The Duality of Time Theory

Relational Quantum Mechanics argues that the notion of “state” describes not the observed system itself, but the relationship, or correlation, between the system and its observer. The state vector becomes a description of the correlation of some degrees of freedom in the observer, with respect to the observed system. This applies to all physical objects, whether or not they are conscious or macroscopic; any “measurement event” is seen simply as an ordinary physical interaction. Thus the physical content of the theory has to do not with objects themselves, but the relations between them.

An independent relational approach to Quantum Mechanics was developed in analogy with David Bohm’s elucidation of Special Relativity, in which a detection event is regarded as establishing a relationship between the quantized field and the detector. The inherent ambiguity associated with applying Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is subsequently avoided.