Abstract
I numerically simulate and compare the entanglement of two quanta using the conventional formulation of quantum mechanics and a time-symmetric formulation that has no collapse postulate. The experimental predictions of the two formulations are identical, but the entanglement predictions are significantly different. The time-symmetric formulation reveals an experimentally testable discrepancy in the original quantum analysis of the Hanbury Brown–Twiss experiment, suggests solutions to some parts of the nonlocality and measurement problems, fixes known time asymmetries in the conventional formulation, and answers Bell’s question “How do you convert an ’and’ into an ’or’?”
Highlights
This paper extends the time-symmetric formulation described in [10] from a single particle to two entangled particles
The time-symmetric formulation assumes that a complex transition amplitude density which lives in configuration spacetime gives the most complete description of a quantum that is in principle possible
The conventional formulation postulates abrupt collapse of the wavefunction upon measurement onto only one of the possible final states, while the time-symmetric formulation postulates the smoothly varying existence of only one actual transition amplitude density out of a statistical ensemble of possible transition amplitude densities, with no change in the actual one after information about it is gained from the experimental results
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. I compare how the entanglement of two quanta is explained by the conventional formulation of quantum mechanics [5,6,7] and by a time-symmetric formulation that has no collapse postulate. The particular time-symmetric formulation described in this paper is a type IIB model, in the classification system of Wharton and Argaman [14]. It is called time-symmetric because (for symmetrical boundary conditions) the complex transition amplitude densities (defined below) are the same under a 180-degree rotation about the symmetry axes perpendicular to the time axes. These results may have potential applications in parity-time symmetry quantum control devices [22]
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