Fast Vacuum Fluctuations and the Emergence of Quantum Mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02019v2
• Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:14:16 GMT
• Title: Fast Vacuum Fluctuations and the Emergence of Quantum Mechanics
• Authors: Gerard t Hooft
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate how fast moving classical variables can generate quantum mechanical behavior. The energy levels are far separated, such that one may assume these variables to stay in their ground state. The fast variables could be the vacuum fluctuations caused by unknown super heavy particles.
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• Abstract: Fast moving classical variables can generate quantum mechanical behavior. We demonstrate how this can happen in a model. The key point is that in classically (ontologically) evolving systems one can still define a conserved quantum energy. For the fast variables, the energy levels are far separated, such that one may assume these variables to stay in their ground state. This forces them to be entangled, so that, consequently, the slow variables are entangled as well. The fast variables could be the vacuum fluctuations caused by unknown super heavy particles. The emerging quantum effects in the light particles are expressed by a Hamiltonian that can have almost any form. The entire system is ontological, and yet allows one to generate interference effects in computer models. This seemed to lead to an unsolvable paradox, which is now resolved: exactly what happens in our models if we run a quantum interference experiment in a classical computer is explained. The restriction that very fast variables stay predominantly in their ground state appears to be due to smearing of the physical states in the time direction, preventing their direct detection. Discussions are added of the emergence of quantum mechanics, and the ontology of an EPR/Bell Gedanken experiment.

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