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Old 07-30-2003, 11:05 PM   #1
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Default Questions on QM, GR, and timelines.

I’ve been chewing on something for a while and I’m having difficulty coalescing my thoughts on it.

Is it possible that the problem with reconciling General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics (if, such a problem exists) is, that at the Quantum level we are actually looking at space-time beyond the point where it diverges into our linear reality? This of course, assumes that other dimensional realities exist.

If, the quantum state of a particle cannot be known until it is measured could, this be an indication that it exists simultaneously in our linear reality and other linear realities? Each reality being determined as the particle settles into a specific, quantum state?

Would this also help to explain the loss of locality in quantum physics? If, we are looking at a particle at a point before its divergence into what becomes our linear reality then, would distances as we are aware of them, apply?

Does this make any sense?
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This probably isn't an answer, but I think there's a problem describing what space time is actually made from. I think something more substantial than a co-ordinate system is necessary.
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That's kinda where I'm going, I think, with my attempts at imagining the nature of quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle, the phenomena of non-locality, and Everett's multiverse theory.

oh btw, when I use the term "we" in such discussions, it is in the broadest sense of the word since, I rely on others to "see" and relate to us their visions.
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Maybe I was rambling. Let me ask it in another way?

In Everett's model of the multiverse, could it be said that each universe relies on a shared quantum energy, wherein the mass of one universe is not duplicated by the existence of another but in essence both are patterns arising from the quantum states of shared wavefunctions?
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