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the field descriptions of elementary entities (particle-wave dualism), and the second complementarity represents the teleological megascopic relationship between
the mechanical and the field descriptions of the whole Universe, where these two
descriptions in particular deal with the centre of gravity in different ways.
Whereas microscopic quantum physics, dealing with elementary particles as
‘basic building blocks’ out of which everything is made, reflects the ancient materialistic ideas of Democritus, megascopic quantum phenomena can be seen as a
reflection of Plato’s Forms. In the latter one can finally find the true relationship
between megascopic quantum jumps and time: these jumps do not proceed in time,
but time is created by them. At the megascopic level this gives rise to the concept
of quantum of time, which otherwise is unreachable at the microscopic level. In this
sense megascopic quantum jumps are a true clock of the Universe.
Restating that on one hand we have time evolution of the wave function, representing only Aristotelian potentiality, and on the other reality created during the
measurement process by timeless events, i.e. microscopic quantum jumps. This separation of events from time, as a classical entity, is the source of almost all philosophical problems of contemporary quantum physics, and since the origin of time is
rooted in megascopic events, we are able to finally reunite time and quantum events,
but in contrast to processes on a classical level these case events will be foundational and time subordinate. This idea goes back to Aristotle who defined time as,
we repeat, “the number of movement in respect of before and after”. Since it cannot
exist without succession, it does not exist on its own but only relative to the motions
of things.
To complete the formulation of megascopic quantum theory one needs to identify
megascopic mirrors of all basic axioms of the microscopic quantum theory in its
Copenhagen interpretation. There are five fundamental micro-megascopic mirrors:
1. First complementarity versus the second: While microscopic quantum theory
is founded on Bohr’s complementarity between mechanical (particle) and field
(wave) descriptions of elementary entities, megascopic quantum theory is based
on two megascopic complementary descriptions of the whole Universe, namely
a mechanical one representing its total wholeness, and the field one representing
its total fragmentation. The implementation of the second complementarity was
for the first time mentioned by Jordan [134].
2. Causality versus teleology: Microscopic quantum physics inherits causality (or
upward causality) from classical physics due to the Bohr principle of correspondence. Its megascopic mirror is teleology (or downward causality or final cause),
mentioned for the first time by Maxwell et al. [51] as resulting from a principle which, quote, unquote “is extra physical but not extra natural, and is acting
without exerting any force or spending any energy”.
3. Projections versus injections: Transitions between different states in microscopic
quantum physics are expressed as vector projections in Hilbert space. The
megascopic mirror of these projections is represented by injections that are
responsible for the transitions from the fragmented Universe into its wholeness
and vice versa, a statement given for the first time by Sheldrake and Bohm [16].
M. Svrˇ cek
the field descriptions of elementary entities (particle-wave dualism), and the second complementarity represents the teleological megascopic relationship between
the mechanical and the field descriptions of the whole Universe, where these two
descriptions in particular deal with the centre of gravity in different ways.
Whereas microscopic quantum physics, dealing with elementary particles as
‘basic building blocks’ out of which everything is made, reflects the ancient materialistic ideas of Democritus, megascopic quantum phenomena can be seen as a
reflection of Plato’s Forms. In the latter one can finally find the true relationship
between megascopic quantum jumps and time: these jumps do not proceed in time,
but time is created by them. At the megascopic level this gives rise to the concept
of quantum of time, which otherwise is unreachable at the microscopic level. In this
sense megascopic quantum jumps are a true clock of the Universe.
Restating that on one hand we have time evolution of the wave function, representing only Aristotelian potentiality, and on the other reality created during the
measurement process by timeless events, i.e. microscopic quantum jumps. This separation of events from time, as a classical entity, is the source of almost all philosophical problems of contemporary quantum physics, and since the origin of time is
rooted in megascopic events, we are able to finally reunite time and quantum events,
but in contrast to processes on a classical level these case events will be foundational and time subordinate. This idea goes back to Aristotle who defined time as,
we repeat, “the number of movement in respect of before and after”. Since it cannot
exist without succession, it does not exist on its own but only relative to the motions
of things.
To complete the formulation of megascopic quantum theory one needs to identify
megascopic mirrors of all basic axioms of the microscopic quantum theory in its
Copenhagen interpretation. There are five fundamental micro-megascopic mirrors:
1. First complementarity versus the second: While microscopic quantum theory
is founded on Bohr’s complementarity between mechanical (particle) and field
(wave) descriptions of elementary entities, megascopic quantum theory is based
on two megascopic complementary descriptions of the whole Universe, namely
a mechanical one representing its total wholeness, and the field one representing
its total fragmentation. The implementation of the second complementarity was
for the first time mentioned by Jordan [134].
2. Causality versus teleology: Microscopic quantum physics inherits causality (or
upward causality) from classical physics due to the Bohr principle of correspondence. Its megascopic mirror is teleology (or downward causality or final cause),
mentioned for the first time by Maxwell et al. [51] as resulting from a principle which, quote, unquote “is extra physical but not extra natural, and is acting
without exerting any force or spending any energy”.
3. Projections versus injections: Transitions between different states in microscopic
quantum physics are expressed as vector projections in Hilbert space. The
megascopic mirror of these projections is represented by injections that are
responsible for the transitions from the fragmented Universe into its wholeness
and vice versa, a statement given for the first time by Sheldrake and Bohm [16].