When George Musser talks Noncommutative: People listen

I quoted George Musser's 2012 interview with professor Basil J. Hiley wherein Hiley states the secret is noncommutative phase logic. Then I did a blog post wondering when Musser was going to pick up on this noncommutative secret. See Musser is a "science journalist" meaning - what he popularizes then becomes the "trending" meme of acceptable science! Let's take a look at the results!

http://nautil.us/issue/32/space/lets-rethink-space

You can measure the latitude of a city separately from its longitude. But you can’t do that for branes within a cluster. If you measure the latitude of a brane first, then its longitude, you might get a different result than if you measured the longitude, then the latitude. This kind of ordering effect is known mathematically as “noncommutativity.” In effect, the particle seems to be located in two different places, like Salt Lake City in my cities example. “The position in, say, the ‘x’ direction and the position in the ‘y’ direction can’t simultaneously be measured,” says Emil Martinec, a string theorist at the University of Chicago. “This is certainly not the behavior we expect for a collection of discrete particles—we expect to be able to localize them precisely in all spatial dimensions.” The degree of ambiguity is a measure of just how nonlocal and non-spatial the system is.

 January 14, 2016

OK so that launched the concept into "popular science" meme-hood....Now?

https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/lets-rethink-space/

Get's reposted on a meditation nondualism site - cool! That's a start!

I quoted that Musser article before:

 Sound waves are an especially simple example of this stratification. Sounds of long and short wavelengths are oblivious to each other; if you sound a deep bass note and a high treble pitch simultaneously, each ripples through the room as though it were the only sound in the world. Their mutual independence is analogous to the autonomy of spatially separated objects. Suppose you play two piano keys, middle C and the adjoining D key. The C key creates a sound wave with a wavelength of 1 meter 32 centimeters, and D produces one with a wavelength 14 centimeters shorter. These waves overlap in the three dimensions of space through which they propagate, yet they’re independent of each other, as if they were located in different places. In a sense, you can think of the sound waves as residing 14 centimeters apart within a fourth spatial dimension.

Musser doesn't realize that Music literally is noncommutative! Or maybe he's seen the Connes lecture on this....