AbstractLoophole-free Bell experiments have conclusively demonstrated that non-local correlations are a fundamental property of physical reality. Within the Minkowskian framework of Special Relativity (SRT), the relativity of simultaneity renders the temporal ordering of spacelike-separated events inherently frame-dependent. This creates a conceptual inconsistency for any ontologically realist interpretation of quantum mechanics: if measurement outcomes correspond to objective physical events, then the absence of a preferred foliation leads unavoidably to contradictory causal histories or retrocausal influences. In this work, we formulate a Conditional No-Go Theorem showing that Ontological Realism, Linear Causality, and Fundamental Lorentz Invariance cannot all hold simultaneously. Preserving a coherent causal structure therefore requires relinquishing Lorentz invariance as a primitive spacetime symmetry. We propose Absolute Simultaneity Theory (AST), a framework in which Lorentz covariance emerges thermodynamically from a quantum vacuum treated as a structured medium in equilibrium. Drawing on analogies with condensed-matter systems—particularly Volovik’s superfluid vacuum paradigm—we show that a preferred rest frame, plausibly identified with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) frame, is fully compatible with the empirical success of SRT. In AST, local Lorentz symmetry arises as a stability condition of the underlying vacuum dynamics rather than as a fundamental geometric postulate. This reconceptualization allows quantum non-locality and relativistic kinematics to coexist within a unified, time-ordered ontology.
AbstractLoophole-free Bell experiments have conclusively demonstrated that non-local correlations are a fundamental property of physical reality. Within the Minkowskian framework of Special Relativity (SRT), the relativity of simultaneity renders the temporal ordering of spacelike-separated events inherently frame-dependent. This creates a conceptual inconsistency for any ontologically realist interpretation of quantum mechanics: if measurement outcomes correspond to objective physical events, then the absence of a preferred foliation leads unavoidably to contradictory causal histories or retrocausal influences. In this work, we formulate a Conditional No-Go Theorem showing that Ontological Realism, Linear Causality, and Fundamental Lorentz Invariance cannot all hold simultaneously. Preserving a coherent causal structure therefore requires relinquishing Lorentz invariance as a primitive spacetime symmetry. We propose Absolute Simultaneity Theory (AST), a framework in which Lorentz covariance emerges thermodynamically from a quantum vacuum treated as a structured medium in equilibrium. Drawing on analogies with condensed-matter systems—particularly Volovik’s superfluid vacuum paradigm—we show that a preferred rest frame, plausibly identified with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) frame, is fully compatible with the empirical success of SRT. In AST, local Lorentz symmetry arises as a stability condition of the underlying vacuum dynamics rather than as a fundamental geometric postulate. This reconceptualization allows quantum non-locality and relativistic kinematics to coexist within a unified, time-ordered ontology.
What guarantees the "peaceful coexistence" of quantum nonlocality and special relativity? The tension arises because entanglement leads to locally inexplicable correlations between distant events that have no absolute temporal order in relativistic spacetime. This paper identifies a relativistic consistency condition that is weaker than Bell locality but stronger than the no-signaling condition meant to exclude superluminal communication. While justifications for the no-signaling condition often rely on anthropocentric arguments, relativistic consistency is simply the requirement that joint outcome distributions for spacelike separated measurements (or measurement-like processes) must be independent of their temporal order. This is necessary to obtain consistent statistical predictions across different Lorentz frames. We first consider ideal quantum measurements, derive the relevant consistency condition on the level of probability distributions, and show that it implies no-signaling (but not vice versa). We then extend the results to general quantum operations and derive corresponding operator conditions. This will allow us to clarify the relationships between relativistic consistency, no-signaling, and local commutativity. We argue that relativistic consistency is the basic physical principle that ensures the compatibility of quantum statistics and relativistic spacetime structure, while no-signaling and local commutativity can be justified on this basis.
