James Hartle Conference on Bell's Theorem, George Mason University, Fairfax 1998
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Recorded at Conference on Bell's Theorem, George Mason University, Fairfax (1998), featuring James Hartle. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.

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0:00 We can also talk about the strings of equal hearing variables, variables of equal hearing history, the variables equal hearing in the art of the symbol string, space, and the string equal hearing in the form of classic behavior. Equivalent variables are correlated with time, with lots of laws. Equivalence is important for a number of, um, it's important for a process of measurement. They're important, first of all, for memory. All the propositions that should be said to have actually happened can be stored in unique variables that are present in memory slots. Equivalence is important for classical behavior. This one, in which a variable of any kind is created when a variable like the stock of the Redwoods becomes correlated with an officially equal-hearing variable, thus creating a record. Such a measurement situation does not involve anything as sophisticated as an observer. The equal-hearing is now thousands of years ago, but the decay of decay is thousands of years ago. These are the three that we apply to the model of Ica, meaning practical, physical, plus today, to measure the situation in the present.

2:30 When we have the law of presumption, we can go on and discuss the use and and regular normalization of probabilities, the prediction of the future, the fundamental laws, and the adaptation of the system of evolution. This is the subject for... This has been studied extensively by many people who read the literature in large, and there are a number of important papers I'd like to cite in particular, the work of Feynman and Vernon, followed by Voltaire and Leibovitz, the quadratic system, Yost and Say, and the version of responsible properties, Grimm, Becker, Gerlich, and many others, the proposed ever-interpretation of quantum mechanics with different faces. What I'm interested in studying is that the decoherence is Now, I pray in the universe, soliciting heroes of the universe, and from the kind that we bore in Walter Temple, of all those, all those variables, those detrimental, so that you have not only human science, superposition, superposition, that is life, and the resilience that came down, that this is equal here, by the relationship, by the way that, by the way that you use this everywhere in the universe. Like nice dealers now that people hear these terms frequently everywhere and follow them. Given a theory of initial conditions given by Hawking, nonetheless one can identify and sketch how it goes.

5:00 Successful theory then has to apply to the later years. Classical space-time can expand the teleological state of initial conditions to the matter. Classical space-time can apply to local quantum range variants. It can apply to observations, it can apply to short-wave gravitational radiation. Expanding, plus simple initial conditions, apply approximately the conservation model. The density of approximately conserved quantities is individually equal and invariable. They are natural quantities because they persist. They are conserved because they persist. They therefore hold up under the action of the equilibrium interaction that we had under the equilibrium interaction. The formal form of quantum mechanics, as I've said, is an external rule. It has to be added to the normality of the class. Then I'd like to turn to a second, another feature, which makes it important for scientists.

7:30 And this is the form of quantum mechanics itself. In particular, the special role which is played by the time during this fundamental work in mathematics. This illustrates very well the first special role played by time in quantum mechanics. The operatives of this expression are time-ordered. The expression is fundamentally quantum mechanics. It involves all of the integrals in the world. Time alone is the single value that is predicted in the world. Second, time is recurrent because it is assumed that every observation or prediction is made, for another reason, namely, quantum mechanics, can be assigned a unique moment of the time. Unlike every other observable, for instance, there are... Mathematics, for a number of reasons, is an alternative. Mathematics is actually applied when you let the data be hindered with precise time difference between the current and the past, and therefore, and the states, by the period. The scale of write-outs, as you say, is defined in one instance. States specify directly how those directions are carried out in that one moment of time. You simply have one observer who plays such a huge role in forming a group. They will seem to arise from the fact that it's observed by all.

10:00 Accessible scale over the whole of the classical universe of the present, the space-time of non-logistic physics, there is already, in the classical theory, the preferred set of space-time interfaces, uniform in time, unambiguously transferable quantum mechanics. In the spectrum of the logistic quantum mechanics, there is already nature. There is not one preferred because there are a great many sets of space-like circuits. There is a signature in which the term defines the preferred one to the rest and implies that quantum mechanics is constructed with any one choice. There is no equivalent to quantum mechanics constructed with any other, all the way. And not to forget the space-time component. There are ways to find the number fundamentally different. The classic literature of relativity distinguishes no preferred for space-like circuits, and there is no other. There is thus, in the application of quantum mechanics and gravity, a conflict between the general covariance of the space-time theory, such as general relativity, and the linear algorithm, and one suspects that there is an extension of general relativity, such as string theory, which is not to get off the first background. In the face of this difficulty, there are impossible moves forward. When you keep the fundamental formulas as is, special, common, and you identify in the theory some special variables, like the flight law, for instance, the X-axis and the curvature of space like this, then asking, is it not more natural to follow the second one, to seek the general laws of quantum theory, so that they can deal with theories which do not have a reverse form.

