The Unlikely Buddha

Abstract We present the Quantum Resonance Channel (QRC) framework, a theoretically motivated extension of the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) that addresses two unresolved problems in contemporary cosmology: the large-scale anomalies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the Hubble tension (H₀ crisis). Rather than asserting inter-branch signaling as a first principle, we derive the minimum conditions under which residual correlations between decoherent branches could leave observable imprints on the early universe power spectrum and on present-day expansion measurements. We ground the framework in the Maldacena-Susskind ER=EPR correspondence (recently formalized as an operational theorem by Fields et al. 2024), holographic entanglement entropy, the Ryu-Takayanagi formula, and the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary wavefunction. We show that if a protected holographic degree of freedom — associated with horizon-scale entanglement during inflation — survives the decoherence of branch spl...

Abstract I argue that an explicitly pluriversal extension of relational quantum mechanics provides a coherent framework for treating quantum states as observer-relative and for understanding the consistency conditions between distinct observers’ descriptions.  This approach reframes the Wigner’s friend scenario, Bell non-locality, and decoherence without invoking a global “view from nowhere” or an ontic wavefunction of the universe.  Scaling to cosmology, it offers a relational interpretation of the Hubble tension as frame-dependent measurements, inflationary anomalies like CMB seams between observer-sectors, and quantum cosmology’s observer problem by replacing a singular universe wavefunction with a plurality of consistent, relational sectors.  The framework suggests novel experimental signatures in multi-observer quantum optics and targeted resolutions to cosmological tensions, warranting formal development as a research program in quantum foundations. Article Forget t...