The One and the Many: Towards a Unification of the Quantum and Classical Description of One and Many Physical Entities

Bob Coecke, Bart D’Hooghe, Frank Valckenborgh

Mathias van den Bossche, Philippe Grangier

Diederik Aerts

Dirk Aerts

W. M. Stuckey, Michael Silberstein

We use the Relational Blockworld (RBW) interpretation of quantum mechanics to resolve the foundational problems therein. As predicted by Smolin, the resolution of these problems is not independent of the problem of unification and the nature of time. Specifically, RBW requires a theory fundamental to quantum physics in which one must explicitly construct dynamical/diachronic entities (objects obtained via trans-temporal identification) from 'relations'. We use discrete graph theory to propose heuristically the nature of this underlying theory, which is based on a self-consistency criterion for the mutual construct of dynamical/diachronic entities, space and time whence a spatiotemporally discrete action fundamental to the path integral approach to quantum and classical physics. The proposed unification scheme suggests a novel approach to quantum gravity.

Diederik Aerts