Nonlocality: the Sequel
A few more thoughts/observations to consider on the nature of space.
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Everything is Everywhere
It’s pretty clear now that all physical matter is formed from electromagnetic waves - photons - travelling around in tiny loops [Spirals when that matter is moving]. We see those particles of matter, grouped together as objects (including ourselves), as localised - firmly located in a specific place. But this is a direct result of our own perceptual senses: we see, and feel, things by the electromagnetic field interactions between those things and our own sensory organs - and it’s in the nature of our senses to detect only the ‘cores’ of those particles.
But material particles don’t just consist of those ‘cores’. Electromagnetic fields, including those forming particles, don’t have an abrupt cutoff point; in fact they don’t have a cutoff point at all: it’s a well-known scientific fact that electric and magnetic fields are infinite in their extent (though of course diminishing with distance).
Certain physical devices, such as solenoids and Faraday cages, are reckoned to contain or block electric and magnetic field effects. But the Aharonov-Bohm Effect (listed by New Scientist as “One of the Seven Wonders of the Quantum World”) clearly shows quantum effects are not blocked by such barriers.
In other words, at a quantum level electromagnetic fields of the energy-flows forming material particles extend without limit - infinitely - in every direction. That’s to say, every material particle in the universe is infinite in its extent, at a quantum level rather than just a perceptual level.
This can be seen quite clearly just by considering the electrical charge on an electron, for example. It’s been clearly demonstrated - many times since first being observed in the 1920s, winning Clint Davisson a Nobel prize - that electrons can be scattered to produce interference patterns, showing that electrons travel as waves. Since the charge on an electron travels with that particle (naturally!), it follows that the charge must be an artefact of that waveform, travelling as part of that waveform - the charge is a spin-off (literally!) of the electromagnetic wave forming the electron [as first proposed in my peer-reviewed papers published in April 2011 and Nov 2011]. Since the field effect of that charge extends without limit, so also must the wave of which that effect is simply a by-product: the formative wave which is an electron (or any other particle) extends without limit - across the whole of the universe.
In short: the extended waveform of every particle in the cosmos is present to some degree at every point in the universe: everything is everywhere.
This provides a very cogent explanation for gravitation, as outlined in my Nov 2011 paper on that subject, also my Substack posts: Gravitation: What's the Big Attraction? and Gravity II: The Sequel. It also provides a rationale for what’s generally referred to as ‘collapse’ of a widespread electromagnetic wave carrying a photon when that photon registers at one point on that wavefront spanning potentially millions of square miles (as discussed in my previous post: Disentangling Quantum Entanglement). Far from that electromagnetic field effect simply instantly ‘ceasing to be’ over a vast area, the extended wavefront carrying that field effect is entrained into the equally extended waveform of the particle by which the photon is being absorbed.
It’s also very clear from this how two apparently ‘separate’ photons or electrons can act in unison over potentially vast distances, the well-verified phenomenon of quantum entanglement recognised in the Nobel awards of 2022: two such ‘entangled’ particles are in fact part of the same distributed composite entity, meaning that they share the totality of properties for such a pair, each taking up those parts of the dual energetic content which the other does not.
[This doesn’t of course explain how such sharing of energetic resources can take effect over such distances faster than the speed of light. That explanation will require a new understanding of the nature of time itself - as well as deeper insight into the nature of space (or more properly, what creates our perception of both space and time). There’s more about some of this in the pipeline, a few posts up ahead.]
As a footnote, this nonlocal perspective also confirms the notion that the universe is holographic: every smallest part of the cosmos carries an electromagnetic imprint, albeit infinitesimally faint in most cases, of every other part. In addition it provides an effective ‘random background noise’ that could arguably be responsible for the ‘random’ element in quantum outcomes, explaining yet another as-yet unexplained mystery of Quantum Mechanics - as described in detail in my earlier post: Quantum Randomness: Where did that come from? [See also my other post: The Cosmic Quantum Wavefunction - and What About Consciousness?]
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