THE INEVITABLE NONLINEARITY OF QUANTUM GRAVITY FALSIFIES THE MANY-WORLDS INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012346zbMATH Open1151.83327arXiv0705.2357OpenAlexW2031337525WikidataQ56681210 ScholiaQ56681210MaRDI QIDQ3532183FDOQ3532183

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Publication date: 3 November 2008

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There are fundamental reasons as to why there should exist a reformulation of quantum mechanics which does not refer to a classical spacetime manifold. It follows as a consequence that quantum mechanics as we know it is a limiting case of a more general nonlinear quantum theory, with the nonlinearity becoming significant at the Planck mass/energy scale. This nonlinearity is responsible for a dynamically induced collapse of the wave-function, during a quantum measurement, and it hence falsifies the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. We illustrate this conclusion using a mathematical model based on a generalized Doebner-Goldin equation. The non-Hermitian part of the Hamiltonian in this norm-preserving, nonlinear, Schrodinger equation dominates during a quantum measurement, and leads to a breakdown of linear superposition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2357

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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