Current science definitions followed by their quantum realism (QR) interpretation.
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Anti-matter. Every matter particle has an anti-matter version with the same mass but opposite charge and magnetism, for a reason that current physics can’t explain.
QR: Anti-matter occurs when matter processing runs in reverse, to give the same net processing (mass) but opposite remainder (charge) and spin (magnetism).
Anti-time. Feynman diagrams show anti-matter going backwards in time, for a reason that current physics can’t explain.
QR: Anti-matter runs matter processing in reverse, so its time runs in reverse.
Asynchrony. When processors cycle at their own rate with no common clock.
QR: The quantum network is asynchronous but the transfer of light tends to synchronize it.
Attention. The ability to focus on an experience, like a sound, sight, or smell.
QR: The collapse of a global neural entanglement at a point in the brain’s electro-magnetic field.
Bandwidth. The capacity of a channel to transfer information or processing.
QR: One quantum channel has a bandwidth of one quantum process, which is one photon.
Being. A person or thing that exists (Cambridge Dictionary).
QR: The server that chooses where a quantum wave restarts and observes the physical event.
Big bang. That all the matter-energy of the universe expanded from a point singularity.
QR: The universe began with a little rip in the quantum fabric, not a big bang singularity.
Black hole. A matter singularity whose gravity is so strong that light can’t escape from it.
QR: A region of space whose bandwidth is full, not a singularity.
Blindsight. The ability to catch a ball while not conscious of seeing anything at all.
Boson. An integer spin particle like a photon that can’t collide with similar bosons.
QR: If extreme light collided to create matter, bosons can potentially collide.
Brain waves. Electro-magnetic waves caused by neural synchrony that scalp electrodes detect.
Breit-Wheeler process. A process that lets photons create electron-positron pairs, i.e. matter.
Cartesian space. A linear space defined by orthogonal real coordinates (x, y, z, …).
QR: A space that expands at its edges from a center in itself, unlike our space which is expanding everywhere at once from no center within it.
Casimir effect. Two conducting plates placed close together in a vacuum experience a force pushing them together, so empty space can’t be empty.
Cerebellum. Part of the brain that bulges out from its base and contains about 80% of its nerves.
Channel. A link between network points that can transfer processing, up to its bandwidth.
QR: A channel between adjacent points of the space network can transfer one quantum process.
Channel set. The set of channels that transfers a light ray with photons in all polarization planes.
Charge. An inherent matter property that causes electrical effects, unrelated to mass.
QR: Matter is quantum processing constantly restarting, where the constant net value produced is mass, and the constant remainder is charge, so mass and charge are related.
Childhood amnesia. The inability to remember events before a certain age, because the limbic system that lays down memories hasn’t yet matured enough to do so.
Choice. The ability to independently select one from a set of possible physical results, which exists because no physical history can predict quantum events like radiation.
QR: Quantum theory allows choice because where a quantum wave restarts in a physical event depends on server choices made outside the physical world.
Client-server relation. A network relation that partitions work between a server and a client, so a server laptop sending data to a printer client can restart the job if it fails.
QR: A photon wave that restarts after it spreads must also be a client-server relation because the wave can’t restart itself, so a server is needed to do that.
Coherence. Waves are coherent if their frequency and form are identical. When nearby coherent quantum waves restart, they entangle into a single entity or ensemble.
Complex plane. The plane into which light waves vibrate, which is said to be imaginary.
QR: If a dimension outside space exists, the complex plane isn’t imaginary.
Consciousness. The unalloyed capacity to experience a physical event, often assumed to be limited to human beings.
QR: The ability to experience physical events is inherent to all quantum entities, so consciousness isn’t limited to human beings.
Conservation of photons. That the number of photons in the universe has been constant since inflation ended, whether they are free or trapped in matter.
Copenhagen interpretation. That quantum waves can exist for the purpose of physics equations without actually existing, so quantum theory is a useful description of nothing.
QR: Quantum waves actually exist, so quantum theory isn’t a theory of nothing.
Corpus callosum. The 800 million nerves that connect the hemispheres of the brain. If cut, consciousness divides to give each hemisphere its own consciousness.
