Einstein wins the argument on the incompleteness of quantum theory.

Dear Professor Cao and Professor Liu:

In the conference on general relativity in Moscow, the part of my work that catches attention naturally including 1) the necessity of unification between gravity and electromagnetism [1], 2) the invalidity of Einstein’s covariance principle [2. 3] and 3) the difference between the Physical Review and the Royal Society on Einstein’s requirement on weak gravity [2, 3]. However, the most attention is on the proof the incompleteness of quantum theory.

It is well-known that quantum mechanics started with the notion of photon proposed by Einstein. However, Einstein claimed that quantum theory is incomplete because it is a probabilistic theory. In the famous argument between Einstein and Bohr, Einstein gave his famous claim that God does not play dice [4]. It appears until recently that none of the sides wins, but the physics community is now basically in the side with Bohr because the success of quantum theory rather than any improvement of the arguments.

Recently, my research showed that Einstein actually win the argument because quantum is indeed incomplete, although I did not solve the problem whether a probabilistic theory could be final. The problem is in the notion of photons. In current Quantum theory, a photon is considered as consisting of the electromagnetic energy only. However, such as notion is in conflict with Einstein’s famous xxxxula E = mc**2. Since the trace of the electromagnetic energy-stress tensor is always zero, an electromagnetic energy alone can never be equivalence to the massive energy whose energy-stress tensor has a nonzero trace [5]. This problem is resolved by realizing that light includes gravitational energy. Since gravity is ignored in current quantum theory, it is clearly incomplete [5, 6].

This incompleteness suggests that the problem of renormalization can be understood rationally in terms of physics only if we have a unified theory of gravity and electromagnetism. Since such unification has been proven necessary, there is plenty jobs in physics and new explorations in physics that are waiting for the new generation of young physicists.

I shall appreciate any comments you may have. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

C. Y. Lo

References

1. C. Y. Lo, The Necessity of Unifying Gravitation and Electromagnetism and the Mass-Charge Repulsive Effects in Gravity, XIII Moscow International Conference on Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory, Monday 2 July – Thursday 5 July 2007
2. C. Y. Lo, Einstein’s Equivalence Principle, its Justifications, and Misinterpretations, XIII Moscow International Conference on Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory, Monday 2 July – Thursday 5 July 2007
3. C. Y. Lo, Einstein versus the Physical Review on Gravitational Waves and the Principle of Causality, XIII Mos-cow International Conference on Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory, July 2– 5 2007.
4. A. Pais, ‘Subtle is the Lord…’ (Oxford University Press, New York, 1982)
5. C. Y. Lo, The Gravity of Photons and the Necessary Rectification of Einstein Equation, Prog. in Phys., V. 1, 46-51 (2006).
6. C. Y. Lo, Completing Einstein’s Proof of E = mc2, Progress in Phys., Vol. 4, 14-18 (2006).