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The Post-Realization Collapse of the Wave Function and Global Relational States: Determinism, Decoherence, and the Block Universe

El colapso de la función de onda post-realización y los estados relacionales globales: determinismo, decoherencia y universo bloque
Authors: Orozco, Cristian Alberto;

The Post-Realization Collapse of the Wave Function and Global Relational States: Determinism, Decoherence, and the Block Universe

Abstract

Las interpretaciones estándar de la mecánica cuántica suelen sostener que la realidad física es incompleta hasta ser observada, o bien que el colapso de la función de onda constituye un evento ontológico fundamental asociado al acto de medición. Tales lecturas confunden la observación con la interacción física y reifican el formalismo de la teoría en una metafísica de la indeterminación. En este trabajo se propone una reinterpretación del colapso de la función de onda como un fenómeno efectivo y post-realización: una proyección descriptiva que ocurre dentro de un estado relacional global ontológicamente determinado. Integrando la teoría de la decoherencia, el análisis del experimento de la doble rendija y un modelo reforzado de universo bloque, se argumenta que los entes cuánticos no alternan entre naturalezas ondulatorias y corpusculares. En cambio, distintos regímenes experimentales restringen los grados de libertad accesibles a la descripción local, dando lugar a manifestaciones empíricas diferenciadas. Este enfoque preserva el determinismo, evita una ontología dependiente del observador y ofrece una explicación no mística del entrelazamiento cuántico basada en la primacía ontológica de la estructura relacional global sobre la descripción espacio-temporal local.

Standard interpretations of quantum mechanics often maintain that physical reality is incomplete until it is observed, or else that the collapse of the wave function constitutes a fundamental ontological event associated with the act of measurement. Such readings conflate observation with physical interaction and reify the theory’s formalism into a metaphysics of indeterminacy. This paper proposes a reinterpretation of the collapse of the wave function as an effective, post-realization phenomenon: a descriptive projection that occurs within a globally relational state that is ontologically determined. By integrating decoherence theory, an analysis of the double-slit experiment, and a reinforced block-universe model, it is argued that quantum entities do not alternate between wave-like and corpuscular natures. Rather, different experimental regimes restrict the degrees of freedom accessible to local description, yielding distinct empirical manifestations. This approach preserves determinism, avoids an observer-dependent ontology, and provides a non-mystical explanation of quantum entanglement grounded in the ontological primacy of global relational structure over local spatiotemporal description.

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wave function, entrelazamiento cuantico, determinism, collapse of the wave function, quantum entanglement, block universe, decoherencia, determinismo, ontology, ontologia, decoherence, funcion de onda, colapso de la funcion de onda, universo bloque

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