Cortex. The folded layer of nerves that evolved from the forebrain to wrap around the midbrain and the hindbrain. It occupies 80% of the human brain but only has 20% of its nerves.
Cosmic microwave background. White hot light from the early universe that is now cold due to the expansion of space, and is still all around us for some unknown reason.
QR: Cosmic microwave background is still around us because space is a hypersphere surface.
Cycle rate. Processing cycles per second, so a gigahertz processor is a billion cycles/second.
QR: The quantum cycle rate is about ten million, trillion, trillion, trillion cycles per second.
Dark energy. A negative energy that pushes the universe apart, which physics can’t explain.
QR: A negative energy caused by the expansion of space, as new points of space receive but don’t transmit processing for their first cycle.
Dark matter. An invisible halo of mass that gives galaxies more gravity than their stars and planets allow, and so stops them flying apart.
QR: A black hole at the center of a galaxy traps a light halo around it, to create a net mass that isn’t visible as matter particles.
Delayed choice experiment. A two-slit experiment where an observation made after a photon passes through the slits decides its past path, so the future can alter the past.
QR: The physical path of a photon wave is chosen by the instance that restarts it in the physical event that occurs when it arrives, so the future doesn’t alter the past.
Deliverance premise. That human beings can survive death thanks to the divinity within them.
Dependence premise. That a divine being created the physical world, so it depends on it to exist.
Distributed processing. Processing shared between processors that runs slower not less.
Divinity premise. That there is an unseen primal reality underlying the physical world.
Down quark. A first-generation quark that has a minus one third charge for no known reason.
QR: A head-head-tail three-way collision of extreme light that almost completes the channels of a plane, with a minus one-third quantum process remainder.
Dualism. That two different realities co-exist, a mind substance and a body substance.
Egocentric speech. A running spoken commentary on perceived actions generated by the intellect, usually in young children.
Einstein’s equation. E=mc2 That the energy of matter is its mass times the speed of light squared.
QR: This equation can be derived from the definition of matter as a standing wave of light.
Electric field. A field that surrounds a charge to attract or repel other charges.
QR: A quantum remainder gradient that moves charged matter by biasing its natural tremble.
Electro-magnetic field. A field whose electrical and magnetic aspects cause each other.
QR: The quantum field remainder and spin cause electricity and magnetism respectively.
Electro-magnetic spectrum. All the frequencies of light, including radio waves and X-rays.
QR: All the frequencies of a photon are one quantum process distributed more or less.
Electron. An elementary particle with a negative charge that exists at a point with no extent.
QR: A head-head standing wave of extreme light that repeatedly overloads all the channels of a point axis, with a minus one quantum process remainder that never runs.
Electron shell. Electrons occupy shells/sub-shells in an atom based on ad hoc quantum numbers.
QR: Electron occupy shells/sub-shells based on their wave radius, harmonic, and direction.
Electron spin. An electron half-spins because only half its spin can be measured.
QR: An electron half-spins because its photons spin in two orthogonal directions in quantum space, so only half of them are observable from any direction.
Elementary particle. Any matter particle that accelerator collisions can’t break apart is said to be elementary, to exist at a point with no size or structure.
QR: The elementary particles of physics are entangled photons that restart in a standing wave.
Emotion. A neural representation of reality by the limbic system based on visceral sensations and emotional memory.
Empty space. Space that contains no physical matter or light should be nothing at all, but it isn’t.
QR: An idle network point is still null processing, so empty space is full of processing.
Encapsulation. That different computer processes can’t input each other’s output, so different brain regions can’t exchange results any more than Notepad and Paint can.
Energy. The capacity to perform work, which can be kinetic (by movement), radiant (by light frequency), heat (by temperature), or potential (by gravitational position).
QR: Energy as the quantum processing transfer rate at a point explains all the above except potential energy, which isn’t an energy at all.
Ensemble. When quantum entities entangle to become one entity, it is called an ensemble.
Entanglement. When entangled photons move in opposite directions, observing the spin of either, which is random, instantly makes the other the opposite, regardless of distance.
QR: Entangled photons merge their opposite-spin servers to run both, so observing the spin of either restarts one server, leaving the opposite-spin server to run the other photon. The effect ignores distance because client-server relations ignore client distances.
