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Fri 10 Apr, 2020 08:08 pm
Those are the necessary ingredients for the bridge.
A coherent/plane wave starts to cross the bridge without the use of spacetime. If its mass energy is lower than a virus it will not be able to cross unless there is a decoherence event on the bridge. If there is decoherence in the path, the coherent wave is assigned spacetime from the start (the quantum field doesn't use spacetime so it knows preemptively) and becomes a mixed state wave packet. It now has what it needs to cross most of the bridge, but to complete it as a physical particle it will hit the decoherence event and wave collapse into a physical particle.
The other option is for the coherent/plane wave to cross without decohering and smashing into a spacetime sized object on the other side. It would remain coherent while crossing the bridge.
How do you introduce spatial and temporal to a wave function? In doing so would the coherent wave become a wave packet? If you could then add wave collapse, would the wave packet become a physical particle?
Does an observable operator introduce spatial and temporal to a coherent wave to become a mixed state wave packet?
How do we get wave collapse in? Is that what a density matrix is? Can a density matrix be introduced mid flight while a wave packet if propagating? Is there a name for the location of the decoherence event in the path?
@pittsburghjoe,
Gravity doesn't belong in the standard model because a certain level of mass energy or decoherence is required to interact with the fabric of spacetime.
@pittsburghjoe,
The reason the Higgs boson's mass energy is so low is because it is not responsible for the mass of the particle. It is what allows wave collapse to a physical particle. It is what couples the particle to the Higgs field.
@pittsburghjoe,
Can the theory of everything describe dark matter if we remove the part that describes the Higgs boson? aka dark matter doesn't have a Higgs boson.