[General] [SPAM?] Re: research papers

[Richard Gauthier]

Hi Chip, Al, Adam and others,

Here’s a well-known quote by A. O. Barut that I included in my 2009 article “The Dirac equation and the superluminal electron model” at  http://www.superluminalquantum.org/diracequation.pdf <http://www.superluminalquantum.org/diracequation.pdf> : 
More recently, physicist A.O. Barut (1991) summarized the problem of visualizing the structure of the electron: “If a spinning particle is not quite a point particle, nor a solid three dimensional top, what can it be? What is the structure which can appear under probing with electromagnetic fields as a point charge, yet as far as spin and wave properties are concerned exhibits a size of the order of the Compton wave length?” 

> On Oct 30, 2015, at 10:23 AM, af.kracklauer at web.de wrote:
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> Hi Chip:
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> Some thoughts below:
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> Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015 um 15:57 Uhr
> Von: "Chip Akins" <chipakins at gmail.com>
> An: "'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion'" <general at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org>
> Betreff: Re: [General] [SPAM?] Re: research papers
> Hi Al
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> No, I was not referring to A. O. Barut's work but rather to the recent work of Robert Close and Joy Christian. I don’t think I have seen A. O. Barut's work. Will look at it.
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> Al: Been a while since I read JC!
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> Question Al: When you say, “The "locality loophole" always struck me ridiculously far-fetched!” Do you mean that you feel that “entanglement” is real?
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> Al:  Absolutely not!  I hold that "entanglement" is a totally erronous idea, feed by two basic errors: 1) von Neumann's 'Projection Hypothsis', and Bell's faulty inequality derviation (a la Edwin Jaynes).  The result:  all entanglement can be accounted for by a 'common cause' just like for ordinary correlation (which is what it is).  What I meant is that, collaborating detectors, as if they were politicians (or lacking a physical means to communicate superlumnally) is just wild sci-fi!  Something done by those mystifcating physics.
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> Al : Best
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> Chip
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> From: General [mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] On Behalf Of af.kracklauer at web.de
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 9:43 AM
> To: general at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org
> Cc: 'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion' <general at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org>
> Subject: Re: [General] [SPAM?] Re: research papers
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> Hi Chip et al.
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> Of course I endorse your two first sentences. Regarding the third: are you refering to A. O. Barut's earily 90's paper in Found. Phys.?
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> Also:  spin & point particles:  Logically a point particle cannot exhibit spin or any kind of rotation about is axis (using that term with reservation) .  However, it could gyrate.  In fact if it does Zitterbewegung in a magnetic field, seems to me it would have to be induced to gyrate, albeit randomly.  Nevertheless, an ensemble would tend, under the mutual interaction, to seek an energy stable point such that the right and left gyration ration would be proportional to the Boltzmann energy distributio function of temperature, etc.
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> BTW, the Delft group's claims are inline with the standard folklore among quantum opticians over the past 20 years.  The "locality loophole" always struck me rediculously far fetched!
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> Regards,  Al 
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> Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015 um 14:01 Uhr
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