Bit from Qubit. A Hypothesis on Wave-Particle Dualism and Fundamental Interactions

Abstract

In this article a completely objective decoherence mechanism is hypothesized, operating at the level of the elementary particles of matter. The standard quantum mechanical description is complemented with a phenomenological evolution equation, involving a scalar curvature and an internal time, distinct from the observable time of the laboratory. This equation admits solutions internal to the wave function collapse, and the classical instantons connected to these solutions represent de Sitter micro-spaces identifiable with elementary particles. This result is linked in a natural way to other research programs tending to describe the internal structure of elementary particles by means of de Sitter spaces. Both the possible implications in particle physics and those deriving from the conversion of quantum information (qubits) into classical information (bits) are highlighted.

Keywords

• classical information
• elementary particles
• particle interactions
• instantons
• classical electron radius
• wave particle dualism