Quantum Zeno Effect
Zeno was a disciple of Parmenides of Elea. Parmenides went around telling people that reality was an absolute, unchanging whole, and that therefore many things we take for granted, such as motion, space, and plurality, were simply illusions. At this period of time, motion and space were major philosophical questions. A philosophical(Gedanken or Subjective) question is a real question, which cannot be answered by the conceptual resources at the time the question is posed.
During this time in Greek thinker viewpoint, Parmenides of Elea realized that people believed in too many fictional concepts. Fictional concepts like holes, space, time, motion are all ideas that do not refer to anything and therefore are illusions.
His perception of space, motion, and time as fictional concepts could be interpreted in two different ways. Parmenides could be expressing that there is no space, time, or motion because reality is spacesless, timeless, and changless.
Space, at this point in Greek philosophy (viewpoint), was thought to be either discrete or continuous. If space is discrete, then there can be smaller units of it. These smaller units of space are called space atoms (Pyne). If space is continuous then it is infinitely divisible. Something that is infinitely divisible can be divided up in infinite amount of times. Zeno disproves the ideas of discrete and continuous space through his paradoxes.
Zeno’s Arrow paradox disproves how space can be discrete. Imagine a bow and arrow where the arrow is pointing at a target. An arrow is either in motion or at rest in one “space atom”. An arrow cannot move, because for motion to occur, the arrow would have to be in one “space atom” at the start of an instant and at another at the end of the instant. However, this means that the instant is divisible which is impossible because by definition, instants are indivisible. Hence, the arrow is always at rest in one of the “space atom”. (Pyne) Space therefore cannot be thought of as discrete, so then space must be continuous.
This essay will put forward the view that Zeno’s paradoxes represent something fundamentally wrong with our understanding of the structure of space and time (as dependent parameter of macro EM field effect).
This forms a problem that runs through the whole of human mathematics.
We briefly mention two verbal matters. Should the effect be called quantum Zeno? The original Zeno paradox was expressed in different forms, both of which are based on the difficulty of building up an idea of motion from a series of instantaneous snapshots. The quantum Zeno effect is based on the idea of measurement freezing change. Thus there are rather superficial similarities but rather more deep-seated differences between the sets of ideas.
Zeno’s paradox can be expressed in many ways but for the purpose of this post it is best to think of dropping an object and measuring the time (as dependent parameter of macro EM field effect) it takes to reach the ground.
Zeno rejected the idea of infinity and so he had a paradox and believed that moving and changing to be an illusion and that was the only thing that mattered!
I am now going to explain that it does not reject infinity but explains it as a universal process that forms the arrow of geometry of space-time, taking into account that the Zenon Paradox is not wrong.
In this theory the forward passage of time (as dependent parameter of macro EM field effect) is formed, by the forward motion or momentum of light, forming the geometry of space-time.
The probabilistic nature of the wave particle duality of light forms the flow of time (as dependent parameter of macro EM field effect) itself. This is explained by the Schrodinger equation that represents the quantum wave particle function.
Therefore Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is the same uncertainty that we have with any future event and represents potential future possibilities.
The answer to the problem of infinity is that it only has the potential probability to exist. Aristotle was the first to introduce the idea of something being potentially infinite.
In this theory we have a potential infinity of probabilities at every degree and angle of space-time because one thing after another is always coming into existence as part of the time continuum.
After many experiments, to demonstrate the relation between Zeno Paradox and Quantum, where we can find defenders and refuters, we can have some interesting conclusions as:
The quantum Zeno effect is to be regarded as a genuine result of quantum theory, at least of the form of quantum theory we now possess. This leads to the intriguing possibility that experimental disproof of the effect could cause a reconsideration of fundamental aspects of quantum theory.
The paradoxical nature of the early discussions related to the effect of an external macroscopically separated macroscopic measuring device on an evolving microscopic system. It therefore seems sensible to restrict the use of the term Quantum Zeno effect to experimental situations of this nature.
While the arguments about continuous measurement affect some aspects of the discussion of quantum Zeno, we do not believe that they throw genuine questions on the theoretical prediction itself, which certainly does not require the possibility of continuous observation.
To get more information about measure theory & concepts of frame in observations of events & Holographic Universe see also;
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