Time & Fractal

Vasil Penchev, Assoc. Prof.,

Institute for philosophical research
of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences
vasildinev@gmail.com
Forthcoming publication (where this
report is posted):
vasil7penchev.wordpress.com
 Five theses:
• According quantum information, a
physical meaning has not only |Ψ|2,
but the ψ-function itself.
• Two ways to describe a physical
object exist: from the object to the
whole (i.e. as moving object in space
time, from the whole to the object (i.e.
as a concrete asymmetry of a fractal
structure representing the whole).
 And the rest three theses:
3. Ψ-function represents such a concrete asym-
metry of a fractal structure in space-time.
4. Physical quantity representing a linear and
Hermitian operator in Hilbert space (i.e. Ψ1→
Ψ2 transformation) means some move-ment of
an object in space-time expressed by means of
a change of its definitive asymmetry with
regards to the whole.
5. Being of the physical quantity is information.
 The meaning of the report

One of the most difficult problems

of the philosophy of physics:
ontological compatibilty of
relativity and quantum mechanics
The first one is a local theory, the
second is a global one.
 For example, compatibility of:
• Relativity: • Quantum mechanics:
World line Ψ-function
Time ? Fractal structure?
From a part to From the whole to a
the whole part
Constancy Probability
Actuality Virtuality
 Building Up of:
World line: Ψ-function:
point by point level by level
- any point is a - any level is a level
moment of time of fractal structure
from a part (here from the whole (here
and now) to the and now), the 1st le-
whole as deve- vel, to the part as
lopment in time ‘∞th’ level
 Meaning of:
• Function of time • Fractal structure
Time – t Frequency ν = t-1
E = m.c2 E = ħ.ν
dσ = icδt + δr dΕ = iδE+cδp

dA = ds.dE = 0, i.e ‘time “ ” fractal’ (1)

2. dA = ds.dE = 0, i.e. ‘time “ ”fractal’

 What may it mean for
a part not to be ‘ ’ to the whole?
• a part • the whole
an element the set

a: a {a} = a
a: a {a} =

a:1 : β (0,1), β=:0,1 ‘ ’, ‘ ’

 About

• Constancy:  • Probability:
So constancy converts
into a special case of So probability is
the relation of
probability, i.e a relation
the relation of between ‘part’
‘part’ and ‘whole” and ‘whole’
 Any element:

• represents the • represents it it-

whole as identity self as differen-
of the levels of ce (deflection)
fractal similarity between the
• This is the basis levels
of a vector space This is an
(for example Hil- element of a
bert space) vector space
 So any motion as a relation between
two elements may be represented by:
• change of the ba- • change of the ele-
sis of the vector ment of the vector
space (i.e. covari- space (i.e. contra-
ant change) variant change)

Relativity: no experience might differ

anyway change of the basis from chan-
ge of the element
From “special” to “general” relativity:

Any motion “by itself” represents

a change of a vector space.
The simplest special case is then
when the vector space is “flat”: the
vector space coincides with its
conjugate space (for example Riesz
theorem)
More about that simplest special case:

Any part is independent of the

whole, to which ‘belongs’. We may
also say that the whole is always
the same. That’s way the relation
between ‘whole’ and ‘part’ is equal
to some property of the part
 The simplest special case about
subjective and objective probability
• Subjective • Objective
probability: probability:
waiting for the experiencing the
future past

They are if and only if : 1) any future

event is independent of any past event;
2) present is but a point
 Present is curvature of time!
• subjective proba- • objective proba-
bility bility
• waiting • experiencing

The “length” of present is the measure

of time curvature! This time length is
period of de Broglie’s wave, so it is
inversely of mass: the macro-world is
already “timely flat”!
Now about: whether any future event
is independent of any past one?
• The future event • The future event
repeats merely is absolutely
the preceding independent of
any past one

The future event may be causally

conditioned by any past one!
Get started a new comprehension of
causality!
• Fractal • Absolute indepen-
repetition dence of future from
past (Markov chain)
Causality represented by implication
Model:
Cause ‘0’ ‘0’ ‘1’ ‘1’
Effect ‘0’ ‘1’ ‘0’ ‘1’
Causality ‘1’ ‘1’ ‘0’ ‘1’
 A B (A B) ( A)

