International Journal of
Physical Sciences

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Phys. Sci.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-1950
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPS
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2572

Full Length Research Paper

Relativistic causality versus superluminal communication: Is the quantum mechanics a semi-empirical theory?

Piero Chiarelli
  • Piero Chiarelli
  • National Council of Research of Italy, Area of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Moruzzi 1, Italy Interdepartmental Center ?E. Piaggio? University of Pisa, Italy.
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  •  Received: 26 November 2014
  •  Accepted: 04 March 2015
  •  Published: 30 April 2015

Abstract

The work analyzes the compatibility between the classical freedom, the local relativistic causality and the non-local behavior of quantum mechanics in the frame of the stochastic approach of the quantum hydrodynamic analogy (SQHA). The work describes the role of the quantum potential in generating the quantum non-local dynamics in a fluctuating environment. The analysis shows that it is possible to maintain the concept of classical freedom between far away weakly bounded systems (moderate non-locality) as well as to make compatible the uncertainty principle with the relativistic postulate of invariance of light speed. The work shows that the paradox of instantaneous quantum non local behavior at infinite distances of the standard formalism is an artifact due to the non-relativistic non-stochastic ambit of such theory where the light speed is infinite and the non-local interaction owns an infinite range of action. The work envisages that the SQHA can possibly lead to a fully theoretically self-standing quantum mechanics where the wave function collapse, during a measurement process, can be described by the theory itself without empirical postulates. Under this light the paper discusses the need of searching for (both local and non-local) hidden variables quantum mechanics as well as the need of superluminal communications in quantum experiments. The analysis shows that all these hypotheses are attempts of interpreting the outputs of quantum measurements that cannot be fully explained by the semi-empirical formalism of quantum mechanics, based on the statistical postulates of the measuring process as well as the existence of a classical observer. A two photon experiment is discussed to the light of the SQHA approach.
 
Key words: Quantum non-locality, superluminal transmission of quantum information, classical freedom, local relativistic causality,  Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) paradox, macroscopic quantum decoherence, Bell’s inequalities, quantum hydrodynamic analogy.