Distinguishing between evidence and its explanations in the steering of atomic clocks |
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Authors: | John M Myers F Hadi Madjid |
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Institution: | 1. Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;2. 82 Powers Road, Concord, MA 01742, USA |
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Abstract: | Quantum theory reflects within itself a separation of evidence from explanations. This separation leads to a known proof that: (1) no wave function can be determined uniquely by evidence, and (2) any chosen wave function requires a guess reaching beyond logic to things unforeseeable. Chosen wave functions are encoded into computer-mediated feedback essential to atomic clocks, including clocks that step computers through their phases of computation and clocks in space vehicles that supply evidence of signal propagation explained by hypotheses of spacetimes with metric tensor fields. |
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Keywords: | Evidence Atomic clock Unpredictability Turing machine Wave function Spacetime curvature |
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