Departures

 

 

 

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1  WAVES

 

1.1  The Wave Equation and Permutation of Rays

3

1.2  Preserving the Wave

8

1.3  Spherical Waves in Higher Dimensions

12

1.4  Causality and the Wave Equation

19

1.5  Waves in Ascending and Descending Dimensions

31

1.6  Null Cones in Cylindrical Dimensions

37

 

 

2  AUTOMATA

 

2.1  Cellular Automata

44

2.2  Impossible Strings for Cellular Automata

57

2.3  Global Reversibility of Cellular Automata

60

2.4  Function 34776

67

2.5  Binary Reverse-Sum Automata

71

2.6  LXOR Cellular Automata and Perpendicular Causation

79

 

 

3  EIGEN SYSTEMS

 

3.1  Eigen Duality and Quantum Measurement

84

3.2  Eigen Systems

92

3.3  Quasi-Eigen Systems

97

3.4  Eigenspaces and Automedian Cycles

102

 

 

4  INFINITE GRID

 

4.1  Infinite Grid of Resistors

109

4.2  The Algebra of an Infinite Grid of Resistors

120

4.3  Resistor Grids and Matrix Square Roots

132

4.4  An Infinite Series for Resistor Grids

143

4.5  Gravity of a Torus

150

 

 

5  FORCES

 

5.1  Musings on Attractive Forces

156

5.2  Central Forces from Retarded Action

161

5.3  Non-Laplacian Interactions

167

5.4  Higher-Order Newtonian Dynamics

175

 

 

6  QUANTUM

 

6.1  Something Like Quantum Mechanics

181

6.2  Quantum Interactions On Null Surfaces

183

6.3  Is Entropy Quantized?

185

6.4  Hawking Radiation as Delayed Choice

189

6.5  Hawking Radiation and Super-Acoustic Diffusion

192

6.6  Potential Energy, Inertia, and Quantum Coherence

198

7  COMPUTATION

 

7.1  On Cumulative Results of Quantum Measurements

206

7.2  Is the World Provably Indeterminate?

212

7.3  Can Schrodinger's Cat Factor Numbers?

216

7.4  A Method Of Factoring Based On 1/N

219

7.5  Continuous Turing Machines

222

7.6  The Complex Domain of Probability

225

7.7  Probabilities and Velocities

230

 

 

8  INTERACTIONS

 

8.1  Aliasing and Uncertainty

233

8.2  The Filter Of Observation

237

8.3  The Ordering of Interactions

247

8.4  Transfer Functions and Causation

250

8.5  Guessing Faster Than Light

256

 

 

9  FOUNDATIONS

 

9.1  Dialogue on the Foundations of String Theory

259

9.2  An All-Collapse Interpretation

270

9.3  Dialogue on Many Worlds

272

9.4  Quantum Mechanics and Separability

302

9.5  Einstein, Bohr, Bell

310

9.6  Information and Energy

314

9.7  On the Correlations of Entangled Particles

320

 

 

APPENDICES

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