Logic is to the quantum as geometry is to gravity

TL;DR

This paper proposes a generalized history-based interpretation of quantum reality that resolves the measurement problem without multiple worlds or external observers, making it suitable for quantum gravity and causal sets.

Contribution

It introduces a history-based framework for quantum reality that modifies inference rules to resolve contradictions and addresses the measurement problem.

Findings

Reconceptualizes quantum reality as a generalized history

Resolves the Kochen-Specker paradox within this framework

Applicable to quantum gravity and causal set theories

Abstract

I will propose that the reality to which the quantum formalism implicitly refers is a kind of generalized history, the word history having here the same meaning as in the phrase sum-over-histories. This proposal confers a certain independence on the concept of event, and it modifies the rules of inference concerning events in order to resolve a contradiction between the idea of reality as a single history and the principle that events of zero measure cannot happen (the Kochen-Specker paradox being a classic expression of this contradiction). The so-called measurement problem is then solved if macroscopic events satisfy classical rules of inference, and this can in principle be decided by a calculation. The resulting conception of reality involves neither multiple worlds nor external observers. It is therefore suitable for quantum gravity in general and causal sets in particular.