Quantum Mechanics, Local Causality, and Process Philosophy

Tom Etter, Blackburn Avenue, H. Pierre Noyes

Yutaka TANAKA

This paper starts with the observation that the combination of the so-calld EPR argument and Bell's theorem reveals one of the most paradoxical features of quantum reality, i.e. the no-separability of two contingent events. If we accept the conclusion of the revised EPR argument together with Bell's theorem, we are necessarily led to the denial of local causality which was presupposed by the original version of Einstein's criticism against quantum physics.. As the concept of local causality is a cornerstone of Einstein's theory of relativity, we next consider the problem of compatibility between the theory of relativity and quantum physics. Popper's proposal of going back to Lorentz's theory is examined and rejected because the quantum correlation of EPR is not to be interpreted as “an action at a distance” which we can control and use as the operational definition of absolute simultaneity. An inquiry into something like aether as hidden reality behind the theory of relativity is considered as retrogressive as the so-called hidden variable theory of quantum physics. Accepting the non-separability of local elements of reality as the undeniable fact, we discuss the possibility of a realistic interpretation of quantum physics which transcends scientific materialism and classical determinism. As an example of such projects, Stapp's theory is examined with respect to a Whiteheadean process philosophy which provides the meta-physical background for his realistic interpretation of quantum physics. Finally, we present another version of quantum meta-physics based on “the philosophy of organism” which is broad enough to include observer and observed, local causality and non-local correlation, space and time, and potentiality and actuality in the inseparable unity of physical reality.

Jose Oreste Mazzini

The quantum mechanics interpretation has no general agreement in the scientific community and all the attempts in some way challenged our reason and logic. In 2021 a novel interpretation considers that space can be in oscillation between the observable 3D and the 4 th dimension (Ct). This ephemeral situation out of 3D gives a unique understanding of quantum mechanics phenomena preserving the proven quantum math. With this theory of space, philosophy in quantum mechanics gets reasonability and logic in the description of the known quantum effects providing additionally a new vision of the physical 4D universe. Issue such as the law of noncontradiction, the law of large numbers, the certainty principle, realism, the Loschmidt paradox, locality and causality, free will, the whole is greater than the parts, etc. are treated in this paper. The alternance with the 4 th dimension provides realism and locality; Einstein´s search for completeness.

Gábor Hofer‐Szabó, Péter Vecsernyés

James S. Bell, Alain Aspect

John Bell, FRS was one of the leading expositors and interpreters of modern quantum theory. He is particularly famous for his discovery of the crucial difference between the predictions of conventional quantum mechanics and the implications of local causality, a concept insisted on by Einstein. John Bell's work played a major role in the development of our current understanding of the profound nature of quantum concepts and of the fundamental limitations they impose on the applicability of the classical ideas of space, time and locality. This book includes all of John Bell's published and unpublished papers on the conceptual and philosophical problems of quantum mechanics, including two papers that appeared after the first edition was published. The book includes a short Preface written by the author for the first edition, and also an introduction by Alain Aspect that puts into context John Bell's enormous contribution to the quantum philosophy debate.

Rajendra Prasad