Non-local beables

TL;DR

This paper explores the concept that quantum beables are inherently non-local and relational, proposing a matrix model as a dynamical foundation that suggests space and quantum mechanics could emerge from a more fundamental gravitational theory.

Contribution

It introduces a matrix model based on the bosonic sector of the BFSS model as a dynamical theory of non-local beables, linking quantum mechanics and gravity.

Findings

Quantum beables may be non-local and relational.

The matrix model connects quantum mechanics with emergent space.

Supports the idea that space and quantum phenomena emerge from gravity.

Abstract

I discuss the idea that the beables underlying quantum physics are non-local and relational, and give an example of a dynamical theory of such beables based on a matrix model, which is the bosonic sector of the BFSS model. Given that the same model has been proposed as a description of M theory, this shows that quantum mechanics may be emergent from a theory of gravity from which space is also emergent.