Quantum Gravity 167.0: Special Relativity is the "Worst Case" Scenario
- From: OsherD <mdoctorow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:40:10 -0700
From Osher Doctorow
Relativity is the "Worst Case" Scenario, which therefore also appliesFrom the viewpoint of Probable Causation/Influence (PI), Special
to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) which uses SR. This does not mean that
SR cannot apply or that the local or global Universe cannot be
measured in accordance with SR by observers in the "Worst Possible"
conditions.
The explanation is so simple as to be almost "childlike". PI has two
versions:
1) P(A-->B) = 1 + y - x, x = P(A), y = P(AB)
2) P ' (A-->B) = 1 + y - x, x = P(A), y = P(B) < = P(A)
The optimal PI = 1 occurs at y = x, which in terms of SR means that
the twins of the "SR Paradox" both have the same measurements of
position, velocity, acceleration, etc.
The worst-case scenario occurs at x = 1 and y = 0, which means that in
this case the earthbound twin stays in the inertial reference frame S
and the travelling twin is in the instantaneous reference frame S'
approaching (very, very near to) the speed of light from below.
To see the equations in the SR machinery, see Thomas Muller, Andreas
King, and Daria Adis, "A trip to the end of the universe and the twin
'paradox,' " Institut fur Astronomie ud Astrophysik, Abteilung
Theoretische Astrophysik, Tubingen, Germany, arXiv: physics/0612126 v1
13 Dec 2006, 15 pages.
To see that Causation/Causality is the main variable in these
scenarios, even from the GR/SR viewpoints, see T. Grandou and J. L.
RUbin, U. de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis and Centre National de la Recherche
Scientific (CNRS), arXiv: 0704.2736 v1 [gr-qc] 20 Apr 2007, 17 pages,
"Twin paradox and causality."
How does one achieve the best-case scenario, since we already are
flooded with scientific claims of (in my terminology) having achieved
the worst-case scenario? The simplest way is for the speed of light
to be unbounded in the Universe and for any material object to be able
to attain it. While it is difficult to explain worst-case scenarios
(something like proving that the "devil" exists), a fair guess seems
to be that SR is a phase-bound model with the earthbound twin in the
"sub-escape-velocity" phase and the travelling twin in the "super-
escape-velocity" phase (at least after reaching escape velocity from
earth), or else that the whole of SR is an "approximation" to the real
world in which infinite speed is "approximated" (technically
impossible) by a very large finite speed in "vacuum" c.
Before readers flood me with the "incredible precision of QFT", take a
look at even the Loop Quantum Gravity people such as Lee Smolin's
friend Joao Magueijo (if I remember his name correctly) of Imperial
College London who literally believes in time travel and has numerous
papers and several books including popular books and has coauthored
with Smolin. Since he is politically almost 100% opposite to me, but
seems to be a real Nonconformist, Conformist readers may prefer to
vent their frustrations on him, though my own recommendation is that
such readers get psychological and psychiatric treatment instead.
Osher Doctorow
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