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 ????

Schrodinger's Cat, Light Switches & Quitrits

We live in a world which is mostly space and time . Space is something we move in and time is primarily used as a marker . We can't change the direction of time and we can't travel within time as we can within space. In our world, we can see the properties of most things by simply looking at or examining them . For instance a property of a car might be that it is red in color. If we want to gamble on something we can figure out the probability of winning or losing. For example if we toss a coin over a long period of time it will come out as a possibility of ½ because there is a chance that one time it will be heads and another time tails. The reason for this consistency is that we live in a space which is relatively constant. The quantum world is somewhat different. It doesn't have space in in which we have to move to get from A to B. Space in the quantum world is like time in our world. Space in the quantum world is an intellectual abstraction. Time in the world you and I know is, generally speaking, also an intellectual abstraction . Time in the quantum world has something called superposition. Superposition means that in the quantum world, all the properties of something like a car are presented at once. For instance all the possible colors and shades of a car are present at once. As soon as you eyeball the car in the quantum world, you only see one color because of your action of looking at it. The quantum world also has entanglement . Things in the quantum world can't literally travel through space because space doesn't exist . In the quantum world, entanglement modifies things. This means if you change something over here, the changes immediately appear over there. The last thing is what I call superlocation. Since space in the quantum world doesn't exist except as an abstraction, you can have things existing in exactly the same location. Now for the quitrit. In our world of time and space we usually think in terms of yes or no which is the one or zero bit. The computer in our world functions around the zero ( 0 ) or one ( 1 ) bit. There is a third ( 3rd ) possibility which most of us think as being random because it doesn't always present itself. There is a probability that the flipped coin could end up on its' edge instead of heads or tails. The chances of that happening from a probability viewpoint is so remote that we call it a random occurrence. The equivalent to a bit in our world is the qubit ( quantum bit ) in the quantum world. The equivalent to randomness in the quantum world since there isn't any space except in the abstract is the quitrit. The most famous example in the quantum world is Schrodinger’s cat. Usually Schrodinger’s cat in the quantum world is considered to be alive and dead at the same time ( qubit ) because of superposition or all possibilities until we open the cat's box and eyeball it at which point an arbitrary choice is made ( yes (1) or no (0 )) because we looked at it and disturbed the energy. Randomness in the quantum world is the quitrit. The quitrit represents the possibility that it isn't yes or no but somewhere in between yes or no. The in between is also a superposition of all possibilities but it is one that never crosses our minds. In the case of Schrodinger's cat it is the moribund condition which is technically and subtly neither alive nor dead but is ½ way in between. If you're not into cats, think of it as a light switch. The light switches superposition of all possibilities is either on ( yes ) or off ( no ). The moribund condition of the light switch in the superposition of all possibilities is when it is ½ way in between which is neither on ( yes ) nor off ( no ).

Here are the equivalents.

In the real world we have:

Yes – 1 - Bit

No – 0 - Bit

Random – Maybe something will happen and maybe it won't. The probability is ½ .

In the quantum world:

Yes – 1 - Qubit

No – 0 - Qubit

Quitrit – The quitrit is ½ way between two states which is one of the superpositions of all possibilities. Neither yes nor no but ½ way in between becoming one or the other. Technically in the quantum world there isn't any randomness because the superposition of all possibilities also covers the concept of randomness. Of course, as soon as you eyeball the quantum world you inadvertently add or subtract protons which create a chaotic system until everything settles down. It's a hard concept to grasp because it's always present. In our real world randomness doesn't always happen because in our real world we only have probability which might or might not happen in the abstract. This we know because nothing in the real world is 100% and it is extremely difficult to find a number that is completely random, if you want to do an experiment which depends on random numbers.