What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years

Abstract

The violation of Bell's inequality has shown that quantum theory and relativity are in tension: reality is nonlocal. Nonetheless, many have argued that GRW-type theories are to be preferred to pilot-wave theories as they are more compatible with relativity: while relativistic pilot-wave theories require a preferred slicing of space-time, foliationfree relativistic GRW-type theories have been proposed. In this paper I discuss various meanings of 'relativistic invariance,' and I show how GRW-type theories, while being more relativistic in one sense, are less relativistic in another. If so, the initial claim that GRW-type theories have a greater compatibility with relativity is unwarranted: both type of theories violate relativity, one way or another.

Quantum Cosmology: The Integration of Special Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Part I

“…The Western tradition has long regarded an absolute state of "nothingness" with skepticism as logically inconsistent or ontologically impossible. 21 In this analysis, a state of "nothingness" has no relationship to the terms "nothing" or "void," as those terms are used in current quantum or cosmological theory. A state of nothingness is not a "quantum vacuum state," has no "fluctuating energy fields," and is not governed by or subject to the physical laws of 4D spacetime or Planck Space.…”

“…spacetime in full compliance with the laws of special relativity and the instantaneous collapse of all quantum states in Planck Space, where the 4D spacetime laws of physics do not apply. 12 Although the tightly integrated ((3 x N) + 3) hyperspace formed by a (3 x N) Planck Space and the three spatial dimensions of 4D spacetime appears to be an imposing physical structure with a complex mathematical description, from a non-technical perspective the Dual Ontology's hyperspace is much less complicated. 4D spacetime and Planck Space are physically and mathematically interrelated ontological entities that form a single, integrated universal structure located in the same physical space in which 4D spacetime is located.…”

Many-Worlds: Why Is It Not the Consensus?

“…These theories each have a relativistic extension, which uses only relativistic spatiotemporal structures (see, respectively, [34,35]) rather than a preferred spatiotemporal foliation, as it happens for relativistic extensions of the pilot-wave theory [36]. For more discussion about the alleged advantage of GRW-type theories, see [37].…”