We make use of the well-known properties of spontaneous decays of stationary states of bound systems of elementary particles to support the view that the forces which form these systems propagate instantaneously at the moment of their decay.
Quantum entanglement is popularly believed to give rise to spooky action at a distance of a kind that Einstein decisively rejected. Indeed, important recent experiments on systems assigned entangled states have been claimed to refute Einstein by exhibiting such spooky action. After reviewing two considerations in favor of this view I argue that quantum theory can be used to explain puzzling correlations correctly predicted by assignment of entangled quantum states with no such instantaneous action at a distance. We owe both considerations in favor of the view to arguments of John Bell. I present simplified forms of these arguments as well as a game that provides insight into the situation. The argument I give in response turns on a prescriptive view of quantum states that differs both from Dirac’s (as stated in Chapter 2) and Einstein’s.
We consider the dynamics of quantum systems which possess stationary states as well as slowly decaying, metastable states arising from the perturbation of bound states. We give a decomposition of the propagator into a sum of a stationary part, one exponentially decaying in time and a polynomially decaying remainder. The exponential decay rates and the directions of decay in Hilbert space are determined, respectively, by complex resonance energies and by projections onto resonance states. Our approach is based on an elementary application of the Feshbach map. It is applicable to open quantum systems and to situations where spectral deformation theory fails. We derive a detailed description of the dynamics of the spin-boson model at arbitrary coupling strength.
Traditional quantum mechanics interprets quantum entanglement as non-local statistical correlation, but fails to answer the underlying physical mechanism of entanglement: what "maintains" the correlation between entangled particles? Why can this correlation transcend spatial distance? Based on the framework of the Unified Cosmic Mechanics Evolution Theory, this paper proposes that the essence of quantum entanglement is an inline perception protocol that maintains the coordinated evolution of multiple momentum units. The core conclusions include: (1) The core role of quantum entanglement is to support the conservation of carrier angular momentum, which is the fundamental premise for particles to realize spin and macroscopic rotation — a single momentum unit cannot rotate, and "rotatability" is an emergent property of the entanglement protocol. (2) A single elementary particle has three coordinated evolution forms (collapsed, diffused, fluid), and the state transition depends on the internal structure and coordinated evolution ability endowed by the quantum entanglement protocol. (3) The multi-particle entangled state can be regarded as "single-particle coordinated evolution" at the macroscopic level, which originates from the multi-layer encapsulation characteristics of momentum units m₀·c. (4) The core mechanism for quantum entanglement to realize superluminal action is perceptual angle interlocking — establishing a logical correlation independent of geometric distance through an inline protocol, rather than trans-spatial propagation. (5) Both instantaneous force interaction and quantum tunneling can be reconstructed as local potential space momentum borrowing and returning state transition processes, without relying on propagator flight. This paper further argues that quantum entanglement, elementary force interaction, and quantum tunneling are not isolated phenomena, but three manifestations of the same set of momentum topological coding and potential space borrowing and returning mechanisms under different boundary conditions — entanglement is a static protocol maintaining structural stability, force is a dynamic state update after protocol triggering, and tunneling is a potential space topological transition guided by the protocol. This framework reduces quantum mechanics to a deterministic information dynamics evolution process based on protocol rules, providing a new ontological support for understanding the causality of the microcosm.