An Ontology of Nature with Local Causality, Parallel Lives, and Many Relative Worlds
Mordecai Waegell

TL;DR
This paper proposes an ontological model called Parallel Lives that unifies quantum mechanics and relativity by describing fundamental point-like objects with local interactions and relative worlds, avoiding superpositions.
Contribution
It introduces a novel ontological framework where local lives carry relative wavefunctions, explaining quantum phenomena without superpositions and maintaining Lorentz invariance.
Findings
Local interactions enforce entanglement correlations.
Relative wavefunctions govern future interactions.
The model reproduces quantum correlations without superpositions.
Abstract
Parallel Lives (PL) is an ontological model of nature in which quantum mechanics and special relativity are unified in a single universe with a single space-time. Point-like objects called lives are the only fundamental objects in this space-time, and they propagate at or below c, and interact with one another only locally at point-like events in space-time, very much like classical point particles. The only causes and effects in the universe occur when lives meet locally, and thus the causal structure of interaction events in space-time is Lorentz invariant. Each life traces a continuous world-line through space-time, and experiences its own relative world, fully defined by the outcomes of past events along its world-line (never superpositions), which are encoded in its external memory. A quantum field comprises a continuum of lives throughout space-time, and familiar physical systems…
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