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Thursday, April 9, 2020

More than impossible: negative and complex probabilities and their interpretation


What might mean “more than impossible”? For example, that could be what happens without any cause or that physical change which occurs without any physical force (interaction) to act. Then, the quantity of the equivalent physical force, which would cause the same effect, can serve as a measure of the complex probability.
Quantum mechanics introduces those fluctuations, the physical actions of which are commensurable with the Plank constant. They happen by themselves without any cause even in principle. Those causeless changes are both instable and extremely improbable in the world perceived by our senses immediately.
Even more, quantum mechanics involves complex probabilities as forces explicitly as follows. Any probability distribution may be represented by its characteristic function, which is its Fourier transformation and thus a complex function sharing one and the same phase, i.e. a constant phase. The overlap of probability distributions imposes a corresponding restriction of the degrees of freedom in each space of events for the result in any of the overlapped spaces is transferred automatically in all the rest of them. That restriction of the degrees of freedom can be considered as a generalization of the physical concept of force (interaction) as to quantum mechanics. Indeed, any force (interaction) in the sense of classical physics causes a special kind of restriction of the degrees of freedom to a single one. Quantum force (interaction) also restricts, but to a more limited probability distribution with less dispersion and entropy rather than to a single one new value.
Particularly, that consideration interprets negative probability as a particular case of complex probability, which is what is immediately introduced.
The understanding of probability as a quantity, corresponding to the relation of part and whole, needs to be generalized to be able to include complex values. For example, probability can be thought as associable with the number of elementary permutations of two adjacent elements for a given element of a limited series to reach its last element (i.e. its upper limit) and more especially, to the ratio of that number to the corresponding number of those permutations as to the first element (i.e. the lower limit) of the series. Then, the introduction of negative probability requires only the reversion of the direction of elementary permutations from the upper limit to
The narrow purpose of the paper is to be introduced negative and complex probability relevant to special and general relativity and thus to events in our usual perceptive world rather than to microscopic or micro-energetic events studied by quantum mechanics (Section 3).
The prehistory and background (Section 2) include the generalization and utilization of ‘negative and complex probabilities’ in quantum mechanics and probability theory, and Section 4 compares their use in quantum mechanics and information, signal theory, probability theory, and special and general relativity.





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:"Possible Worlds and Substances“ by Vladislav   Terekhovich: a Comment" as a video or @ EasyChair 









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