This paper presents a new `partitional’ approach to understanding or interpreting standard quantum mechanics (QM). The thesis is that the mathematics (not the physics) of QM is the Hilbert space version of the math of partitions on a set and, conversely, the math of partitions is a skeletonized set level version of the math of QM.
“Follow the Math” Preprint
February 26, 2023 by
The slogan “Follow the money” means that finding the source of an organization’s or person’s money may reveal their true nature. In a similar sense, we use the slogan “Follow the math!” to mean that finding “where the mathematics of QM comes from” reveals a good deal about the key concepts and machinery of the theory.
The Logical Theory of Canonical Maps
July 11, 2020 by
The purpose of this paper is to show that the dual notions of elements & distinctions are the basic analytical concepts needed to unpack and analyze morphisms, duality, and universal constructions in the Sets, the category of sets and functions.
Negation and Implication in Partition Logic
July 4, 2020 by
Our purpose in this paper is to explore the notions of negation and implication in that other mathematical logic of partitions.
Extending All Boolean Operations to Partitions
June 11, 2019 by
The lattice operations of join and meet were defined for set partitions in the nineteenth century, but no new logical operations on partitions were defined and studied during the twentieth century. Yet there is a simple and natural graph-theoretic method presented here to define any n-ary Boolean operation on partitions. An equivalent closure-theoretic method is […]
New Light on the Objective Indefiniteness or Literal Interpretation of QM
December 17, 2018 by
This paper shows how the mathematics of QM is the math of indefiniteness and thus, literally and realistically interpreted, it describes an objectively indefinite reality at the quantum level. In particular, the mathematics of wave propagation is shown to also be the math of the evolution of indefinite states that does not change the degree of indistinctness between states. This corrects the historical wrong turn of seeing QM as “wave mechanics” rather than the mechanics of particles with indefinite/definite properties.
A Note on Spencer-Brown’s Algebra
April 17, 2018 by
George Spencer-Brown in his cryptic book, Laws of Form, started off reasoning about “the Distinction” and ended up with an algebra that later writers showed to be the Boolean algebra of two elements.
Talk: Hamming distance in classical and quantum logical information theory
January 12, 2018 by
This is a set of slides from a talk on introducing the Hamming distance into classical logical information theory and then developing the quantum logical notion of Hamming distance–which turns out to equal a standard notion of distance in quantum information theory, the Hilbert-Schmidt distance.
Talk: New Foundations for Quantum Information Theory
November 28, 2017 by
These are the slides for a talk given at the 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics on Crete in August 2017.
Talk: New Foundations for Information Theory
November 28, 2017 by
These are the slides for a number of talks on logical information theory as providing new foundations for information theory.