ChroNodynamics or a quantum theory involving deviations from uniform run of time

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel quantum theory called chronodynamics, describing matter-energy interactions with quantum spacetime and deviations from uniform time, using an energy width concept linked to classical time deviations.

Contribution

It introduces chronodynamics, a new quantum framework incorporating deviations from uniform time flow and coupling to a classical time deviation field.

Findings

Formulation of a quantum theory involving time deviations.

Introduction of an energy width related to spacetime coupling.

Analogy with thermodynamics for small deviations from equilibrium.

Abstract

Let us imagine that there is an overall quantum theory (not necessarily recognized yet) of matter and energy ({\it i.e.}, of elementary fermions and bosons) interacting with the physical spacetime (treated on a quantum level). Since states of quantum spacetime are so far not observed directly, they ought to be projected out from the overall Hilbert space (much like states of a quantum medium in the optical model often constructed in nuclear physics). Then, in the reduced Hilbert space only states of quantum matter and energy are left, but now endowed with the energy width that enters through an antiHermitian interaction-like operator, a remainder of their coupling to the quantum spacetime. We postulate that such an energy width involves an averaged coupling of quantum matter and energy to a classical field of time deviations from the uniform time run (in the classical spacetime of special relativity). The well known time-temperature analogy helps us to fix other postulates leading altogether to a quantum theory we call chronodynamics (a loose analogue of thermodynamics of small deviations from thermal equilibrium).