Andrew Côté

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The mighty @skdh recently did a video on this, but she missed the actual critique and instead made some false statements about Aether Theory. First, what are actual issues with this paper? via @MaxDerakhshani "1) When he decomposes the real and imaginary parts of Schroedinger's equation into Madelung's equations, he neglects that the single-valuedness of the wavefunction already implies an energy-momentum quantization constraint at the level of the Madelung equations. In particular, the circulation of grad S (the fluid momentum) around any closed loop is quantized as integer multiples of Planck's constant. Energy-momentum quantization for bound states (e.g., atomic states) is a consequence of this quantization constraint that follows from the single-valuedness of psi translated into Madelung's equations. This is true for *any* simply-connected classical potential V in the Schroedinger/Madelung equations. The classical potential V corresponding to a classical ZPF, or not, has nothing to do with it. 2) If, alternatively, he were to take Madelung's equations (without the quantization constraint on grad S) as the starting point, and then take V to correspond to a classical ZPF, this still would not be sufficient to imply energy-momentum quantization for the Madelung fluid density. The reason is that, without the independent quantization condition on grad S, the circulation of grad S would be more generally multiply-valued than is required for energy-momentum quantization. That is, the generally multi-valued S function (basically the fluid "velocity potential") can take many more values at a single spatial point x than would be allowed by the independent quantization constraint. So, for bound states corresponding to a classical potential V, the corresponding energy and momenta smoothly interpolate between the quantized energy and momenta values allowed by the independent quantization condition. 3) Harold arrives at quantized solutions for the Madelung fluid density because he ignores the independent quantization condition on grad S (or S) and then makes a linearization approximation to Madelung's (nonlinear) equations and solutions thereof, i.e., the quantized solutions he obtains are artifacts of the linearization approximation. For *exact* solutions of Madelung's equations, it can be shown that for any simply-connected potential V the Madelung fluid density would *not* correspond to the quantized/bound states that he gets from the linear wave equation he derives as a result of the linearization approximation. 4) Harold does not seem to appreciate that the fluid interpretation of Madelung's equations (which was Madelung's own interpretation as well) is empirically inadequate (i.e., it leads to wrong empirical predictions) and doesn't explain the *experimental* fact of energy-momentum quantization. First, the Madelung fluid density for an N-particle system, lives not in 3-dimensional space but in 3N-dimensional space (whereas atoms and molecules and experimental apparatuses live in 3-D space). Second, Madelung's equations imply that Madelung's fluid density just continuously spreads out over time and thus can never become localized enough to accurately model macroscopic experimental apparatuses or particle-like detection events. If the fluid interpretation cannot do the latter, then it cannot explain the fact of determinate/definite experimental outcomes read out in macroscopic apparatuses localized in 3-D space. None of the above means that it's physically impossible to extract energy usefully from the ZPF (as understood in standard QED or viable heterodox versions of QED). Nor does it necessarily mean that Casimir's proposal for making useful ZPF batteries won't work. But it does, in my opinion, show that Harold's proposed theoretical underpinning of how the ZPF interacts with matter and can lead to useful energy extraction, is not correct." Finally, what @skdh got wrong about Aether theories, in @MaxDerakhshani's words: "The "original" aether theory "hasn't been ruled out for what the travel of light is concerned". The specific aether model that Michelson and Morely (MM) tested experimentally was ruled out, but it was hardly the first aether model nor the only one at the time. The aether models of Poincare and Lorentz, for example, were entirely compatible with the experimental tests of MM. And insofar as there exist nonlocal hidden-variables versions of QM, like de Broglie-Bohm theory and Nelson's stochastic mechanics, both of which require a preferred frame (hence an aether) and agree with all experimental tests of QM (and even QFT), as well as agree with the predictions of classical physics in a suitable 'classical limit', we know that there are and have been (for decades) aether theories that are entirely viable and consistent with modern physics. We even have a strong argument to the conclusion that an aether theory of nature of some kind is inevitable, due to Bell's theorem and its implications. None of this has anything to do with quasiparticles or analogies to them. 2) She completely missed the real issues with White et al.'s approach, namely, points 1-4 that I mentioned above, because she didn't understand the equations that White et al. use (Madelung's equations and the polar decomposition of Schroedinger's equation). For example, she claims that White et al. "put standard quantum physics into the assumptions for how the waves propagate, and this is why they get out the same". But that's incorrect, they don't put standard quantum physics into the assumptions because (a) they don't invoke any of the standard quantum measurement postulates, (b) the Madelung equations they use are incompletely derived from Schroedinger's equation (they leave out the quantization condition that I mentioned earlier above for grad S), (c) they truncate Madelung's equations through the linearization approximation and deal with solutions to a linearized wave equation for the Madelung fluid density, a wave equation that doesn't generically reproduce the solutions of Schroedinger's equation for bound states with simply-connected potential V (the H-atom case a special one) nor the empirical predictions of standard quantum mechanics for the H-atom, and (d) the quantized solutions break down beyond the linear approximation of Madelung's equations (minus the quantization condition). Exact solutions of Madelung's equations (without the quantization condition) don't entail any energy-momentum quantization."