The Theory of Temporal Relativity proposes a unified theoretical framework that extends Special and General Relativity into the complex domain, integrating aspects of Quantum Mechanics within a single geometrical structure. The theory introduces a generalized Hilbert-space geometry and interprets quantum states as observer-dependent, arising from complex temporal relations between reference frames. Theory of Temporal Relativity is a theoretical framework proposing a unified extension of Special and General Relativity into the complex domain, with the goal of incorporating aspects of Quantum Mechanics within a consistent geometrical model. The theory generalizes Hilbert-space geometry and relativistic invariance to complex coordinates, introducing observer-dependent descriptions of physical quantities and a reinterpretation of quantum states as complex-phase relations between reference frames. Within this model, fundamental constants such as c, G, and h are not strictly universal but can exhibit apparent local variations arising from the observer’s position in the complex spacetime manifold. These variations preserve global covariance and CPT symmetry while reconciling quantum non-locality with relativistic kinematics. The framework predicts experimentally testable effects, including measurable phase shifts in interferometric experiments, possible frequency modulations in non-inertial systems, and small local deviations of physical constants detectable in condensed-matter and gravitational contexts. The supplementary work, “Quantum Uncertainty, Planck’s Constant, and Ontological Insights from Complex Spacetime Geometry and Local Metric Deformations”, develops the principle of Temporal Relativity as a foundational element of the theory. It formalizes the connection between quantum uncertainty, metric deformations, and complex temporal structures, within an alternative logical framework (AU). This extension provides both an ontological interpretation of the wavefunction and a basis for the emergence of quantum indeterminacy from geometric causes. Together, these works present a coherent attempt to unify the relativistic and quantum domains under a single complex-geometric view of spacetime, maintaining mathematical rigor while providing clear experimental pathways for empirical validation.
This paper develops a distributed-systems reading of causal order, locality, and the formation of facts in a relativistic universe. It extends the interpretive framework of The Universe as a Consistency-Constrained Information History, in which physical reality is redescribed as a causally consistent history of information updates rather than as a collection of objects independently existing within spacetime. The paper asks what kind of consistency structure such a history can possess if it has no privileged global clock, no instantaneous long-distance coordination, and no external coordinator. The answer is not that the universe literally runs a distributed protocol. Rather, distributed systems provide a structural vocabulary for clarifying three features of known physics: the absence of a global present, the unavailability of frame-independent global linearizability, and the formation of stable facts through decoherence, thermodynamic irreversibility, and redundant environmental recording. The main positive contribution is the Causal Consistency Convergence Argument. The privileged element is not bare causal consistency by itself, since distributed storage systems often require convergence mechanisms, object semantics, or causal+ conflict handling in addition to causal dependency preservation. What is privileged here is the causal-ordering discipline: causal predecessors must be preserved, while spacelike or otherwise concurrent events must not be forced into a privileged total order. The argument is intentionally asymmetric. Its lower bound is structural: a continuable history must preserve causal dependencies. Its upper bound is methodological: a framework that treats Lorentz invariance as a core admissibility constraint, and rejects hidden preferred foliations, must not require a privileged arbitration order over spacelike or otherwise concurrent events. Under that stated commitment, causal ordering is structurally privileged because it matches the ordering part of the physical causal structure. Nonlocal quantum correlations are treated separately as correlation constraints, not as hidden order relations. The resulting picture is neither globally serialized nor incoherent: reality is a causally ordered, locally available, and physically finalized information history. This paper is an interpretive and conceptual discussion. It does not propose a new established physical theory and makes no independent empirical prediction.
