Interlinking and the Emergence of Classical Physics in Quantum Theory

TL;DR

This paper introduces quantum interlinking, proposing that macroscopic objects are connected through entanglement links, which explains measurement and resolves paradoxes like Schrödinger's cat and EPR.

Contribution

It presents the novel concept of quantum interlinking, linking macroscopic objects via entanglement to clarify measurement and resolve foundational paradoxes in quantum mechanics.

Findings

Macroscopic objects are connected through mutual entanglement links.

Measurement occurs when a degree becomes entangled with macroscopic objects.

The approach resolves Schrödinger's cat and EPR paradoxes.

Abstract

The main argument by proponents of Many-World interpretations of quantum mechanics is that as more and more previously disentangled degrees of freedom become entangled with the microscopic degree we measure, there is no way of telling when the measurement (in the sense of a collapse of the wave function) should occur. Here, we introduce the concept of quantum interlinking, and argue that all macroscopic objects in the universe are connected through links of mutual entanglement while the objects themselves are (for the most part) not entangled. The measurement occurs when the degree we measure becomes entangled with any macroscopic object, and hence interlinked with all of them. This picture resolves long standing paradoxes such as Schr\"odinger's cat and EPR.