Reassessing Time, Energy and Nonlocality in Quantum Mechanics with Observations on Schrödinger's Cat

Paul A. Klevgard

Published Jun 30, 2022• 0 citations

Abstract

Radiation was a big challenge for the quantum pioneers since the photon was massless, probabilistic and appeared to be both wave and particle. Einstein's special relativity equated mass with energy and space with time. But the equality of mass with energy, then and now, is regarded as quantitative and the equality of space with time is anything but equal; space hosts material entities; time hosts nothing. Exploring these equality issues raises some questions as to how measurable entities-particles and photons-depend upon dimensions. The particle resides in a dimension, space, while also progressing (or persisting) in a dimension, time. The photon certainly progresses in one dimension, space; does it reside there as well? These questions lead to some new conclusions regarding the nature of the photon, its dualism and its nonlocal behavior.

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