him.
An idea for an elementary arithmetical proof of Fermat’s last theorem (FLT) by induction is suggested. It would be accessible to Fermat unlike Wiles’s proof (1995), and would justify Fermat’s claim (1637) for its proof. The inspiration for a simple proof would contradict to Descartes’s dualism for appealing to merge “mind” and “body”, “words” and “things”, “terms” and “propositions”, all orders of logic. A counterfactual course of history of mathematics and philosophy may be admitted. The bifurcation happened in Descartes and Fermat’s age. FLT is exceptionally difficult to be proved in our real branch rather than in the counterfactual one.
The space-time interpretation of Poincare’s conjecture proved by G. Perelman Vasil Penchev
This document discusses the generalization of Poincaré's conjecture to higher dimensions and its interpretation in terms of special relativity. It proposes that Poincaré's conjecture can be generalized to state that any 4-dimensional ball is topologically equivalent to 3D Euclidean space. This generalization has a physical interpretation in which our 3D space can be viewed as a "4-ball" closed in a fourth dimension. The document also outlines ideas for how one might prove this generalization by "unfolding" the problem into topological equivalences between Euclidean spaces.
FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST ACTION TO THE CONSERVATION OF QUANTUM INFORMATION...Vasil Penchev
In fact, the first law of conservation (that of mass) was found in chemistry and generalized to the conservation of energy in physics by means of Einstein’s famous “E=mc2”. Energy conservation is implied by the principle of least action from a variational viewpoint as in Emmy Noether’s theorems (1918): any chemical change in a conservative (i.e. “closed”) system can be accomplished only in the way conserving its total energy. Bohr’s innovation to found Mendeleev’s periodic table by quantum mechanics implies a certain generalization referring to
the quantum leaps as if accomplished in all possible trajectories (according to Feynman’s interpretation) and therefore generalizing the principle of least action and needing a certain generalization of energy conservation as to any quantum change.The transition from the first to the second theorem of Emmy Noether represents well the necessary generalization: its chemical meaning is the ge eralization of any chemical reaction to be accomplished as if any possible course of time rather than in the standard evenly running time (and equivalent to energy conservation according to the first theorem). The problem: If any quantum change is accomplished in al possible “variations (i.e. “violations) of energy conservation” (by different probabilities),
what (if any) is conserved? An answer: quantum information is what is conserved. Indeed, it can be particularly defined as the counterpart (e.g. in the sense of Emmy Noether’s theorems) to the physical quantity of action (e.g. as energy is the counterpart of time in them). It is valid in any course of time rather than in the evenly running one. That generalization implies a generalization of the periodic table including any continuous and smooth transformation between two chemical elements.
From the principle of least action to the conservation of quantum information...Vasil Penchev
In fact, the first law of conservation (that of mass) was found in chemistry and generalized to the conservation of energy in physics by means of Einstein’s famous “E=mc2”. Energy conservation is implied by the principle of least action from a variational viewpoint as in Emmy Noether’s theorems (1918):any chemical change in a conservative (i.e. “closed”) system can be accomplished only in the way conserving its total energy. Bohr’s innovation to found Mendeleev’s periodic table by quantum mechanics implies a certain generalization referring to the quantum leaps as if accomplished in all possible trajectories (e.g. according to Feynman’s viewpoint) and therefore generalizing the principle of least action and needing a certain generalization of energy conservation as to any quantum change.
The transition from the first to the second theorem of Emmy Noether represents well the necessary generalization: its chemical meaning is the generalization of any chemical reaction to be accomplished as if any possible course of time rather than in the standard evenly running time (and equivalent to energy conservation according to the first theorem).
The problem: If any quantum change is accomplished in all possible “variations (i.e. “violations) of energy conservation” (by different probabilities), what (if any) is conserved?
An answer: quantum information is what is conserved. Indeed it can be particularly defined as the counterpart (e.g. in the sense of Emmy Noether’s theorems) to the physical quantity of action (e.g. as energy is the counterpart of time in them). It is valid in any course of time rather than in the evenly running one. (An illustration: if observers in arbitrarily accelerated reference frames exchange light signals about the course of a single chemical reaction observed by all of them, the universal viewpoint shareаble by all is that of quantum information).
That generalization implies a generalization of the periodic table including any continuous and smooth transformation between two chemical elements necessary conserving quantum information rather than energy: thus it can be called “alchemical periodic table”.
Poincaré’s conjecture proved by G. Perelman by the isomorphism of Minkowski s...Vasil Penchev
- The document discusses the relationship between separable complex Hilbert spaces (H) and sets of ordinals (H) and how they should not be equated if natural numbers are identified as finite.
- It presents two interpretations of H: as vectors in n-dimensional complex space or as squarely integrable functions, and discusses how the latter adds unitarity from energy conservation.
- It argues that Η rather than H should be used when not involving energy conservation, and discusses how the relation between H and HH generates spheres representing areas and can be interpreted physically in terms of energy and force.
Why anything rather than nothing? The answer of quantum mechnaicsVasil Penchev
Many researchers determine the question “Why anything
rather than nothing?” to be the most ancient and fundamental philosophical problem. It is closely related to the idea of Creation shared by religion, science, and philosophy, for example in the shape of the “Big Bang”, the doctrine of first cause or causa sui, the Creation in six days in the Bible, etc. Thus, the solution of quantum mechanics, being scientific in essence, can also be interpreted philosophically, and even religiously. This paper will only discuss the philosophical interpretation. The essence of the answer of quantum mechanics is: 1.) Creation is necessary in a rigorously mathematical sense. Thus, it does not need any hoice, free will, subject, God, etc. to appear. The world exists by virtue of mathematical necessity, e.g. as any mathematical truth such as 2+2=4; and 2.) Being is less than nothing rather than ore than nothing. Thus creation is not an increase of nothing, but the decrease of nothing: it is a deficiency in relation to nothing. Time and its “arrow” form the road from that diminishment or incompleteness to nothing.
The Square of Opposition & The Concept of Infinity: The shared information s...Vasil Penchev
The power of the square of opposition has been proved during millennia, It supplies logic by the ontological language of infinity for describing anything...
6th WORLD CONGRESS ON THE SQUARE OF OPPOSITION
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Mamardashvili, an Observer of the Totality. About “Symbol and Consciousness”,...Vasil Penchev
The paper discusses a few tensions “crucifying” the works and even personality of the great Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili: East and West; human being and thought, symbol and consciousness, infinity and finiteness, similarity and differences. The observer can be involved as the correlative counterpart of the totality: An observer opposed to the totality externalizes an internal part outside. Thus the phenomena of an observer and the totality turn out to converge to each other or to be one and the same. In other words, the phenomenon of an observer includes the singularity of the solipsistic Self, which (or “who”) is the same as that of the totality. Furthermore, observation can be thought as that primary and initial action underlain by the phenomenon of an observer. That action of observation consists in the externalization of the solipsistic Self outside as some external reality. It is both a zero action and the singularity of the phenomenon of action. The main conclusions are: Mamardashvili’s philosophy can be thought both as the suffering effort to be a human being again and again as well as the philosophical reflection on the genesis of thought from itself by the same effort. Thus it can be recognized as a powerful tension between signs anа symbol, between conscious structures and consciousness, between the syncretism of the East and the discursiveness of the West crucifying spiritually Georgia
Completeness: From henkin's Proposition to Quantum ComputerVasil Penchev
This document discusses how Leon Henkin's proposition relates to concepts in logic, set theory, information theory, and quantum mechanics. It argues that Henkin's proposition, which states the provability of a statement within a formal system, is equivalent to an internal and consistent position regarding infinity. The document then explores how this connects to Martin Lob's theorem, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in quantum mechanics, theorems about the absence of hidden variables, entanglement, quantum information, and ultimately quantum computers.
Why anything rather than nothing? The answer of quantum mechanicsVasil Penchev
This document discusses the philosophical question of why there is something rather than nothing from the perspective of quantum mechanics. It argues that quantum mechanics provides a solution where creation is permanent and due to the irreversibility of time. The creation in quantum mechanics represents a necessary loss of information as alternatives are rejected in the course of time, rather than being due to some external cause like God's will. This permanent creation process makes the universe mathematically necessary rather than requiring an initial singular event like the Big Bang.
The outlined approach allows a common philosophical viewpoint to the physical world, language and some mathematical structures therefore calling for the universe to be understood as a joint physical, linguistic and mathematical universum, in which physical motion and metaphor are one and the same rather than only similar in a sense.
Hilbert Space and pseudo-Riemannian Space: The Common Base of Quantum Informa...Vasil Penchev
Hilbert space underlying quantum mechanics and pseudo-Riemannian space underlying general relativity share a common base of quantum information. Hilbert space can be interpreted as the free variable of quantum information, and any point in it, being equivalent to a wave function (and thus, to a state of a quantum system), as a value of that variable of quantum information. In turn, pseudo-Riemannian space can be interpreted as the interaction of two or more quantities of quantum information and thus, as two or more entangled quantum systems. Consequently, one can distinguish local physical interactions describable by a single Hilbert space (or by any factorizable tensor product of such ones) and non-local physical interactions describable only by means by that Hilbert space, which cannot be factorized as any tensor product of the Hilbert spaces, by means of which one can describe the interacting quantum subsystems separately. Any interaction, which can be exhaustedly described in a single Hilbert space, such as the weak, strong, and electromagnetic one, is local in terms of quantum information. Any interaction, which cannot be described thus, is nonlocal in terms of quantum information. Any interaction, which is exhaustedly describable by pseudo-Riemannian space, such as gravity, is nonlocal in this sense. Consequently all known physical interaction can be described by a single geometrical base interpreting it in terms of quantum information.
