Time in the 1 Universe

The proposed „natural“ interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and of all of the one physical universe, which we inhabit

Following the recommendations of the Ouroboros Model, it is first attempted to coarsely draft an overarching picture while it is completely clear that in the end inconsistencies have to be eradicated as far as possible and gaps have to be filled to a very large and fine degree in order to arrive at an overall convincing account

Beginning with unitarity for an isolated quantum system and accepting that any full measurement breaks unitary conditions when bringing the wave function to a collapse, makes the preparation stage apear identical to the end state, i.e., classical start- and final endpoints can be identified with transitions after which it is not possible to uniquely determine what has been there before

Landauer’s limit has been found to allow telling a rather exact price for such transitions in terms of entropy generated

Only in between those two borders an isolated quantum system is evolving unitarily, it is «timeless»

Via their Hamiltonians dynamical quantum systems are firmly tied to classical laboratory time

No clock is a clock without memory, accumulating entropy is a «pale» form of memory

With changes in energy and accruing entropy, time and its direction are thus univocally established, latest as soon as some averaging and coarse graining sets in

Classic measurements as well as wavefunction-collapsing transitions establish points in time, or rather streaks, soft intervals, as nothing can be measured to arbitray precision, and there holds some form of time/energy uncertainty relation

All clocks produce some entropy and all clocks are nested, the largest one known being the observed expansion of the universe

With such local and somewhat malleable times, a fit with General Relativity seems possible

A web of mutually reinforing and catalyzing conceptualizations and structures is claimed to emerge comprising Quantum and classical Mechanics, Gravity, and Thermodynamics

The basic idea of the here sketched natural interpretation of the whole universe is most simple: if the two accepted best avialable pillars of our understanding, i.e., General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, do not neatly fit together then take a third fundamental constituent, i.e., Thermodynamics and ensuing entropy, as a mediating glue in between
Laws of nature as all other (not only highly sophisticated) concepts are abstractions (Kant was right with stressing the impossibility to fully grasp the «Ding an sich» but then inconsistent in demanding unreflected deontology)

Physical laws (as all laws) fit in general, in their delimited ranges of applicability; special cases might need special considerations

Manifold and diverse links benefit our web of understanding, especially when striving for completeness

Widest possible consistency in a relevant context with an emphasis on experimental evidence and principal falsifiability is the only touchstone of truth

Whatever regularities exist, humans (and AIs) can only comprehend them if they are accessible to their available intellectual and computational means

For intellectual honesty, it has to be acknowledged that any picture at a given time most likely is not a complete one, and most probably can never be; permanent (self-)scrutiny and searching for loop holes and hidden assumptions is mandatory

The one universe, which we inhabit, is not static but in constant evolution; any recurrence is an artifact of coarse graining («panta rhei» of Heraclitus)

There is nothing like any independent self-sufficient «substance» as Spinoza took for granted (unless one is inclined to call on metaphysical outside grounding or gap fillers)

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The icon (the age-old triskelion symbol), tries to depict a mutually catalyzing process and structure where all parts are important and their interplay only produces a whole picture