Do any respected theoretical models of Quantum Physics view superposition as a relative orientation in an additional dimension?
Hi Internet, I’m new to physics and am having a lot of fun learning about relativity and quantum weirdness. I started my journey studying relativity and found it pleasantly tidy and even intuitive. Quantum phenomena, not so tidy…
But with Einstein fresh on my mind as I pondered quantum phenomena like non-locality and apparent retrocausality, I found myself wondering if any serious theoretical models out there view superposition as a relative orientation in a geometric dimension in which we all partake, say of “potentiality/actuality”?
The “collapse of the wave function” for an electron would just be a relative tilt or re-orientation of the electron in question within “spacetime-actuality”.
I'm thinking of quantum coherent particles, oriented/travelling quickly in the “direction of potentiality”, thus not passing through time at all, explaining apparent retrocausality in experiments like delayed choice quantum erasers.
To me this also makes sense of non-locality. I get that entanglement does not enable FTL communication of classical information, but the apparent instantaneity of collapse of entangled particles is still “spooky”, and in my mind the spookiness subsides if all positions in spacetime are colocated from the perspective of fully coherent systems (just as from the “perspective” of light, all points along its path are colocated in space).
To go fully off the rails, if an observer is always at rest from their own perspective, then in this line of thinking a particle in a superposition is actually just a particle from “it’s own perspective”, and we’re the wavy ones?
Thank you for humoring me.
My question in a nutshell is: is there a model out there that views superposition as a relative orientation in a continuum of spacetime and at least one more dimension? Or am I lost in the sauce?
Posted Jul 29, 2025, 6:33 AM UTC