Medusa of Time
Subtitle: how technology redefines Copenhagen
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: August 2012
Place of publication: USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
Description: Which reality are we to believe? Our minds and logic tell us that the world in which we live is real. It’s concrete. It’s particulate. We can see it, touch it, taste it, smell it, and hear it. Science, on the other hand, suggests something else. Our minds may be deceiving us. The world, when we are not observing it, is totally different. We have always believed, when we closed our eyes or slept, that the world maintained its basic shape and substance…that is, things would be essentially the same when we woke up as when we went to sleep. The Copenhagen Interpretation tells us, however, that this simple assumption is not necessarily the case. When the world sleeps, our Universe may transform into a nonmaterial fairyland of ghostly waves and electromagnetic energy. Nothing is real--as we know it--anymore. Yet, when we awake, everything is just as we left it--or is it? Are my car keys really where I left them last night? The Copenhagen Interpretation may explain why we can’t locate those mischievous keys. Specifically, it states that, up until the time of observation, my car keys exist as a host of probabilities--as waves, including the possibility that they are now two inches, two feet, or even two miles from their last observed location. In Medusa of Time, Dr. Baumann reconciles the age-old question of why human observation appears to cause the collapse of the enigmatic wave function of quantum mechanics. Baumann continues to succeed where others have failed -- he transforms complex scientific concepts to understandable terms, even for the non-scientist. In this text, Lee Baumann explains the history behind Heisenberg’s “Kopenhagener Geist der Quantentheorie” and utilizes our recent technologic advances to redefine the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics. Baumann reveals how the inconsistencies and “incomplete” nature of the original theory can be resolved by accepting the extra-dimensionality of any wave’s natural, timeless state. Observation doesn’t transform waves to particles -- time does. Time does more than cause clocks to tick and our bodies to age. Time demands that the world in which we live exists as particulate matter. Waves, like Einstein's photons of special relativity, exist only outside of time -- and outside of our human reality. Lose your keys again? It may not be your fault!
Table of contents: title: Foreword	x; title: Chapter 1: Revisiting Copenhagen	1; title: Figure 1.1 The double-slit experiment	10; title: Chapter 2: Einstein’s Tree	16; title: Figure 2.1 An electromagnetic wave’s expanding wavefront	25; title: Chapter 3: The NIST and Quantum Zeno	28; title: Figure 3.1 A beryllium atom	30; title: Figure 3.2 Radio waves force the level 1 electrons to jump to level 2.	31; title: Figure 3.3 Monitoring the experiment prevented the electrons from moving to level 2.	33; title: Chapter 4: The Photon—Out of Sight, Out of Time	43; title: Figure 4.1 Moving observer measuring an approaching bullet’s speed	44; title: Figure 4.2 Moving observer measuring a bullet’s speed, same direction of travel	45; title: Figure 4.3 Newton’s prediction for the relative speed of light: 186,000 – 100,000 mi/sec or 86,000 mi/sec	46; title: Figure 4.4 Fact: Light’s speed remains constant at 186,000 mi/sec	46; title: Figure 4.5 Newton’s prediction for the relative speed of light: 186,000 + 100,000 mi/sec or 286,000 mi/sec	47; title: Figure 4.6 Fact: Light’s speed again remains constant at 186,000 mi/sec.	48; title: Figure 4.7 Quantum eraser experiment 1	51; title: Figure 4.8 Quantum eraser experiment 1 ―end is modified	52; title: Figure 4.9 Quantum eraser experiment 1: modifying the end altered light’s behavior in the middle.	52; title: Figure 4.10 Quantum eraser experiment 2	54; title: Figure 4.11 Quantum eraser experiment 2: upper arm only is modified	54; title: Figure 4.12 Quantum eraser experiment 2―modifying the upper arm alters light’s behavior in the lower arm.	55; title: Chapter 5: Entangle My Universe	58; title: Figure 5.1 EPR: two entangled progeny waves are released from a common source.	59; title: Figure 5.2 Researchers measure B’s characteristics.	60; title: Figure 5.3 Identifying B’s characteristics simultaneously forces the same properties upon A.	61; title: Chapter 6: Living in a Non-material World	65; title: Chapter 7: My Particulate Life	74; title: Chapter 8: Waves and Strings 101	82; title: Figure 8.1 A 3-D representation of an EM wave with its perpendicular magnetic and electrical components	84; title: Figure 8.2 Simple EM wave as commonly depicted in two dimensions	85; title: Figure 8.3 Our three spatial dimensions	86; title: Figure 8.4 A single spatial dimension as represented by string theory	87; title: Chapter 9: Collapsing Waves…What’s the Deal?	88; title: Chapter 10: A Polaroid of Polarization	103; title: Figure 10.1 Polarization filter ―illustrating the passage of one wave with its electric field component	108; title: Figure 10.2 Polarizer transmits nearly 50% of the light	108; title: Chapter 11: Dr. Higgs and Mr. Hide	113; title: Figure 11.1 Visualizing the Higgs boson: a massless “particle” interacts with the molasses of time	115; title: Chapter 12: Conclusions	119; title: Figure 12.1 Q.E. 1: Reversing polarizers (RPs) at the end negate the effect of a quarter-wave (QW) plate in the middle.	123; title: Figure 12.2 Q.E. 2: Upper-arm reversing polarizer (RP) negates the effect of a lower-arm quarter-wave (QW) plate.	124; title: Table 12.1 Features favoring mass versus masslessness	136; title: Index	141; title: Endnotes	150