Bernstein, H. J. (1999). Foundations of Physics, 29(4), 521–525. doi:10.1023/a:1018856024112
See the newly released Jean Bricmont talk on Bell's Inequality for details
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?
Śūnya, Śūnyatā, and Reality in Modern Physics
We conclude that
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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