The Theory of Definition And Mach's Principle

Nils Abramson
Hugo Abramson
Industrial Metrology and Optics / IIP
Royal Institute of Technology
10044 Stockholm 70, Sweden
nilsa@iip.kth.se

The Theory of Definition is similar to Mach´s Principle but carried out almost in.absurdum and based on the postulate: What can not be defined can not exist. Our postulate denotes that definitions are just as necessary for the functions of the physical laws of Nature as they are for humans to understand those laws. For example, in a totally empty universe we can not say (define) if a point object carries an electric charge. Consequently two electrons can not know that they should repel each other and any phenomena that depends on electric charge can not exist When matter is created by pair production it is not possible to produce an electron without producing a positron, because they have to define each other. It is not possible to destroy the negative charge of an electron without destroying an identical positive charge. These examples are consequences of the well known Conservation Laws. The situation is similar in Quantum Physics. Two photons in an entangled state have circular polarization in opposite directions. From Quantum Physics point of view the polarization is indefinable until measured. However, as soon as the polarization of one photon is measured (in contact with universe) and thus defined, then the other photon, independent how far away it is, obeys the conservation law by immediately obtaining the opposite polarization. The measurement of the first photon produces an angular momentum to universe which must be compensated by the other photon. Thus, it is not the human observation that defines the polarization, but the contact to our universe.