This document discusses using Richard Feynman's interpretation of quantum mechanics as a way to formally summarize different explanations of quantum mechanics given to hypothetical children. It proposes that each child's understanding could be seen as one "pathway" or explanation, with the total set of explanations forming a distribution. The document then suggests that quantum mechanics itself could provide a meta-explanation that encompasses all the children's perspectives by describing phenomena probabilistically rather than deterministically. Finally, it gives some examples of how this approach could allow defining and experimentally studying the concept of God through quantum mechanics.
This document discusses whether artificial intelligence can have a soul from both scientific and religious perspectives. It begins by acknowledging that "soul" is a religious concept while AI is a scientific one. The document then examines how Christianity views creativity as a criterion for having a soul. It proposes formal scientific definitions of creativity involving learning rates and probabilities. An example is given comparing a master's creativity to an apprentice's. The document argues science can describe God's infinite creativity and human's finite creativity uniformly. It analyzes whether criteria for creativity can apply to AI like a Turing machine. Hypothetical examples involving infinite algorithms and self-learning machines are discussed.
Analogia entis as analogy universalized and formalized rigorously and mathema...Vasil Penchev
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Ontology as a formal one. The language of ontology as the ontology itself: th...Vasil Penchev
“Formal ontology” is introduced first to programing languages in different ways. The most relevant one as to philosophy is as a generalization of “nth-order logic” and “nth-level language” for n=0. Then, the “zero-level language” is a theoretical reflection on the naïve attitude to the world: the “things and words” coincide by themselves. That approach corresponds directly to the philosophical phenomenology of Husserl or fundamental ontology of Heidegger. Ontology as the 0-level language may be researched as a formal ontology
Temple of Asclepius in Thrace. Excavation resultsKrassimira Luka
The temple and the sanctuary around were dedicated to Asklepios Zmidrenus. This name has been known since 1875 when an inscription dedicated to him was discovered in Rome. The inscription is dated in 227 AD and was left by soldiers originating from the city of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
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ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 42001, and GDPR: Best Practices for Implementation and...PECB
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Negative and Complex Probability in Quantum Information
1. Negative and Complex Probability in Quantum Information
Vasil Penchev1
Abstract: “Negative probability” in practice. Quantum Communication: Very small phase
space regions turn out to be thermodynamically analogical to those of superconductors.
Macro-bodies or signals might exist in coherent or entangled state. Such physical objects
having unusual properties could be the basis of quantum communication channels or even
normal physical ones … Questions and a few answers about negative probability: Why does it
appear in quantum mechanics? It appears in phase-space formulated quantum mechanics;
next, in quantum correlations … and for wave-particle dualism. Its meaning:- mathematically:
a ratio of two measures (of sets), which are not collinear; physically: the ratio of the
measurements of two physical quantities, which are not simultaneously measurable. The main
innovation is in the mapping between phase and Hilbert space, since both are sums. Phase
space is a sum of cells, and Hilbert space is a sum of qubits. The mapping is reduced to the
mapping of a cell into a qubit and vice versa. Negative probability helps quantum mechanics
to be represented quasi-statistically by quasi-probabilistic distributions. Pure states of negative
probability cannot exist, but they, where the conditions for their expression exists, decrease
the sum probability of the integrally positive regions of the distributions. They reflect the
immediate interaction (interference) of probabilities common in quantum mechanics.
Key words: negative probability, quantum correlation, phase space, transformation between
phase and Hilbert space, entanglement, Bell’s inequalities
1
Institute of Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Science; vasildinev@gmail.com;
http://vasil7penchev.wordpress.com, http://my.opera.com/vasil%20penchev,
http://www.esnips.com/web/vasilpenchevsnews, http://www.philosophybulgaria.org
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2. Vasil Penchev
The main highlights are:
1. Negative or complex probability appears where the measure of two “parts” or
of a “part” and the “whole” forms any angle. It can happen when the probability sum is
geometric in form.
2. Negative or complex probability cannot be excluded from consideration in
quantum mechanics since any quantum object consists of two “parts”: wave and particle .
3. This form of probability is why the effects known as “relative rotated
measures” are observed in any separated quantum object as well as in the systems of quantum
objects. They reflect the immediate interaction of probabilities without any “hidden”
parameters.
I. Why does negative probability appear in quantum mechanics?
Negative probability appears in phase-space formulated quantum mechanics;
also, in quantum correlations and also in wave-particle dualism. Why?
One may give a few answers to that question.
The definition of negative probability expressed mathematically is the following:
a ratio of two measures (of sets) which are not collinear; or physically: a ratio of the
measurement of two physical quantities, which are not simultaneously measurable.
An revealing example is Heisenberg’s uncertainty measure: . Its
expression as a negative probability would mean that the real axis of the measurement either
of , or of has been rotated between the coupled measurements; where | | and
| |:
Fig. 1. The mechanism of Heisenberg’s uncertainty
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II. The “appearance” of negative probability in the phase-space formalism of
quantum mechanics can be represented schematically, using a correspondence with an
ordinary Hilbert-space formalism of the phase-space or by a similar correspondence between
their “atoms”, i.e. a phase-space cell and a Hilbert-space qubit.
Fig. 2. The mapping between phase and Hilbert space reduced to the transfor-
mation between a cell and a qubit
The question is how the transformation between the two-dimensional cell of
phase space and the qubit of Hilbert space works:
( ) ∑ ∑ ( )
| |
( )
|∑ |
, but ( )
∑
If x and p is simultaneously measurable, then a cell can be transformed into a
qubit:
⁄
( ) ∫ *( ) ( )
’ is the Wigner function (1932) in a contemporary view. Wigner function
in its original form is:
( )
( )⁄
( ) ∫ ∫ ( )* ( )
(Wigner 1932: 750).
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Wigner transformation in general:
̂ ( )
( ) ∫ ⁄
⟨ ⁄ | ̂| ⁄ ⟩
Reverse Wigner transformation (Weyl transformation) in general:
( ) ̂
⟨ | ̂| ⟩ ∫ ( )
( )
Hermann Weyl’s paper (1927) is historically first. He considered abstractly and
mathematically the transformation (q) ⟺ P(x,p) , but did not interpret P(x,p) as
probability, and did not discuss the fact that it can obtain negative values.
The original Weyl transformation (1927: 116-117):
( ) ∬ ( ) ( )
∬ ( ) ( )
It follows:
[] ∬∬ ( ) [( ) ( ) ]
F[f] turns out to be partly analogical to Dirac’s δ-functions (Schwartz
distributions).
Now, we are going to consider the time-frequency (= time-energy) reformulation
of Wigner function derived by Ville (1948):
“The transmission of communication signals is accomplished by means of a
transmission of energy, generally of electromagnetic or of acoustic energy. … It is not energy
itself which is of interest, but rather the changes in this energy in the course of time. The more
complicated the function which represents, as a function of time, the change in voltage, cur-
rent, pressure, or any other carrier, the greater is the amount of the information carried by the
transmitted energy”2 (Ville 1948: 63).
When thinking about quantum information, it is especially important to look at all
physical processes as informational ones; not simply transmitting, but also being themselves
2
The English translation of the citations of Ville’s paper is according to the translation by I. Selin, “Theory and
Applications of the Notion of Complex Signal” – http://www.rand.org/pubs/translations/2008/T92.pdf .
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signals. The necessary condition for such a viewpoint is the reciprocity of time and energy
implied by the Heisenberg uncertainty measure (coordinates and momentums being formally
linked to these quantities, and consequently, by the quantum/ discrete character of mechanical
motion.
We may discuss Ψ-function as a special kind of complex signal modulated by du-
al processes:
“Complex signals … may be considered as the result of the modulation of their
envelope by a carrier is itself frequency modulated” (Ville 1948: 67).
Very important for the interpretation of negative probability is the following cor-
ollary made by Ville:
“Any signal modulated by a sufficiently high frequency may be considered com-
plex” (Ville 1948: 68).
Consequently, any “high energetic“, physical object-like macro-body may be con-
sidered as such a complex signal modulated by dual processes. A similar corollary may be
found described as follows:
„For any signal s(t), the function
̅( ) ( )
which in general is not complex approaches the complex signal ( ) (associated with
( ) ) as increases” (Ville 1948: 68).
We are inclined to consider Ψ-function in quantum mechanics “analogically” (cf.,
digitally) namely as the sum of an infinite series of energetic constants. Any signal of high
enough frequency, and one, which may consequently be “discussed” as complex, dual-
modulated, is in fact aperiodic, enough to represent ( ).
A crucial part of it happens, or maybe is better to say, is happening in a given time
interval, which we may denote as “now and here”.
Consequently, setting time-frequency analysis, on the one hand, and Ψ-function,
on the other, a closer connection with the former originates from the “material particle” of
classical physics, but a much clearer meaning within much wider limits is needed for that sce-
nario: those of quantum generalization.
Under quantum generalization a point-particle still remains localized, but inher-
ently partitioned. By means of the “duality” it smoothly turns into a wave, and this originates
from an isolated and defined part of the localized point-particle, in turn affecting the totality.
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This quantum status, the whole as a set of its possibly non-additive parts, and
completely in a Gibbsian manner, is already thought equivalent to the unity of corresponding
probable states of the whole, or “worlds”. Eventually they correlate to each other.
