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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Welcome to GT5 Wormholes Time machines and Energy conditions Chairperson Dr. Mark Hadley MG11 Berlin
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GT5 Schedule
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Would Einstein have come to this session?
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GT5 + Einstein + 1950 = χ Causality cannot be violated
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Bell’s Inequalities 1963 Aspect’s Experiments 1983 -------------- GT5 + 2006 + Einstein = God goes not play dice √
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Dr Mark Hadley Time machines and quantum theory
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Explaining Quantum Theory Bell’s Inequalities Aspect’s EPR Experiments We cannot explain quantum theory with any local hidden variables theory. We cannot model particles as 3-D solutions [of GR] that evolve in time.
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Evolving 3-manifolds… Prepare a beam of electrons Stern Gerlach X Y
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Spin measurement Venn diagram of all 3-manifolds X↑X↑ X↓X↓ Y←Y←Y→Y→ X↑ Y→ X↓ Y→ X↓ Y← X↑ Y← All manifolds consistent with the state preparation X↑ Y→ X↓ Y→ X↓ Y← X↑ Y← but, {X↑ Y→} does not exist in theory or experiment.
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Geometric models We cannot model particles as 3-D solutions that evolve in time. Need context dependence/ Non-locality Non-trivial causal structure as part of a particle: 4-geon
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Spin measurement {X↑ Y→} = ∅ √ X↑X↑ X↓X↓ Y←Y← Y→Y→ State preparation x-measurementy-measurement Sets of 3 manifolds Incompatible boundary conditions
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Quantum Logic Quantum theory is characterised by an orthomodular lattice of propositions – a non- Boolean logic. so is GR with a acausal space times. The only known way to represent experimental probabilities on such a lattice is using subspaces of a Hilbert space.
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Testing the orientability of space
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Testing the orientability of time ?
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Testing the orientability of time
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Acausal manifolds Mathematical and physical descriptions of a space time are not the same Space-time +The observer +The experiments +The results....are all interlinked Quantum theory gives a consistent description of such an interlinking.
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk GR may be the unifying theory after all
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Einstein Rosen Bridge is not time-orientable Einstein Rosen bridge: Phys Rev 48, 73 (1935)
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk Other results from non time- orientable manifolds Electric, but not magnetic chare from source-free Einstein-Maxwell equations Diemer and Hadley Class. Quantum Grav. (1999) Explains spin half Hadley Class. Quantum Grav. (2000)
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk 4-geon Non-trivial causal structure as part of the particle. Particle and its evolution are inseparable. Context dependent –Signals from the “future” experimental set up. –Measurement can set non-redundant boundary conditions (Time reversal is part of a measurement)
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mark.hadley@warwick.ac.uk A gravitational explanation for quantum theory Aims to explain –QM –Particle spectrum –Fundamental interactions Predictions –No graviton (Gravity waves are just classical waves) –Spin-half –Parity is conserved
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