A theory of time based on wavefunction collapse

Sung-Sik Lee

公開日: 2024/8/21

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.

A theory of time based on wavefunction collapse | SummarXiv | SummarXiv