Saturday, June 17, 2023

Professor Herbert J. Bernstein citing an "overlooked" passage from Einstein on wormholes at the foundation of quantum physics

 

 Bernstein, H. J. (1999). Foundations of Physics, 29(4), 521–525. doi:10.1023/a:1018856024112 

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Śūnya, Śūnyatā, and Reality in Modern Physics

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Abstract

Quantum mechanics (QM) is the physics of atoms and their constituents. Under reductionism, QM should provide the solid reality for our world, as Einstein insisted. Instead, quantum properties depend strongly on their observer; they are empty (śūnya) until co-dependently created. So physics provides a time-dependent, co-emergent reality (which I designate realitty) reminiscent of śūnyatā.

Yet physicists justify QM because “It works,” begging for the questions: works for whom? to do what? Responding to these questions and similar ones in many fields, I helped start a small organization, the Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies. Its philosophical program aims to help reconstruct knowledge for progressive purposes. The Institute’s analysis provided insight into quantum teleportation and helped me invent a variant that US-NASA currently develops for communication from space.

The author is also a Buddhist Dzogchen practitioner. This essay speculates on the relation of śūnya and śūnyatā to scientific knowledge. Does the union of emptiness, cognizance, and compassion within dharmakāya [as the trikāya of dharmakāya, saṃbhogakāya, nirmāṇakāya] imply that Eastern concepts from Hinduism and Buddhism can provide a second source of inspiration for reconstructive knowledge?

 Professor Bernstein uses the Heisenberg Indeterminacy Principle, not the Uncertainty Principle as the name

 

 

Śūnya, Śūnyatā, and Reality in Modern Physics

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Progress in Atomic Physics, Neutrinos and Gravitation: Proceedings of the Xxviith Rencontre de Moriond, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, January 25-February 1, 1992

 Bernstein quote

 There the beam splitter is a generic representation of any U(2) matrix, and it has recently been shown that one can realize any N-dimensional unitary operator by successive application of such two-dimensional operators. The two-boson two-mode Hilbert space is of dimension three, and thus one can encode log23 = 1·57 bits of information into such an entangled state.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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