"Systemic Nonlocality" from Changing Constraints on Sub-Quantum Kinematics

TL;DR

This paper introduces a classical physics-based explanation for double-slit interference via systemic nonlocality, showing how changing constraints on sub-quantum currents can account for quantum phenomena without invoking traditional quantum forces or potentials.

Contribution

It proposes a novel classical framework for quantum interference based on systemic nonlocality derived from altered sub-quantum constraints, avoiding the need for dynamical nonlocality explanations.

Findings

Demonstrates how systemic nonlocality explains double-slit interference

Shows the explanation is consistent in both Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures

Discusses implications for superluminal signaling and relativity

Abstract

In a new approach to explain double-slit interference "from the single particle perspective" via "systemic nonlocality", we answer the question of how a particle going through one slit can "know" about the state of the other slit. We show that this comes about by changed constraints on assumed classical sub-quantum currents, which we have recently employed to derive probability distributions and Bohm-type trajectories in standard double-slit interference on the basis of a modern, 21st century classical physics. Despite claims in the literature that this scenario is to be described by a dynamical nonlocality that could best be understood in the framework of the Heisenberg picture (Tollaksen et al., 2010), we show that an explanation can be cast within the framework of the intuitively appealing Schroedinger picture as well. We refer neither to potentials nor to a "quantum force" or some other dynamics, but show that a "systemic nonlocality" may be obtained as a phenomenon that emerges from an assumed sub-quantum kinematics, which is manipulated only by changing its constraints as determined by the changes of the apparatus. Consequences are discussed with respect to the prohibition of superluminal signaling by standard relativity theory.