"oh no, not more snorkeling"

We need to BioEngineer a species of shark that grows rows of turbine blade teeth, so we can just go snorkeling and collect single crystal ceramic composite shark teeth for our turbines. Baby shark teeth for the small turbines.

@elonmusk If you need someone to smoke cigarettes on the moon and machine aerospace components lmk

I don’t even smoke lol 💨

@cosmicfibretion @Matzan481_ The DoE national lab system exists because of the Manhattan project.

@Matzan481_ There was no breakthrough in fundamental physics in the Manhattan project. It was all nuclear and engineering physics.

Manhattan project begs to differ.

@davidu Are you saying carbon credit marketplaces can't secure energy independence? Europe in shambles

Basically every climate fund has pivoted from ecoslop to American Dynamism at this point. Understanding the earth and climate matters, but it's always been a bad financial investment thesis. wsj.com/business/energ…

@LegalPrimes by radio i meant *the voices*

@Andercot This station?

I'm about ready to buy a shack in the woods and spend my time milling aerospace components, smoking cigarettes, and listening to the radio.

@skdh You can even come see the founder present on the technical roadmap at my conference: deep-tech-week.com/events/b4efb60… Maybe you'd come to the Berlin edition and do a freestyle rap battle against string theorists

I have been alerted that the energy industry will soon be revolutionized by new technology to extract energy from the vacuum. I had a look at the paper. youtube.com/watch?v=wxc82V…

This is what American passenger rail looked like at its peak, over 50 years ago. There was a time when the United States had the greatest passenger rail system in the world. We've lost that. America deserves better. And we're building it: The next Golden Age of American Rail.

@StuartHameroff The question to be answered is produced a biophysical model whereby your proposed method of action can couple into action potentials and neural networks. It's fine to claim there's more going on but neural networks can explain a great deal of observed behavior

I disagree that action potentials are the fundamental mode in consciousness. They may just report conscious results from end-integration/orchestration, e.g. Orch OR among layer 5 pyramidal neuron soma with their huge arrays of mixed polarity microtubules. As the articles show, the brain uses photons and electromagnetic oscillations at multiple frequencies. How does the brain, and life in general transcend and integrate over spatiotemporal scale??? Microtubule time crystals engage in terahertz, gigahertz, megahertz, kilohertz and hertz (EEG). ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jc… These oscillations can be entangled and coherent across brain regions and support consciousness in the Orch OR theory. Terahertz: photons in EEG (Murugan) and microtubules (Craddock, Tuszynski) Gigahertz and megahertz inter neuronal signaling journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11… Kilohertz (Neuralink) Hertz Isolated microtubules oscillate at 39 hertz pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…

@thejesonlee Based

if you think raising $$ is the hardest part of your business, I have bad news for you

250km Railgun built along the slope of Olympos Mons launching robot factories into the outer system

I think starship has one of the best portfolios in all of deep tech. Maximal intersection of sci Fi and credible businesses.

@andrewchen Yeeep

AI is supposed to save me time, but now I find myself building stuff all evening and weekend and it's actually increasing my time in front of the computer WTF

Landauer showed why irreversible computation dissipates energy, but it was Charles Bennett that showed computation could be done reversibly - and his work built the foundations of our technology. Congratulations, Charlie! science.org/content/articl…

@Andercot For a long time, physics has consisted of waiting around for a new collider or telescope

Physicists: "The greatest issue of our time is that physics is fundamentally incomplete, that we have no firm footing from which to explain our best theories" Also Physicists: "That's completely impossible, the laws of physics forbid it."

This is pretty incredible tbh - one of the biggest issues in personalized therapeutics is the lack of targeted delivery to the actual mechanism in the body involved in the disease. Currently we are carpet-bombing tissue with tons of non-specific or off-target effects. No more.

@scotchmcclure @Rizstanford Conspiracy by Big Heat

@Andercot @Rizstanford Refreshing to see you describe it thus. Also, physics is not just incomplete but it is fundamentally flawed. Example: we know time is not linear. We KNOW this from Einstein. Yet, we force the Big Bang and linear time on everything. There are so many other examples.

You can mass produce nuclear reactors