Quantum Relativity: Physical Laws Must be Invariant Over Quantum Systems

dc.creatorMerriam, Paul
dc.date2005-06-27
dc.date2005-12-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:43:34Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:43:34Z
dc.descriptionDecoherence may not solve all of the measurement problems of quantum mechanics. It is proposed that a solution to these problems may be to allow that superpositions describe physically real systems in the following sense. Each quantum system "carries" around a local spacetime in whose terms other quantum systems may take on nonlocal states. Each quantum system forms a physically valid coordinate frame. The laws of physics should be formulated to be invariant under the group of allowed transformations among such frames. A transformation of relatively superposed spatial coordinates that allows an electron system to preserve the de Broglie Relation in describing a double-slit laboratory system-in analogy to a Minkowskian Transformation-is proposed. In general, "quantum relativity" says is invariant under transformations among quantum reference frames. Some conjectures on how this impacts gravity and gauge invariance are made.
dc.description21 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Physics Essays, added colon in title, gravity section makes sense, took out picture, fixed eq. 16d
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506228
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506228
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/102462
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleQuantum Relativity: Physical Laws Must be Invariant Over Quantum Systems
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