Naturally, the question is: If the signal is a complex one, then where is the bound-
ary of the two modulations; how is it to be distributed in the “space”; and by what is it is de-
termined? Or in other words: Where is the boundary between the signal part that is transmit-
ted by amplitude and amplitude modulation; and its alternative part that is transmitted by fre-
quency, phase and frequency-phase modulation?
The answer à la Ville is the following:
“The proposition which we shall come to use is itself an immediate consequence
of the fact that a complex signal is characterized by the peculiarity of having a spectrum
whose amplitude is zero for negative frequencies. Now, modulating ( ) by amounts
to causing the spectrum of ( ) to be translated by the amount . For a large value of
, the spectrum lies entirely in the region of positive frequencies, and ( ) becomes
complex” (Ville 1948: 68-69).
Using wave-particle “spectacles” reveals a “corresponding” perspective. Ville’s
answer has an obvious and simple interpretation: Amplitude and AM codes the particle prop-
erties of a quantum object while frequency and phase (FM and PM) code its wave properties.
That hints at Cohen’s generalization of Wigner’s function:
“We now ask what the analytic signal procedure has done in terms of choosing the
particular amplitude and phase, that is, what is special about the amplitude and phase to make
an analytic signal? Generally speaking, the answer is that the spectral content of the amplitude
( )
is lower than the spectral content of ” (Cohen 1995: 35).
So, we can restrict the spectrum of amplitude within a fixed frequency interval,
corresponding to the (introduced above) “now”, by the following two steps:
The first is: correspondingly linear dependence; and the second is: arbitrary time-
frequency dependence: −
“ ( ) is analytic if the spectrum of ( ) is contained within ( )”
(Cohen 1995: 36).
( )
“ ( ) is analytic if the spectrum of ( ) is contained within ( ) and
( )
the spectrum of is zero for ” (Cohen 1995: 36).
The division specific for each complex signal between a part transmitted by am-
plitude and a part transmitted by frequency and phase, suggests a new idea and an even more
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decisive generalization. Resulting from this generalization is the following interpretation: We
have arrived at a clear division between ‘finite’ and ‘infinite’ in an arithmetical, set-
theoretical and meta-mathematical sense; or between ‘syntactic’ and ‘semantic’ in a logical
view.
For example, the size of amplitude, treated as a signal and thus as coded infor-
mation, could be thought of as the Gödel coding of any finite syntax, or the axiomatic-
deductive kernel of a certain set of tautologies, i.e. as logic: Whether in an absolute or in a
relative meaning, i.e. as the “logic of A”, it can be thought of as the logic of a certain thematic
domain.
A bit more detailed development of these ideas follows:
After sketching the generalization of the Wigner function3, in which it is interpret-
ed also as a signal and after applying a time-frequency analysis of it, we would hint at a new
exposition of Ψ-function in order to allow of (and treat of) transferring results between logic
and quantum information.
At that time specifically, the logical equivalent of ‘negative probability’ could be
investigated. It will be distributed along the boundary between syntax and semantics and thus,
describing the transition between them.
Logic understood as a formal system is depicted as “syntax” and represented by a
finite set of rules for constructing formally correct sentences. However, that set is absolutely
indifferent to ‘name’ that is “semantics hidden behind symbol”.
In 20th century, a usage of terms like “the logic of A” has been propagated. “A”
has been understood as one or another subject domain, and consequently as semantics. Thus
the idea that the syntax depends on semantics has been involved implicitly, and vice versa: in
which case syntax has been thought of as “logic adequate for the subject area at issue”.
Now, we try to formalize how that idea acquired scientific popularity and then we
will show how the Ψ-function is isomorphic to such a formalizing. Even though, it is a new,
syntactic-semantic exposition that is implied by an external, but similar approach.
A general sketch of the idea could be the following:
The complex coefficient is transformed and viewed as the Gödel number of the
description; that is: as the terms of the description, which are also “coded” in terms of the
corresponding member of the basis of Hilbert space!
3
“The Wigner distribution, as considered in signal analysis, was the first example of joint time-frequency distri-
bution …” (Cohen 1995: 136).
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A metaphor (which suggests also the useful idea of the relativity of ‘thing’ and
‘world’) can serve us as the basis for clearing: We divide our world into “orthogonal” things,
i.e. without any common intersection between any two of them, and then, describe the inves-
tigated object using the set of its metaphors, that is by each one of the orthogonal things in the
world.
As a humorous example, let’s say we want to make an inventory of ‘rabbit’ and
the row of things chosen by guesswork, which turns out to be suitable, is: ‘bear’, ‘house’,
‘cockroach’, ‘concept’, ‘electron’, etc. The coefficient of ‘bear’ will be probably the biggest,
as the scale of “resemblance” may be what we use, with ‘rabbit’ compared to ‘rabbit’ being
the highest.
Respectively, the Gödel coding of the partial description of ‘rabbit’ in the “logic
of bear” will give the biggest value of the coefficient, while “likening it to”, “comparing it to”
‘etc.’ more and more irrelevant things, will result in the coefficient expressing the complexity
of the description tending to zero.
So the ‘rabbit’ is now represented by – the most convenient form would be – a
simple sum of its description in any possible world: the rabbit as a bear, the rabbit as a house,
the rabbit as a cockroach, the rabbit as the thing of “notion”, the rabbit as an electron, etc.
Applying such a humorous procedure, the idea of Hilbert space is represented as a
mathematical equivalent of a semantic network, defined by its basis, and precise quantitative
coefficients derived from the scale of the resemblance of the investigated object to anything in
terms of the network.
The world as the set of things or of possible worlds may be discussed also by the
mathematical concept of category.
Any one thing can be represented by any of the other things and by morphisms
between the thing under discussion and the rest.
A subspace of Hilbert space will correspond to any category of this type. If the
coding is one-to-one, then also that mapping is one-to-one. The fundamental nature of the
notion of category reveals the fundamental nature of the notion of Hilbert space. The latter is
a one-to-one coded image of the former. But more interestingly: The syntactic-semantic inter-
pretation of Ψ-function hints that Hilbert space may be considered as a coded image of the
generalization of ‘category’, loosely denoted above as “semantic network”. After which the
focus is on meanings, and on the mapping morphisms between them.
In reverse, if we have restricted the categories to topoi, then logic in its usual
sense can be defined on them as the axiomatic-deductive “kernel of all tautologies among the
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set of all senses of meaning” (which are de facto pure semantic relations). At the same time
logic as a “totality”, i.e. logic as a universal and omnipresence doctrine, is also the logic of a
specific thing, implicitly taken for granted through its axioms. The deep philosophical essence
of the notion of “topos”, itself serving as the basis of ‘formal’ or ‘mathematical logic’, con-
sists in allowing “topology” to be defined and hence: “discontinuity” and “continuity”. With
such a structure the generalization of Einstein’s principle of relativity for discrete transforms
makes sense, I mean this in the sense of quantum mechanics.
Going immediately to the field of quantum information: − to apply the Skolemian
relativity of ‘discrete’ and ‘continual’ implies that the distinction between ‘continuous’ and
‘discontinuous’ loses part of its sense, which leads us into stepping beyond logic, maybe to
the “language” of being:
Let us divide an infinite set, e.g. that of integers, into two compact subsets, so that
any element of the initial set belongs to just one of the two subsets. The method of diagonali-
zation shows that such a dividing necessarily exists, after which both subsets can be put in
one-to-one mapping with the initial set (Пенчев 2009: 306). Suppose we have already con-
structed a new, “actualist” representation of diagonalization, then we could build an arithme-
tic version of the so-called Skolem’s paradox, as follows:
A real number may be juxtaposed uniquely with any of the divided sets of the
foregoing type, in such a way that when one of the sets is finite, the associated real number is
a rational number, but when both are infinite, then it has an irrational one. Further, we can
show that there exists such a one-to-one mapping between the real numbers and all divisions
of that type. The set of all such divisions will be denoted by .
Finally, it is evident that we can build another unique mapping between integers
and the set .
Since the composition of two one-one mappings is also a one-one mapping, there-
fore, using an “intermediate station”, we have now built a one-one mapping between the set of
integers and that of real numbers and therefore the former and the last are equinumerous.
But, we have utilized an “actualist” version of diagonalization, which in its initial,
“constructivist” version had been applied by Cantor to show that the cardinality of real num-
bers is different from that of natural or rational numbers; and since the enumerable cardinality
had been alleged as “the least” cardinality of an infinite set, it therefore followed that cardi-
nality of real numbers is one of “the greater”, though not necessarily obviously the greater
cardinality (that it is clearly the greater cardinality is stated by the continuum hypothesis sug-
gested yet again by Cantor) (Пенчев 2009: 330-331).
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In the “language” of being, number is not different from word, and the physical
“quantity” as information is the tool by which we measure the “unity” between words and
numbers (but on the numerical, quantitative side).
The natural question, which we will just put, but without deciding is: What is its
counterpart on the side of word. Is it metaphor?
Let us also mention the question of whether, or to what extent, descriptions using
“terms taken for granted” can be considered as the logic of the ‘name’ reserved for the set of
those terms (which name is precisely “the class of tautologies”; which will also turn out to be
increased, since the variables are restricted to accepting values only in those terms, with re-
spect to fulfilling the specified relations between those terms. Roughly speaking, ‘А is brown’
will be an additional tautology, if we have limited ourselves to the logic of all brown items.)
