The incompleteness of quantum physics

Claudio Garola

Dmitri Martila

Albert Einstein said against Quantum Physics: God does not play dice''. Einstein has never accepted the Quantum Physics. So, there can be contradiction between the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Physics. That mean, that one or more of these two theories are incomplete. Just like the Godel incompleteness theorem says, that formal arithmetic is incomplete.

Robert Hanna

In another essay, I’ve argued by means of a formal analogy between (i) the incompleteness of Principia Mathematica-style systems of mathematical logic (logico-mathematical incompleteness) and (ii) the incompleteness of the Standard Models in contemporary physics (physico-mechanical incompleteness), that (iii) just as the fact of logico-mathematical incompleteness entails the existence of mathematical creativity, so too the fact of physico-mechanical incompleteness entails the existence of natural creativity. Building on that line of thought, in this essay I present a new and empirically-testable strategy for completing quantum mechanics. More precisely, I argue that if we assume that the Standard Models in contemporary physics are incomplete, and if we also assume that all rational human animals are primitive sources of natural creativity via their free agency, then, by means of an appeal to Bohmian mechanics, together with the thesis that all rational human animals are primitive sources of natural creativity via their free agency, we can complete quantum mechanics.

Jeffrey Bub

Yu, Liang

We argue that modern physics—including classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum mechanics—suffers from a fundamental incompleteness rooted in the treatment of time as a variable. Starting from parity violation and the absence of intrinsic lifetime in quantum wave functions, we show that: (1) only matter can observe change, yet physics uses light (which has no time) to define spacetime; (2) the time coordinate is either meaningless (without motion) or not independent (with motion); (3) physics writes equations from a God's eye view but performs measurements from a material observer's view; (4) matter, change, and time form a circular dependency that cannot be resolved within the current framework. The incompleteness of physics is not technical but structural.

Berthold‐Georg Englert