Gravity-induced wavefunction-collapse in a temporally expanding spacetime

TL;DR

This paper proposes a gravity-induced wavefunction collapse model within a temporally expanding spacetime, resolving conflicts between quantum nonlocality and relativity through a dynamically moving boundary condition.

Contribution

It introduces a novel collapse model based on semiclassical gravity and a temporally expanding spacetime, explaining quantum correlations without violating relativity.

Findings

Predicts collapse lifetimes similar to Diosi and Penrose models

Ensures energy conservation at collapse

Provides a framework for testing Born's rule experimentally

Abstract

A gravity-induced approach to wavefunction collapse based on semiclassical gravity is enhanced by the hypothesis of a temporally expanding spacetime, which leads to a collapse model that can resolve the conflict between quantum nonlocality and relativity. It is postulated that the spacetime region on which the evolution of the state vector exists is bounded towards the future by a border that is dynamically moving towards the future, and at which the state vector must fulfil a boundary condition. Wavefunction collapse is represented in such a way that the evolution of the state vector changes abruptly at critical spacetime expansions to an evolution resembling a classical trajectory. This can explain the correlations in EPR experiments without coming into conflict with relativity, since the evolution of the state vector before and after the abrupt change is governed solely by local physical laws. This model leads to the same lifetimes of superpositions as the gravity-based approaches of Diosi and Penrose, and is characterised by the facts that energy is conserved at collapse and that the reduction point in time does not vary statistically. Some unique features of the model are that it naturally leads to stochastic behaviour and that it can predict reduction probabilities. It explains why all experiments performed so far behave in agreement with Born's rule, due to a property that they have in common. This gives rise to new experiments for checking Born's rule, which can be realised in the short term.