preprints.org > physical sciences > quantum science and technology > doi: 10.20944/preprints202308.0137.v1

Preprint Article Version 1 Preserved in Portico This version is not peer-reviewed

Version 1 : Received: 29 July 2023 / Approved: 1 August 2023 / Online: 2 August 2023 (04:20:10 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 17 August 2023 / Approved: 18 August 2023 / Online: 18 August 2023 (11:23:32 CEST)
Version 3 : Received: 5 September 2023 / Approved: 6 September 2023 / Online: 6 September 2023 (11:14:32 CEST)

The following is undisputed: 1. The conceptual relation between QM, describing microscopic physics, and macroscopic irreversible physics, is as mysterious today as eighty years ago. 2. When propagating chaotic equations, arbitrarily small scales gradually become significant at arbitrarily large scales. It follows that, the long-time behavior of chaotic systems is as mysterious today as eighty years ago. Previous work by the author sheds new light on the quantum-classical riddle, suggesting that quantum weirdness is a signature of a non mechanistic ontology, viz., one not describable by some generalized state-vector plus evolution rule thereof. It is argued that neither an empirical nor a theoretical case exists against such non mechanistic ontology manifesting in certain macroscopic chaotic systems. Bell's inequality violation by separated but previously coupled such systems is one example. More radically, it is hypothesized that certain systems could fuzzily `remember their future' in the sense that, a future perturbation applied to them could be inferred from their present behavior with probability>0.5. Experiments utilizing machine learning are proposed for testing such hypotheses.

quantum foundations; chaos; block-universe; quantum-classical transition

Physical Sciences, Quantum Science and Technology

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