Subject: QUANTUM-MIND Digest - 15 Jan 2000 to 21 Jan 2000 (#2000-4)
Date:    Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:03:08 -0700

There are 7 messages totalling 606 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. [q-mind] New book from Evan Harris Walker: The Physics of Consciousness -
     The Quantum Mind and the Meaning of Life
  2. [q-mind] New QM deduced from Whiteheadian logic, Parts II through V -
     Peter Mutnick
  3. [q-mind] What does Psi tell us in hell? - Gao Shan
  4. [q-mind] Whorf and Kuhn - Tito Vecchi
  5. [q-mind] What the Fuss Is All About In QM Measurements? (Reply to
     Benjamin) - Chris Lofting
  6. [q-mind] Reply to 12 year old who needs help in understanding quantum
     mechanics - Hugh Deasy
  7. [q-mind] Consciousness is a qualitative difference - Scott Bowden

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Date:    Fri, 21 Jan 2000 08:32:00 -0700
From:    Stuart Hameroff <hameroff@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: [q-mind] What does Psi tell us in hell? - Gao Shan

From:
Gao Shan
Institute of Quantum Mechanics
11-10, NO.10 Building,
YueTan XiJie DongLi, XiCheng District,
Beijing 100045, P.R.China
E-mail: gaoshan.iqm@263.net

[Abstract]
We show that if Psi is a complete description of the motion of
microscopic particle as in Copenhagen interpretation, then the
appearance of Psi has revealed what it describes is the real
discontinuous motion, which is essentially different from
classical continuous motion.

"Physicists prove that an atom can be in two different places
at once."  ------Scientific American

Since Psi was found by Schroedinger in Arosa, people have been
disputing with each other on its meaning, according to the
widely-accepted Copenhagen interpretation, the wave function Psi
in quantum mechanics provides a complete description of the motion
state of a single particle, this is undoubtedly a good beginning
for understanding quantum mechanics, but it is a pity that
Copenhagen interpretation did not further analyze the physical
result of this assumption, owing to a huge but unnoticed
prejudice {This prejudice is that classical continuous
motion is the only possible and objective motion of particles,
please refer to [1][2].}, it imprudently but doggedly asserts that
there does not exist the objective motion picture for the
microscopic particle at all, and the complete description provided
by Psi refers only to our knowledge about the microscopic
particle.

As we have demonstrated [1][2], the rejection of classical
continuous motion can't result in the rejection of the objective
motion of the microscopic particle, and as we will see in the
following, the appearance of Psi has already revealed the
objective motion of the microscopic particle.

Now we will analyze the direct physical result of the above
assumption, which says that the wave function Psi provides a
complete description of the motion state of a single particle,
since Psi(x,t) is defined in the infinitesimal time interval, and
the motion state of particle can be only defined in this time
interval, not one instant, Psi(x,t) will provide a complete
description of the motion state of particle during the
infinitesimal time interval, then |Psi(x,t)|^2 will denote the
objective probability of the existence of the particle in the
infinitesimal space interval near position x during the
infinitesimal time interval near instant t, or strictly speaking
in mathematics[1][2], |Psi(x,t)|^2 will denote the position
measure density of particle in the position x at instant t, this
means that the particle will move throughout the whole space where
Psi(x,t) spreads during the infinitesimal time interval, even
though it is still in one position at any instant, this kind of
motion is essentially discontinuous, in fact, Copenhagen
interpretation has rejected classical continuous motion, thus it
is very natural that if the objective motion of particle does
exist, it can only be discontinuous, then ironically Copenhagen
interpretation can't inhibit the existence of the above
discontinuous motion, on the contrary, it actually endorses its
existence.

Owing to the universality of the wave function Psi as the
description of microscopic particle, the motion of particle will
be universally and essentially discontinuous, this includes not
only its position, but also all the other quantities which can be
in a superposition state, for example, momentum and spin etc, the
deep analysis about this kind of discontinuous motion has been
given in another paper[1][2], this analysis further demonstrates
that Psi is the very mathematical complex describing this kind of
discontinuous motion, and Schroedinger equation is just its
simplest nonrelativistic motion equation.

This is just what Psi tells us, but we never listen to it
earnestly, its voice may be very weaker than the sermons of the
big shots, now it is lucky that we hear its voice at last, very
melting and real.


[1]Gao Shan, Quantum-Mind Digest, #1999-121, (1999)

[2]Gao Shan, physics/0001012 (2000)