An alternate view of Bell's Theorem: Everything is connected, by Einstein's "hidden variable"
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Recently, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to those who experimentally verified Bell's Theorem, amounting to "reality is non-local." Locality in physics indicates a direct or identifiable physical connection among objects. If there is no apparent means of connecting particles locally "close up" while there still is a connection non-locally "somewhere," it appears physics has taken a step back in qualitatively understanding the Universe. Bohr over Einstein again?
Conventionally it is assumed particles are sources of their gravitational fields. If a particle is a source, it and any associated field has no existence before the particle is created. As soon as the particle is created its gravitational field travels outward at finite speed in all directions. Such particles only exist where they are created and wherever they may be at any time later. These particles are local entities, and reality is local in this case -- reality here is exclusively the groupings of such elementary particles and nothing else regardless of location (i.e., table, chair, person with no physical connection among them, disregarding the floor and air).
If a particle is a gravitational sink, its gravitational field exists before the particle is created, and immediately connects to the particle on its creation. For instance, fill a kitchen sink with water. The water medium is analogous to an ambient gravitational field. Now pull out the drain plug to let the water out. This is analogous to the creation of a particle at the drain site; this particle is a gravitational sink. The particle exists everywhere in the medium except where the water is draining out -- everywhere except where physical activity is perceived. Such particles are their associated fields, which are dispersed throughout their space even before their creation. These particles are non-local entities, and reality is non-local in this case, another way of viewing Bell's Theorem. Instead of just being table, chair, person separately, everything is connected; it does not matter how far apart the items might be. Note that whether a particle is a source or sink is falsifiable in principle.
Paradoxically, identifying Einstein's "hidden variable." What all particles as sinks have in common is the single ambient gravitational field of their origin. Again, the field of each particle does not come into existence after the particle is created and the individual field is not separated by space and time from the fields of other particles; particle fields are not disjoint or superimposed on one another; field precedes particle from a common source in this thesis. In this way "non-locality" is a misnomer; it is just that the connecting means was not identified, being ubiquitous -- Einstein's "hidden variable." Reality is local when "non-locality" is identified as the common gravitational field of all particles in the Universe. In general relativity the pure ambient gravitational field has no separate existence from that which it contains, nor with space(time) itself. Conventionally, this field/space stemmed from a small hot region, expanded, cooled, condensing out particles, to the extent of the known Universe, quantum entanglement in its natural form. *
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2 年Sum Signal Theory would favor the particles as a source approach but it seems to work either way. The most interesting questions in physics are those with many equally possible answers.
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2 年I have followed you while watching and reading Susskind's "The Theoretical Minimum" Lectures. I did find Bell's Theorem a bit baffling; however, you explained it clearly! Well done!