Walach H
Samueli Institute-European Office, Institut für Umweltmedizin und Krankenhaushygiene, Klinikum der Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
Forsch Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd. 2003 Aug;10(4):192-200. doi: 10.1159/000073475.
Homeopathy is scientifically banned, both for lack of consistent empirical findings, but more so for lack of a sound theoretical model to explain its purported effects. This paper makes an attempt to introduce an explanatory idea based on a generalized version of quantum mechanics (QM), the weak quantum theory (WQT). WQT uses the algebraic formalism of QM proper, but drops some restrictions and definitions typical for QM. This results in a general axiomatic framework similar to QM, but more generalized and applicable to all possible systems. Most notably, WQT predicts entanglement, which in QM is known as Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlatedness within quantum systems. According to WQT, this entanglement is not only tied to quantum systems, but is to be expected whenever a global and a local variable describing a system are complementary. This idea is used here to reconstruct homeopathy as an exemplification of generalized entanglement as predicted by WQT. It transpires that homeopathy uses two instances of generalized entanglement: one between the remedy and the original substance (potentiation principle) and one between the individual symptoms of a patient and the general symptoms of a remedy picture (similarity principle). By bringing these two elements together, double entanglement ensues, which is reminiscent of cryptographic and teleportation applications of entanglement in QM proper. Homeopathy could be a macroscopic analogue to quantum teleportation. This model is exemplified and some predictions are derived, which make it possible to test the model.
顺势疗法在科学上已被禁止，一方面是因为缺乏一致的实证结果，更主要的是缺乏一个合理的理论模型来解释其所谓的效果。本文试图引入一种基于量子力学（QM）广义版本——弱量子理论（WQT）的解释性观点。WQT采用了正统量子力学的代数形式体系，但摒弃了一些量子力学特有的限制和定义。这就产生了一个类似于量子力学的一般公理框架，但更具普遍性且适用于所有可能的系统。最值得注意的是，WQT预测了纠缠现象，在量子力学中这被称为量子系统内的爱因斯坦 - 波多尔斯基 - 罗森（EPR）关联性。根据WQT，这种纠缠不仅与量子系统相关，而且当描述一个系统的全局变量和局部变量互补时就可以预期会出现。这里利用这个观点将顺势疗法重构为例证WQT所预测的广义纠缠。结果表明，顺势疗法利用了两种广义纠缠情况：一种是药物与原始物质之间的纠缠（增效原理），另一种是患者的个体症状与药物图像的一般症状之间的纠缠（相似性原理）。将这两个元素结合在一起，就会产生双重纠缠，这让人联想到正统量子力学中纠缠在密码学和量子隐形传态方面的应用。顺势疗法可能是量子隐形传态的宏观类似物。本文对该模型进行了举例说明并得出了一些预测，这使得对该模型进行检验成为可能。