If we are able to build such a wide generalization or interpretation of the notion of
Hilbert space and its element, Ψ-function, then we can generalize or interpret correspondingly
phase space. And negative probability, considered after such a generalization would also be
more widely generalized by means of generalizing the Wigner function. A milestone along
this route is its generalization by Cohen.
Such a wide generalization may be denoted as a language, signal, or informational
interpretation.
Essential to the scheme is Kripke’s conception (1975) that an exact logical notion
of truth can be introduced by infinite syntax (below I will discuss whether “infinite” is neces-
sary), which however remains “less” than actually infinite semantics, it seems (i.e., to be pré-
cise, that in Tarski’s “as if” semantic conception of truth, “infinity” is essential, moreover a
constructive infinity, rather than semantics).
After that however, it means, using Kripke’s truth, semantic instability, which is
more interesting than semantic stability (or “validity”, Lutskanov 2009: 119), that is, at least a
logical tautology (law) would not be valid necessarily at the meta-level. That is to say, a new
name will appear “ex nihilo” transiting from a finite to infinite syntax, or a name will disap-
pear, which is the same in essence.
Feferman’s notion of “reflexive closure” (Feferman 1991: 1-2) will help us to
clear up which is the syntactic “kernel” shared by two possible worlds (descriptions, theories).
The complement of the kernel to the set of all syntactic (analytic) statements in a given world
(from the participation in forming the kernel) is semantic (= syntactic) unstable in relation to
all worlds (due to the participation in forming the kernel).
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We may also mention the hypothesis that there is no ordinal between (the Fe-
ferman – Schütte ordinal) and (including the case of coincidence between and ).
An example may be given by intuitionism if we interpret the intuitionist theory of
infinite set as a meta-theory towards the intuitionist theory of finite set. The law of excluded
middle ceases to be valid. A new name (a semantic item) of “infinite set” appears. The seman-
tic (= syntactic) conception of truth is presented together with a properly and only syntactic
conception of truth as to infinite sets of the following kind: “Till now we have not yet known
whether it is true, but we will ever understand”. Is such a concept of truth really syntactic?
Yes, since truth is intended in the sequence of finite experiments. Being any experiment finite,
it means that if we accomplish its finite procedure (algorithm), we can acquire a definite an-
swer whether the tested statement (hypothesis) is true or not.
Bridging our consideration to Kripke’s concept of truth, we need a new, namely
“semantic-syntactic” interpretation of Ψ-function in quantum mechanics. That is not too diffi-
cult as the ontology of possible logical world à la Kripke transfers the many-worlds interpre-
tation of quantum mechanics into a logical language. Kripke’s concept of truth accepts the
boundary between syntax and semantics as movable and it is what makes it fruitful in my
opinion.
Then we are going to characterize a given possible world by the proper confine-
ment each to its place of syntax and semantics. Consequently, for any two possible worlds,
there will exist a statement which is syntactic (“analytical”) in one of them, but semantic
(“synthetic”) in the other one.
The Ψ-function itself interpreted semantically-syntactically describes one and the
same thing but in different ways in any possible world, and represents a catalog of all possible
descriptions or of all expectations about its behavior (Schrödinger 1935 (49): 823-824).
Reality (in the usual empirical or experimental sense of the word) is not the true
catalog, but its “change” since (or as) the catalog is invariant in anyone of all possible worlds,
including also those, in which the thing is described as untrue or inexistent, through being
exactly in that boundary between syntax and semantics: a boundary being uniquely character-
ised towards just that world.
The semantic-syntactic interpretation of von Neumann’s theorem (1932) about the
absence of hidden parameters in quantum mechanics corresponds to “standard” quantum
logic, whose base he founded in the same book: There is nothing which is true in a finite
number of worlds, particularly in a single world. Truth or untruth can be defined on finite sets
of any world, but only on an infinite number of possible worlds. Such a standard interpreta-
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tion is consistent also with Kripke’s truth. In addition, the boundary between (a) thing and (b)
(or its) world remains absolute.
A semantic-syntactic interpretation of Bell’s revision (1964, 1966), or in other
words, defining the limits of validity for the foregoing theorem would correspond rather to
“holistic semantics” (Cattaneo, Chiara, Giuntini, Paoli 2009: 193). If the interaction of possi-
ble worlds is introduced consisting in the interchange of possibilities (probabilities of events)
in definite rules, with respect to those between the sets of possible worlds, then the semantic-
syntactic interpretation of von Neumann’s theorem is not valid. The boundary of validity is
outlined by the missing of interaction, i.e. they outline the validity only as to isolated possible
worlds. Hence, if events are progressing in more than one possible world4, then "truth" can be
defined for a finite number of or even for a single world, and the boundary between a thing
and a world is not already absolute.
This sketched “very wide” generalization and interpretation signposts us to Co-
hen’s generalization by using its philosophical meaning drawn from the discussion of how
low and high frequencies may be managed by “division” amongst the kernels:
“Therefore what the analytic procedure does, at least for signals that result in the
above forms, is to put the low frequency content in the amplitude and the high frequency con-
( )
tent in the term ” (Cohen 1995: 36).
Mathematically such management is accomplished by the “kernel function”:
“The approach characterizes time-frequency distributions by an auxiliary function,
the kernel function. The properties of a distribution are reflected by simple constraints on the
kernel, and by examining the kernel one readily can ascertain the properties of distribution.
This allows one to pick and choose those kernels that produce distributions with prescribed,
desirable properties. This general class can be derived by the method of characteristic func-
tions” (Cohen 1995: 136).
Тhat kernel function may be interpreted as a filter allowing amplitude (or time)
and frequency-phase component to be divided from one another. However it can also be in-
terpreted as an external influence of another quantum object, i.e. representing entanglement or
its degree in the deep sense of quantum information.
When the generalization of the Wigner function “was subsequently realized” (Co-
hen 1966: 782; 1995: 136), it was also realized that an infinite number can be readily generat-
ed from:
4
It means: The change of probability or the progressing of an event in one of the worlds changes the probability
of progressing an event in another possible world.
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( ) ∭ ( ) *( ) ( )
where ( ) is an arbitrary function called the kernel 5 by Claasen and Mecklenbrauker6”
(Cohen 1989: 943).
The meaning can be made crystal clear and is complemented by the next two
schemata:
Fig. 3. The relationship between the Wigner distribution function, the auto-
correlation function and the ambiguity function (from Wikipedia: Cohen's class
distribution function )
The notations are the following:
( ) ∫ ( )
( ) ( ⁄ ) ( ⁄ )
( ) ∫ ( ⁄ ) ( )
5
“In general the kernel may depend explicitly on time and frequency and in addition may also be a functional of
the signal” (Cohen 1989: 943, footnote 3).
6
T. A. C. M. Claasen and W. F. G. Mecklenbrauker, "The Wigner distribution – a tool for time-frequency signal
analysis; part III: relations with other time-frequency signal transformations,” Philips J. Res., vol. 35, pp. 372-
389, 1980.
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The first one is Wigner function transformed into parameters of time and frequen-
cy from the parameters of coordinates and momentums. The second one is the autocorrelation
function, and the third one the ambiguity function.
t is time, and the time of another instant (e.g. the function „decelerated” or „ac-
celerated”). f is frequency in relation to the instant t, and η frequency in relation to the instant
of . * is the operation of convolution.
Obviously, the autocorrelation function expresses immediately interaction be-
tween different time instants, and the Wigner function and ambiguity function through the
agency of frequency, do the same. Hence, it is clear that the introduction of negative probabil-
ity for some small regions of phase space in the usual representation of the Wigner function
reflects indirectly the interaction of different time instants, which is “unpacked” in consecu-
tive order by transformation of the parameters to time-frequency, and ultimately, by the inter-
actions connection with the autocorrelation function.
Of course, classical physics takes for granted that such a type of interaction is ab-
sent, for its availability would produce retro-causality. The additional kernel function of Co-
hen’s generalization allows for the degree of interaction between the instants to be regulated,
particularly to be concentrated onto some of them. The Wigner function is the special case
when the kernel function being 1 does not exert an effect − but it does not correspond, as we
have seen, to the absence of negative probability!
The method and degree of separation between the time instants is regulated by the
fundamental constant of light velocity in vacuum. From such a viewpoint Minkowski space
represents the area of autocorrelation, i.e. of possible physical interaction. It is described using
duality in two alternative ways: without correlations, i.e. by diffeomorphisms according to
Einstein’s principle of relativity; or with correlations, i.e. in the standard way of quantum me-
chanics, according to which the Cohen function is reduced to the Wigner one since the kernel
function is 1.
The next figure displays how kernel function can be used as a filter for the sepa-
ration, with respect to increase, either of the interaction or the degree of distinction between
the instants:
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Fig. 4. What is the benefit of the additional kernel function? The figure shows the
distribution of the auto-term and the cross-term of a multi-component signal in
both the ambiguity and the Wigner distribution function. (Wikipedia: Cohen's
class distribution function )
Furthermore it is obvious that if “straight” Wigner function can be generalized,
then analogically the reverse transform of Weyl can be, and that was done by Cohen in a later
paper:
Cohen’s generalization of the Weyl transform is the following:
“ ( ) ∬ ̂( ) ( ) ,
where ( ) is a two dimensional function called the kernel 7. The kernel characterizes a
specific transform and its properties” (Cohen 2008: 260).
