The Meaning of Physical Time
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

Violation of smooth observable macroscopic realism in a harmonic oscillator

Authors: Amir Leshem, Omri Gat

(Submitted on 5 Feb 2009)

Abstract: We study the emergence of macrorealism in a harmonic oscillator subject to consecutive measurements of a squeezed action. Since the harmonic oscillator dynamics admits a hidden trajectory formulation, the assumptions of macrorealism are violated only by the measurement process. We demonstrate a breakdown of macrorealism in a wide parameter range that is maximized in a scaling limit of extreme squeezing. A semiclassical analysis shows that macrorealism is violated even with measurements of classically smooth observables that do not resolve quantum levels. We propose an experimental test of macrorealism with entangled photons by demonstrating that local realism in a composite system implies macrorealism in a subsystem.

The emergence of gravity as a retro-causal post-inflation macro-quantum-coherent holographic vacuum Higgs-Goldstone field

Authors: Jack Sarfatti, Creon Levit

(Submitted on 31 Jan 2009)

Abstract: We present a model for the origin of gravity, dark energy and dark matter: Dark energy and dark matter are residual pre-inflation false vacuum random zero point energy (w=-1) of large-scale negative, and short-scale positive pressure, respectively, corresponding to the "zero point" (incoherent) component of a superfluid (supersolid) ground state. Gravity, in contrast, arises from the 2nd order topological defects in the post-inflation virtual "condensate" (coherent) component. We predict, as a consequence, that the LHC will never detect exotic real on-mass-shell particles that can explain dark matter. We also point out that the future holographic dark energy de Sitter horizon is a total absorber (in the sense of retro-causal Wheeler-Feynman action-at-a-distance electrodynamics) because it is an infinite redshift surface for static detectors. Therefore, the advanced Hawking-Unruh thermal radiation from the future de Sitter horizon is a candidate for the negative pressure dark vacuum energy.

Determinism not dead

Can quantum mechanics be an emergent phenomenon?

Massimo Blasone, Petr Jizba, Fabio Scardigli
(Submitted on 26 Jan 2009)
Abstract: We raise the issue whether conventional quantum mechanics, which is not a hidden variable theory in the usual Jauch-Piron's sense, might nevertheless be a hidden variable theory in the sense recently conjectured by G. 't Hooft in his pre-quantization scheme. We find that quantum mechanics might indeed have a fully deterministic underpinning by showing that Born's rule naturally emerges (i.e., it is not postulated) when 't Hooft's Hamiltonian for be-ables is combined with the Koopmann - von Neumann operatorial formulation of classical physics.


For backround, see ref 4:

Quantum Gravity as a Dissipative Deterministic System

Gerard 't Hooft

Synchronous Quantum Memories with Time-symmetric Pulses
Authors: Q. Y. He, M. D. Reid, P. D. Drummond

Cooperative Dynamics of an Artificial Stochastic Resonant System
Authors: Yasushi Hotta, Teruo Kanki, Naoki Asakawa, Hitoshi Tabata, Tomoji Kawai

Power Spectrum of Out-of-equilibrium Forces in Living Cells : Amplitude and Frequency Dependence
Authors: Francois Gallet, Delphine Arcizet, Pierre Bohec, Alain Richert

Time reversed encryption

Time reversal frameness and superselection

Authors: Gilad Gour, Barry C. Sanders, Peter S. Turner
(Submitted on 24 Nov 2008)
Abstract: We show that appropriate superpositions of motional states are a reference frame resource that enables breaking of time-reversal superselection so that two parties lacking knowledge about the other's direction of time can still communicate. We identify the time-reversal reference frame resource states and determine the corresponding frameness monotone, which connects time-reversal frameness to entanglement. In contradistinction to other studies of reference frame quantum resources, this is the first analysis that involves an antiunitary rather than unitary representation.

Mining the Primes

The first digit frequencies of primes and Riemann zeta zeros tend to uniformity following a size-dependent generalized Benford's law

Authors: Bartolo Luque, Lucas Lacasa

(Submitted on 20 Nov 2008)

Abstract: Prime numbers seem to distribute among the natural numbers with no other law than that of chance, however its global distribution presents a quite remarkable smoothness. Such interplay between randomness and regularity has motivated scientists of all ages to search for local and global patterns in this distribution that eventually could shed light into the ultimate nature of primes. In this work we show that a generalization of the well known first-digit Benford's law, which addresses the rate of appearance of a given leading digit d in data sets, describes with astonishing precision the statistical distribution of leading digits in the prime numbers sequence. Moreover, a reciprocal version of this pattern also takes place in the sequence of the nontrivial Riemann zeta zeros. We prove that the prime number theorem is, in the last analysis, the responsible of these patterns. Some new relations concerning the prime numbers distribution are also deduced, including a new approximation to the counting function pi(n). Furthermore, some relations concerning the statistical conformance to this generalized Benford's law are derived. Some applications are finally discussed.