12:30 To seek special laws of quantum theory, not as one must cover the contact length, but rather as a transformation appropriate to those special spaces in the theory. In each particular epoch, the base-line construction is positive. It's a much more natural metaphor to see the preferred role of time as a property of nature. Of course, what one needs is a generalization of the fundamental formula, which, democratically, expected the choice of time, but which reduced the fundamental formula when the preferred time, when the base-line, the initial conditions were such that the base-line was positive. How this works, and I don't have time to do it, but it is how I will mention a few of the things that you may be intrigued to about what comes out of it. Celebration of quantum mechanics is a vital candidate for elective generalization. It is one of the debates of generalization. The role of time in celebration of quantum mechanics is not as immediate or central as it is in California quantum mechanics. In some theories there is no fixed background space time for this generalization. On the one hand, there is. On the other hand, there is no notion of state at one moment in time. The state of quantum mechanics was to be predicted usually in the past, but there is no background space time. The conditions are such as to apply classical space time to the length of the universe and to the recovery of quantum mechanics. Or, the preferred time associated with classical space time is causality.

15:00 The class of space, time, states, associated mathematics, futures, and interiors associated with the state, not just as a fundamental property, but as an approximation for a specific initial state. In medicine today, the interpreter is trained to fully assume the limits of the main component of interpretation. And it is true that central assumptions are incompatible with quantum typology. The first is a distinguished class. The second is a distinguished time variable. Second, the predictive initial conditions could involve an approximation of the possible role. They could also imply an extinguished time, and the associated probability of a clean state of the world, not just actually in quantum theory, but as an approximate function in the latent universe, which would have consequences for specific initial conditions, you know, like Hamilton or Euclidean, and that could be the potential. And today I would like to thank Dr. Carter. You've touched several times on the fact that you seem to suggest that maybe that was not a very likely situation. Could you expand upon that?

17:30 Well, I'm afraid not. Yes, the question is something I understand, but I seem to be suggesting that it might be possible that there is a physical condition like that of the data class of physics that would make a small mistake. Almost, the physical condition almost knows how to handle the data class of physics. Reason enough, I think it's possible to come against the state. It's a very special record, having said that, it's a strong record. Any theory that anybody proposes, it's very possible that they are not going to learn the right stuff. They're going to just mind their own business. They're going to have to better get it out. That's a very strong statement. However, the theory is that if it's proposed, it arises rather naturally in the medical community. So that may be another question I'll answer. In terms of Big Bang, you kind of have to ask, what is the relationship between this glass and the white hole that's emerging in it? So the question is, how does the big bang get started? If you have a big crunch, how do you have a big bang?

20:00 Big bang? Big crunch? I know, but if it's the same, if that big crunch is the end, the end is when everything is all held together. And then the big bang... He's asking in a cyclic case, if you have a crunch and then a bang... There's very little evidence that there's any sort of reasonable signal theory in the curve. The reason comes from the essentially responsible theory. It tells you, first of all, that the singularity of the universe is liable for the reach of the state. Curvature exceeds the landscape. It's more connected to the graph. The more precisely plausible theory predicts the existence of the singularity. There is no way to follow them mechanically. There is no sense in framing the question going through what you have added directly. Forget about the six classes. We start with a big bang and have this one account for the FH. I mean, just within the first ten times, let a few kinds of things begin. It's not as valuable as it would be for us to have. I'd rather describe it by a wave option, which, when an ocean comes, that is, when different histories traverse the ocean. You've heard, when this wave option is all constant, it's semi-positive, so that people are able to speak of it in quantum, and I'm humbled by that semi-positive objection. Each speaker will hear one from the other, but only then can we speak of the beginning, of when inflation started, the fact that the quantum domain already happened.

22:30 Now, you can, the question was, when was inflation coming, and what was the need for a wave? There are many theories of inflation. It's fair to say that you can have a question in the sense in the quantum mechanical domain based or driven by quantum perfection in the interest of the standard theories. We talked a little bit about everything we ever had to say. Then the standard theories in place started in communication time. Today, roughly speaking, our old quantum mathematical factors will be important for the destruction of the created matter. Now, the space-time physics example class will go into practice. Our next speaker is Dr. Clyde Lee from Durham Federal College, University of Washington. Dr. Lee, I'm going to give you a brief introduction. And it works with what they call right now the interior of the foundation of quantum physics. I think I can start by apologizing for the past few minutes. We were very fast on time. I think that what I want to talk with you is this title, which is topology, geometry, and acceptability. I think we can talk about these issues in 40 minutes. So what I will do is to try and give you a very brief outline of what it is we have in mind when we're talking about mathematics. As far as the cosmology is concerned, I can't really put up the word problem cosmology.

