I bet that circular crest's diameter is SNAT.
This nicely illustrates the geometry inversion at the unit boundary.
The rest of the article on the inner structure of the photon is at:
http://focus.aps.org/story/v8/st7#author
Photon crossection
Photon crossection
If the crest represents SNAT then the inner cone represents the Time
Region and the negative probability in the center may have a rational
explanation. My first two guesses are (1) it is either a Time Region
artifact or (2) the plot needs to be redone taking into account the
counter space geometry of the Time Region.
If the probabilities under the plot were integrated, you would expect the
sum to be one. I wonder if they did that?
Region and the negative probability in the center may have a rational
explanation. My first two guesses are (1) it is either a Time Region
artifact or (2) the plot needs to be redone taking into account the
counter space geometry of the Time Region.
If the probabilities under the plot were integrated, you would expect the
sum to be one. I wonder if they did that?
Re: Photon crossection
Horace wrote:
Horace wrote:
I've always treated it as a radius of SNAT; but I agree. The transition from positive to negative probability does indicate that it is leaving "space".I bet that circular crest's diameter is SNAT.
Horace wrote:
Given that counterspace is "negative space", the negative probability that is indicated in the article becomes a positive probability in counterspace.This nicely illustrates the geometry inversion at the unit boundary.
The rest of the article on the inner structure of the photon is at:
http://focus.aps.org/story/v8/st7#author
Every dogma has its day...
Photon crossection
The lead author of the paper, Dr. Alex Lvovsky, is now at the
University of Calgary leading the Quantum Information Technology
program whose home page is:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/index.html
I found the site quite interesting.
The complete PDF file of the original 4 page published
scientific article from Physical Review Letters Vol. 87 Number 5,
30 July 2001 is posted at:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/FockPRL.pdf
A slightly less technical statement is at:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/fock.html
A tantalizing statement, "... the nonlocal single photon is one
of those rare cases in physics when the experimental work is
ahead of theoretical" is on web page:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/nonlocality.html
I would restate that as, "Neither quantum mechanical theories
nor classical theories give adequate explanations for the
experimental data."
Is this an opportunity for someone in the RS world who can
provide a better theoretical explanation? A working knowledge
of quantum mechanical vocabulary will be required, because that
is the vocabulary of the technical papers.
University of Calgary leading the Quantum Information Technology
program whose home page is:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/index.html
I found the site quite interesting.
The complete PDF file of the original 4 page published
scientific article from Physical Review Letters Vol. 87 Number 5,
30 July 2001 is posted at:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/FockPRL.pdf
A slightly less technical statement is at:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/fock.html
A tantalizing statement, "... the nonlocal single photon is one
of those rare cases in physics when the experimental work is
ahead of theoretical" is on web page:
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/nonlocality.html
I would restate that as, "Neither quantum mechanical theories
nor classical theories give adequate explanations for the
experimental data."
Is this an opportunity for someone in the RS world who can
provide a better theoretical explanation? A working knowledge
of quantum mechanical vocabulary will be required, because that
is the vocabulary of the technical papers.