Understand
A new law of physics is proposed, defined on the cosmological scale but with significant implications for the microscale.
- Motivated by nonlinear dynamical systems theory and black-hole thermodynamics, the Invariant Set Postulate proposes that cosmological states of physical reality belong to a non-computable fractal state-space geometry I, invariant under the action of some subordinate deterministic causal dynamics.
- An exploratory analysis is made of a possible causal realistic framework for quantum physics, based on key properties of I.
- For example, sparseness is used to relate generic counterfactual states to points not lying on I, thus providing a geometric basis for the essential contextuality of quantum physics and the role of the abstract Hilbert Space in quantum theory.