Quantum Physics |
Authors: Brian Scannell
A recent proposal [Hossenfelder] introduces a local, parameter-free mechanism in which gravitational effects dynamically suppress macroscopic quantum superpositions by enforcing a product-state constraint between matter and geometry. In this note I present a Bohmian re-formulation of this proposal. The reformulation replaces the product-state constraint with a clear ontology consisting of particle positionsand gravitational configuration variables guided by a joint wavefunctional.Collapse arises dynamically from gravitationally induced phase instability, rather than from a teleological action-minimisation principle.The resulting framework is deterministic, nonlocal, and ontologically transparent, while preserving the central physical insight that gravity destabilises superpositions of distinct mass distributions, but without requiring teleological dynamics.The Born rule is recovered through standard Bohmian equivariance on the joint matter—geometry configuration space, without introducingan additional stochastic collapse law.
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