The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation and Spacetime Emergence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11245v1
• Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 21:08:58 GMT
• Title: The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation and Spacetime Emergence
• Authors: R. E. Kastner
• Abstract summary: We consider the manner in which the spacetime manifold emerges from a quantum substratum through the transactional process. There is no background spacetime as is generally assumed in physical theorizing. Specific processes in the quantum substratum serve to distinguish absolute from relative motion.
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• Abstract: We consider the manner in which the spacetime manifold emerges from a quantum substratum through the transactional process, in which spacetime events and their connections are established. In this account, there is no background spacetime as is generally assumed in physical theorizing. Instead, the usual notion of a background spacetime is replaced by the quantum substratum, comprising quantum systems with nonvanishing rest mass. Rest mass corresponds to internal periodicities that function as internal clocks defining proper times, and in turn, inertial frames that are not themselves aspects of the spacetime manifold, but are pre-spacetime reference structures. Specific processes in the quantum substratum serve to distinguish absolute from relative motion.

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