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Testable Implications of the Heisenberg Interpretation for General Relativity

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Abstract

Recently, this author proposed a novel interpretation of quantum mechanics called the Heisenberg Interpretation. Its principal difference from the textbook formalism is a mathematical distinction between things which exist merely as possibilities and those which exist as actualities. This is achieved by means of representing the latter as elements of a set separate from the Hilbert space, called the classical states set, and associated with quantum measurements. The distinction imposes a hard boundary between the quantum and classical domains, which under identification of the latter with the domain of general relativity leads to the prediction of novel phenomena. These novel predictions arise because under the current prevailing views, it is presumed that there is no such boundary, and this presumption, in fact, underlies the quantum gravity paradigm. As a first step toward testable precision predictions, we characterize the predictions generated from the existence of such a boundary mainly at a conceptual level and classifiy them by the testability.

Presenters

  • Armin Nikkhah Shirazi

    University of Michigan

Authors

  • Armin Nikkhah Shirazi

    University of Michigan