The Nature of the Real

Peter du Preez

Mohammed I. Sanduk

Abstract Euler’s formula is a pure mathematical formula. In spite of its nonphysical nature, the form of this formula has a genuine fundamental role in quantum mechanics, but with no physical reason for this role. Philosophically, Heisenberg has proposed Kantian ideas in physics like “nature in itself”, unobservable nature, and “nature as appears”. He proposed a possibility of mathematical formulation for a system in nature in itself. In the present work, a mathematical model of rolling circles in real space has been proposed as a model for a system in nature in itself. Observation process acts as a transformation of the system to a model in observable nature. Partial observation transforms the real position vector of a point in that system to a form similar to the Euler’s formula. That causes the appearance of the imaginary unit. Interestingly, the transformed real kinematical forms exhibit similarity with the forms of relativistic quantum mechanics.

Mohammed I. Sanduk

Abstract Euler’s formula is a pure mathematical formula. In spite of its nonphysical nature, the form of this formula has a genuine fundamental role in quantum mechanics, but with no physical reason for this role. Philosophically, Heisenberg has proposed Kantian ideas in physics like “nature in itself”, unobservable nature, and “nature as appears”. He proposed a possibility of mathematical formulation for a system in nature in itself. In the present work, a mathematical model of rolling circles in real space has been proposed as a model for a system in nature in itself. Observation process acts as a transformation of the system to a model in observable nature. Partial observation transforms the real position vector of a point in that system to a form similar to the Euler’s formula. That causes the appearance of the imaginary unit. Interestingly, the transformed real kinematical forms exhibit similarity with the forms of relativistic quantum mechanics.

John M. Koller

Shundong Li, Dai Yiqi, Wang Daoshun +1 more

Millionaire's problem is the base of secure multiparty computation, and its solutions have become basic blocks of many secure multi-party computation solutions. Unfortunately, most solutions to millionaire's problem are based on public key cryptography, and thus are inefficient. Furthermore, all solutions are designed to solve millionaire's problem for natural number case to privately determine which natural number is larger. If the numbers are real, these solutions do not directly work. In this paper, we first propose a symmetric key cryptographic solution to millionaire's problem for natural numbers case, and then generalize it to the case of real numbers, that is to privately determine which real number is larger. We further prove, by simulation paradigm, that these solutions are private. These solutions are really efficient.

Richard J. Morris