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Quantum theory and the structure of space-time

Quantum Physics 2018-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We argue that space and space-time emerge as a consequence of dynamical collapse of the wave function of macroscopic objects. Locality and separability are properties of our approximate, emergent universe. At the fundamental level, space-time is non-commutative, and dynamics is non-local and non-separable.

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@article{arxiv.1707.01012,
  title  = {Quantum theory and the structure of space-time},
  author = {Tejinder P. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01012},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v2: 12 pages, edited version of an essay written for the FQXi essay contest (2016), minor typos in v1 corrected, to appear in Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung A

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