Unification per the Relational Blockworld

TL;DR

This paper employs the Relational Blockworld interpretation to address foundational issues in quantum mechanics, proposing a new unification approach rooted in graph theory and a self-consistency criterion that links quantum physics and spacetime.

Contribution

It introduces a novel unification framework based on discrete graph theory and a self-consistency principle, connecting quantum mechanics with the nature of spacetime and gravity.

Findings

Proposes a self-consistency criterion for constructing dynamical entities from relations.

Suggests a discrete, spatiotemporal action underlying quantum and classical physics.

Introduces a new approach to quantum gravity based on the RBW interpretation.

Abstract

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.