Spontaneous Collapse of the Wavefunction: A Testable Proposal Motivated by Discrete Physics

Abstract

A modified form of quantum mechanics which includes a new mechanism for wavefunction collapse is proposed. The collapse provides a solution to the quantum measurement problem. This modified quantum mechanics is shown to arise naturally from a fully discrete physics, where all physical quantities are discrete rather than continuous. We compare the theory to the spontaneous collapse theories of Ghirardi, Rimini, Weber and Pearle, and argue that the new theory lends itself well to a realist interpretation of the wavefunction.

30 pages, 1 figure. Revised May 2025, particularly section 9. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:quant-ph/0310033