Abstract In Chapter 9 we answer Zeilinger’s question, “What’s really going on?” concerning how Nature works. In other words, we present an ontology over which the constraints NPRF + h and NPRF + c range and operate. We contrast contextuality with reductionism and relationalism, then discuss relational quantum mechanics. We explain our version of multiscale contextual emergence called quantum-classical contextuality. Accordingly, bodily (classical) objects interact via the exchange of quanta of energy-momentum. NPRF + c constrains the distribution of worldtubes of bodily objects in spacetime while NPRF + h constrains the distribution of quanta exchanged between bodily objects. Thus, NPRF + h is an “all-at-once” or “atemporal” constraint on the distribution of quanta among bodily objects in spacetime. We call such a constraint an adynamical global constraint (AGC). Feynman’s path integral formalism for QM is contrasted with Schrödinger’s equation. We present our Poincaré symmetric ontology.
Abstract In Chapter 9 we answer Zeilinger’s question, “What’s really going on?” concerning how Nature works. In other words, we present an ontology over which the constraints NPRF + h and NPRF + c range and operate. We contrast contextuality with reductionism and relationalism, then discuss relational quantum mechanics. We explain our version of multiscale contextual emergence called quantum-classical contextuality. Accordingly, bodily (classical) objects interact via the exchange of quanta of energy-momentum. NPRF + c constrains the distribution of worldtubes of bodily objects in spacetime while NPRF + h constrains the distribution of quanta exchanged between bodily objects. Thus, NPRF + h is an “all-at-once” or “atemporal” constraint on the distribution of quanta among bodily objects in spacetime. We call such a constraint an adynamical global constraint (AGC). Feynman’s path integral formalism for QM is contrasted with Schrödinger’s equation. We present our Poincaré symmetric ontology.
The main thread of chapter 4 introduces some of the major mysteries and interpretational issues of quantum mechanics (QM). These mysteries and issues include: quantum superposition, quantum nonlocality, Bell’s inequality, entanglement, delayed choice, the measurement problem, and the lack of counterfactual definiteness. All these mysteries and interpretational issues of QM result from dynamical explanation in the mechanical universe and are dispatched using the authors’ adynamical explanation in the block universe, called Relational Blockworld (RBW). A possible link between RBW and quantum information theory is provided. The metaphysical underpinnings of RBW, such as contextual emergence, spatiotemporal ontological contextuality, and adynamical global constraints, are provided in Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 4. That is also where RBW is situated with respect to retrocausal accounts and it is shown that RBW is a realist, psi-epistemic account of QM. All the relevant formalism for this chapter is provided in Foundational Physics for Chapter 4.
Quantum mechanics is empirically extraordinarily successful yet continues to admit a wide range of competing interpretations. While the formalism constrains probabilistic relations between preparation procedures, measurements, and outcomes, it does not uniquely determine the ontology that realises those relations. Interpretations such as Everettian quantum mechanics, Bohmian mechanics, objective collapse theories, relational quantum mechanics, and QBist approaches preserve the predictive structure of the theory while diverging sharply in their metaphysical commitments. At the same time, developments within quantum theory itself weaken the classical ontology of independently existing objects with intrinsic properties. Entanglement, violations of Bell inequalities, and decoherence theory collectively support the view that physical description is fundamentally relational. Structural realism therefore provides a natural interpretive framework, treating the mathematical structure of physical theory as ontologically primary. However, structural realism alone leaves open the question of instantiation: how relational organisation becomes concrete as a determinate world.This paper develops Experiential Structural Ontology (ESO) as a non-interventionist interpretation of quantum mechanics that addresses this problem. ESO retains the relational ontology suggested by quantum theory while proposing that relational constraint organisation is enacted as manifestation within a fundamental experiential field. On this interpretation, the wavefunction represents relational constraint architecture governing transitions within this field, measurement corresponds to the stabilisation of particular regimes within that structure, and decoherence explains the emergence of classical stability without invoking collapse dynamics or ontological branching.
Abstract Chapter 1 points out that the mystery of entanglement has led Physics Nobel Laureates to claim “nobody understands quantum mechanics.” The Chapter goes on to introduce: the EPR and EPR–Bell paradoxes, various attempts to resolve them, our proposed resolution whereby the relativity principle (no preferred reference frame, NPRF) justifies the Planck postulate (NPRF + h) exactly like the relativity principle justifies the light postulate (NPRF + c), the Planck postulate as a result of Information Invariance & Continuity from quantum information theory, the importance of the relativity principle, subjective versus objective spacetime models of reality, spacelike and timelike relations in spacetime, and four experiments leading to our Poincaré symmetric ontology.
This paper develops a relational framework that reinterprets quantum mechanics as the behavior of a continuous generative field governed by the propagation and resolution of orientation under constraint. In this account, superposition reflects unresolved constraint geometry, collapse arises when constraint stabilizes and forces coherence to resolve, tunneling emerges from the propagation of constrained orientation through regions of elevated constraint density, and entanglement results from shared constraint boundaries that enforce joint coherence resolution across separation. Probability is reframed as coherence‑weighting across unresolved resolution paths, and the classical limit appears when constraint geometry becomes sufficiently stable to produce deterministic updates. The wavefunction is interpreted as a mathematical encoding of coherence across constraint geometry rather than a physical object or epistemic state. This unified mechanism dissolves the conceptual divides between classical, quantum, electromagnetic, and energetic behavior, situating all physical phenomena within a single operator framework grounded in the continuous structure of the relational field. The result is a coherent, mechanism‑level redefinition of quantum mechanics that integrates its core phenomena without invoking discontinuities, intrinsic randomness, or dual ontologies.
Abstract Wavefunctions are central to quantum mechanics, yet their ontological status remains one of the most debated questions in physics. This volume, within the Informational Constraints Quantum Event Realism (ICQER) framework, proposes a novel reinterpretation of wavefunctions as superpositions of informational constraint patterns distributed across quantum event networks. Moving beyond traditional views of the wavefunction as a mere probability amplitude or abstract mathematical tool, we develop a rigorous framework in which quantum states emerge from the coherent overlap and interplay of constraints that govern allowable event configurations. We establish the mathematical formalism for representing constraints as vectors in an event Hilbert space, constructing wavefunctions as linear combinations of constraint patterns with complex amplitude coefficients. Within this framework, measurement corresponds to the selective enforcement of constraints through projection operators, providing a natural, physical mechanism for wavefunction collapse that does not require observer intervention. Quantum dynamics, governed by the Schrödinger equation, is reinterpreted as the unitary propagation of constraint patterns through the event network, preserving coherence and enabling interference, entanglement, and other hallmark quantum phenomena. The constraint-based perspective resolves foundational puzzles including wave-particle duality, the measurement problem, and quantum nonlocality, while grounding the wavefunction in an objective, realist informational structure. We further explore the connection between quantum constraints and gravitational constraints within the Universal Constraint Gravity (UGC) framework, advancing a unified constraint-based foundation for physics across scales. This volume establishes wavefunctions as distributed informational structures that define quantum reality at its most fundamental level, opening new avenues for foundational research, quantum computation, and the unification of quantum mechanics with gravity.