Entrainment. The tendency of nearby oscillations to become synchronous.
Entropy. The disorder of a system is the number of possible microscopic states that can produce its macroscopic state.
QR: Quantum events increase disorder by exploring every microscopic option.
Evolution. An iterative process that changes biological species, based on the generation of offspring that continue traits, the variation of those traits, and the selection of those that survive. Evolution tends to increase order, as simple structures become more complex.
QR: Quantum events allow matter to evolve by a similar iterative process, based on generation, variation, and the natural selection of entities that survive by being stable. For example, matter evolves in atoms, molecules, and stars to become more complex.
Existence. The state of being real, so an event can exist when observed, but a particle must exist whether it is observed or not.
QR: Physical particles don’t exist when they aren’t observed, except as quantum waves.
Experiential science. The science of reported human experiences.
Extreme light. The highest possible frequency of light, with a two Planck length wavelength.
Family generations. Electrons, neutrinos, and quarks have three generations, each like the last but heavier, then no more, and the standard model can’t explain why.
QR: Higher electron, neutrino, and quark generations occur because space has two extra dimensions into which their wave structures can repeat, then no more.
Fermion. The standard model divides elementary particles into fermions that collide as matter does, and bosons that overlap as light does.
QR. If extreme light collided to create matter, the boson-fermion division isn’t valid.
Field. A mathematical technique that assigns a value to every point in space, which is equivalent to assuming another dimension of space.
QR: Every different field of physics assumes one or more extra dimensions of space.
Field theory. The theory that invisible fields spawn virtual particles that explain how forces like gravity act at a distance.
QR: The quantum field explains what field theory does without inventing unverifiable particles that magically appear and disappear to cause effects.
Gauss’s flux law. A flux spreading in three dimensions reduces as the square of its radius.
QR: Gauss’s law applied to quantum waves explains the inverse-square laws of gravity, magnetism, and charge.
General relativity. That matter changes space and time to cause an acceleration that is gravity.
QR: Matter spreads a quantum field gradient that biases the natural tremble of other matter towards itself.
Gluons. Massless virtual particles that are said to bind quarks in the atomic nucleus.
QR: Quarks bind by photon sharing, so gluons are unnecessary causal agents.
Goldilocks effect. That our universe has an unreasonable number of physical parameters set just right for life, without which we couldn’t have evolved.
QR: Life is fine-tuned to our universe because it evolved within it, just as crocodiles are fine-tuned to rivers because they evolved in them.
Graviton. A virtual particle invented to explain gravity, based on no evidence at all.
QR: The quantum field gradient around matter causes gravity, so gravitons are unnecessary.
Gravity. A force caused by matter that acts at a distance to move other matter towards it.
QR: A bias in the natural tremble of matter caused by the quantum field gradient of other matter.
Grounded theory. A scientific method that iteratively acquires data to form a predictive theory.
QR: Reverse engineering physical events is an example of grounded theory.
Just-in-time computing. The practice of making choices at the last possible moment.
QR: Photons follow this practice by choosing a physical path when they arrive at a destination.
Kinetic energy. Energy associated with the movement of matter.
QR: Matter moves faster by acquiring photons that bias its movement in a direction.
Hidden variables. The theory that hidden physical causes explain quantum theory.
QR: The hidden variable is quantum waves, which aren’t physical.
Higgs particle. A virtual particle that explains other virtual particles that explain neutron decay.
QR: Another unnecessary agent invented by the standard model of particles.
Holographic principle. That everything physically knowable about a volume of space transmits across the surface surrounding it.
QR: That the physical world is a virtual reality requires the holographic principle to be true.
Huygens principle. That light is a wave spreading out, with each point a new wave source.
QR: Describes a processing wave passed on by instantiation on a processing network.
Hypersphere. A four-dimensional sphere, whose surface has three dimensions.
QR: Our space is the inner surface of a hypersphere expanding in the quantum bulk.
Idealism. That the physical world reflects something else that isn’t physical.
QR: The physical world as a virtual reality reflects quantum reality, which isn’t physical.