25:00 We have an expert who knows far more about it than I do. The only reason why I'm interested in this type of research is really... What I want to talk about is the concepts which are related to us, concepts which are different from theories which are not related to us. The answer is already outlined in some of the difficulties for certain people in addressing these kinds of questions. My own naive way of looking at it is that it seems to me that quantum mechanics depends essentially on measurements. It's a way of talking about measurements, but it's also about what are the concrete measurements. If we're dealing with the cosmos, it's very difficult to learn about its themes, and therefore, what we would really like if we were to talk about a sensible and meaningful problem of cosmology is to find some sort of ontology which will allow us to talk about vehicles rather than ourselves. In other words, we would require an intelligible description of the reality of its processes based on some well-defined ontology for some people. The nature of reality and the condition of movement on the mechanics of water is often assumed that you cannot find, that you are always having to fall into, and that there exists no theories to view. In fact, there exists one theory of which I have published a video, and that's the De Javone theory. And what I would like to do here is to actually add one of that theory to the course. The whole situation of the conceptual ideas that are needed to make it possible. Our basic starting point in this particular approach is to assume that there are particles and that the particles have positions and have momentum, even though we may not know simultaneously what the targets of the positions and the momentum are.

27:30 Because we have positional momentum, it means that it is possible to obtain trajectories. Because we've got trajectories, the whole thing becomes much sharper. In this particular approach, I think this is the view, and we have a very sharp image, whether that image is right or not is not quite clear to us. I personally feel that this particular theory is not limited in the category. Beyond it, it is really off the head of some topologists. But I think this theory has a number of things going for it, and I think I've got to bring those out. Finally, as far as probability is concerned, the statistics arise from an ensemble of individual mergers, so that here we have a classical view of probability, the usual probability that we use in physics, and not any other kind of probability that we can try to detect in the mathematical form of quantum mechanics. Okay, how then does this theory work? What do we start with? It's ridiculously simple actually, very, very simple. And what we know is we start with a string of equations. One extra addition which I haven't mentioned is that we do assume that there is a wave function. What we do not say about the wave function is that it is an impromptu expression of nature. The wave function for us is a real, or two real things, which influence the motion of the particle. We will assume the Turing equation if we now substitute that particular form, the weight function, into the Turing equation and then take the real and imaginary parts, we find that we get an equation of this form, which if this particular term Q, given by that expression, vanishes, it's a negative form, then we just get plus or minus x, whereas if that's only a positive integral, then we get a positive integral.

30:00 Since we have essentially a modified Hamilton-Giocotti theory, we also have this relation which is well-known in the Hamilton-Giocotti theory, which I'm going to call the I'm not sure I have a good name for it, but I will call it that. You can either regard this as a auxiliary condition, or recently we've shown that if you generalize... The other point I want to mention is that the second part of the equation is the real part that turns out to be the conservation probability provided we use the fusion assumption that b is the probability in different size diagrams. Since we have this diagram, we can actually integrate it to find trajectories for particles. Now, one of the classic ones I'm going to show you again, for those of you who haven't seen them, you can actually construct trajectories for the two-sittings program. For this particular calculation, for each, we assume that they are Gaussian systems. So, for example, if one of the tips is already done, it's possible it can explore us, and we actually get the s function from their work, and we calculate the trajectories for the computer. We've got our particles coming in here, and we've got our interference pattern. It doesn't mean that we've already got them in the sense that we will get our interference. But one thing you'll notice is that between the slips and the screen, the particles do not travel in straight lines. There is no classical potential there at all, and there is something else that is actually called a DDM. What is that? Well, that's just a cube.

32:30 And if you calculate that Q for the two-slit experiment, you find that it looks rather impressively like that. The two slits are in the background here. The screen is in the front. And you can very easily interpret now the keyness of the trajectories as the particles pass through this valley. Involves and therefore are directed away from linear motion when they're riding on the top. Oh, I think, I think, it makes no difference. This is some work that a couple of research students have done. Chris Dukeley has been very active in this particular work. Once we've got a scheme like this going, of course, you can make the computer sing. You can sing all sorts of music. How do you get this very sharp image of quantum physics coming out of the system? Okay, and in fact, one of the things that you also did, that I want to make use of, is the barrier. The conventional idea of the barrier is that you have some wave packet coming up to it, you then have some complex interaction with that wave packet, you then get some Hollywood reflected, some Hollywood remaining in the barrier, and some Hollywood lost. What you can do now is you can calculate trajectories for that type of situation with this model. The initial conditions are here. Here is the barrier. This is time. So we're looking at the particle moving up in time. The center of the wave, like we can see with Gaussian wave functions described, is the center of the wave there. And you'll notice that this particle is in the center. If a particle happens to have an initial condition in front of the barrier, then we know that it will actually try to be emitted, and it will be emitted at a specific time, so there is a sharp transition.

