A theory of time based on wavefunction collapse
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-10-01 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We propose that moments of time arise through the failed emergence of the temporal diffeomorphism as gauge symmetry, and that the passage of time is a continual process of an instantaneous state collapsing toward a gauge-invariant state. Unitarity and directedness of the resulting time evolution are demonstrated for a minisuperspace model of cosmology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2408.11905,
title = {A theory of time based on wavefunction collapse},
author = {Sung-Sik Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11905},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
11 pages; v4) Appendix D added