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A reasonable resolution for spacetime singularities and the origin of the quantum world

Haixin Cao

Published Sep 8, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

It is argued that the meaning of spacetime singularities, such as Big Bang cosmological or black hole ones, is nothing else than indicating that the physical world behaves in the causal or predictable way not to be the truly basic manifestation. But rather, this is only an emergent phenomena arising through that unknown fundamental laws, underlying the behavior of the physical world in the way without being in nature understood in term of the predictability, are no longer revealed significantly and thus hidden appropriately. If the causally physical world is emergent rather than being fundamental, what is the nature of the physical world? and how could the physical world behaving in the causal or predictable way be emerged from? In this paper, we would like to answer these two questions based on studying the behavior of an absolutely physical entity. Moreover, we show that the quantum world can be understood as an intermediate stage, in which physical effects originated fundamentally from are taken into account, between the fundamental and emergent pictures.

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