Unification through probability density gradients

Instine
Messages
88
Reaction score
0
proposal: Gravity is an effect of uncertainty gradients.



Probability density currents are recognised phenomina in quantum mechanics/dynamics. A wave-particle's uncertainty is acknowledged as a fundamental property, oscillating through space and time.

The classic experimental evidence for this is passing single photons through a diffraction grating and observing the interference pattern build up beyond the grid. The photon is said to be interfering with its other possible positions. Painting a picture of fluidly dynamic probability fields writhing through space-time.

What if these currents and fields where macro, stella or even cosmic in scale?

And more crucially (and controversially, I'm sure) uncertainty creates an expulsive effect on reality. Perceptively expanding the reality away from the uncertain region, relative to more certain areas, which contain reference mass. Regions near a large mass would be very certain of their relative properties (location, velocity etc) relative to the nearby reference matter, compared to the less certain surroundings, not containing references. The 'bluring' effect of distance on the perceived relative properties (position, velocity etc) could cause an uncertainty gradient.

The observed effect would be an attraction towards reference masses. Proximity would exponentially increase the certainty of the relative property values, as observational information becomes more accurate, due to fundamental resolution effects, and thereby more certain, as is observed with gravitation.

This could possibly result in the unification of field theories if corroborated through experimental observation of probabilistic effects on the relative expansion of space-time.

If observable, the consequesnces are considerable both for applied and theoretical physics.



,
Phil Teare
 
Physics news on Phys.org
I am not sure I received your message clearly, but I think the general associations are interesting.

Maybe you are thinking along the lines of information geometry? There are some ideas going on around this, but far more to come I think.

Check this paper, and see if it you can recognize the reasoning.

"Towards a Statistical Geometrodynamics"
--- Ariel, Caticha, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0301/0301061v1.pdf

He wants to derive GR from in terms of information geometry and probabilistic reasoning. There is no success yet but maybe you can check the paper for ideas.

/Fredrik
 
Wow, great. Thanks. Just the sort of thing I'm after.

Will read and get back.
 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09804 From the abstract: ... Our derivation uses both EE and the Newtonian approximation of EE in Part I, to describe semi-classically in Part II the advection of DM, created at the level of the universe, into galaxies and clusters thereof. This advection happens proportional with their own classically generated gravitational field g, due to self-interaction of the gravitational field. It is based on the universal formula ρD =λgg′2 for the densityρ D of DM...
Many of us have heard of "twistors", arguably Roger Penrose's biggest contribution to theoretical physics. Twistor space is a space which maps nonlocally onto physical space-time; in particular, lightlike structures in space-time, like null lines and light cones, become much more "local" in twistor space. For various reasons, Penrose thought that twistor space was possibly a more fundamental arena for theoretical physics than space-time, and for many years he and a hardy band of mostly...
Back
Top