Bell's Theorem

Bell's Theorem is supposed to be highly technical(No, I've not read it),

but in ordinary language it amounts to something like this:



There are no isolated systems: every particle in the universe is

in "instantaneous" (faster-than light)

communication with every other particle. The Whole

System, even the parts that are separated by cosmic distances,

functions as a Whole System.



Now, such faster-than-light communication seems to be

forbidden by Special Relativity, which makes a problem. Bell's

Theorem, however, is inescapable: a theorem in physics is not a

mere "theory"; it is a mathematical demonstration which must be

true, if the mathematics contains no flaw, and if the experiments

on which it is based are replicable. Bell's Theorem contains no

mathematical flaw, and the experiments are replicable and have

been replicated several times.



And yet we cannot dispense with Special Relativity either,

because the mathematics there is equally flawless and the experiments

are legion that confirm it.



Two solutions have been proposed and both assume that the

"communication" involved in Bellian transmissions does not

involve energy, since it is energy that cannot move faster than

light. Dr. Edward Harris Walker suggests that what does move

faster than light, and holds the Whole System together, is "consciousness."

We may eventually be forced to accept this, in

which case physics will have justified pantheism or at least pan psychism !



The other alternative, proposed by Dr. Jack Sarfatti, is

that the medium of Bellian transmissions is information.

Pure information, in the mathematical sense, does not require

energy; it is that which orders energy. It is the negative of

entropy, that which brings disorder to energy systems.



Let us digress a bit and try to understand what 'information' is.



A pattern that it's not random is known mathematically as

information.

Information can also be defined as organization, or as coherence.



Gregory Bateson has defined information as "differences that

make a difference."



Simply put, If you know something already, or can predict it

easily on the basis of what you do know, it is not information for

you. Conversely, if you don't know something, or can't predict

it, it is information.



For example...



Roses are red

Ink is black

Do me a favor

Go sit on a tack !





has more information than



Roses are red

Violets are blue

Sugar is sweet

And so are you !



(Unless the reader has lived in relative isolation from American-

English folk-culture. Otherwise they both would have the same amount of

information assuming that this hypothetical idiot savant can understand
english)



And notice the leap in information as you read...



Roses are red

Violets are blue

You think this will rhyme

But it ain't gonna !



The humorous unpredictability of this poem gives it, mathematically,

a higher information level than the predictable Valentine

poem. If this is still obscure, remember

of Bateson's elegant simplification:

"Information is difference that makes a difference."



Information is also known mathematically as negative entropy

or, in a widely used abbreviation, negentropy.

Entropy is a measure of the deadness of a system. Negentropy

or information is a measure of the liveliness of a system.

if you can separate (for the purpose of classification)

the universe as hardware and software, then

Dr. Sarfatti's theory is explained as follows:

Imagine that your brain is a computer, as modern neurology

suggests. Now imagine that the whole universe is a big computer,

a mega-computer, as John Lilly has proposed. Then

imagine that the sub-quantum realm, the realm of what

Dr.David Bohm calls 'hidden variables' is made up of mini-minicomputers.

Now, the hardware of each 'computer'-the universe,

your brain, the sub-quantum mechanisms-is localized.

Each part of it is somewhere in spacetime, here not there, now

not then. But the software-the information-is non-local. It

is here, there and everywhere; now, then and everywhen.



Now I bet you didn't know that ! !



Please reconsider the implications of the interpretations of the Bell's
Theorem and how they affect your understanding of the world.

(source :Prometheus Rising -Robert Anton Wilson)


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