Inflation. That after the big bang, an immense anti-gravity field inflated it faster than light to avoid a black hole, but its source, why it was faster than light, and why it stopped are unknown.
QR: Inflation was chain reaction caused by creating the first photon in the first space, which acted faster than light until the expansion of space stopped it.
Information. A property of a physical state chosen from a set, defined as Log2N for N states. It is undefined if N is unknown, and 0 if N=1, so a physical book has no information in itself.
Instance. A client that runs a server process runs an instance of that template.
QR: A photon wave occurs when instances of a quantum process spread on the network of space.
Instantiation. The act of providing processing to be executed independently, so any number of screen buttons can be instantiated from the same server template.
QR: A photon wave spreads as instances of one quantum process on the client network of space.
Interference. When two or more processes compete for the same resource at the same time, at least one must fail and try again, so interference increases the processing needed.
QR: In a matter entity with more than one dimension, processes competing for channels interfere to increase the net processing that is mass, so a muon has 200x the mass of an electron.
It from Bit. Wheeler’s conjecture that matter comes from some sort of information processing.
QR: Quantum realism proposes It from Qubit, that matter comes from quantum processing.
Law of all action. That everything physically possible actually occurs at the quantum scale, so whatever can happen, eventually will.
QR: The law of all action underlies both the second law of thermodynamics, which decreases order, and the evolution of matter and life, which increases order.
Law of least action. That nature always uses the least possible action for any physical event, so light always takes the fastest path to any destination.
QR: A photon always finds the fastest path to any observed destination because its waves take every path, and the first instance to arrive at the destination triggers a physical event.
Life. A biological system that can replicate itself, whose evolution was physically impossible.
QR: Life was the inevitable result of a quantum evolution that simultaneously explored options.
Light. A transverse vibration that can occur in empty space, into a dimension outside physical space that is said to be imaginary.
QR: Light vibrates on physical space, which is a three-dimensional surface.
Limbic System. A midbrain evolution that can lay down memories (Hippocampus), receive sensory input (Thalamus), recognize threats (Amygdala) and cause body states (Hypothalamus).
Little rip. The big bang was really a little client-server rip in the fabric of quantum reality.
Local reality. A reality that is real from within but not from without, just as Monopoly money affects what you can buy in the game but has no value outside the game.
QR: The physical world is a local reality with respect to the quantum reality that creates it.
Magnetic field. A field that surrounds a magnet to attract or repel other magnets.
QR: A quantum field spin gradient that moves magnetic matter by biasing its quantum tremble.
Many-worlds theory. The theory that every quantum choice spawns a new universe.
QR: A zombie theory invented by physicists to explain away quantum choice.
Mass. The property of matter that prevents other matter from existing in the same space.
QR: Mass is the net quantum processing that runs per cycle for matter, as a quantum standing wave that repeatedly runs on the network of space excludes other matter.
Mass problem. That the mass of a complex matter entity is more than its constituents, so the mass of a proton made of three quarks is 100 times that of three quarks.
QR: Mass is the net processing that runs, so when processes interfere, mass increases.
Materialism. The belief that matter is the substance in the void that causes all physical events.
QR: If quantum waves cause all matter, then matter doesn’t itself cause anything (6.1.8).
Matter. An inert physical substance that occupies a space to keep other matter out.
QR: Matter is a quantum standing wave that occupies space by constantly running there first.
Matter time. Time passes for matter when it completes a forward processing cycle, and for anti-matter when it completes a backward cycle, so anti-matter time is the reverse of matter time. Even so, a physical event can’t be reversed because a reboot is irreversible.
Measurement problem. That quantum waves can’t be observed because any attempt to do so collapses them to a point physical event that entangles them.
QR: A quantum wave can’t be observed because a camera can’t take a photo of itself.
Meson. A particle mix that has zero spin, so is said to be a boson that carries no force.
QR: A meson has zero spin because its matter and antimatter spins cancel, so it isn’t a boson.
Monism. The theory that only one type of reality exists.
QR: Quantum realism and physicalism are both monisms.
Movement. A change in the spatial location of light or matter.
QR: Light and matter move differently, by point-to-point transfer and teleporting respectively.
