On The Nature of Spacetime: Ontology of Physics - Classical And Quantum

Fundamental and irreconcilable differences in approaches of two supremely successful physical theories - Classical Relativistic and Quantum, have been scourge of Physics for almost a century. We begin our quest for unified ontology with analysis of classical spacetime conception of Einstein, as enshrined in Special and General theories of Relativity. It is realized that it is a basic premise of Einstein’s conception of spacetime that spacetimes being experienced by different observers are synchronizable as all events along an evolution path of a system under observation are available for observation by any observer. This kind of synchronized evolution of spacetime leads to existence of Principle of Least Action, reversible laws of motion, equality of phase space volumes over evolutionary paths etc enshrining this fundamental premise – no loss of information for observer over path of evolution of a system under study. Use of statistics in classical physics is then limited to cases of huge numbers of constituents of a system and is due to absence of information of the initial configuration of the system or impracticality of calculation of each and every path of each constituent – it is not due to impossibility of doing it.

It is then shown that, this basic premise, does not hold in Quantum realm. This, along with discreteness of action, leads to development of desynchronized spacetime for quantum system vis-à-vis spacetime for observer. Fundamentally there is loss of information over evolutionary path of a quantum system for an observer. This introduces probabilistic transformation rules between space and time experiences of quantum system and those expected by an outside observer. Use of statistics in quantum physics is thus due to fundamental absence of information over evolution path while absence of information of initial configuration and impracticality of calculations and hence statistical averaging add on to absence of information. We have thus Principle of Least Action applied over whole of spacetime and not along a particular path, irreversibility and we will have increasing areas, over evolutionary path, of phase space to which a system may belong.

Principle of desynchronization is presented as fundamental ontological principle for Quantum Physics. It is argued that when we have synchronization between different parts of a spacetime during evolution, we have Classical Relativistic conception of spacetime emerging while whenever we have evolution of a spacetime of a system desynchronized with respect to an observer outside this system, Quantum physics rules emerge for this observer for estimates of parameters of the system. Thus, we have Classical physics applicable for all the observers belonging to a system while Quantum physics applicable for all observers outside the system.

In this part of the series, we discuss this principle and various facets of Quantum physics that it can explain. Difference in Classical Statistics and Quantum Statistics, Additional Dynamic Symmetry in Quantum realm, Schrodinger's equation as modeling of only space desynchronization, Quantum Field Theory as extending to include time desynchronization, elementary particles as extended and isolated spacetimes etc. are treated in this volume. David Bohm and de Broglie theories of Quantum Potential and Double Solution, respectively are also discussed along with quick look at alternative interpretations of Decoherence and Many World Theory. Its a sincere belief that this work will be helpful to researchers in this wonderful though puzzling field of science.