Sunday, July 23, 2023

Quantum Time is Nonlinear & Particles go Everywhere

Quantum particles go everywhere that's not forbidden. Physical law is a set of things they can't do, and they do everything that isn't on the list. That's what the probability cloud actually is - the set of things the particle is allowed to do. It's a scalar, not a binary, so the particle goes more to one place and less to other places. 

When you interact with a particle in a superposition, you retroactively forbids things. Time for quantum particles is nonlinear, as a consequence of the fact that philosophical idealism is true. The particle telepathically tells its past self about the present. No, that's not a joke, though it is funny. 

"Left or right?"

"Why not both?" No reason, so it does. Then, when you slam it with something on the right path, it retroactively didn't go left. It could have, it just didn't, and it doesn't have to decide until later, so it doesn't.

Note that these interactions are probabalistic, which means the particle can choose to not allow you slam it. If it doesn't like taking only the right path, it can decline your suggestion and therefore dodge your barrier. If it's unlikely, that merely means you made something most particles enjoy running into. There's only so many personalities a simple electron can have. If you have 10^24 individual electrons, you will have a representative sample of these personalities and it apparently reduces to mere probability statistics.


Technically mental time is linear for particles, but it's a separate axis from physical time, so it can apparently violate physical causality by connecting to two physical times as the same mental time. As a being made of particles, you can do this too. E.g. the moment you fall asleep and the moment you wake up are mentally right next to each other, give or take a dream or two. Indeed it's rather mysterious that you manage to experience physical time linearly at all. There's clearly a very good reason for this, but nobody knows what it is.

2 comments:

George said...

Particles don't exist. They're just a silly flying spaghetti monster.

Alrenous said...

Particles exist but are not particulate. The field they allegedly 'generate' is their essential nature.