the UK NPL and qr
What does the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have to "say" about
Quantum
Relativity?
Of course, they have nothing to actually "say" about it, because they have not even heard about it yet. The question is rather this: do they agree with it? The answer is definite agreement. On their website one can find their formal definition of a metre. In 2019, I published a mild neurolinguistic criticism of what they stated; what they stated was perfectly correct, just needlessly confusing. They used to say; "a metre is defined as the distance travelled by light in vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second", they then promtly replaced that simple and completely correct statement with a short essay
on the problems of measuring hyper-short time intervals, apparently a metre can be anything that you need it to be, just pick the time interval
that you find.
Why did they not just state "the distance travelled by light in vacuum in 3.335 640 952
nanoseconds"? Of course, they could not state that, because it is absurdly impossible to measure accurately enough, but that is what they used to state. They are not really physicists at all, but extremely high precision measurement engineers with a license from the government. In any case; is light a "thing"
that "travels"?
Well, in Einstein-mumbo-jumbo
it has to be thought of like that. Let's now get rid of that Einstein-mumbo-jumbo
and recall that light consists of quanta of energy and that these energy-quanta jump across vacuum space at a hyper-consistent rate such that there is:
no such article as a metre
but there really is
3.3...ns of quantum-energy-transit-time (in vacuum).
But that is the very essence of Quantum Relativity. So, in effect, the NPL have been stating Quantum Relativity on their own website for decades now, without even noticing. Of course, instead of taking this to be congratulations, no doubt they will now just sulk because I am calling their precious metre:
nothing but a piece of
"Einstein-mumbo-jumbo".
