Counterportation & TGD

Abstract

Hatim Salih has introduced the concept of counterportation. It is communication that does not involve classical or quantum signals (photons). Counterfactuality is a basic concept: the first web source that one finds tells "Counterfactuals are things that might have happened, although they did not in fact happen. In interaction-free measurements, an object is found because it might have absorbed a photon, although actually it did not." In the case considered, the blocking or opening of a channel involved in the arrangement corresponds to a communication of bit by teleportation and involves no photon transfer between Alice and Bob. This looks rather paradoxical and Salih suggests that the description of the situation requires new notions at the space-time level. The blocking and opening of the channel is nanoscopic or even macroscopic operation and has non first principle description in the standard quantum theory. The proposal of Salih is that wormholes, proposed to serve as correlates for quantum entanglement, are involved. In the TGD framework, the generalization of point-like particles to 3-surfaces implies that space-times identified as 4-surfaces in M⁴ x CP² satisfy holography, being therefore analogous to Bohr orbits. This forces a new ontology that I call zero energy ontology (ZEO). ZEO solves the basic paradox of the quantum measurement theory. Also quantum coherence is made possible in arbitrarily long scales due to the predicted hierarchy of effective Planck constants predicted by the number theoretical view of TGD. The new topological and geometric degrees of freedom would naturally correspond to new quantum coherent degrees of freedom in long scales. This suggests a description of the blocking and opening operations as space-time engineering changing the connectedness properties of the space-time surfaces associated with the counterportation. The identification of the blocking operation and its reversal as a reconnection for a pair of monopole flux tubes connecting two systems is natural. Reconnections appear in the TGD framework in all scales, in particular in living matter where they define a basic mechanism of biocatalysis and serve as a control tool of the magnetic body serving as a "boss".