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Physical limits on information metrics and quantum gravity as gravitized quantum theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-04-18 v1

Abstract

There is a long history in both general relativity and quantum mechanics of removing fixed background structures, thereby making observed objects and measurement processes dynamical. We continue this evolution by combining central insights from both theories to argue that physical limits on information collection resulting from quantum gravity coupled with general covariance preclude the fixed information geometry still assumed in both information theory and quantum mechanics. As a consequence there must be a gravitized, generally covariant extension of both theories. We also propose a novel experimental test involving intrinsic triple and higher order quantum interferences that would provide evidence for dynamical information metrics and a dynamical Born rule.

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@article{arxiv.2504.12925,
  title  = {Physical limits on information metrics and quantum gravity as gravitized quantum theory},
  author = {Per Berglund and Andrew Geraci and Tristan Hubsch and David Mattingly and Djordje Minic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12925},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Essay written for 2025 Gravity Research Foundation Competition for Essays on Gravitation

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