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Beyond the Quantum

Beyond Quantum Physics

Antony Valentini

Published Sep 16, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract ‘Beyond Quantum Physics’ delves into some detail about the new physics that could be accessed if ever we were able to escape from the restrictive state of quantum death. We begin with a deeper discussion of the ‘quantum conspiracy’, which prevents us from using nonlocality for signalling. We explain precisely why the conspiracy is a peculiarity of the state of quantum death as described by Born’s formula, and we show how superluminal signalling inevitably arises in more general ‘nonequilibrium’ conditions. We also give more details about how quantum relaxation to Born’s formula takes place. The chapter ends with a discussion of other properties of ‘subquantum matter’ (matter breaking Born’s formula), in particular how it could be deployed to circumvent the uncertainty principle.

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10.1093/oso/9780198853749.003.0006

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