It is well to keep in mind the manner of Cohen’s thought while discussing Groe-
newold’s statistical ideas (1946). Their essence was recapitulated by Groenewold himself as
follows:
“Our problems are about:
α the correspondence a⟷a between physical quantities a and quantum
operators a (quantization) and
β the possibility of understanding the statistical character of quantum mechan-
ics by averaging over uniquely determined processes as in statistical classical
mechanics (interpretation)” (Groenewold 1946: 405).
α, the correspondence a⟷a (quantization), in fact, generates two kinds of prob-
lems about the physical quantities a:
7
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a is not a continuous function (it is either a continuous one or a generalized
one, i.e. a distribution);
There exists quantities ai whose product is not commutative.
The difficulties in α (the quantization of physical quantities) reflect in the same
fashion in β (statistical description). The negative probability of some states does appear, but
they are easily interpreted physically by the regions of partial overlap between orthogonal
probabilistic distributions.
The main ideas of Moyal’s statistical approach (1949) would be represented by a
few significant textual citations from his works:
“Classical statistical mechanics is, however, only a special case in the general the-
ory of dynamical statistical (stochastic) processes. In the general case, there is the possibility
of ‘diffusion’ of the probability ‘fluid’, so that the transformation with time of the probability
distribution need not be deterministic in the classical sense. In this paper, we shall
attempt to interpret quantum mechanics as a form of such a general statistical dynamics”
(Moyal 1949: 99).
Fig. 5. Moyal’s statistical approach
According to Moyal, “phase-space distributions are not unique for a given state,
but depend on the variables one is going to measure. In Heisenberg's words8 , 'the statistical
predictions of quantum theory are thus significant only when combined with experiments
8
“Heisenberg, W. The physical principles of the quantum theory (Cambridge, 1930), p.34.”
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which are actually capable of observing the phenomena treated by the statistics’” (Moyal
1949: 100);
Fig. 6. Moyal’s statistical approach (1949)
Statistical Description
description by Ψ-functions
Non-standard Boltz- Gibbs
mann ensemble ensemble
Fig. 7. Statistical or Ψ-function description
We should emphasize the significance of ‘spin’, which is a characteristic physical
quantity of any quantum object (in contrast to any object of classical physics), for making
apparent and clear „probability dependence”: „symmetry (or antisymmetry) conditions intro-
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duce a probability dependence between any two particles in B. E . (or F. D.) ensembles even
in the absence of any energy interaction. … It is this dependence which gives rise to the
'exchange energy' between the particles when they interact” (Moyal 1949: 116):
( ) ̅̅̅̅̅̅ ̅ ̅ ∑ | |
( ) ̅̅̅̅̅̅ ̅ ̅ ∑ | |
∬ ( )
∬ ( )
(Moyal 1949: 116, eq. 14.8)
The parameter γ accepts the following values: in a Maxwell – Boltzmann ensem-
ble (the classical case) γ=0; in a Bose – Einstein ensemble: γ=1; in a Fermi – Dirac:
γ= –1. ni, nk are average frequencies of the number of articles ai, with respect to ak, occupying
a given micro-state αi , with respect to αk (Moyal 1949: 114).
Speaking of the three basic abstract mathematical spaces of our physics, namely
Hilbert, phase, and Minkowski (or pseudo-Riemannian) space, they form a eureka “triangle”
prompting the notion that one of its side is missing:
Fig. 8. Abstract mathematical spaces and transformations between them
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III. Negative probability in quantum correlations: In the light of quantum in-
formation and quantum correlations the studied by it, the battle for or against “hidden parame-
ters” in quantum mechanics can be interpreted and reformulated as local “hidden parameters”
(causality) against nonlocal ones (quantum correlations).
The initial notions should be sought for in: the famous „paradox” (or argument, in
fact and essence) of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen and Schrödinger’s “cat paradox paper”, in
1935. The quantum correlation deducted and discussed in those articles implies negative
probability in the final analysis.
Fig. 9. Gedanken experiment Einstein – Podolsky – Rosen (1935)9
Negative probability appears “effectively”, i.e. by the restriction of the degrees of
freedom (DOF) of any correlating quantum object by the others. The mechanism of such
transformation is bellow discussed.
The quantum allegory of Schrödinger’s alive-and-dead cat helps us to understand
the actual state by restricting DOF of any possible states, and consequently, working back-
9
The second line of the figure translated in English: Leads to two different states of the system II ← an alterna-
tive choice between the measuring of: (see the arrows towards either bellow or above); in details, Penchev 2009:
55ff).
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wards, the quantum correlations to be suggested between the states forming any quantum su-
perposition; and hence, presents a possible form of the mechanism of the mystic “collapse” of
wave packet during the real process of measurement.
Fig. 10. Schrödinger’s (1935: (48) 812) poor “cat”
Von Neumann’s theorem (1932) about the absence of hidden parameters in quan-
tum mechanics underlies both quantum correlation and quantum superposition. Its conclusion
is: “There are no ensembles which are free from dispersion. There are homogeneous ensem-
bles…” (Neumann 1932: 170)10. Consequently, there are no homogeneous ensembles by con-
tradiction, i.e. for example those of a single quantity being free of dispersion. Any quantity
has dispersion, which is not due to any cause, to any hidden variable. The premises of the
theorem explicated by von Neumann himself are six (A', B', α', β', I, II) as follows:
A': ������≥0 ⇒ Erw(������) ≥ 0 (Neumann 1932: 165); B': Erw(a. ������+b.������+…) =
a.Erw(������)+ b.Erw(������)+ …, where a, b (Neumann 1932: 165); α': ������ is a dispersion free
quantity ≝ Erw(R1)=1; [Erw(������, φ)=(R φ, φ)] (Neumann 1932: 166); β': ������ is a homogenous
one≝{ a, b , a+b=1, Erw(������)= aErw'(������)+bErw} ⇒ {a =0 ⤄ b =0} (Neumann 1932: 166);
I. {������⟼R} ⇒{f(������) ⟼f(R)} (Neumann 1932: 167); II. {������ ⟼R, ������ ⟼ S, …} ⇒{������ + ������
+…⟼R+S+…} (Neumann 1932: 167).
We should emphasize the correspondence of “one-to-one” between a mathemati-
cal entity as hypermaximal Hermitian operator and a physical entity as quantity. “There cor-
responds to each physical quantity of a quantum mechanical system, a unique hypermaximal
10
Here and bellow the translation of the textual citations from von Neumann’s book from German to English is
according to: J. von Neumann. 1955. Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton: University
Press.
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Hermitian operator, as we know … and it is convenient to assume that this correspondence is
one-to-one – that is, that actually each hypermaximal operator corresponds to a physical quan-
tity.” (Neumann 1932: 167)
What is the connection between von Neumann’s theorem and negative probabili-
ties? By introducing negative probability, expectation is not an additive one in general, the
premises of the theorem are not fulfilled, and the deduction is not valid.
Fig. 11. Von Neumann’s theorem and negative probability
Here are a few equivalent expressions for the boundary of the validity of von
Neumann’s theorem:
1. Non-negative probability
2. Orthogonal possible states
3. Separated “worlds”
4. An isolated quantum system
5. The additivity of expectation
Bell’s criticism (1966) about von Neumann’s theorem partly rediscovered Grete
Hermann’s objections (1935) and is very important for revealing the connection between cau-
sality, quantum correlation, and negative probability: “The demonstrations of von Neumann
and others, that quantum mechanics does not permit a hidden variable interpretation, are re-
considered. It is shown that their essential axioms are unreasonable. It is urged that in further
examination of this problem an interesting axiom would be that mutually distant systems are
independent of one another” (Bell 1966: 447). “His essential assumption is: Any real linear
combination of any two Hermitian operators represents an observable, and the same linear
combination of expectation values is the expectation value of the combination. This is true for
quantum mechanical states; it is required by von Neumann of the hypothetical dispersion free
states also” (Bell 1966: 448-449).
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The idea of Bell’s inequalities (1964) can be expressed by negative probability.
Since von Neumann’s theorem is valid only about nonnegative probability (expectation addi-
tivity), and quantum mechanics permits negative probability, the idea is that the domain of the
theorem validity is to be described by an inequality of the expectation of two quantities (the
spin of two particles) according to the EPR conditions:
(⃗ ) | ( ⃗) ( )| (Bell 1964: 198).
The last inequality can be rewritten by means of an alleged hidden parameter λ, by
which the connection with von Neumann’s theorem about the absence of any hidden parame-
ters such as λ becomes clearer:
1 + P[b(λ),c(λ)] ≥ |P[a(λ),b(λ)] − P[a(λ),c(λ)]|
In the light of von Neumann’s theorem, Bell’s paper (1966) reveals that an even-
tual violation of the inequality above would require generalizing the notion of hidden parame-
ter introducing nonlocal one. The main steps are:
1. Von Neumann’s theorem as well as the theories of hidden parameters interprets
them as local ones implicitly.
2. Bell’s inequalities discuss the distinction between local and nonlocal parameter
because quantum mechanics allows nonlocal variables.
Fig. 12. Non-local hidden parameter
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The notion of non-local hidden parameter suggests the notion of the externality of
a system considering it as a nonstandard, namely ambient, or “environmental” part of the sys-
tem. Not any external neighborhood, but only a small one (of the order of a few ℏ), at that
correspondingly, only in phase space. In the corresponding small neighborhood in Minkowski
space, Lorentz invariance is not valid. The following three figures show that:
Fig. 13. Groove uncertainty!
