On Apr 3, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Stanley A. KLEIN <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > wrote:
"Jack at some point we will need to sit down and have a discussion about how QED works."
I am leaving for London in a few days until May 18.
All of QM, which includes QED and standard model of SU2, SU3, Higgs etc. has zero post-Bohmian locally-retrocausal wave action <—> beable reaction in the sense of Rod Sutherland's action principle Lagrangian.
1. arXiv:1509.07380 [pdf]
Interpretation of the Klein-Gordon Probability Density
Roderick Sutherland
Comments: 6 pages
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
2. arXiv:1509.02442 [pdf]
Lagrangian Description for Particle Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics -- Entangled Many-Particle Case
Roderick Sutherland
Comments: 34 pages
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
3. arXiv:1509.00001 [pdf]
Energy-momentum tensor for a field and particle in interaction
Roderick Sutherland
Comments: 9 pages
Subjects: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
4. arXiv:1502.02058 [pdf]
Naive Quantum Gravity
Roderick I. Sutherland
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
5. arXiv:1411.3762 [pdf]
Lagrangian Formulation for Particle Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: Single-Particle Case
Roderick I. Sutherland
Comments: 12 pages
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
6. arXiv:quant-ph/0601095 [pdf]
Causally Symmetric Bohm Model
Rod Sutherland
Comments: 35 pages, 5 figures, new sections 12 and 13 added
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
In the case of QED we have a classical EM field (beable) corresponding to Glauber coherent states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_states acted upon by a Super-Quantum Potential (SQ) without any direct back-reaction of the classical EM field on its SQ. If there is such "two-way" back-reaction then we have a fully conscious PQED electromagnetic field in my Ansatz. The same for Einstein's geometrodynamics that would allow a conscious universe explaining Hawking's "Mind of God" scientifically (Popper-falsifiable).
Sutherland's "Naive QM Gravity" shows how to make post-quantum field theory effectively local using the Costa de Beauregard zig-zags of local retrocausality.
Naive Quantum Gravity
Roderick I. Sutherland
(Submitted on 6 Feb 2015 (v1), last revised 6 Jan 2016 (this version, v2))
A possible alternative route to a quantum theory of gravity is presented. The usual path is to quantize the gravitational field in order to introduce the statistical structure characteristic of quantum mechanics. The procedure followed here instead is to remove the statistical element of quantum theory by introducing final boundary conditions as well as initial. The relevant quantum formalism then becomes compatible with the non-statistical nature of general relativity and a viable theory can be constructed without difficulty. This approach also provides a simple method of avoiding the configuration space description of quantum mechanics and allows the formulation to be carried out entirely within the four dimensions of spacetime. These advantages are made possible by the inherent retrocausal nature of the final boundary conditions.
"Feynman and others put in a HUGE effort to be sure that all that backwards in time stuff could NOT be used for precognition."
Stan, you keep falling into this RED HERRING rut going around in circles chasing your own tail inside Pandora's Box shut tight. ;-)
Of course he did. So what? Feynman was a goat not a sheep. If Feynman was alive today he would agree with me.
QED does not permit precognition because of no entanglement signaling, i.e. unitarity of the time evolution etc.
QED is a limiting case of PQED.
"That's what I did my PhD thesis on. It all has to do with the i*epsilon in the denominator of the propagators."
So what? This is all irrelevant. It's true, but irrelevant. To make an analogy it's like saying special relativity does not permit closed timelike curves (CTCs), which is true, but irrelevant since general relativity does permit them because of spacetime curvature (aka back-reaction of matter on geometry).
"It is very interesting stuff about where the poles of the amplitudes live. They are hidden behind cuts in the complex plan and by that magic they don't allow faster than light signals (FTL). Henry know that type of stuff. Based on your postings you don't seem to be aware of that."
Of course, I know that stuff.
"It's okay since it is tricky business."
Time for old dog to learn new tricks.
"Are there any FoM folks besides Henry and me who know this stuff? It would be nifty for us to have a discussion on FoM about that complex plane for the folks who hadn't gotten into that arcane stuff."
It's completely irrelevant!
Wake up out of your dogmatic slumbers.
"The point is that just because one has time symmetry of the Aharonov and Ruth sort doesn't enable FTL signals."
So what? You keep missing the point here. What you say is true, but irrelevant. Aharonov's theory has zero Sutherland action-reaction and that's why it does not allow entanglement signals.
Also you keep making the serious conceptual error of "FTL signals" in fact they are locally retrocausal signals that in special case mimic FTL, but are much more general.
Stan