Ronald J. DeHaas
dehaas@michonline.net
P.O. Box 397
Owosso, MI 48867
November 16, 2004
TOWARD A DETERMINISTIC
ONE-UNIVERSE QUANTUM MODEL
Abstract:
Negative-time information
quanta, herein referred to as "backyons" provide the hidden variable
necessary to establish a deterministic model of quantum physics. Backyons provide information about the future
to systems, thereby determining which of multiple possible outcomes must arise. One single universe (the "ultimate
observer") outcome is demanded by this model; that universe may be open, flat, or closed. As a result of determinism provided by this
model, scientific laws work; furthermore, if backyons manifest themselves as detectable matter or
energy, we may be able to use them, without necessarily being able to
"read" the future. Entropy may
eventually decrease as backyon flow decreases. Considering the backyons now being emitted by us backwards in time allows
for philosophical considerations of "memory" and certain
"paranormal" experiences. Introduction Quantum physics, relativity, classical
physics, and common sense seem at odds with one another. How strange that now, 100 years after
relativity made its debut, we should only historically consider Einstein's
quest for a deterministic answer to quantum riddles.
Ancient questions posed even
by present-day philosophers address our innate sense of passing time, of
"being" and "becoming," while modern physicists have
quietly taken front stage in the realm of philosophy in pursuing what
"reality" really "is." Enough has been written to
allow forgoing a summary of the conflicts of the Copenhagen interpretation, the
multi-universe theory, or the mystery particle/hidden variable that Einstein
sought to explain the apparent irreducible randomness of quantum mechanics. But, as is usual in physics
and cosmology, there is likely a "way out" - way out though it may
be. A brief discussion of time is
... well, timely.
Time For all its importance in the
history of physics, time surely is one of the most enigmatic of concepts. Our human side insists it has an
understanding of time, but all of science lacks even a basic definition of the
word. For such a universally essential
quantity, time remains a rather esoteric critter, underneath its veil of ethereal
transparency.
Science fiction writers and
physicists have toyed with the idea of going backwards in time; relativity even provides for special cases of
apparent time reversal. Stephen Hawking
in A Brief History of Time illustrated the concept that gravitons can be
considered as "particles" traveling always backwards in time. This makes some intuitive sense, in terms of
conservation of momentum; a collision of
a negative-time (t-) particle with a positive-time (t+) particle would result
in the t+ particle "bouncing" towards, rather than away from, the
direction of the t- particle - just the opposite from what would be expected
when two t+ particles collide.
Perhaps time is nothing more
than a positive (+) or a negative (-), sort of like spin. Perhaps our intuitive sense of time is
nothing more than a conscious awareness of some summation of all the reactions
of the (+) and (-) particles, strings, etc. around us, dominated by
positive-time reactions. Our sense of
time may also be heavily influenced by the evident fact that the
"matter" of the periodic table consists of t+ particles.
If gravity could be
considered t-, what else could be t-? Could, for instance, dark matter/dark energy be t-? Could there be a quantity like
"information" which travels backwards through time? Could dark matter/dark energy in fact be t-
information?
The Deterministic Quantum A t- information quantity
(particle? string?), herein referred to as the "backyon," brings
Einstein (a la EPR) and Copenhagen together, and untangles entanglement. It eliminates the need for many universes,
and in fact demands only one.
Take, for a quantum-level
example, the "entanglement" of two entangled photons. As they move apart, backyons flow back to
their origin so that, at the time of entanglement the photons are
already provided with the information on what they will become. The first photon to be observed will provide
all the information necessary, by way of its backyons, for the other photon to
"know" what it must become, even as the photons initially split
apart.
Moving into a cosmological
scale, the one single end result of our solitary universe (the "ultimate
observer") is right now, and since the Big Bang has been, sending backyons
to determine, quite deterministically, every reaction of every particle and
string, every quantum decision. All of
quantum uncertainty, every probability amplitude is already determined by
backyons sent from that one end-resulting universe out there, but from our end
of time, we see only the multitude of "could-be's" and the
probability of "ought-to-be's" without being able to see the single
"must-be." The fact that scientific laws
seem to work, the fact that a chair exists, points to a final end (though that
final end may in itself be eternal and infinite) -- it is because of the
pointer that scientific laws work, that things exist, that there is
"reality." It must be so. While we comfort ourselves in
our predestinarianism, we are able to predict. Perhaps we can hope to determine whether the end-resulting universe will
be/already is open, flat, or closed. Perhaps if the backyons manifest themselves as dark matter or dark
energy, we can even use them somehow. Perhaps entropy's increase is nothing more than more backyons flowing
from the future to the present than there are flowing from the present to the
past -- could we reach some midway point in the universe's space-time history,
after which entropy will reverse itself? Looking Back Philosophers like Augustine
have puzzled over how it is that the past is in memory, but the future is
not. Backyons, being shipped off by us,
navigate their way to the past so as to control it, perhaps allowing us to see
the past as "memory." In any
event, it is easy to understand that we can somehow connect with the past
through backyons which we emit, as opposed to connecting with the future
through backyons that have not yet arrived. There is something to be said
here for consciousness and the mind. The
existence of backyons would lend itself to the suggestion, perhaps even the
prediction, of certain "paranormal" experiences like deja vu,
short-term prediction of the future, and other phenomena. Ronald J. DeHaas November 16, 2004 Copyright 2004 Ronald J.
DeHaas
All of the other theories have an implicit (and generally unstated) assumption that causality moves forward through time. The theory presented here discards that assumption, with the result that causality moves backwards through time.