On the Relative Nature of Quantum Individuals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09452v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:54:02 GMT
• Title: On the Relative Nature of Quantum Individuals
• Authors: Christian de Ronde, Raimundo Fernández Mouján, César Massri,
• Abstract summary: We argue against the interpretation that underlies the "Standard" account of Quantum Mechanics (SQM) We present a new understanding of quantum individuals defined as the minimum set of relations within a specific degree of complexity.
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• Abstract: In this work we argue against the interpretation that underlies the "Standard" account of Quantum Mechanics (SQM) that was established during the 1930s by Niels Bohr and Paul Dirac. Ever since, following this orthodox narrative, physicists have dogmatically proclaimed -- quite regardless of the deep contradictions and problems -- that the the theory of quanta describes a microscopic realm composed of elementary particles (such as electrons, protons and neutrons) which underly our macroscopic world composed of tables, chairs and dogs. After critically addressing this atomist dogma still present today in contemporary (quantum) physics and philosophy, we present a new understanding of quantum individuals defined as the minimum set of relations within a specific degree of complexity capable to account for all relations within that same degree. In this case, quantum individuality is not conceived in absolute terms but -- instead -- as an objectively relative concept which even though depends of the choice of bases and factorizations remain nonetheless part of the same invariant representation.

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