Quantum theory and the structure of space-time

Abstract

We argue that space and space-time emerge as a consequence of dynamical collapse of the wave function of macroscopic objects. Locality and separability are properties of our approximate, emergent universe. At the fundamental level, space-time is non-commutative, and dynamics is non-local and non-separable.

v2: 12 pages, edited version of an essay written for the FQXi essay contest (2016), minor typos in v1 corrected, to appear in Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung A

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