Multiverse. That every quantum choice creates a new universe for every possibility.
QR: A zombie theory that replaces the clockwork universe with a clockwork multiverse.
Murphy’s law. The law that if anything can go wrong, it probably will.
QR: Ordered systems have more ways to go wrong than right, so the quantum flux will probably find them.
Network. A set of processing points that connect by channels that exchange data.
QR: Each point of the space network is a quantum processor that connects to its neighbors.
Network density. The ratio of actual to possible connections that defines how many neighbors each network point connects to.
QR: The network density of space defines Planck’s constant.
Neural synchrony. When nerves constantly fire at precisely the same time.
Neutral Monism. That mind and matter both arise from a more primal reality.
QR: That quantum reality causes mind and matter is a neutral monism.
Neutrino. An elementary matter particle with no charge but a tiny variable mass.
QR: An asynchronous head-tail collision of extreme light has no processing remainder to cause charge, and the collision asynchrony produces a tiny but variable mass.
Neutrino asymmetry. Neutrinos always spin left, so the universe is left-handed.
QR: Our universe is left-handed because the first photon chose to spin left and others followed.
Neutron. The neutral result when an up quark and two down quarks combine.
QR: When these quarks share photons in a closed triangle, no quantum processing remains.
Nihilism. The belief that everything is pointless so our choices don’t matter, e.g. the scientific nihilism that the cosmos has no purpose so nothing we do matters.
QR: Our universe as a virtual reality is a vast investment, so it probably exists for a reason.
No-cloning theorem. That quantum states can’t be copied because to read a quantum state requires a physical event that destroys it.
QR: Physical events can’t duplicate quantum states but the server that generates them can.
Node. A network point, like a person in a social network, a processor in a computer network, or text in a hyperlink network.
QR: If space is a processing network, points can receive, run, and transfer quantum processing.
Non-physical detection. Detecting an object without physically touching it is impossible in a purely physical world, but it happens in our world.
QR: Objects that block quantum waves without triggering a physical event can be detected.
Nuclear fission. Breaking apart atomic nuclei to release energy, as in atom bombs.
Nuclear fusion. Joining nuclei to create energy, as Hydrogen forms Helium in stars.
QR: How simpler atoms combine into more complex ones.
Nucleosynthesis. How stars and supernovae evolve higher atoms from lower ones.
QR: All the atoms of the periodic table evolved stepwise by nucleosynthesis.
Nucleus. The center of an atom that has nearly all its mass, made of one or more protons plus neutrons, that sit together like fruit in a bowl bound by the strong force.
QR: A nucleus is a closed quark string held together by photon sharing that needs at least one neutron per two protons, so it is a unified entity not a fruit bowl aggregate.
Null process. Processing that produces no net result, like a computer idling.
QR: Empty space is quantum null processing not emptiness.
Observation levels. The observation levels of science include physical, informational, experiential, and social, plus a quantum level that provides the observer.
Observer. The final destination of any information produced by a physical event.
QR: Every physical event has an observer on some scale, not just those that involve us.
Observer effect. That how one observes a quantum entity alters what is observed.
QR: The observer effect arises because all physical events are observations.
Occam’s razor. That theories shouldn’t multiply causes unnecessarily, so if two theories explain the same facts, prefer the simpler one.
QR: If one quantum field explains what many current fields do, it is a simpler theory.
Order. A reduction in the degrees of freedom of a physical system, which is the number of independent ways it can change, so ice is more ordered than water because it is crystalline.
QR: When quantum entities entangle into a single unit, order increases because the number of independent ways it can change reduces.
Panpsychism. The theory that all matter is conscious to some degree.
QR: If matter doesn’t exist except as a view, it can’t have the property of consciousness.
Particle. Current physics calls any accelerator energy spike, however brief, a particle.
QR: An energy spike is an event not a particle, just as a lightning bolt is.
Pass-it-on protocol. A network protocol where points first pass on their processing to their neighbors, then run whatever processing they receive, so no transfer is ever lost.
QR: The proposed transfer protocol for the network of space.
Pauli exclusion rule. The observation that opposite-spin electrons can co-exist at the same point.
