Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The file has been temporarily restricted while the author reviews the arguments and conclusions.This note examines how ontological conclusions are drawn from the standard quantum formalism. It distinguishes what the formalism fixes from additional claims about objective physical states and about where and when outcomes become fully formed. It tests these inferences by considering a minimal objective-state possibility, without predetermined values for all observables, and by analyzing the underdetermination of where and when outcome formation occurs within a physical measurement chain. Because preserved records themselves become part of that chain, their later comparison does not by itself resolve the underdetermination. The analysis identifies additional premises required for familiar paradoxical inferences and leaves open the possibility of outcome completion through ordinary causal propagation, without choosing an interpretation or constructing a new mechanism.
Author: Glukhankov, Maxim Petrovich
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7169651624
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