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Retrocausal model of reality for quantum fields

P. D. Drummond, M. D. Reid

2020Physical Review Research26 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

This paper tackles the measurement problem of quantum mechanics in a new way. The authors suggest that reality is a space-time field with vacuum fluctuations, which allows the treatment of any quantum field theory as a realistic object. With this approach, using stochastic trajectories with propagation forward and backward in time, the observation of sharp eigenvalues and Bell violations in a measurement is due to unitary quantum amplification to a macroscopic size.

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QuantumField (mathematics)Virtual realityPhysicsTheoretical physicsComputer scienceQuantum mechanicsHuman–computer interactionMathematicsPure mathematicsQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsBiofield Effects and Biophysicsadvanced mathematical theories