QR: Applies because opposite-spin electrons at a point occupy different quantum spaces.
Periodic table. A table of matter elements arranged by the number of protons in an atom.
QR: The periodic table represents how the elements of matter evolved.
Photon. The smallest pulse of light, with a frequency, polarization plane, and direction.
QR: One quantum process distributed more or less over many points of space.
Physical event. The result of physical particles colliding.
QR: Physical events occur when quantum waves overload the network of space.
Physicalism. The theory that physical matter and energy in space and time cause all effects, so nothing exists outside the physical universe.
QR: A theory that struggles to explain the observations of physics, e.g. that space expands.
Physical realism. The theory that physical things exist by themselves alone.
QR: Both physicalism and dualism assume physical realism.
Physical state. The result of a physical event that is said to exist apart from observation.
QR: There are no physical states, only observation events between quantum events.
Physical world. The set of all observable physical events.
QR: The world of physical events is caused entirely by quantum events.
Planar circle. A circle around a point in space of all its neighbors in that plane, that represents all possible directions from that point in that plane.
Planck’s constant. The smallest possible unit of energy exchange.
QR: The transfer of one quantum process per cycle, which is the smallest energy exchange.
Planck’s relation. A photon’s energy is Planck’s constant times its frequency (E=h.f).
QR: If a photon is a distributed quantum process spreading on a network, E=h.f can be deduced.
Planck length. The smallest possible observable physical length.
QR: The Planck length is the distance between adjacent points of the network of space.
Planck time. The smallest possible observable physical time.
QR: The Planck time is the completion of one quantum cycle, which is one tick of our time.
Plato’s cave. That we exist like prisoners in a cave who see their own shadows on a wall from the sunlight behind them, and take them to be real.
QR: If the physical world is a shadow of the quantum sunlight, this analogy is valid.
Point particle. An elementary particle with no spatial extent, like a quark, that can fill space thanks to virtual particles from invisible fields.
QR: Points of space with no extent can fill space as pixels fill a screen.
Polar space. A space defined by orthogonal circles, where a point has coordinates (r, θ, φ, …), with r the radius and the rest are angular directions.
QR: Space as a hypersphere surface can be represented by three polar coordinates.
Positivism. The nineteenth century fallacy that science should refer to what can be physically observed, so quantum theory isn’t scientific.
QR: Quantum theory is scientific because it predicts observable physical events.
Potential energy. The energy that matter has due to its position in a gravitational field.
QR: Potential energy doesn’t exist because gravity isn’t a force.
Program. Processing stored as static information that can be read and executed.
QR: The physical world can’t be both the program that executes and its output.
Processing. The act of creating or changing information, which can be stored as static data that can be loaded and executed.
QR: Processing that is running can’t store itself because to do so is another process, so a network that constantly runs quantum processes can’t use any static storage.
Proton. The positively charged result when two up quarks combine with one down quark.
QR: Quarks sharing photons in a triangle have a positive remainder of one quantum process.
Ptolemy’s standard model. The medieval standard model, that heavenly bodies move in perfect circles, or circles within circles (epicycles), around the earth. It wasn’t true, but it explained star movements for centuries, as followers modified it to fit new discoveries.
QR: The standard model of physics today isn’t true either, but followers modify it with invisible fields, virtual particles, and imaginary charges to fit any new discoveries.
Quantum collapse. When a quantum wave stops and restarts at a point in a physical event.
QR: When quantum waves overload points in space, one can reboot and restart it.
Quantum direction. The direction outside space into which a light wave vibrates.
QR: The polarization plane of a photon is at right angles to its quantum direction of vibration.
Quantum field. The quantum wave values in space that cause electro-magnetism and gravity.
QR: The quantum field explains electrical, magnetic, gravitational, strong, and weak effects, so no other fields are needed.
Quantum network. The network of space that spreads light waves.
Quantum paradox. That unreal quantum events cause real physical events.
QR: If real quantum events cause virtual physical events, there is no paradox.
Quantum process. The fundamental process of the quantum network, that sets a circle of values at right angles to the surface of space.
Quantum processing. Processing based on qubits rather than bits.
QR: Quantum processing is essentially the processing of processing.
