From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
Subject: FEYNMAN 3
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:04:56 GMT


The book Genius by James Gleick, Pantheon-Random House 1992 ISBN 0-679-
4836-3.

Some one asked about "unitarity". In standard QM the unobserved system
evolves via a unitary time evolution operator generated by the Hamiltonian.
The adjoint (complex conjugate of transpose) equals the inverse. This
implies that the norm of the pure state is a constant of the motion. And,
therefore, that total probability is conserved in measuring eigenvalues of
an observable on the pure state.  One must extend this to mixed states
which are classical probability distributions of pure state. In a
measurement the state collapses in a non-unitary way to an eigenstate of
the measured observable.

There are problems when we are dealing with say a pair of correlated
particles measured at different times and different places that are
importnat in the controversy over faster than light communication on the
nonlocal quantum connection.

Back to Gleick's book:
"Originality was his obsession, He had to create from first principles - a
dangerous virtue that sometimes led to waste and failure. He had the cast
of mind that often produces cranks and misfits: a willingness, even
eagerness,mto consider silly ideas and plunge down wrong alleys." p.10

Mark Kac [I had course with him at Cornell in 50's], who was watching
Feynman at cornell:

' There are two kinds of geniuses, the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An
ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we
were only many times better. There is no mystery to how his mind works.
Once we understand what they have done, we feel certain that we, too, could
have done it. It is different with thamgicians. They are, to use
mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the
working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible.
Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they
have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students
because they cannot be emulated and it must be frustrating for a brilliant
young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which thr magicians mind
works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber."  p.11

In my superluminal retro-active world-picture, the "Mozart process", the
creative process of Kac's Magician is precognition coupled with tha acute
intelligence of the "ordinary" Genius of the first kind described by Kac.
The Magician is a kind of trance-medium channelling (to use New Age
vernacular) teletypes - telepathic messages form future advanced
intelligence that we are destined to evolve into. The basic picture is
given by Fred Hoyle in his book The Intelligent Universe. It is also
consistent with the Princeton PEAR results on precognitive remote viewing
funded by CIA. Feynman gave a talk at Cal Tech on Cargo Cult Science.
Feynman thought that psychiatry was cargo cult. But Feynman was a good
friend of John Lilly's. Feynman did go to Esalen. Lilly's book The
Scientist has the world view I am suggesting. My gedankenexperiment when
done as a real experiment will be the crucial test of this hypothesis on
the meaning of existence and the mechanism of the Magician's creativity.