title: Can the Stark-Einstein law resolve the measurement problem from an animate perspective?
abstract: Analysis of the Stark-Einstein law as it applies to the retinal molecule, which is part of the rhodopsin molecule within the rod cells of the retina, reveals that it may provide the solution to the measurement problem from an animate perspective. That it represents a natural boundary where the Schrödinger equation or wave function automatically goes from linear to nonlinear while remaining in a deterministic state. It will be possible in the near future to subject this theory to empirical tests as has been previously proposed. This analysis provides a contrast to the many decades well studied and debated inanimate measurement problem and would represent an addition to the Stark-Einstein law involving information carried by the photon.
authors.affiliation: 4000 Alan Shepard St. #256, Sacramento, CA 95834, USA. Electronic address: fthaheld@directcon.net.
authors.forename: Fred H
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Thaheld
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D055668:Photochemical Processes; D017785:Photons; D011789:Quantum Theory; D017948:Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells / Q000737:chemistry*; D012243:Rhodopsin / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012243:Rhodopsin
keywords: Animate; Determinism; Inanimate; Information; Linear; Measurement problem; Nonlinear; Photon; Pure State; Retinal molecule; Schrödinger; Stark–Einstein law