PSI Blog 20201005
Nonsense in Five Dimensions
Regressives and
reformists are always at work trying to demolish contradictions with untoward imagination.
Here is one by Dr. Tim Andersen from Georgia Tech:
A 5th dimension may explain
quantum theory
“String
theorists claim that the universe has many dimensions: 10, 11, or 26, but that
all but the four are curled up so small that we can’t detect them.
That’s not
what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about a real 5th dimension, one that
is as big and uncurled as the other four.”
Tim goes on
to give all the details to this loony idea. Like many reform attempts, this one
may be attractive to Newtonians and Einsteinians who simply cannot give up the indeterministic
assumption of finity (The universe is finite in the microscopic and macroscopic
directions). Because there are an infinite number of causes for any effect, all
measurements have a plus or minus. Readers know the Copenhagen crowd handled nature’s
reluctance to conform to finity by considering probability as a cause in itself. Einstein objected
because, like the old-fashioned Newtonians (and Copenhageners), he could not
give up the finity assumption. Here is how Tim goes about getting rid of that
nasty old infinity:
“If this is
true, it would mean that rather than being random, quantum mechanics is simply the result of classical motion in a largely invisible
dimension.”
What he means
by “classical motion” is the Newtonian assumption that causality is finite.
Here he substitutes probability as a singular cause with the imagined 5th
dimension as a singular cause. Voila! This would satisfy Einstein’s dislike of
probability, possibly achieving the holy grail of reformists: the impossible unification
of relativity and quantum mechanics.
https://go.glennborchardt.com/5th-dimension
Note: This
is part of a website Tim calls “The Infinite Universe
First
Principles in Science, Philosophy, and Religion.” I don’t think so.
1 comment:
From physicist Alex Cibin:
Dear Glenn.
I also believe that so-called relativistic quantum mechanics is nonsense.
A similar nonsense is the current Nobel Prize in Physics.
Alex.
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