Megascopic Quantum Phenomena
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goals it was stated: “He [Löwdin] referred to a so-called pure theory in a restrictive
sense, ‘if it derives for instance chemical data from the knowledge of only the physical values of the electronic mass and charge, Planck’s constant, the atomic numbers
and the form of the Schrödinger Equation, which itself represents the quintessence
of a great deal of physical experience’…”. Löwdin was of course well aware of the
impossibility to derive the Coulomb Hamiltonian from first principles as well as of
other limitations and possibilities offered by a structural approach. Even if the concept
of quantum chemistry is very expedient and practical, it does not, as already stated,
give any answers to the Sutcliffe-Woolley clamped-nuclei paradox, see Sect. 2, and
to the Santilli’s “no reduction theorem” paradox, see Sect. 3. Authentic pre-Cartesian
quantum chemistry differs from the pre-/post-Cartesian mix, i.e. standard quantum
chemistry. The former deals with teleological megascopic phenomena, and in addition to chemistry and chemical reactions, it also comprises such phenomena that
have no quantum physical explanation, such as the Einstein-de Haas effect and the
brittle fracture phenomenon and those with false microscopic interpretation, like
superconductivity and superfluidity.
Standard quantum chemistry has encouraged the idea that after centuries of
progress physics and chemistry can finally ‘sit under one roof’ in the sense that
these two disciplines of natural sciences refer to the same microscopic quantum
laws. In contrast, however, authentic pre-Cartesian quantum chemistry forms a
megascopic complement to microscopic quantum physics. Metaphorically, one might
aver: what elementary particles and the conscious mind mean for pre-Cartesian quantum physics, is analogous to what the whole Universe and the collective unconscious
mean for pre-Cartesian quantum chemistry. In the material world, elementary particles represent the smallest one and the Universe the Greatest One. There is a parallelism in the mind world: Observers’ conscious minds represent the smallest one
and the collective unconscious the Greatest One.
In microscopic quantum physics the von Neumann–Wigner rule binds together
elementary particles with the conscious mind, and the megascopic rule binds together
the whole Universe with the collective unconscious. An observer’s activity, i.e. a
measurement, causes microscopic quantum jumps and hence a discontinuity of the
deterministic Schrödinger equation. All events in our world must have a reason.
Therefore it is reasonable to postulate a similar megascopic analogy: the existence of
megascopic “measurements” as an activity of the collective unconscious must cause
megascopic quantum jumps. Due to Jung’s celebrated formulation of the concept of
the collective unconscious, we might venture to call the megascopic mirror of the
von Neumann–Wigner rule as the Jung rule. Having finally found the last requested
megascopic mirror, the Jung rule, we can summarize all mirrors in Table 2.
From our previous thoughts about the free will, formulated in Sect. 8, two additional mirrors can be revealed, namely the reflections of microscopic quantum physical laws in the collective unconscious and the reflections of megascopic quantum
chemical laws in the observer’s conscious mind constituting a form of free will
decisions. They will be called the crosswise-law mirrors. The first mirror, mentioned above, is supported by physicists such as Poincaré, Penrose and Compton,
i.e. Poincaré’s unconscious disorder born on chance, Penrose’s largely unconscious
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goals it was stated: “He [Löwdin] referred to a so-called pure theory in a restrictive
sense, ‘if it derives for instance chemical data from the knowledge of only the physical values of the electronic mass and charge, Planck’s constant, the atomic numbers
and the form of the Schrödinger Equation, which itself represents the quintessence
of a great deal of physical experience’…”. Löwdin was of course well aware of the
impossibility to derive the Coulomb Hamiltonian from first principles as well as of
other limitations and possibilities offered by a structural approach. Even if the concept
of quantum chemistry is very expedient and practical, it does not, as already stated,
give any answers to the Sutcliffe-Woolley clamped-nuclei paradox, see Sect. 2, and
to the Santilli’s “no reduction theorem” paradox, see Sect. 3. Authentic pre-Cartesian
quantum chemistry differs from the pre-/post-Cartesian mix, i.e. standard quantum
chemistry. The former deals with teleological megascopic phenomena, and in addition to chemistry and chemical reactions, it also comprises such phenomena that
have no quantum physical explanation, such as the Einstein-de Haas effect and the
brittle fracture phenomenon and those with false microscopic interpretation, like
superconductivity and superfluidity.
Standard quantum chemistry has encouraged the idea that after centuries of
progress physics and chemistry can finally ‘sit under one roof’ in the sense that
these two disciplines of natural sciences refer to the same microscopic quantum
laws. In contrast, however, authentic pre-Cartesian quantum chemistry forms a
megascopic complement to microscopic quantum physics. Metaphorically, one might
aver: what elementary particles and the conscious mind mean for pre-Cartesian quantum physics, is analogous to what the whole Universe and the collective unconscious
mean for pre-Cartesian quantum chemistry. In the material world, elementary particles represent the smallest one and the Universe the Greatest One. There is a parallelism in the mind world: Observers’ conscious minds represent the smallest one
and the collective unconscious the Greatest One.
In microscopic quantum physics the von Neumann–Wigner rule binds together
elementary particles with the conscious mind, and the megascopic rule binds together
the whole Universe with the collective unconscious. An observer’s activity, i.e. a
measurement, causes microscopic quantum jumps and hence a discontinuity of the
deterministic Schrödinger equation. All events in our world must have a reason.
Therefore it is reasonable to postulate a similar megascopic analogy: the existence of
megascopic “measurements” as an activity of the collective unconscious must cause
megascopic quantum jumps. Due to Jung’s celebrated formulation of the concept of
the collective unconscious, we might venture to call the megascopic mirror of the
von Neumann–Wigner rule as the Jung rule. Having finally found the last requested
megascopic mirror, the Jung rule, we can summarize all mirrors in Table 2.
From our previous thoughts about the free will, formulated in Sect. 8, two additional mirrors can be revealed, namely the reflections of microscopic quantum physical laws in the collective unconscious and the reflections of megascopic quantum
chemical laws in the observer’s conscious mind constituting a form of free will
decisions. They will be called the crosswise-law mirrors. The first mirror, mentioned above, is supported by physicists such as Poincaré, Penrose and Compton,
i.e. Poincaré’s unconscious disorder born on chance, Penrose’s largely unconscious