From: ben6993@hotmail.com   
      
   On Monday, October 10, 2022 at 6:20:43 PM UTC+1, nicolaa...  wrote:   
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   I am an amateur physicist, just at the point of calling it a day.  I have   
   a few days ago put online my final physics paper: on preons and Bell's   
   experiment.  So I hope you allow this post as a swan song.   
      
   Of course the experimentalists have worked well for their prizes.  But the   
   theoreticians still have work to do on this topic.   
      
      
   In the late 1960s I read a book about quantum particles on the magical   
   world of Mr Tomkins.  It was very exciting at the time but I now believe   
   it is very wrong physics. Particle entanglement of states is merely a sign   
   that calculations and observations cannot separate two items of raw data,   
   instead only the average is available. The raw data are not available for   
   entanglement, only the statistical, average value data are available.   
   Forget dead/alive cats as that is a distraction (and a waste of time).   
   Consider particles entangled with one another and with unknown spin   
   states.  The most believable assumption in my opinion is that nothing   
   travels faster than light.  Associated with this assumption is that   
   retrocausality is the key to this problem.   
      
   The implication of retrocausality is that quantum computers have no   
   foundation in physics as particle always have local hidden variables.   
   Also that time is two-way at the microscopic level.  It is possible that   
   quantum cryptography is supported by retrocausality as there is an   
   apparent action at a distance despite nothing physically travelling faster   
   than light locally.   
      
   Austin Fearnley   
      
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