Who are we? What do we do?
Lasers and transistors are quantum devices, inventions comprising the basis of our technological civilization.
What if, as Einstein thought, quantum theory is incomplete? I.e., what if there exist additional "elements of reality" not currently incorporated into the body of our science?
After decades of dogmatic slumber, prominent physicists have recently come around to Einstein's POV as to whether God plays dice.
A newly republished article in Scientific American discloses that Paul Dirac, the father of quantum field theory, also agreed with Einstein.
An article in Nature explains that, contrary to what everyone thought, coherent quantum processes appear to be ubiquitous in the biological realm.
Now comes a second article, reversing what "everyone knew" about the master equation of quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's wave function.
Field Effect Technologies is an R&D venture founded by a former child prodigy, Brian J Flanagan, who has advanced all these positions for decades.
For the past 40 years, Mr. Flanagan has pursued an independent research effort, exploring AI, neural nets, machine vision, mathematics and quantum theory.
His efforts have garnered worldwide recognition and have been honored in a journal series on "Men Who Made a New Science."
He now believes, in light of recent developments, that the time is ripe for the 'D' phase of this R&D effort.
In the News
- Quantum theorem shakes foundations
- Physics of life: The dawn of quantum biology
- The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature
- Quantum: Einstein, Bohr & the Great Debate
- Researchers crack part of the neuronal code
- Fifth International Symposium on Quantum Interaction
- Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
So long as we adhere to the conventional notions of mind and matter, we are condemned to a view of perception which is miraculous. We suppose that a physical process starts from a visible object, travels to the eye, there changes into another physical process, causes yet another physical process in the optic nerve, and finally produces some effect in the brain, simultaneously with which we see the object from which the process started, the seeing being something "mental", totally different from the physical processes which precede and accompany it. This view is so queer that metaphysicians have invented all sorts of theories designed to substitute something less incredible.
~Russell
[If] one entity is influenced by another entity, in all known cases the latter one is also influenced by the former. The most striking and originally the least expected example for this is the influence of light on matter, most obviously in the form of light pressure. That matter influences light is an obvious fact — if it were not so, we could not see objects. The influence of light on matter is, however, a more subtle effect and is virtually unobservable under the conditions which surround us [...] Since matter clearly influences the content of our consciousness, it is natural to assume that the opposite influence also exists, thus demanding the modification of the presently accepted laws of nature which disregard this influence.
~Wigner
The notion of duality is important in projective geometry, having profound consequences for its development. Felix Klein's Erlanger lectures had promoted the idea that the geometry of transformation groups was the proper setting for generalizations of this relationship.
~Bryant
While a proper understanding of M-theory still eludes us, much is now known about it. In particular the various geometric results that have emerged from string theory become related in interesting but mysterious ‘dualities’ whose real meaning has yet to be discovered.
~Atiyah
The processes on the retina produce excitations which are conducted to the brain in the optic nerves, maybe in the form of electric currents. Even here we are still in the real sphere. But between the physical processes which are released in the terminal organ of the nervous conductors in the central brain and the image which thereupon appears to the perceiving subject, there gapes a hiatus, an abyss which no realistic conception of the world can span. It is the transition from the world of being to the world of appearing image or of consciousness.
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Thus the colors with their various qualities and intensities fulfill the axioms of vector geometry if addition is interpreted as mixing; consequently, projective geometry applies to the color qualities.
~Weyl
