Hello Jim,
He certainly is not a crackpot. That's not a fair response to this paper, yes it is a philosophical paper.
That Quantum mechanics is emergent is not entirely new as you may know, an the non local nature of quantum mechanics is a reasonably correct and good description of measurements...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08576
Non-local beables
Lee Smolin
(Submitted on 30 Jul 2015)
I discuss the idea that the beables underlying quantum physics are non-local and relational, and give an example of a dynamical theory of such beables based on a matrix model, which is the bosonic sector of...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08814
Long-lived resonances at mirrors
Friedemann Queisser, William G. Unruh
(Submitted on 30 Mar 2015)
Motivated by realistic scattering processes of composite systems, we study the dynamics of a two-particle bound system which is scattered at a mirror. The physics of...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.01774
A quantum peek inside the black hole event horizon
Sumanta Chakraborty, Suprit Singh, T. Padmanabhan
(Submitted on 5 Mar 2015)
We solve the Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field, in the background geometry of a dust cloud collapsing to form a black hole...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.08005
Metastring Theory and Modular Space-time
Laurent Freidel, Robert G. Leigh, Djordje Minic
(Submitted on 27 Feb 2015)
String theory is canonically accompanied with a space-time interpretation which determines S-matrix-like observables, and connects to the standard...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03424
Is dark energy an artifact of decoherence?
Chris Fields
(Submitted on 11 Feb 2015)
Within the quantum Darwinist framework introduced by W. H. Zurek ({\em Nat. Phys.}, 5:181-188, 2009), observers obtain pointer-state information about quantum systems by interacting...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01619
Energy conditions in the epoch of galaxy formation
Matt Visser
(Submitted on 7 Jan 2015)
The energy conditions of Einstein gravity (classical general relativity) do not require one to fix a specific equation of state. In a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe where...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2812
Level spacing distribution for the prototype of the Bianchi IX model
Jakub Mielczarek, Wlodzimierz Piechocki
(Submitted on 11 Nov 2014)
Our results concern quantum chaos of the vacuum Bianchi IX model. We apply the equilateral triangle potential well approximation...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6928
Quantum Cellular Automaton Theory of Light
Authors: Alessandro Bisio, Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Paolo Perinotti
(Submitted on 25 Jul 2014)
Abstract: We present a quantum theory of light based on quantum cellular automata (QCA). This approach allows us to have a...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.5848
Propagating gravitons vs. dark matter in asymptotically safe quantum gravity
Daniel Becker, Martin Reuter
(Submitted on 22 Jul 2014)
Within the Asymptotic Safety scenario, we discuss whether Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG) can give rise to a semi-classical...
But would a bouncing state of the universe in the past or the future not also inhabit the same marcroscopic variables questions as discretenes states and continuüm problems whe have now in our theoretical physics descriptions of these situations.
It would be interesting to see if there is a way...