Quantum randomness. No prior physical history can predict events like atomic radiation.
QR: Quantum collapse is random to us because it is a server restart choice that occurs outside the physical world we see.
Quantum realism. The theory that real quantum events cause all physical events as quantum theory describes, so nothing in the physical world exists by or of itself alone.
Quantum space. The four-dimensional space defined by quantum network connections.
Quantum spin. The imaginary rotation of an elementary entity into a dimension outside space.
QR: The real rotation of a quantum structure into a dimension outside our space.
Quantum tunneling. When a matter entity appears outside a barrier it can’t travel through.
QR: When a matter entity teleports to a point in its quantum field, which is how it always moves.
Quantum wave. A wave that vibrates in an imaginary dimension outside space.
QR: A wave that really vibrates into a quantum dimension outside our space.
Quarks. Elementary particles with one-third charges that aren’t stable alone.
QR: The phase options when three extreme light rays collide at a point to almost fill the channels of a plane, so one quark isn’t stable but groups of them are semi-stable.
Quark string. A stable string of quarks that closes back on itself by sharing photons at an angle, e.g. a string of three quarks that form a closed triangle is a proton or neutron. The nucleus of every atom is a closed string of quarks that folds back on itself.
Reboot. When a processor restarts its activity from scratch, e.g. when it overloads.
QR: When a point of space overloads, it reboots, and the processing restart is a physical event.
Realism. That an external reality exists apart from our observation of it.
QR: In physical realism, that reality is physical, but in quantum realism, it is quantum.
Reality. That which actually exists physically, independent of the observer.
QR: In an observer-observed reality like ours, any observation that validly reflects what actually exists, which is quantum, is in effect real, so science can study it.
Relativity principle. That physical laws are the same in every reference frame.
QR: Matter moves by changing the space around it to keep this principle true.
Reliability. That a measurement result is repeatable by others. See here.
Renormalization. A mathematical method that makes the infinities of field theory go away if particles affect other particles, hence the need for virtual particles.
QR: Renormalization is the mathematical trick that lets unreal particles explain real effects.
Reverse engineering. The iterative method of deducing a process by observing its output.
QR: Quantum realism reverse engineers physical events to deduce quantum processes.
Schema. A sensorimotor sequence created by the cerebellum that represents a motor activity.
Second law of thermodynamics. That the disorder of a closed system inevitably increases over time, so our universe as a whole isn’t evolving to increase order.
QR: The same quantum law that increases disorder also increases order by discovering entanglements that survive, so our universe as a whole is evolving, even as it devolves.
Server. A source that can pass processing to one or more clients that run it.
QR: The source of a spreading photon wave is a server that can restart it at a point.
Schrödinger’s cat. An attempt to extend quantum superposition to a live/dead cat.
QR: The superposition isn’t maintained because the cat knows when it dies.
Science. A way to ask questions of observed reality, not a fixed set of facts about it.
QR: Quantum realism is compatible with science but not the theory of physical realism.
Simulation hypothesis. That our physical reality is a simulation so realistic that its participants are unaware that it isn’t real, as described in The Matrix movie.
QR: A simulation represents another physical reality, but our virtual reality doesn’t represent anything else, so it isn’t a simulation.
Singularity. The prediction that the matter of a black hole exists at a point of infinite density, based on extrapolating equations infinitely.
QR: A black hole is a region of space whose bandwidth is full, so there is no singularity.
Solipsism. That the physical world exists only as a dream of the mind.
QR: Quantum realism implies a real quantum world out there, so it isn’t solipsism.
Space. A three-dimensional extent that physical things exist and move in.
QR: A three-dimensional surface that can curve and vibrate to transmit waves.
Special relativity. The theory that matter somehow alters its space and time when it moves to keep the speed of light constant.
QR: A theory that works because matter moves by instantly changing the relative space around it, which doesn’t affect the absolute movement of light.
Speed of light. The speed at which light moves in a vacuum is constant, for an unknown reason.
QR: The speed of light is constant because the network of space transfers it at a fixed rate.
Standard model. A model that needs 5 invisible fields, 62 elementary particles, 16 charges, 14 boson particles, and 24 data-fitted parameters to explain the findings of physics.