• a fractal part: • a Markov part:

effect repeats effect is absolutely
‘fractally’ cause independent of
cause
Probabilistic causality
means:

Cause causes effect with

some probability ‘p’: A 
If cause is available, then
effect is available with
probability p. If p = 1:
classical causality; if p=0:A, B
are absolutely independent
 difference
between correlation and
probabilistic causality
be?
• Correlation pre- • Probabilistic
suposes that there causality excludes
is a real ‘true’
cause, such a real ‘true”
cause which is a
hidden (compare cause
with ‘hidden
parameter’)
 y V e n n
i n i n g b
Exp l a
r a m s
diag
• A correlates with B• A causes B
‘probabilistically’
It means for us
to reject:

 
 Then ‘probabilistic causality’
means the following:
• The universal set • We may also think
being common for that the universal
both A, B doesn’t set changes: t1 t2
exist. We may
think that they (A Ut1 ) (B Ut2 )
belong to two So some elements
different univer- of A may disappear,
sal sets but new elements
may appear in B
Returning to classic causality…

• The whole is the

same
• Time is Newton one • All
• Energy is conserved are
• Correlation requires equal
for a hidden cause to
exist
Returning back to probabilistic
causality…
• The whole is not the
same This is the
• Time is not Newton Realm of
one quantum
• Energy is not con-
mechanics
served
• There are correla- and infor-
tions, but there aren’t mation
hidden parameters
 Probabilistic causality
generalizes per se… relativity
Now: no diffe-
rence whether
any part or
the whole Probabilistic
changes
causality means
relativity of
whole and part
 Generalized relativity
presupposes that motion of
whole and motion of part
are equivalent
We know much
about the
It means change of a frac-
motion of
tal structure into
part. What another. That is not a
about the
motion of change in time.
whole? Heidegger has spoken of
history of being
 We would be able to
comprehend
‘history of being’ as
‘change of whole’
• On the one hand, • On the other hand,
we may think better to think for
‘history of being’ ‘history of being’ to
as Plato’s eons be as Braudel’s
changing each other long run [la longue
in millenniums durée]
 From our, human point
of view…

And now: an unexpected comparison

… with the math definition of info:

I= f(t) ln φ(t) .dt

 I= f(t) ln φ(t) .dt
f(t)– a slow change, long
run
φ(t) – an usual run of time
ln – slows down φ(t) to f(t)
I= f(t) ln φ(t) .dt – a measure
of slow change, of long run
 Sat sapienti (a hint in future)

• The function of • The function of ln

ln transforms transforms an
multiplicative axis of Hilbert
(fast) groups space into an
into additive inertial reference
(slow) groups, so frame, so a point
a field into a of it into a world
(double) group line
 Two points of view:
• From the whole - 2. From the part:
the motion is the motion is
motion of motion of
whole. So any part. So any
physical quantity physical quantity
is a li-near is a linear
(Hermitian) transformatio
transformati n of part’s
on of the world line – in
whole – in relativity
 The concept of (quantum)
information units both of
them
A= ψ(x) F [ψ*(x)] .dx
Any physical quantity in QM
F: ψ(x) F [ψ*(x)] is a trans-
formation of the whole –
the measuring instrument
I= World line (t).ln ψ
 More about: I= W (t).ln ψ
(t).dt
Granted F: ln ψ(t) = Force{W (-t)}
Full analogy:
Operator Classical force
in QM, F acting ‘now’, F
ψ(x) F [ψ*(x)] .dx W (t). F{W(-t)}.dt
Physical quantity Information of
I
A motion I
 A general principle in two
forms:
• Expressed by the • Expressed by the
motion of whole: motion of part:
Quantum Relativity
mechanics
Operator Force
Physical quantity Motion information
Reality as Reality as
virtuality actuality
A basic idea of the report:
A basic idea of the report:

No Already Boundary –
since 1989’s falling the wall!
 Two ways to describe a physical
object exist:

• TA way is: from the • AAnother way is:

object to the whole from the whole to
– as a moving object the object – as a
in space-time concrete asymmetry
of a fractal
structure
representing the
whole
 Ψ-function represents such a
concrete asymmetry of a fractal
structure in space-time
 Physical quantity means some
motion of an object in space-time
expressed by means of a change of its
definitive asymmetry with regards to
the whole
Being of the physical quantity is
information