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Tim Maudlin

The document discusses the challenges of reconciling quantum mechanics and relativity, particularly through the lens of Bell inequalities and Bohmian mechanics. It proposes that a relativistic structure can emerge from a non-relativistic framework by utilizing discrete space-time, which avoids issues like superluminal communication and singularities found in general relativity. The exploration includes the implications of discrete geometry and connectivity in understanding the relationship between quantum particles and their trajectories in space-time.

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Tim Maudlin

The document discusses the challenges of reconciling quantum mechanics and relativity, particularly through the lens of Bell inequalities and Bohmian mechanics. It proposes that a relativistic structure can emerge from a non-relativistic framework by utilizing discrete space-time, which avoids issues like superluminal communication and singularities found in general relativity. The exploration includes the implications of discrete geometry and connectivity in understanding the relationship between quantum particles and their trajectories in space-time.

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On the Emergence of Relativistic

Structure from Discrete Space-Time


Tim Maudlin
QUANTUM MECHANICS AND RELATIVITY

Why is so difficult conciliate this two theories?

Bell inequalities
One of the issues is no locality, (what locality?) Bell
locality that in some way is completely equivalent to
the classical notion of locality.

Bell proved a set of inequalities (purely mathematical) that if you do


experiment in labs that there are far apart (space-like separation) you would
find that if the word is local there are a set of inequalities (correlation
relations) that QM has to obey,

BUT THE ESSENCE OF THE RELATIVTY IS THE NO


SUPERLUMINAL COMUNICATION..... HOW DO WE JOING...?
BOHMIAN MECHANICS

Non Relativistic Bohmian mechanics (Pilot wave theory, De Broglie-Bohm Theory).

The ontology of the theory (what the theory postulates that exists physically?)

TWO PARTS —A quantum state (represented with a wave function)


OF THE —Particles (small objects that always have a position and velocity defined and
THEORY follow continuous trajectories).

TWO EVOLUTION EQUATIONS

Wave function dynamics

Guide equation We have to go inside the principles of QM!!

As we know the standard QM


interpretation is fundamentally obscure in
some sense.

-Measure problem
In the single state experiment, each
particle has an exact location.

Entanglement

What determines what The first particle to reach the apparatus acts just like
particle goes up and what the single particle. And then (as a consequence of the
Guidence Equation) the latter goes the other way.
goes down?
But in standard relativity there is no standard order (global time order)!

There is no global foliation associate with a classical setting.

But in a non relativistic theory i need a time order (it is important whether Alice and Bob
does the experiment first)

Easy, if we take BM has a fundamental theory we have to relax RELATIVITY

IDEA

Suppose that we have a non-relativistic structure, the question is, can a


relativistic structure emerge from a non-relativistic structure?

YES, WITH A DISCRETE SPACE TIME


STANDARD GR NEW APPROACH

Space-time is fundamentally a Discrete geometry.


differential (differentiable + continua)
manifold.
Purely SPATIAL STRUCTURE
What could a discrete spatial structure look like?
EXAMPLE

One dimensional discrete


spaces.
Things go interesting when we go to two
dimensions
• What our attomic surface look like?

ONE WAY TO
INCREASE THE
DIMENSION IS USING
THE SIMPLEX
The Euclidean thought

ATOMIC STRUCTURE = CUBES


Circle in discrete
space
Adding time
space slice 1

space slice 2
Bad way of
adding time

Particles have to travel along continuous trajectories through space-time


(between sucessive points).

With this space time structure there is no dynamics


Infinite
connections
Superlumical
information
transmission.

No way to
reconcile with a Light cone
structure?
finite maximum
velocity
Now we need a notion CONNECTIVITY give
of distance. us it.
We can look the path connectivity horizontally (time separate events) or
vertically (space separate events).
CONCLUSION

Additionally in a theory like this we don’t have problems like singularities that are
generic in general relativity.

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