It Is Met, Therefore It Becomes: Becoming as an Interaction — A Relational Reading of the Quantum Measurement Problem
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Quantum mechanics describes a system, prior to measurement, as a structured set of possibilities. The formalism does not state why, or at what point, one possibility becomes the definite recorded outcome. This statement proposes, in interpretive form, that possibilities become definite at interactions that leave records — meetings with other systems — and that the becoming is completed by the interaction itself rather than by observation or consciousness. The proposal is convergent with relational quantum mechanics (Rovelli) and was arrived at independently. It adds no new mathematics and makes no new prediction; its claim concerns what the formalism means where it is silent. The author labels it an interpretation, unproven in the laboratory register, as is every interpretation currently standing.
Author: Ruano, Steven
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225461555