Today I discovered a new book: Quanta by J. Andrade e Silva and G. Lochak. Well it was published in 1969 by World University Library. But, amazingly, it subscribes to a Louis de Broglie angle on the pilot wave, a more recent one which I hadn’t known about (since it’s been suppressed). Nevertheless what de Broglie discovered is something that I also have considered.

So I did a bit of searching to see what happened with it and sure enough there’s a recent paper which is totally amazing stating that indeed there’s no scientific reason not to believe in what are normally called

“Ghostfields” — or superliminal, faster-than-light quantum waves.

This acknowledgement by mainstream physicists totally boggles the mind — it’s an EXACT affirmation of what shamans have been experiencing .

On the Physical Reality of Quantum Waves
Journal Foundations of Physics
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0015-9018 (Print) 1572-9516 (Online)
Issue Volume 34, Number 11 / November, 2004
DOI 10.1007/s10701-004-1309-y
Pages 1675-1694
Subject Collection Physics and Astronomy
SpringerLink Date Tuesday, March 15, 2005

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On the Physical Reality of Quantum Waves

Gennaro Auletta1 Contact Information and Gino Tarozzi1 Contact Information
(1) Institute of Philosophy, University of Urbino, Urbino, 610 29, Italy

Received: 12 September 2004
The main interpretations of the quantum-mechanical wave function are presented emphasizing how they can be divided into two ensembles: The ones that deny and the other ones that attribute a form of reality to quantum waves. It is also shown why these waves cannot be classical and must be submitted to the restriction of the complementarity principle. Applying the concept of smooth complementarity, it is shown that there can be no reason to attribute reality only to the events and not to the wave or to the initial state of a given system. Thereafter, an experiment proposed by the authors is presented, where it is shown that the wave-like behaviour allows predictions that are not allowed on the grounds of a particle-like behaviour. In conclusion, we upheld that quantum waves must be real even if they do not belong to the same ontological level of events, which connected with particle detections.

Keywords complementarity – ghostfield – virtual field – potentiality – empty wave
Institute of Philosophy, University of Urbino, Urbino 610 29, Italy; tarizzi@uniurb.it

Contact Information Gennaro Auletta
Email: mdo509@mclink.it

Contact Information Gino Tarozzi
Email: tarizzi@uniurb.it

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