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The conflict between HUP and GRPosted by mhelland on September 24, 2003 at 14:47:08: We know of an incompatibility in physics where the spacetime described by General Relativity is continuous where the Uncertainty Principle implies a discrete spacetime. My suggested resolution of this conflict is by stating that there are two seperate spacetime systems that we know of in the universe. There is a system that contains the fundamental forces and particles of matter. As General Relativity describes gravitation and gravitation is a fundamental force, the space within this system, or this spacetime domain, must be continuous. Another force is electromagnetism. Like gravitation it allows for the interaction of objects from a distance. Electromagnetism also creates atoms from particles. If we combine this picture with gravitation, we have the forces of nature acting on particles to create everything we observe and every interaction we observe. This observed set of Because our observed set of phenomena comes to us by the way the fundamental system, every interaction is actually the result of a particle interaction. The mechanism we use to observe the universe is also electromagnetism. When we gather information about our environment, or observe, we are changing state as a final result of a particle interaction. This result appears as an instant to the observer who uses electromagnetism. But to the particle, whose interaction creates the instant of time, its interaction could not have occured along the resulting instant of time. The instant of time is of the time that exists in our nature; whereas the particle was interacting along the time of its fundamental nature. The interval of fundamental time that elapses during the particle interaction is important. Our time is quantized in these intervals, and because of this everything in our nature is quantized on this scale, including space and matter. Matter is quantized because it is the logical state of space; is a particle present or not? Matter will appear to be quantized in units of Planck's Length^3 because that is the best that we can observe. But matter is only the discrete representation of a continuous particle. The particle's actual position and size within The continous spacetime domain of General Relativity is the fundamental nature whose result is our quantized, and therefore uncertain, nature. The resolution of this conflict and the introduction of a fundamental time that a photon moves along also allows a single photon to exist at multiple points in fundamental time while being observed as a string of many photons in our time. In this case the single photon can pass through multiple slits in a wall due to its wave like manifestation in our nature. Is this a workable solution? The details are here: (Report this post to the moderator) Follow Ups: (Reload page to see most recent)
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