From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
Subject: re: Physics: The Good, The Bad, and The Bogus
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:44:10 GMT


"Make my day!" Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood.

Sarfatti replies to:
comments between *...*

From: mjh22@cl.cam.ac.uk (M.J. Hardcastle)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Physics - the Good, the Bad and the Bogus 1
Summary: silly question
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:27:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

Hasn't Sarfatti pinched the title of this thread more or less from a Martin
Gardner book?

*Yes, that was my humorous intention. "My object all sublime, I shall
achieve in time. To let the punishment fit the crime. The punishment fit
the crime!"*

Come to think of it, I remember one or two less than complimentary remarks
about one Jack Sarfatti in there...

*Maybe so, but at one point referring to my assertion that quantum
connection communication is possible, Gardner writes:
"I know of no other physicist who thinks it will work. If it does, Sarfatti
will become one of the greatest physicists of all time."  Indeed, Gardner's
colleague Marcello Truzzi writes of me:
"I admire that he has always emphasized the testability and falsifiability
of his hypotheses and urged their submission to empirical tests. Unlike
many others working on radical scientific theories, Dr. Sarfatti has always
been clear about what evidence would show that his ideas were wrong....
Dr. Sarfatti is very much an individualist, but I have always found him
highly articulate and a warm personality...Obviously he has gone his own
way certainly an academically unconventional path ... In the process he has
attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of persons both within the
science community and government. Clearly, he has taken a large risk in
pursuing his highly novel, creative, and controversial work; but he has
always understood that he is playing for very large stakes. If he is right
.... the rewards would be immense."

It is interesting that quantum connection communication only demands a very
minimal extension of the standard formalism that sacrifices only "off-
diagonal unitarity" and which conserves the sum of locally observable
probabilities to unity on each side of the apparatus. All that is needed
formally is a non-unitary transformation that collapses orthonormal states
to parallel states while preserving the norms of all states. Of course we
need a physical process to implement it. Such a process may be the
polarization sensitive transmitter interferometer with a half-wave plate
for photons in one path, or a spin flip coil for electrons or neutrons.
Specifically a minimally non-unitary quantum mechanics that permitted the
"quantum eraser" or "disentanglement" transformation

[|1+>|2+> + |1->|2->] -> |1+>[e^i&|2+> + |2->]

gives the testable quantum connection signal at the receiver of sin2@cos&
where @ is angle between transmitter and receiver polarizer beam splitters
and & is the transmitter interferometer phase shift. Both @ and & are
controlled from the transmitter which can act from the time-like future of
the receiver event in a delayed choice geometry. It can also act from the
absolute elsewhere outside the light cone of the receiver event. Paradoxes
are inhibited according to the "global self-consistency" constraint on
Feynman histories advocated by Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov as well as
anticipated by Godel, Hoyle and myself - independently.

Martin Gardner also wrote:

"Sarfatti is a leading theoretician among U.S. paraphysicists ... he began
to have 'odd subliminal experiences' ... He found he could practise
'automatic writing' ...and several of his published scientific papers ...
were written that way ....Think of the world as an immense, intricate
puppet show. Everything has a 'string' attached to it, and the strings are
all held by the Great Puppeteer ... its infinite strings provide a
connectedness that permits the transfer of information at instantaneous
speeds through space and time .... There are no instant signals in the
sense that energy is transferred... It is Sarfatti's persuasion that the
human mind has natural detectors of deBroglie waves on the quantum
molecular level. 'The introduction of this kind of direct quantum
information into waking consciousness often appears as paranormal ..."
excerpted from Martin Gardner's "Magic and Paraphysics" in Science Good Bad
and Bogus (1981) before the model now on the WELL and before the book by
Barrow and Tipler The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.

In quantum mechanics the measurement creates the measured property. Indeed,
Gardner's articles about me created me as a world figure in the New Age
more than anything else . Why did he do it. Whose influence operation? Is
Gardner a "Messenger of Deception"? Those of you who have read Robert Anton
Wilson's "The Illuminati Papers" and "The New Inquisition" as well as "The
Cosmic Trigger" and those of you who have read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's
Pendulum" know what that means.Is Gardner is one of the "Masters of the
Illuminati" who only pretends to be a skeptic? Indeed, at the time I was a
young fool - a Parsifal with Gardner as the Fisher King! Do not be fooled
by appearances!

There are some obvious questions nobody is asking. Questions of a political
nature dealing with "psychic warfare". I suggest you all go back and
download Mondo 112 is it. And think a little about the politics! (e.g. Ron
Mc Rae's MIND WARS, St. Martin's Press, Washington DC). Much of the work in
"remote viewing" has been funded by covert intelligence operations from
several nations whose successful objective was the defeat of the Soviet
Regime (e.g. Esalen-Soviet exchange program with Moscow Institute of US and
Canada which brought Boris Yeltsin to USA before he took power and which
now runs the Gorbachev Foundation USA).

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