Fig. 14. A small neighborhood in Minkowski space
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Fig. 15. Lorentz invariance and uncertainty relation in a small neighborhood in
Minkowski space
The topic may be illustrated by the notion of an absolutely immovable body: Hei-
senberg’s uncertainty excludes any absolutely immovable body as well as any exactly con-
stant phase volume. A body is outlined rather by an undetermined “aura” or “halo” than by a
sharp outline. The aura is outlined within phase space and its magnitude is comparable with
the Planck constant. It consists of the states of negative probability, which “push out” the
states of any other bodies beyond the outline region:
Fig. 16. The “halo” of negative probability in phase space
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The next table shows the appearance of negative probability when quantum me-
chanics is reformulated from the standard language of Ψ-functions into that of a standard sta-
tistical description containing, however, nonstandard, or “external to” the whole, „parts” of it:
Fig. 17. Again about the comparison of a Gibbs and of a non-standard Boltzmann
ensemble
Such a kind of explanation can be applied also to true Bell’s inequalities:
Fig. 18. A mechanism of violating Bell’s inequalities (Bell 1964)
Negative probability cannot help but violate Bell’s inequalities:
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Fig. 19. How does negative probability violate Bell’s inequalities?
The notion of effective probability aids us in bridging physical ‘interaction’ and
mathematical ‘probability’. It is effective probability that exerts impact from a given
probability onto another. Effective probability is a probabilistic “force” by means of which
both the probabilities interact (or more than 2). Since Dirac (1942: 8), negative probability has
been thought of just as an effective probability rather than a “real” probability of whatever:
Negative probability has been likened to money since it assists “the balance”, while being
non-existent at that! Following after Mermin (1998), we could at least question the role of
negative probabilities or of any description of probability as a new, nonstandard, but maybe
omnipresent, universal and all-embracing substance. This substance includes matter and ener-
gy, which are ordinary and generally accepted substances in physics.
Both the aspects symbolized by the EPR argument and Schrödinger’s cat, respec-
tively of two or more “probabilistically” interacting systems and of the superposition of the
states of a single and isolated system suggest a Skolemian type of relativity between isolation
and interaction as well as an extension of von Neumann’s theorem. The corollary, after gener-
alizing from an isolated to two or more interacting systems is the immediate interaction of
probabilities:
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Fig. 20. The notion of effective probability (immediate probabilistic interaction)
The necessary and sufficient condition of immediate probabilistic interaction is:
shared common possible states of nonzero probability. The same equivalence refers to the
superposition of all the states of an isolated system. The notion of “effective probability” or
the more particular, but correlate one of “negative probability”, are the basis of the perceptible
commonality, that “sameness” of the Skolemian relativity:
Fig. 21. How do probabilities interact?
Fig. 22. The notion of effective probability (immediate probabilistic interaction)
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However the halo of negative probability “pushes away”: − the system itself; any
of the 2; and the states of positive probability, too. They become relatively more probable.
Consequently, a Skolemian or an Einsteinian relativity, by means of negative probability, re-
veals the intimate mechanism of any physical interaction manifesting itself. In the final analy-
sis by restricting DOF of any system participating in the interaction in question any physical
interaction manifests itself.
We have two kinds of description, which are equivalent:
Fig. 23. A comparison of the statistical and standard formalism
by means of “effective probability”
Negative probability is only one of two ways to represent physical reality. Which
way corresponds more to the Boltzmann statistical consideration than to the Gibbs one? For
each, there exist two kinds of ontological projection:
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Fig. 24. The statistical vs. standard formalism
The statistical formalism enables the simultaneously immeasurable quantities of
the standard formalism to be calculated together. Kochen-Specker’s theorem shows that ho-
mogenous quantities have dispersion, even in quantities simultaneously measurable in a
mathematical sense, and correspondingly, that there cannot be “hidden parameters”.
Also, Kochen – Specker’s theorem can be discussed as a generalization of von
Neumann’s theorem in the following way:
Von Neumann’s theorem (1932: 157-173) covers isolated systems and simul-
taneously immeasurable quantities.
Bell’s theorem (or inequalities, 1964) clarifies the effect and interpretation of
the absence of hidden parameters in interacting systems.
Kochen – Specker’s theorem deals with isolated systems and simultaneously
measurable quantities as follows: the dispersion of homogenous quantities is conditioned by
quantum “leaps”.
The two authors formalized the notion of simultaneous measurability: Kochen and
Specker (1967: 63 …) interpreted simultaneous measurability as the availability of a common
measure which required the measure of the set of points of discontinuity (quantum leaps) to
be zero, i.e. simultaneously measurable quantities should not be continuous, but almost con-
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tinuous. They proved on such a condition that homogenous quantities have necessarily a dis-
persion, i.e. there are no hidden parameters.
Next, there isn’t any homomorphism of the algebra of statements about commut-
ing quantum quantities into Boolean algebra.
An immediate corollary follows: there is no mapping of a qubit even of two sim-
ultaneously measurable quantities, into a bit.
There is a propositional formula which is a classical tautology, but which is “not
true” after substituting quantum propositions.
Kochen – Specker’s theorem is connected to the Skolemian relativity of the dis-
2
crete and continuous: In § 5 of their paper a model of hidden parameter in of the particle
of spin ½ is constructed; however no such model exists according von Neumann’s theorem
(Kochen, Specker 1967: 74-75). That model of hidden parameter is isomorphic, in fact, to the
mapping of a qubit into a bit.
The immediate corollary comes to bear: There is no mapping of a qubit of two
simultaneously measurable quantities into a bit. Thus an explanation would be that the notion
of simultaneous measurability introduces implicitly Skolemian relativity.
In fact, wave-particle dualism in quantum mechanics is a form of the Skolemian
relativity of the discrete (in quantum mechanics) and continuous (in classical physics). That’s
why a Skolemian type of relativity appears also between the availability and absence of hid-
den parameters. A qubit can and cannot (à la Skolem) be represented as a bit (Kochen, Speck-
er 1967: 70, esp. “Remark”).
IV. Negative probability for wave-particle dualism
We should return to Einstein’s paper (1905I) about mass and energy:
“Gibt ein Körper die Energie L in Form von Strahlung ab, so verkleinert sich sei-
ne Masse um L/V2. Hierbei ist es offenbar unwesentlich, daß die dem Körper entzogene
Energie gerade in Energie der Strahlung übergeht, so daß wir zu der allgemeineren Folgerung
geführt werden: Die Masse eines Körpers ist ein Maß für dessen Energieinhalt; ändert sich die
Energie um L, so ändert sich die Masse in demselben Sinne um L/9.1020, wenn die Energie in
Erg und die Masse in Grammen gemessen wird” (Einstein 1905I: 641). (V=3.1010 [cm/s] is
the speed of electromagnetic radiation in vacuum.)
Next, we are going to juxtapose the quote above with a no less famous paper of
the same year (Einstein: 1905Ü) about quanta and energy, by means of which I search for the
connection between mass and quanta:
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In contemporary designations its content may be abstracted by the formula: Е=ℏν.
In original designations and Einstein’s words: “monochromatise Strahlung … wie ein diskon-
tinuerliches Medium verhält, welches aus Energiequanten von der Gröse Rβν/N besteht”
(Einstein 1905Ü: 143); “das erzeugte Licht aus Energiequanten von der Gröse (R/N)βν be-
stehe, vobei ν die betreffende Frequenz bedeutet” (Einstein 1905Ü: 144) „R die absolute
Gaskonstante, N die Anzahl der „wirklichen Moleküle" in einem Grammäquivalent … be-
deutet” (Einstein 1905Ü: 134), and “β= 4.866.10-11” (Einstein 1905Ü: 136). „Monochroma-
tische Strahlung … verhält sich …, wie wenn sie sus voneinander unabhängungen Ener-
giequanten von der Gröse Rβν/N bestünde” (Einstein 1905Ü: 143).
Light is discrete (corpuscular) in its interaction with matter, but it is continuous
(wave) as a medium „by itself” which is propagated in space. Quantum mechanics transferred
initially that property formulated about electromagnetic radiation to all the quanta, and in fact,
to all the physical objects. Afterwards the separation of different relations has been abandoned
replacing it by the Ψ-function description. The hypothesis of hidden parameters from such a
viewpoint, in fact, conserves the original and already clearly formulated opinion of Einstein
(1905) that the two contradicting aspects, continuity and discreteness, are to be separated, and
thus to be separated into different relations.
Consequently, energy à la Einstein is already determined in two incompatible
ways: as a continual quantity of mass and as a discrete number of quanta. Mechanical energy
in classical physics is the sum of kinetic and potential energy: E=Ek(p)+Ep(x). Transferred
into quantum mechanics, it is the sum of momentum and location functions, which are simul-
taneously non-measureable. That sum is measured by a third way, by frequency (Neumann
1932: 256, Anm. 164). Von Neumann (1932: 164) had already pointed out that non-
commutability refers only to the multiplication, not to the addition of operators and had given
the example (just above) of energy as a sum of simultaneously immeasurable quantities. A
possible solution is to define the presence of discreteness (quanta) in quantum mechanics to
be ascribed to the sum or availability of non-commuting (simultaneously immeasurable)
quantities.
Before passing to Einstein’s principle of general relativity, let us attempt an order-
ing of the “mess” of notions:
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Noncommuting q-tities Relativity: Lorentz
The violation of Bell’s inequalities
invariance
Interacting quantum systems
Noncommesurable q. Commuting q-tities
Neumann’s theorem Commeasurable q.
