An Intricate Quantum Statistical Effect and the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

• Published in: Foundations of physics Vol. 51; no. 1
• Main Author: Bopp, Fritz W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-02-2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Big bang cosmology; Causality; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Classical Mechanics; Conjugates; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; Philosophy of Science; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum mechanics; Quantum Physics; Quantum statistics; Relativity Theory; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems; Universe; Big bang/big crunch universe; Absence of a macroscopic description in the early universe; An alternative to inflation; Two-boundary interpretation of quantum mechanics; The resurrection of macroscopic causality
• ISSN: 0015-9018; 1572-9516
• DOI: 10.1007/s10701-021-00408-1

An intricate quantum statistical effect guides us to a deterministic, non-causal quantum universe with a given fixed initial and final state density matrix. A concept is developed on how and where something like macroscopic physics can emerge. However, the concept does not allow philosophically crucial free will decisions. The quantum world and its conjugate evolve independently, and one can replace fixed final states on each side just with a common matching one. This change allows for external manipulations done in the quantum world and its conjugate, which do not otherwise alter the basic quantum dynamics. In a big bang/big crunch universe, the expanding part can be attributed to the quantum world and the contracting one to the conjugate one. The obtained bi-linear picture has several noteworthy consequences.