QR: A particle model that needs untestable graviton, gluon, W-boson, and Higgs particles to explain the forces of physics, but can’t successfully predict anything new.
Standing wave. A stationary wave form produced when waves constantly collide.
QR: An electron is a standing quantum wave produced when extreme light constantly collides at a point of space.
String theory. That one-dimensional strings vibrating in 11 dimensions explain all physics.
QR: A zombie theory whose 10500 versions don’t predict anything new.
Strong force. The force that holds quarks together in a nucleus, attributed to virtual W-bosons.
QR: Quarks in a nucleus bind by sharing photons, so W-bosons are unnecessary agents.
Superposition. If a physical equation has two solutions, only one can be true, but if a quantum equation has two solutions, both can be true in a superposition.
QR: A quantum entity can superpose to go through both of two slits at once.
Teleport. When an entity instantly moves to a point with no physical path to travel there.
QR: All matter moves by teleport, by instantly resetting its space to any point in its distribution.
The binding problem. How can a decentralized brain combine information from distant brain areas, to allow unified percepts, choices, and actions?
QR: Distant nerves synchronize and entangle into a unified entity that shares information.
The hard problem. That we experience observation despite no physical way to do that.
QR: Quantum entities observe on every scale, and larger entities observe more.
Thought. A neural representation of sensory patterns created by the neocortex.
Time. Time passes to separate events at the same point, for some unknown reason.
QR: Time passes when quantum cycles complete, so each cycle is a different physical event.
Time travel. The dimension of time is like that of space, so past and future can be travelled to.
QR: Travelling back or forward in a time dimension denies causality and choice, respectively.
Transfer problem. That a transfer between the points of a network could be lost.
QR: The pass-it-on protocol ensures that every transfer of space is accepted, as an interrupt.
Transverse circle. A circle of values transverse to the surface of space that represents a photon vibrating in its polarization plane.
Young’s two slit experiment. A light shining through two slits gives a screen interference pattern.
QR: The pattern occurs because photons are waves not particles, as quantum theory states.
Uncertainty principle. That one can know a quantum particle’s exact position or momentum but not both at once.
QR: Occurs because measuring a wave can give position or wavelength, but not both at once.
Up quark. A first-generation quark with a strange plus two-thirds charge.
QR: A head-tail-tail three-way collision of extreme light that almost fills the channels of a plane through a point of space, with a two-thirds of a quantum process remainder charge.
Validity. That a theory construct represents what it is said to represent. See here.
QR: Virtual particles are invalid constructs because no evidence that they exist is possible.
Virtual reality. A reality that is generated by another reality that contains it.
Virtualism. That physical events are generated by some unspecified other, like a great mind, a big computer, or quantum reality.
QR: Quantum realism is the virtualism that the other is quantum reality.
Virtual particle. A particle created by a field at any point to explain a force at a distance, but can’t be validated because it is created and consumed in the physical event it explains.
QR: Virtual particles are unnecessary agents, as the quantum field explains all their effects.
Wave-particle duality. That a quantum particle can be a wave or a particle as required, although physical particles can’t act like a waves, and physical waves can’t act like particles.
QR: Quantum entities are processing waves that restart at a point in a physical event to look like particles, but are really always waves.
Weak force. The force that turns neutrons to into protons in empty space, but the same force didn’t turn protons in space into neutrons as predicted.
QR: Neutrinos turn neutrons to into protons in space, but the reverse requires high energy electrons that only occur in stars.
Weak bosons. Virtual particles with mass that were invented to explain the weak force.
QR: If neutrinos explain the weak force, then weak bosons are unnecessary agents.
WIMPs. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles that the standard model proposed to explain dark matter, but there no evidence at all that they exist.
QR: Another standard model particle that led nowhere, like gravitons and gluons.
Zitterbewegung. The natural trembling of quantum matter predicted by quantum theory.
QR: Matter moves when the field around it biases its natural tremble one way.
Zombie theory. A scientifically dead theory that doesn’t predict but can’t be falsified, like a zombie that has no progeny but can’t be killed e.g., multiverse theory, string theory, solipsism.