This paper develops a distributed-systems reading of causal order, locality, and the formation of facts in a relativistic universe. It extends the interpretive framework of The Universe as a Consistency-Constrained Information History, in which physical reality is redescribed as a causally consistent history of information updates rather than as a collection of objects independently existing within spacetime. The paper asks what kind of consistency structure such a history can possess if it has no privileged global clock, no instantaneous long-distance coordination, and no external coordinator. The answer is not that the universe literally runs a distributed protocol. Rather, distributed systems provide a structural vocabulary for clarifying three features of known physics: the absence of a global present, the unavailability of frame-independent global linearizability, and the formation of stable facts through decoherence, thermodynamic irreversibility, and redundant environmental recording. The main positive contribution is the Causal Consistency Convergence Argument. The privileged element is not bare causal consistency by itself, since distributed storage systems often require convergence mechanisms, object semantics, or causal+ conflict handling in addition to causal dependency preservation. What is privileged here is the causal-ordering discipline: causal predecessors must be preserved, while spacelike or otherwise concurrent events must not be forced into a privileged total order. The argument is intentionally asymmetric. Its lower bound is structural: a continuable history must preserve causal dependencies. Its upper bound is methodological: a framework that treats Lorentz invariance as a core admissibility constraint, and rejects hidden preferred foliations, must not require a privileged arbitration order over spacelike or otherwise concurrent events. Under that stated commitment, causal ordering is structurally privileged because it matches the ordering part of the physical causal structure. Nonlocal quantum correlations are treated separately as correlation constraints, not as hidden order relations. The resulting picture is neither globally serialized nor incoherent: reality is a causally ordered, locally available, and physically finalized information history. This paper is an interpretive and conceptual discussion. It does not propose a new established physical theory and makes no independent empirical prediction.
The nonlocality of entangled quantum mechanical systems is incompatible with the standard interpretation of special relativity as a single 4D Minkowskian metric spacetime. The difficulty is that the definition of a spacetime interval between any pair of events precludes any form of nonlocal interaction, even the relatively benign non-signaling correlations. By an application of the relativity principle, and the use of the space ←→ time symmetry of the Lorentz boost I propose here a reinterpretation of special relativistic spacetime. This new ontology consists of a set of coexisting 3+1D spaces (‘framespaces’), each containing unique content in the form of a complex density. These spaces are related by the Lorentz boost, and coupled pairwise in a manner dictated by the Lorentz transformation. The inter-space coupling acting on the spacetime content gives rise to a nonlocal wave phenomenon, which is identified as quantum wave mechanics. The interspace coupling strength is then inversely proportional to Planck’s constant. The coexistence of multiple spaces is interpreted as momentum superposition, implying that momentum is the fundamental physical basis of quantum superposition. This new spacetime interpretation of quantum mechanics has many consequences, including explanations of quantum non-locality, the spacetime role of Planck’s constant, quantum measurement as a symmetry-breaking process and the redundancy of description of gauge theory.
ABSTRACT The emergence of quantum entanglement correlations across spatially separated measurement regions renders the interpretation of the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativistic causality a core problem in quantum foundations [Einstein et al., 1935; Bell, 1964]. In this study, two entangled particles are modeled not as two independent physical objects in Minkowski spacetime, but as a joint quantum state in configuration space. The relative space and time coordinates of the joint state are defined via: and the ideal space-time correlation limit assumed in the model is expressed as: This limit is not a general definition of quantum entanglement, but an idealized geometric assumption representing strong correlation in the relative coordinates of the joint state within the proposed model. In this approach, physical spacetime is treated as a geometric structure representing the projection of the joint quantum state onto observable spacetime coordinates. To ensure the projection is Lorentz-covariant, the light-like interval: is employed as the constitutive geometric condition of the model. This condition is accepted not as a mandatory Minkowski interval between physical measurement events, but as the mathematical postulate of the proposed projection geometry. The dynamic scale parameter of the model is grounded in total relativistic quantum energy instead of rest mass, establishing a dimensionless Planck-scaling factor defined as: To encompass both massive and massless systems, quantum energy density is defined via the energy density component of the stress-energy tensor relative to an observer. The required consistency condition for covariant energy-momentum conservation is derived in its general form. Furthermore, modeling the proposed geometric effect as a dimensionless metric perturbation yields a phenomenological first-order geometric phase correction defined as: where is the energy-dependent reduced wavelength. Under fixed and finite , the vanishing of the proposed correction in the low-energy regime relative to the Planck scale () demonstrates that the geometric effect added by the model to standard low-energy quantum mechanics becomes negligible. This study proposes a testable theoretical model aimed at explaining the spatiotemporal correlations of quantum entanglement within a Lorentz-covariant, energy-scaled, and phenomenological geometric framework.