Physicist Alain Aspect, PhD, is an expert in the Einstein Podolski Rosen Experiment (EPR), and his work on verifying, through his own experiments, the breaching of Bell’s inequality is second to none. His experiments verified that, what Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’, is a property of the quantum world. I wrote about the results of EPR (TotIs, chapter 8), and applied those results as evidence for the idea that time’s movement does not exist in the way we experience it.
EPR, Bell’s inequality, and its breach, have been one of those defining experiments in modern physics that changed the way we view reality. It is akin to the Michelson Morley experiment, along with its negative results, where searching for the luminiferous aether (TotIs, chapter 9) ultimately opened the way to the realization of relativity.
Dr. Aspect’s recent paper: “From Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger to Bell and Feynman: a New Quantum Revolution?” deals with the ideas emanating from EPR, Bells inequality, its breach and the logic and math behind that breach, along with the validity of the outcome of the proof of that breach. What most intrigued me was his discussion of the Loophole-free tests in section 7.2.
Once it was possible to experimentally test for what Einstein called ‘hidden variables’, or ‘supplementary parameters’, in Quantum Mechanics, it was understood that the actual experiments could leave open loopholes to allow for those results, while keeping such supplementary parameters in place.
Dr. Aspect identified three loopholes that could negate the findings of the breach of Bell’s inequality. He defined them as: 1. Locality loophole, 2. Sensitivity loophole, and the 3. Free-will loophole. In his paper, Dr. Aspect accounts for and dismisses the first two loopholes, via other experimental evidence. What remains, and cannot be disavowed, is the third, the free-will loophole. This loophole’s foundation can be seen as based on the reality of a non-flowing nature for time. This nature of time reveals a universe that is both deterministic, and static (from an antIs perspective). There are a number of Einstein quotes that have inspired me to continue my explorations in this arena, but in regards to EPR, this one is most intriguing:
”Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
I have heard other physicists comment with similar views, and the crux of the matter seems to revolve around the idea that time should not have any ‘movement’, that is, it should, like space, exist in toto all around us. As TotIs proposes, the problem for us ‘observers’ of reality revolves around the idea that observation, which is the activity of observers, is relegated only to biological entities. As TotIs details, the act of observation itself is an illusion. This is the source of the ‘persistent illusion’ Einstein has alluded to on occasion. The very activity of observation via our bio-sensory system creates an antIs experience, and is the source of time’s arrow for observers. If biology is supplying the ‘experience’ of flowing time when it actually doesn’t exist, then the free-will loophole would remain not just viable, but the explanation for the results of the experiments showing a breach of Bell’s Inequality, and much more.
