2017/01/31 by Giulio Gasbarri, Marko Toroš, Sandro Donadi +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Classical mechanics #Function (biology) #Gravitational collapse #Gravitational wave #Mathematical physics #Metric (unit) #Order (exchange) #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum dynamics #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Quantum nonlocality #Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques #Theoretical physics #Wave function collapse #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.104013
published as Phys. Rev. D 96, 104013 (2017) · 9 pages , 1 figure
openalex publication_date 2017/11/13 · arxiv created 2017/11/15 · arxiv updated 2017/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Starting from an idea of S. L. Adler [in Quantum Nonlocality and Reality: 50 Years of Bell's Theorem, edited by M. Bell and S. Gao (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England 2016)], we develop a novel model of gravity induced spontaneous wave function collapse. The collapse is driven by complex stochastic fluctuations of the spacetime metric. After deriving the fundamental equations, we prove the collapse and amplification mechanism, the two most important features of a consistent collapse model. Under reasonable simplifying assumptions, we constrain the strength \ensuremathξ of the complex metric fluctuations with available experimental data. We show that \ensuremathξ\ensuremath≥10^\ensuremath-26 in order for the model to guarantee classicality of macro-objects, and at the same time \ensuremathξ\ensuremath≤10^\ensuremath-20 in order not to contradict experimental evidence. As a comparison, in the recent discovery of gravitational waves in the frequency range 35 to 250 Hz, the (real) metric fluctuations reach a peak of \ensuremathξ\ensuremath∼10^\ensuremath-21.