The magical "Born Rule" & quantum "measurement": Implications for Physics
Johan Hansson

TL;DR
This paper proposes that quantum wavefunctions exist in an abstract Hilbert space and the Born Rule acts as a mysterious process transforming this into observable events in spacetime, resolving many quantum paradoxes.
Contribution
It introduces a new interpretation distinguishing between the abstract quantum space and physical spacetime, explaining quantum phenomena and paradoxes without violating empirical tests.
Findings
Quantum entities are never superposed in spacetime.
Bell test experiments refute local real theories in spacetime.
Resolving quantum paradoxes by separating abstract and physical spaces.
Abstract
I. The arena of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory is the abstract, unobserved and unobservable, M-dimensional formal Hilbert space [not equal to] spacetime. II. The arena of observations and, more generally, of all events (i.e. everything) in the real physical world, is the classical 4-dimensional physical spacetime. III. The "Born Rule" is the random process "magically" transforming I. into II. Wavefunctions are superposed and entangled only in the abstract space I., never in spacetime II. Attempted formulations of quantum theory directly in real physical spacetime actually constitute examples of "locally real" theories, as defined by Clauser & Horne, and are therefore already empirically refuted by the numerous tests of Bell's theorem in real, controlled experiments in laboratories here on Earth. Observed quantum entities, i.e. events, are never superposed or entangled as…
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