Wave-corpuscular dualism; Classical
Non-local causality
the absence of hidden para- continuous
meters; the KS theorem;
isolated quantum systems quantities
The absence Local
of causality causality
Fulfilling Bell’s inequalities
Negative probability
Energy
Information as
a physical quantity
Fig. 25. An attempt at ordering the notions
Einstein (1918) formulated the first two principles of general relativity as follows:
„a) Relativitätsprinzip: Die Naturgesetze sind nur Aussagen über zeiträumliche Koinzidenzen;
sie finden deshalb ihren einzig natürlichen Ausdruck in allgemein kovarianten Gleichungen.
b) Äquivalenzprinzip: Tragheit und Schwere sind wesensgleich” (Einstein 1918: 241).
Einstein reformulated the principle of relativity in mathematical language as the
invariance of physical laws towards diffeomorfisms. In this way discrete transformations were
excluded. However they are the essential subject of quantum mechanics. Correspondingly, the
uniting of quantum mechanics and relativity may be researched in terms of a generalization of
invariance to a wider class of morphisms, which should include discrete ones.
The wave-particle dualism considered as a definite type of generalization of the
principle of relativity introduces negative probability. The following hypothesis can be ad-
vanced: that any relevant generalization of the principle of relativity which includes discrete
morphisms should introduce negative probability explicitly or implicitly.
The principles of general relativity (1918):
The original variant (Einstein 1918: 243) of the basic equation is:
( ).
The repaired variant (Einstein 1918: 243) with the cosmological constant is:
( ).
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Here follows a possible generalization of the principle of relativity and negative
probability. Its three sequential levels are as follows:
1. ( )
2. ( )
3. ( )
There exists a link between any possible generalization of relativity and a rejec-
tion (or a generalization) of so-called (by Einstein) Mach’s principle:
„c) Machsches Prinzip: Das G-Feld ist restlos durch die Massen der Körper be-
stimmt. Da Masse und Energie nach den Ergebnissen der speziellen Relativitätstheorie das
Gleiche sind und die Energie formal durch den symmetrischen Energietensor (Tμν), beschrie-
ben wird, so besagt dies, daß das durch den Energietensor der Materie bedingt und bestimmt
sei” (Einstein 1918: 241-242)
It seems that the colligation of general relativity (introducing negative probabili-
ties) implies restricting the validity or generalization of Mach’s principle: The negative prob-
ability restriction of the degrees of freedom of a part of a system can be equivalently equated
with energy and hence, with mass. For the formula Е=ℏν the frequency ν should interpret as
the density of informational exchange between the parts of the system (i.e. bits per time).
Non-commutability, wave-particle dualism (and by it, the rejecting Mach’s prin-
ciple material or physical information), and “hidden parameters” can be juxtaposed straight-
forwardly:
Non-commutability is a sufficient, but not necessary condition of discreteness
(quanta) and hence, of wave-particle dualism.
Wave-particle dualism is a necessary and sufficient condition of the absence of
local hidden parameters as well as of non-local ones.
An introduction of non-local hidden parameters à la Bell implies the violation
of wave-particle dualism: either only “waves”, or only “particles”.
Mathematical non-commutability is interpreted as simultaneous non-
commeasurability of corresponding quantities.
The commeasurability of physical quantities is interpreted as mathematical
commeasurability, i.e. as the availability of general measure.
Being interpreted, the availability of common measure covers the cases both of
continuous quantities and of their discrete leaps.
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Returning now to the fig. 25 and our attempt at ordering the notions, we can al-
ready emphasize Kochen-Specker’s theorem as a generalization of von Neumann’s theorem:
Fig. 26. Von Neumann’s and Kochen – Specker’s theorem
A Skolemian relativity of “hidden parameters” is clearly seen: If the KS theorem
is equivalent to wave-particle dualism, then the very absence of hidden parameters in quan-
tum mechanics should consider as equivalent with a Skolemian relativity of the continual and
discrete. However their counterexample concerning also their proper construction shows that
even the true absence of hidden parameters is relative. Consequently, even the true relativity
of the continual and discrete is also relative, which represents “super-Skolemian” relativity.
We may introduce the term of “contramotion” borrowed from A. and B. Strugat-
sky’s novel “Monday begins on Saturday” (1965) to illustrate the opposite directions of the
discrete and the continual of wave-particle dualism:
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Fig. 27. Janus Poluektovich and his parrot named Photon
The novel represents a two-faced character, unambiguously called Janus. Each
face however is then separated into isolated bodies which are never together in the same place
and time. Each body is a different man, respectively Janus-Administrator (A-Janus) and
Janus-Scientist (S-Janus). In a distant future Janus will manage (A-Janus’s point of view) or
has managed (S-Janus’s) to reverse himself towards the arrow of time. On his shoulder, his
parrot Photon will stay (or has stayed) at that instant, that’s why it will transform (or has
transformed) in a “contramotion”, too.
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Fig. 28. Contramotion: Janus Poluektovich and his parrot named Photon against
the arrow of time
So A-Janus with all the rest is moved “correctly” in time arrow, but S-Janus and
Photon being contramotioners are moved “inversely” towards the arrow of time. However
there is an over ruling circumstance: Contramotion is discontinous. Exactly at midnight
S-Janus takes his parrot with him, stays alone in a deep rest, and … both jump into the day
before instead of passing in the next day as all normal people, incl. A-Janus.
Consequently, the personage of Janus with his two faces embodied in two persons
may be interpreted as an allegory of wave-corpuscular dualism pointing out the possibility of
the two aspects being disjunctively separated forwards or backs in time:
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Fig. 29. Wave-corpuscular dualism, contramotion and negative probability
Discontinuous contramotion implies negative probability since the two measures,
correspondingly of the discrete and of the continuous motion, are directed oppositely.
This way, we can create and suggest a new, quantum, fable, “Parrot and Cat”,
combining Strugatsky’s parrot and Scrödinger’s cat. The condition of its precept or moral is:
Contramotion is the sufficient, but not necessary condition of coherent superposition. Our
allegory would be: Schrödinger’s cat has eaten Photon, the parrot – contramotioner (rather
black humor).
P. Dicac’s conception (1942) helps us to put the question about the ontological
status of negative probability, or figuratively said, whether negative probability might be
“eaten”, and in such a way, “transferred” being rather a property of a material thing (like the
parrot named “Photon”) than a relation between two or more things:
“Negative energies and probabilities should not be considered as nonsense. They
are well-defined concepts mathematically, like a negative sum of money, since the equations
which express the important properties of energies and probabilities can still be used when
they are negative. Thus negative energies and probabilities should be considered simply as
things which do not appear in experimental results” (Dirac 1942: 8) As to bosons “there is the
added difficulty that states of negative energy occur with a negative probability” (Dirac 1942:
1). Obviously, Dirac’s position is categorically in favor of only the relative nature of negative
probability, or in his words, only “like a negative sum of money” in its balance.
I would mention Feynman’s article (1991), which is often cited. He did not go be-
yond Dirac’s approach of introducing negative probabilities only conventionally, in the course
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of calculations, in an analogy of “negative money”. He gave many examples from classical
and quantum physics. Negative probability in them meant that the happening of an event de-
creased of the realizing of another: i.e. negative probability could have only relative character.
Much more interesting is Pauli’s (2000: 71-72 ) consideration about negative
probability: On the subject of the theory of Gupta-Bleurer Pauli discussed the formalism of
“negative probabilities”, which they had introduced. The norm and the expectation had been
generalized correspondingly as follows:
∑ ∑ ;
∑ ∑
〈 〉
∑ ∑
Here η is a Hermitian operator which introduces an operator measure in Hilbert space. In both
cases, the norm remains constant in time if the Hamiltonian of the system is a Hermitian
operator. If η is not a Hermitian operator, the norm still conserves the constant. Our interpre-
tation: The operator η can be thought as a bivalent tensor which transforms a Hilbert space
into another:
Fig. 30. The operator measure η interpreted physically
The approach of Riesz’s representation theorem can be used for very important
conclusions about the operator measure η and its physical interpretation. This theorem estab-
lishes an important connection between a Hilbert space and its (continuous) dual space: If the
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underlying field is that of the complex numbers as is in quantum mechanics, the two are iso-
metrically anti-isomorphic.
All the physical quantities can be interpreted as such operator measures η, restrict-
ing them into the set of Hermitian operators. All the visible world of many different and di-
vided things is that set, i.e. a clearly restricted class of the transformation of the whole into
and within itself. A natural question is about the interpretation rather of the full than restricted
class of such transformations. The answer is: their states, i.e. all the Ψ-functions, the true
whole, are represented by Hilbert space: Moreover, it is that set which transformations form
in and of itself, or mathematically speaking, are isomorphic to itself. That it is the case may be
demonstrated by the following mapping:
In general, one-to-one correspondence is valid between any operator in Hilbert
space and a point in it: ( ). A tensor of any finite
valence k+l can be represented as an operator in Hilbert space and consequently, as a point in
∑
it: (∏ ) .
The physical homogeneity of the imaginary member, namely ( ), or cor-
( )
respondingly, , needs to be interpreted, and that returns us to Einstein’s two “in-
compatible” views both of discrete quanta and of differentiable, consequently continuous,
mechanical motions (morphisms).The energy-Janus of two faces, combines the two: − poten-
tial energy depending only on coordinates, and in that way suggesting a discrete concept of
bodies, and also kinetic energy depending solely on speeds, and in this way suggesting a con-
tinuous concept of motions of those bodies.
