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> "JM Albuquerque" wrote in message
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>> Time is probabilistic? That's new.
>> Since time plays a major role in Physics, if time is probabilistic, as
>> you
>> say, notice that momentum should be probabilistic, force should be
>> probabilistic, energy probabilistic, power probabilistic and everything
> must
>> be probabilistic.
>> I don't agree due to the obvious reasons.
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> Correct. And that it how I would justify the Heisenberg Uncertainty
> Principle.
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> I think that momentum, force, power and energy are all probabilistic on
> the
> quantum scale. Assuming that they still have meaning.
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> The argument is very simple. Consider a segment divided up into individual
> Plancklengths. There is no reason why one configuration would make more
> sense than another, so let it be indeterminate, a blur.
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> So, while it might make sense to mark off graduations like a ruler which
> are
> each 1 Plancklength long, it makes just as much sense to blur the whole
> thing and let length be probabilistic. From there things get more
> interesting.
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> But length, being equivalent to time according to SR, means that time is
> also probabilistic. And this view seems to explain Paulus' femtosecond
> interference experiments. Unless you wish to believe that there are "slits
> in time" ? Or that the past can interfere with the future ?

I thing you have a strong point here.
You have just explained why SR and QM are incompatible.

Taking this subject a little bit further, one can say that gravity should
also
be probabilistic, since gravity is an accelerations it depends on time
squared.
How do you figure that probability squared?

I'm not an expert in QM, nor SR. My field is classic mechanics
(speciality on the gyroscope and harmonic oscillators, in all of which SR
fails because it doesn't work on accelerated frames of reference).

Looking at Paulus' femtosecond interference experiments:
/ggp/
I say that it looks like resonance.
The laser is an harmonic oscillator and then it is phase-dependent, so
it looks like much as a resonance phenomenon.
But photons don't have mass, so they can't have inertia and so cannot
have or induce resonance (without inertia no-resonance).