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In his book, Just Plain Wrong, mathematical scholar and research associate, Frank Lad explains why our current understanding of quantum physics warrants further review. In so doing, he challenges the findings of three recent Nobel Laureates. His research is bold and backed by a lifetime of experience in mathematics and science. 

His discovery could change how quantum physics are used to advance future technology, such as in the development of quantum computers. 

Please let me know if you would like to discuss having Frank on your program. 

 

Quantum physics attempts to explain how everything works, and suggests that we perceive at most only a tiny sliver of reality at our scale of experience. We use quantum physics in many ways, from lasers, LEDs, and fiber optics, to how we explain natural phenomena such as the color of the sky. However, the theory is difficult to understand, and even within the scientific community there are heated debates and challenges taking place. Differences between the structure of physical mechanics at the human scale and mechanics at the scale of atomic particles are a prime case in point.
 

In fact, one mathematician is currently challenging even the work of three recent Nobel Laureates as incorrect and founded on errors. Lad discusses his findings in a new book,    Just Plain Wrong: the dalliance of quantum theory with the defiance of Bell’s inequality.  His arguments are based on a decade of research on a famous problem regarding the physics of light which was designed to investigate Einstein’s claims regarding the locality of mechanical processes at the smallest scale of matter.

 

Lad is available in an interview to discuss the following

* Where does Bell’s inequality come from, and why was the thought experiment that gives rise to it devised?  The big picture.

 

* Why recent Nobel Prize winners in quantum physics have flawed research conclusions.

 

* How we can resolve the touted mysteries of quantum physics, dismissing them.

 

* What Bell’s inequality is and why it is important.

 

* Why the scientific community needs to improve its standards for reporting scientific discoveries, for addressing scientific disputes, and for promoting its claims.

 

* How the currently accepted understanding of the physical mechanics of matter at very small scales is seriously mistaken. What is the “locality principle”?

 

“I would expect criticism of any exposition here, which I welcome, to be based on a technical assessment of my arguments, rather than merely offended rage.”

Biography

Frank Lad is a mathematician, author, and educator. Perhaps he was destined to have a full career in mathematics and science. His parents met as postdocs at the University of Chicago while working on The Manhattan Project, his mother collaborating with James Franck there. His specialty in mathematical probability took him to France and Italy, where he has worked with followers of Bruno de Finetti’s ideas. Personal travels in India, Africa, Europe, Brazil, and some far East, have allowed him to deeply explore culture, history, and philosophy. 

For the past 26 years and currently, Lad has served as a research associate in mathematics and statistics at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, having lectured there previously for ten years. He started his career teaching economics at the University of Utah, and spent a year in the Special Studies section of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, D.C. He has been a visiting scholar at the State University of New York (Albany) in Mathematics and Economics, and at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Bologna in Statistics. He had been a research assistant at the Center for Studies in Population Planning, University of Michigan School of Public Health during graduate studies. 

An advocate of the constructive mathematical viewpoint of Bruno de Finetti, he is the author of two published books, JUST PLAIN WRONG: The dalliance of quantum theory with the defiance of Bell’s inequality (Austin Macauley, 2024) and Operational Subjective Statistical Methods: a mathematical, philosophical, and historical introduction (John Wiley, 1996). 

Lad has had articles published in dozens of publications, including: Journal of Modern Physics, Entropy, Applied Mathematics, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. He earned a PhD (1974) in Econometrics, MA in Statistics, and MA in Economics from the University of Michigan, and received a BA in Mathematics from University of Dayton (1970). 

Lad speaks four languages: English, French, Italian, and Hindustani. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio into a large family of nine children, he is a dual citizen of the United States and New Zealand. He currently resides in NZ, tending his garden and tutoring neighborhood children in arithmetic.

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