Spacetime as an Emergent Phenomenon: A Possible Way to Explain Entanglement and the Tunnel Effect

P Castro,M Gatta,J R Croca,R Moreira

doi:10.4236/jamp.2018.610177

Abstract

Entanglement and the tunnel effect phenomena have been repeatedly observed and are generically accepted under orthodox quantum mechanics formalism. However, they remain rather inexplicable in the context of spacetime usual conceptualization. In the present work, we suggest an alternative quantum mechanics formalism, refining the pilot-wave theory initially proposed by de Broglie. We suggest that spacetime is an emergent phenomenon from a prior subquantum medium and that entanglement and the tunnel effect can be explained in terms of a nonlinear relation between space and time that is imposed by subquantum waves.

Highlights

From De Broglie Pilot-Wave Theory to a Pilot-Wavelet ModelOver the last century, quantum mechanics brought about very serious concerns about the inner nature of space and time
We suggest that spacetime is an emergent phenomenon from a prior subquantum medium and that entanglement and the tunnel effect can be explained in terms of a nonlinear relation between space and time that is imposed by subquantum waves
We have assumed that spacetime may be understood as emergent phenomena, through subquantum waves, from the a priori basic physical reality identified with the subquantum medium

Summary

Introduction

Quantum mechanics brought about very serious concerns about the inner nature of space and time. The expression on the right is, the usual mathematical expression for the harmonic plane wave, spreading infinitely over space and time, that is, the abstract case resulting from the more general and realistic wavelet expression, on the left side of (1). Another very important feature is that the wavelet expression is formally a solution of a nonlinear differential equation, called the Master equation, see ref. This is the principle of Eurhythmy, from the Greek euritmia, which is the composition of the root eu plus rhythmy: eu standing for the right, the good, the adequate and rhythmy, for the way, the path, the harmonic motion [15] [16] [17]

The Spacetime Language Problem and the Minimum Description Method

Explaining Entanglement and the Tunnel Effect

Conclusions