Friday, June 22, 2012

Schroedinger's Cat Travels In Quantum Time


Time travel seems to be all the rage at the moment. In our real world, we have physical space and time. We can travel back and forth in three dimensions in space, but only forward as far as time is concerned. We can travel into the past by remembering what happened back when, but we can't literally travel into the past. If I'm to meet you at a coffee shop, we both have to add time to the physical location of the coffee shop ( x, y, z ) in three dimensions. This means that I will meet you at the coffee shop at the physical location of ( x, y, z ) at a future time ( t ) but never at a past time. Fortunately, the passage of time as measured by a clock is constant, so there isn't any real difference between your and my time in our real world. The quantum world is the reverse of the real world. Space only exists as a marker in the quantum world. In the quantum world we think of space as right here or over there. We can't travel through space in the quantum world to get from here to there because travel through space doesn't physically exist in the quantum world. Since travel through space doesn't physically exist in the quantum world the past, present and future doesn't exist as we understand them. Time in the quantum world has the same function as space does in our real world. Quantum time, like time in our real world, represents the past, present and future. The past, present and future in the quantum world is managed by the processes of entanglement, superlocation, and superposition. Quantum time means that a quantum particle or Schroedinger's cat exists in the past, present and future all at the same time at the same location. Superposition shows all of Schroedinger's cat's states, possibilities and information at the time in the past, present and future in the same location. Superlocation means that the past, present and future can exist at the same physical location because physical space doesn't exist in the quantum world except in the abstract. Since travel through physical space doesn't physically exist in the quantum world more than one thing, possibility and information can exist at the same spot or location in the past, present and future. In other words, this means that the past, present and future can all co-exist at the same time at the same spot or location in the quantum world. The existence of superlocation and superposition means that everything that is knowledge ( states, possibilities and information ) exists at one superlocation all at once in the past, present and future. Travel in the quantum world is done through a process called entanglement, because in the quantum world something can't move through physical space because physical space doesn't exist . This means that Schroedinger's cat has to entangle his / her self with another cat in another superlocation in order to travel. Paradoxically the original cat still exists at that superlocation because that cat still has a past and a future since Schroedinger's cat has become the other cat's present. Death in the usual sense doesn't exist, because more than one thing can exist at the same superlocation in the past, present or future. Death in our real world space is different because only one thing can exist at one time in the present. Schroedinger's cat only converted the other cat's present when Schroedinger's cat entangled the other cat. The other cat still continued to have a past and a future, which means that the other cat still continued to exist in the future. Paradoxically again, the other cat's future, will become the other cat's present if something moves the other cat's future into the present. To add to the fun Schroedinger's cat's past and future is in one superlocation and his / her present is in another superlocation. Obviously, Schroedinger's cat hasn't got it all together. In addition a happening in the other cat's future which is a cause will cause an effect in the other cat's present. If this happens the other cat has a present again. Consequently a future cause has had an effect in the present. It may be when you and I die, we literally become quantum beings existing at the same relative time to everything else in the past, present, future and all of this will become clearer. In death, we all may have something new to try out and lots of infinite chances to boot. Who said heaven would be boring ????

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