FrediFizzx wrote:Heinera wrote:Using the good old detection loophole trick.
Nope. Of course we expect Bell fans to think that way with your limited topological perspective but it is actually a result of 3-sphere topology that those states don't exist in the first place. For the simulation they are just mathematical artifacts.
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No, of course, this is not the detection loophole. This is the sign-change trick. Reverse the order of multiplication of two non-commuting things with probability half. Claim that your sign-flip is a local hidden variable coming from the torsion of space-time or something ... but those are just words. They have no physical meaning whatsoever. It's just a non-standard but legitimate way to do the standard quantum mechanics calculation. It works because there are two imaginary square roots of minus one - plus i and minus i. You can't say which is which. But half the sum of a complex number and its complex conjugate is real. That's (IMHO) the main idea that this code, and Joy's "model", is essentially based on.
Of course, you need a lot of verbal dexterity - or be some kind of a poet - to "sell" this little trick as a local realistic model which contradicts Bell's theorem. Your definitions of "local", "realistic" and so on will have to be skilfully different from usual definitions. It will help to dress up your theoretical computations in a not well known and rather technical specialistic mathematical framework so that hardly anyone can follow what you are doing. Dress up your QM foundations stuff as sophisticated general relativity stuff, so that experts in general relativity who know nothing whatever about quantum foundations will be the editors and referees of your papers.
GA is extremely powerful and successful as a computer programming language for 3D virtual reality computations. The original vision of David Hestenes was that it would also become a universal language of science, in fact, he was picking up again the dream of Clifford and other 19th century giants. Deep differential geometry insights which didn't catch on and later had to be rediscovered. Which is indeed what happened, and those ideas did, of course, find their way into the physics of space-time (gravity, relativity); but not into physics in general. In particular, the founders of modern-day GA did not succeed in getting people in quantum foundations to use their technology. They tried but failed.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 2:24 pm
Yeah, he didn't even look at the Mathematica code. There is no GA in this simulation. It's QM Pauli Matrices and also works with the polarizer functions.
