On the Reality of Quantum Collapse and the Emergence of Space-Time

2023

Preprint

We propose an interpretation of the same phenomenology derived from Special Relativity in a Presentism framework. We start from a fundamental thick present instant as the only element of reality in time and, from basic postulates on the nature of the Present and of the speed of causality, we define a discrete and relational space lattice evolving in atomic instants. We characterize observers in this discrete universe through the sampling of “spacetime information” and derive the emergence of time dilations and length contractions. We conclude suggesting additional steps in our framework, towards a possible quantum description of our universe, left to coming contributions.

Section: On Relativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Schlatter investigates the concept of synchronization and of a spacetime emerging from irreversible events in Ref. [6], [7] and [8]. The research of Operational Theories, which starts from Information Theory to interpret Quantum Mechanics (QM) and has been introduced in Ref.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time is There even when Nobody is Looking

2023

Preprint

“…In Refs. [17,18], events are interpreted through synched light clocks (introduced in Ref. [19]) in an emerging thermal time, and evolution is intended through a realm of probability amplitudes (with a symmetric time structure) and an emerging empirical spacetime (as events break the unitary symmetry).…”

Section: Identifying a Quantum Of Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Potential of a Thick Present through Undefined Causality and Non-Locality

2022

Entropy

This paper elaborates on the interpretation of time and entanglement, offering insights into the possible ontological nature of information in the emergence of spacetime, towards a quantum description of gravity. We first investigate different perspectives on time and identify in the idea of a “thick present” the only element of reality needed to describe evolution, differences, and relations. The thick present is connected to a spacetime information “sampling rate”, and it is intended as a time symmetric potential bounded between a causal past of irreversible events and a still open future. From this potential, spacetime emerges in each instant as a space-like foliation (in a description based on imaginary paths). In the second part, we analyze undefined causal orders to understand how their potential could persist along the thick present instants. Thanks to a C-NOT logic and the concept of an imaginary time, we derive a description of entanglement as the potential of a logically consistent open choice among imaginary paths. We then conceptually map the imaginary paths identified in the entanglement of the undefined orders to Closed Time-like Curves (CTC) in the thick present. Considering a universe described through information, CTC are interpreted as “memory loops”, elementary structures encoding the information potential related to the entanglement in both time and space, manifested as undefined causality and non-locality in the emerging foliation. We conclude by suggesting a possible extension of the introduced concepts in a holographic perspective.

“…Schlatter, in Ref. [8], [9] and [10], investigates the idea of synchronization and the emergence of spacetime from irreversible events.…”

Section: The Present Of Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Relativity and Information in the Present

2022

Preprint

We elaborate on the compatibility of a Presentism perspective with Special Relativity. Specifically, we first introduce a description of evolution in present instants and connect it with the recent studies on the discreteness of time in Quantum Mechanics. Then, we consider the insights from Information Theory to describe how we may conceive a relativistic spacetime from an evolving space foliation through the concept of information sampling. In the final part, we elaborate on GR in the context of a thick Present and speculate on the possible extensions of the proposed framework.