We should emphasize two innovative or even revolutionary points:
1. The wave-particle dualism of quantum mechanics already existed implicitly in
classical mechanics as both aspects of a body at rest or in motion: that is its potential or kinet-
ic energy. It is the Planck constant and Heisenberg uncertainty that force the two aspects to
transform between themselves (it being impossible to give separated distinctions), and then to
be added as in classical mechanics and physics. The case is such that it points to a hidden
common essence behind the macro visible, i.e. a body and its motion.
It is as if quantum mechanics for the Planck constant is concentrated on the
boundary between them, which is demonstrated to be rather an area than a contour, within
which particulate body and continuous wave motion are the same, namely a single quantum
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object. Negative probability describes the immediate interaction of probabilities, which makes
their relation that which is necessary information to be a physical entity.
2. The above, pinpointed, physical homogeneity of the imaginary member for the
physical quantity of energy hints that not only mass and energy, but also time share a common
essence, and consequently their mutual conversion, in the same way as that mutual conversion
of the formerly two, might or even should be admitted.
In the spirit of a Skolemian relativity (Skolem 1970: 138; Пенчев 2009: 307-325),
any entangled subsystem of a system can be represented equivalently both as an independent,
isolated, indivisible system and as an arbitrary operator (an operator measure η) transforming
a point of the Hilbert space of the one system into that of another system.
The conclusion made above implies particularly (entanglement = 0) that any
measured value of a quantity in the system (‘an apparatus – a quantum object’) is ‘the objec-
tive value’ of that quantity of the quantum object. There are no hidden parameters which dic-
tate deterministically among its random values in this case. The Hermitian character of any phys-
ical quantity generalizes the requirement that the value is in an exactly given point of time. It
also generalizes the requirements about discrete functions.
Ψ-function represents the condition that a quantum quantity can obtain non-zero
values only on areas whose common measure is zero. The absence of hidden parameter is due
to the zero measure of any area with non-zero values. The same case is represented by Dirac’s
δ-function. The zero measure of any area with non-zero values is a mathematical way to rep-
resent uncertainty relations. Any Ψ-function can be interpreted as the operator measure η of a
quantum object entangled with its environment.
V. A few mathematical questions
Let us consider:
Bartlett’s approach for introducing negative probability by means of the char-
acteristic function of random quantities;
Gleason’s theorem about the existence of measure in Hilbert space;
Kochen – Specker’s theorem again, but now in a statistical interpretation.
Bartlett’s properly mathematical approach to negative probability is the following:
“Since a negative probability implies automatically a complementary probability
greater than unity, we shall reconsider with all re-
strictions on the values of the individual pr removed, provided that the sum remains finite
equal to the conventional sum of unity. For those familiar with the correspondence between
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probability theory and the theory of measure, it is noted that the parallel extension in this
more general form of probability theory corresponds to the use of an additive set function
which is always the algebraic difference of two positive functions” (Bartlett 1944: 71-72).
Further, the interval [0, 1] of probabilities conserves a unique meaning:
“Thus probabilities in the original range 0 to 1, as we might reasonably expect,
still retain their special significance. It is only these probabilities which we can immediately
relate with actual frequencies; it is only these probabilities, for example, for which the theo-
retical frequency ratio r/n tends to p with probability one, as n tends to infinity” (Bartlett
1944: 72).
Consequently, the rest, or nonstandard, probabilities cannot be defined within the
usual understanding of whole and part: Their introduction implies necessarily “external” parts
(examined above) of a whole like a quantum system. Speaking purely mathematically and
returning back to Bartlett’s proper approach, we are going to introduce such kinds of general-
ized probabilities indirectly, namely as corresponding to an appropriate generalization of ran-
dom quantity in such way that a random quantity for any characteristic function is required:
“Random variables are correspondingly generalized to include extraordinary ran-
dom variables; these have been defined in general, however, only through their characteristic
functions” (Bartlett 1944: 73).
As Dirac, Bartlett also suggested negative probability only “in the balance” of
probabilities. Implicitly, empirical and physical reality can be only the usual type of whole
consisting only of normal (internal) parts, with respect to which, probabilities within [0, 1]
could be actually observed in experiments:
“Negative probabilities must always be combined with positive ones to give an
ordinary probability before a physical interpretation is admissible. This suggests that where
negative probabilities have appeared spontaneously in quantum theory it is due to the mathe-
matical segregation of systems or states which physically only exist in combination” (Bartlett
1944: 73).
However why not make the Ψ-function be the characteristic function of a random
quantity? Bartlett’s approach leads to the idea of considering the Ψ-function as the character-
istic function of a physical quantity which is “random”, or more exactly, a function of the
coordinates in configuration space. The utilization of the Ψ-function as the characteristic
function instead of the probabilistic distribution of random quantity has the advantage of de-
scribing its behavior in general: including also a discrete change of probability (a quantum
leap) when the probabilistic distribution itself in that point is represented by δ-function. In
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fact, the discrete change of probability is what is available in all the phenomena of entangle-
ment: when the probabilistic distribution of a quantum object restricts immediately the de-
grees of freedom of another; as a result of that “informational” interaction, the probability of a
given point endures a discrete leap in the general case. The differential value in that point of
the probabilistic distribution is ∞, and the most significant condition is that it cannot have a
finite norm, conventionally accepted as unity. It should be > 1! If however the differential
probability is > 1 in the point of the discrete change of probability, then it implies the appear-
ance and introduction of negative probability following Bartlett’s approach: p=p1+ p2. If p1 >
1, keeping p=1, then p2 < 0! Consequently in the final analysis, the appearance of negative
probability is due to the availability of discrete leaps of probability in some points. It is what
strongly suggests that just the ψ-function (it is the characteristic function) be utilized instead
of the probabilistic distribution itself of the random quantity.
The question remains “How does the ψ-function comply with the characteristic
function?” Let us see:
Fig. 31. Ψ-function as the characteristic function of a random quantity: The
Ψ-function (on the right) is obtained by the probabilistic distribution (on the
left) as the integral is substituted by an infinite sum of constants (“trape-
zoids”) necessarily → 0 for the factor 1/n, n→∞ .
Our newly acquired demonstration of the Ψ-function as characteristic function of
random configuration-space coordinates leads us to a new perspective on Gleason’s theorem
about measures in Hilbert space:
Till now we have discussed negative or complex probability as a relation of
measures (any of which may be a nonnegative real number). Gleason’s theorem states that
any measure of such an ordinary type in a Hilbert space of dimension more than two
necessarily conserves the orthogonality of the dimensions. The theorem inclines us to a sub-
verse, logically negated idea: to generalize the notion of measure to complex (particularly,
negative), and to investigate violating the orthogonality of the dimensions in Hilbert space. In
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other words, whether to be the “not complex” measure is adequate on any “curved” (i.e. hav-
ing a non-orthogonal basis) Hilbert space of dimension more than 2?
What is the significance of the exception of Gleason’s theorem, in the case of 2
dimensions? The idea is that the exception, 2 dimensions, guarantees the “backdoor”, through
which a Skolemian type of relativity between “flat” and “curved” Hilbert space can pass, also
the Skolemian relativity of a measure on “flat” and a measure on “curved” Hilbert space.
Gleason’s theorem itself states:
“Let μ be a measure on the closed subspaces of a separable (real or complex)
Hilbert space ℋ of dimension at least three. There exists a positive semi-definite self-adjoint
operator T of the trace class such that for all closed subspaces A of ℋ
μ(A) = trace (TPA),
where PA is the orthogonal projection of ℋ onto A” (Gleason 1957: 892-893).
Bell’s interpretation (1966) of Gleason’s theorem (1957) was the following: “… if
the dimensionality of the state space is greater than two, the additivity requirement for expec-
tation values of commuting operators cannot be met by dispersion free states” (Bell 1966:
450). In other words, Bell (1966) interpreted Gleason’s theorem according to the yet to come
theorem of Kochen and Specker (1967).
“It was tacitly assumed that measurement of an observable must yield the same
value independently of what other measurements may be made simultaneously” (Bell 1966:
451). Otherwise, Bell’s objection (1966) to Gleason’s theorem can cover the theorem of
Kochen and Specker (1967).
Now we have a necessary justification to look in a new way at Kochen – Speck-
er’s theorem: “statistically” interpreting it. In fact, the theorem has a clearly expressed “anti-
statistical” meaning: quantum mechanics uses probabilistic distributions, which are not statis-
tics. According to the discussion so far, there should exist states of negative probability, and
that’s why they cannot be “states” in a restricted, properly statistical sense. They represent
immediate interactions of statistical states, i.e. the distributions of system states. The system is
not a priori or independent of its states. The parts of a system are not the identifiable with “the
substance” of its states.
Instead of conclusions (as the necessary conclusions have mentioned in the ab-
stract and the beginning of the paper), a few questions:
1. Whether negative probability is only a mathematical construction, or there exist
physical objects of negative probability?
2. Whether negative probability and pure relation (such a one which cannot be re-
duced to predications) are equivalent, expressing the same case in different ways?
3. Whether negative probability does imply the physical existence of probability?
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4. Can probabilities interact immediately (i.e. without any physical interaction of
the things, phenomena, or events possessing those probabilities)?
5. Whether physical, existing information is equivalent to the interaction of prob-
abilities?
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