Quantum Algebra 2: The Contribution from U.K., USA

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Quantum Algebra 2: The Contribution from U.K., USA
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David Deutsch of Oxford is the most well known advocate of Locality in
the U.K., although oddly enough for "all the wrong reasons" like Haag
and others. His Nonconformist and Individual orientations actually are
the best reasons that I can think of, and arguably played major roles
given that these are also U.K. and USA orientations at least for many
people (there's also a large Conformist/Plurality contingent in each
nation which may be of aobut equal size).

Paul Dirac, however, and Hugh Everett II played very important roles in
both Locality and Causation, as did surprisingly enough Sigmund and
Anna Freud and Melanie Klein of psychoanalysis. Most people are
completely unaware that Melanie Klein and to a large extent the Freuds
were Causation-oriented. Given Sigmund's Medical background, which is
eminently practical and problem-solving but also Causation-oriented
since causes are critical, this would perhaps be expected. His sister
Anna established the Freudian school in the U.K. after Freud, his
health ruined, fled to the U.K. from Austria and shortly thereafter
passed away. Paul Dirac via Dimensionality (in turn via complex
Spinors) also gave us the positron but more importantly the way out of
the Heisenberg and Hilbert/von Neumann trap of inner products and/or
anomalies via Dimensionality which would eventually influence at least
the USA branch of the Clifford algebra schools. Hugh Everett II of
course was the intellectual founder of what became via Deutsch the
Multiverse theory.

But there was a third, somewhat hidden influence that I think was
equally important: Judaism. David Deutsch is nominally Jewish, as were
the Freuds and Melanie Klein and Einstein. The Jews tend to be highly
influenced by whatever nation they live in at least politically, and in
Russia and France and Germany many were influenced by the rebels
against authoritarianism who however forgot to mention that they had
their own (communist) form of authoritarianism. But there is almost
always this qualification: the Jews are Rare, while other
ethnic/sociocultural/Religious groups tend to be Non-Rare. And in
fairly recent history since the Spanish Inquisition, Jews have kept
becoming even Rarer periodically. The juxtaposition of the Individual
and the Plurality is ever present in those Jews who have heard of the
Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, the Ukrainian-Kazakh Pogroms, the
Ancient Roman massacre at Massada, the York Massacre, the "Palestinian"
Terror.

Both the UK and USA are well represented in the LQP Crossroads Forum at
Gottingen which I have mentioned in recent threads, although usually
only one or two per university unlike the intensive concentration per
university in Italy, Germany, France. But that density question is an
especially complicated topic which I touched on in other recent
threads. Cambridge, Oxford, London, York, Cardiff are represented in
the U.K., while in the USA Berkeley, Riverside, Buffalo, Chicago,
Gainesville FLA, Harvard, Princeton (including Wightman), Rutgers are
represented. In Australia, Adelaide and Sydney are represented.
Canada is unrepresented. By the way, Japan has surprising
representation: Fukuoka, Kyoto, Tokushima, Tokyo. Note that Japan is
relatively Individual-Oriented compared to China, although perhaps less
compared to the U.K. or USA. It is certainly much smaller than China
and, like the U.K., almost useless for agriculture.

Osher Doctorow

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