Contextual Spacetime and the Making of Classical Reality - Part 3: How Measurements Cause Time

Allan Porter

Published Jul 21, 2022• 0 citations

Abstract

I attempt to outline my theory on how measurements themselves "collapsing" the potential eigenstates of contained informational entities causes the illusion of time from the perspective of information processing systems which make these measurements.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6873075

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