Friday, December 1, 2023

Basil J. Hiley: No operators, no wavefunction needed, no space-time continuum: Einstein quote!

 

 https://casinoqmc.net/tti_talks/deBB_10/hiley_tti2010.pdf

 

 When we are faced with a non-commutative dynamics, we have a serious
problem. There is no unique underlying manifold, no unique underlying
phase space and therefore no unique underlying space-time. Such a situation
was already anticipated by Einstein [14] when he wrote
....perhaps the success of the Heisenberg method points to a
purely algebraic description of nature, that is, to the elimina-
tion of the continuous functions from physics.
Then, however, we
must give up, in principle, the space-time continuum.
Einstein here attributes the non-commutativity to Heisenberg.
[14] Einstein, A., Physics and Reality, J. Franklin Inst. 221 (1936) 378.

 

 http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/tpru/BasilHiley/Algebraic%20Quantum%20Mechanic%205.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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