35:00 The other thing I'll just show you is the quantum potential of that particular situation. You can see that you can get some rather beautiful pictures, whether they mean anything to mathematics, but you can get these references. The theory for this is precisely what quantum mechanics is. It's looking at quantum mechanics. One of the things that the doctor will need to be criticized for for this particular approach is that you're trying to return to classical mechanics. Because what we have here is... If you examine the properties of quantum potential, you find that it is nothing like the classical potential at all. And if I'm looking at, this is Michael Ryan, if I'm looking at the properties of the problem potential that we have tried to construct certain concepts which we hope will make the whole thing more intelligent. My task is to show how to use it to account for the phenomenon of the problem potential. The first point to notice is that the problem potential is not... If the field sign is not the most complete description of the state of the system, if a field has been introduced and we're interpreting it in a different way, if that field is modified by a constant, then it makes no difference whatsoever. That means the field can be extremely small. The effects do not fall off.

37:30 This will be the topology. To argue, to sort of suggest the way we're going, you'll notice that because it depends upon the second derivative of the attitude, it depends upon the form of the attitude. And we would like to suggest, or I'd like to suggest, if I know the right direction I'm going in, that the Newtonian potential, as it were, drives the particle, as it were, the quantum potential, and I'm trying to distinguish between the two types of potential. They act very differently. Furthermore, the quantum potential itself comes from the sine field, the sine field is infinitely related to the particle, so it comes from the self. It's a self-organizer. The energy comes from the particle itself. So that's why a very weak field to find a larger basis. And what I'd like to suggest is that if this particular approach is telling us anything, it's telling us that we cannot go on to work that way anymore. Can it go away in an organic way? And I'm using the word organic in a quite heavy sense. Furthermore, it carries information about the environment. And so on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

40:00 But the whole potential therefore acts like an information content and so we should call it an information content if we went through the same science, we should distinguish the three. We asked all of them about specific formative forms. We didn't like that. We thought that we'd run it on the board and arrange with this taxonomy theory, with the formative A field to try and articulate it, but we thought, well, maybe that's not the way to do it. And in the end, they both persuaded me that, really, we ought to call it a question. I'm not sure I like the idea still, because to many people, it leads to information that us, In this particular case, it's got nothing to do with information. It has nothing to do with information, or with the thing. So our image from this particular way of looking at things is that the particle is not a simple sphere being pushed around by a field, but rather it has an inner structure, and that inner structure is self-organized. In fact, it's very relevant. It just shows us there that it's the way that it's acting that has nothing to do with human information. We're trying to suggest that maybe anything in this model, that maybe that's the way to start the preparation of a mechanism that these weight packets are somehow carrying a lot of energy, which is what you would not really understand. There are a couple of distinctions that I want to make in terms of this.

42:30 This is related to the way we get over the measurement problem and the way we can actually get rid of the non-metallicity which appears in this chapter. You'll notice that there are various projectors. There are two classes of projectors. One is the class of the action penetrators and the class that we're in left with. This intermediate class actually, it makes it around this part of the area at some time, but eventually it goes one way or the other. The quantum potential associated with that particle is the quantum potential that arises from what is normally called the wave-manifold. As far as that particle is concerned, the information that is contained in the static magnet is totally irrelevant. We therefore distinguish it between two types of information. One is the active information, active at the time, at the stage. The other is the passive information. We may be able to, by some device or other, bring these trajectories back again over that particular case, but passive information will then become active. This is that way that we can actually account for this theory, that we've got a single part of it, or a single part of it will actually go to that part of the algorithm, when it comes to the other end of the information that it responds to, or potentially responds to. In this particular approach, there is no problem.

45:00 So we've got these divided into channels. There are five locations where some channels are active, some channels are inactive. So let's go on. Let's take it now to consider the two-body situation. So we can actually calculate these two particles being correlated by a common vector. What we find is that if we go to the Hamilton-Jacobe, we get the same form, one of five, and we've got this quantum potential, and it is this quantum potential which actually contains the non-locals. We notice that it's a many-body group, and if we have no classical potential between the two particles and they were separated in space, then they would still be connected to the quantum flow and to get to the end of the path. Furthermore, that this force need not necessarily fall off as is required, because that would be the nature of quantum potentials is small. Even though the aperture of the wave function is very small, they would still be effective in a quantum system. Once we've got that particular idea, we have immediately got the solution, because if you look at the Einstein problem, the Einstein-Lukashvili problem, the particular wave function of this situation is... The following, if you have problems with so-called, the separation of the classical...