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Presentist fragmentalism and quantum mechanics. (English) Zbl 1507.81019

Summary: This paper states and gives three applications of a novel ‘Presentist Fragmentalist’ interpretation of quantum mechanics. In a cognate paper it was explicitly shown this kind of presentism is consistent with special relativity and that it has implications for how to understand time as it relates to the Big Bang [P. Merriam, “A theory of the Big Bang in McTaggart’s time”, Axiomathes 32, 685–696 (2022; doi:10.1007/s10516-022-09623-5)]. In this paper we narrowly focus on three applications. These are surely the most important conundrums for any proposed interpretation of quantum mechanics: Schrodinger’s Cat, Bell non-locality, and the Born rule. It will be shown that these can be handled in a consistent and intuitive way.

MSC:

81P05 General and philosophical questions in quantum theory
81P40 Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations
83A05 Special relativity
83E05 Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle
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