Schrodinger's Cat's Cradle Will Rock

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 01:29 PM, Raymond Hudson wrote:

"Keep going, Jack!

I don't always "cohere" with everything you say, but I will catch-up 
some day.  However, whenever you talk Wavelet vs. Fourier transform, I 
am right there on your bandwagon....if not driving it! ;-)

Ray"

The problem reformulating quantum field theory and string theory in 
terms of Green's function propagators based on "wavelet transforms" 
instead of the Fourier transform is that it is technically difficult and 
will probably need non-analytic computer simulations from the very 
beginning.  There will be a big impact on sub-quantal heat death quantum 
measurement theory folklore with signal locality in which the basis 
functions are eigenfunctions of observables whose eigenvalues are 
pointer readings. Here we do not have a unique set of basis functions 
but an infinite set of possible basis functions which are generically 
fractal.  We need "scalegrams" in addition to "power spectra". That 
there is a profound connection to renormalization group flow "fixed 
points" seems intuitively clear with both Einstein geometrodynamics and 
dark energy/matter as a "critical point" vacuum phase transition "more 
is different" emergence from the virtual photon exchange between virtual 
electron-positron pairs at the edge of the -mc^2 "band" of the Dirac 
vacuum.  Heisenberg's uncertainty principle seems OK in that the phase 
space "areas" of conjugate pair observables under "unitary rotation" of 
the base state reference frames in information qubit space are limited 
to h or Lp*^2 = hG*/c^3 as the case may be. Look at, for example, the 
energy-time phase space plane. As one goes up in energy in the 
micro-scale the adaptive resolution window "tiling" broadens in energy 
and narrows in time duration with the opposite happening in the low 
energy large-scale.  This is very different from a rigid windowed 
Fourier transform where the tiles are all perfect squares of the same 
size. There may also be nonlocal "Penrose tiling" connecting different 
regions of the scalegram?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Sarfatti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jack Sarfatti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, 05 October, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Bush & Blair Neo Conned on UFO WMD Iraq Fantasy?

The physics of exotic WMD of the "Doomsday" type described in Chapter 9
of Sir Martin Rees's "Our Final Hour" is the physics I am dealing with 
below. It is the harnessing of the "dark energy" for applied technology 
which makes nuclear energy a small blip on the national security radar 
screen in comparison. Wake up!

Note on wavelets in physics

http://www.amara.com/IEEEwave/IEEEwavelet.html

is a nice online tutorial in wavelet transform analysis beyond Fourier
analysis. The Green's function propagator approach of Feynman and 
Schwinger in quantum field theory is based on rigid window Fourier 
transforms. Indeed, the distinction between real and virtual quanta as 
on mass shell poles and off mass shell residual of the Green's function 
in the complex energy plane (a Fourier transform) may hide some
important features needed for the proper understanding of vacuum zero
point energy i.e. the /\zpf field and how to do quantum non-mechanics in 
curved space-time background even allowing quantum fluctuations in the 
metric field when needed. I am not aware of any modern text book in 
quantum field and
string theory that starts with a wavelet transform reformulation of the
basic theory. Indeed, Zurek's analysis of decoherence using Wigner phase 
space densities may profit as well since the latter is basically a rigid 
Fourier transform not an adaptive multi-resolution scale sensitive 
wavelet transformation. Take a score of great classical music. The 
Fourier transform power spectrum for the temporal
auto-correlation of the music's time series destroys the music. This is
similar to the fact that many sub-quantal equilibrium density matrices
describe the same ensemble in studying say the EPR pairs in the Aspect
experiment. In contrast, a wavelet transform of the music will capture
more of the music's meaning because it tells when a given frequency
bundle appears in time and for how long. One cannot do Fourier 
transforms in curved spacetime because the trig functions are too 
nonlocal. You can however do a wavelet transform enslaved to the locally 
variable radii of curvature.

Note on nature of dark energy and dark matter

Look at http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/colloq/carroll1/oh/14.html

Why now?  If dark matter is also exotic vacuum with w = -1 the same as
dark energy but with negative rather than positive real scalar local
field /\zpf(x,L) at coarse grained event x at scale L, then there is no
"Why now?" problem. That is a pseudo-problem from asking the wrong
question supposing that dark matter is some kind of on-mass-shell real
particle like an "axion" for example. Like the Michelson-Morley
experiment failed to detect the motion of the Earth through a Galilean
group "aether" so too will all "dark matter" detectors fail to "click"
if my theory is correct.

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:59 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:

My abstract for Sat session of this is:

What is the Universe made of?

"The Question is: What is The Question?" said John  Archibald Wheeler.
I suggest that physicists have not been asking the correct question of 
Nature when it comes to the "dark matter" component that is almost 1/4 
to 1/3 of the stuff of the large-scale universe. I predict that experiments
to detect real dark matter particles like the SUSY partner "neutralino" 
will fail just like the Michelson-Morley experiment
failed to show the motion of the Earth through the "aether". I propose
that gravitating "dark matter" with positive zero point fluctuation
pressure is also a form of exotic vacuum on the same footing as "dark
energy" with negative zero point pressure that is almost 2/3 to 3/4 of the
stuff of the universe on a large scale. That is, both have w = -1 
although dark matter appears to the distant observer to have w = 0.

This new idea also explains some mysteries of small scale physics like
the stability of the electron in the face of repulsive self-charge, why 
lepto-quarks look pointlike in high energy scattering and the universal 
slope of the Regge trajectories of the hadronic resonances.
Einstein's gravity is emergent from zero point vacuum energy in the
sense of Andrei Sakharov's "metric elasticity".

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Message to ALL APS members live in California,
Authorized by Rich Barber, Sec/Treas. California Section.
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You are invited to participate and contribute a talk at:
Meeting of the APS California Section
(together with the American Association of
Physics Teachers, N. Calif. Section)
at
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and
University of California, Berkeley
Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2003
Advance registration is required by November 3.
http://pdg.lbl.gov/aapt-aps/
In addition to APS members, this meeting will be attended by high school 
teachers, undergraduates and others. We hope you will contribute a talk 
at the Friday APS sessions of this meetings, but we ESPECIALLY wish to 
encourage you to
contribute talks to the Saturday sessions where the audience is mixed 
and the talks should be understandable to high school teachers. We also 
hope APS members will attend the Saturday
sessions given by the teachers to learn about issues in
teaching.

We hope to offer travel support to graduate students and postdocs.
Featured Speakers:
Prof. Andrei Linde - Stanford University
Co-recipient of the 2002 Dirac Medal for Theoretical Physics.
"Inflation, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe"
Prof. Edward F. (Joe) Redish - University of Maryland
Recipient of AAPT's Robert A. Millikan Medal for notable
and creative contributions to the teaching of physics.
"The Future of Physics Education"
Dr. Natalie Roe - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BaBar Collaboration, which recently announced strong
confirmation of CP violation.
"What's the Matter with Antimatter?"
There are also tours and workshops, see:
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