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"JM Albuquerque" wrote in message
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Time is probabilistic? That's new.
Since time plays a major role in Physics, if time is probabilistic, as
you
say, notice that momentum should be probabilistic, force should be
probabilistic, energy probabilistic, power probabilistic and everything
must
be probabilistic.
I don't agree due to the obvious reasons.


Correct. And that it how I would justify the Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle.

I think that momentum, force, power and energy are all probabilistic on
the
quantum scale. Assuming that they still have meaning.

The argument is very simple. Consider a segment divided up into individual
Plancklengths. There is no reason why one configuration would make more
sense than another, so let it be indeterminate, a blur.

So, while it might make sense to mark off graduations like a ruler which
are
each 1 Plancklength long, it makes just as much sense to blur the whole
thing and let length be probabilistic. From there things get more
interesting.

But length, being equivalent to time according to SR, means that time is
also probabilistic. And this view seems to explain Paulus' femtosecond
interference experiments. Unless you wish to believe that there are "slits
in time" ? Or that the past can interfere with the future ?

I thing you have a strong point here.
You have just explained why SR and QM are incompatible.

Taking this subject a little bit further, one can say that gravity should
also
be probabilistic, since gravity is an accelerations it depends on time
squared.
How do you figure that probability squared?

I'm not an expert in QM, nor SR. My field is classic mechanics
(speciality on the gyroscope and harmonic oscillators, in all of which SR
fails because it doesn't work on accelerated frames of reference).

Looking at Paulus' femtosecond interference experiments:
http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/ggp/
I say that it looks like resonance.
The laser is an harmonic oscillator and then it is phase-dependent, so
it looks like much as a resonance phenomenon.
But photons don't have mass, so they can't have inertia and so cannot
have or induce resonance (without inertia no-resonance).