Pluriverse Over Multiverse: Co-Creating Reality in Fractured PhysicsSteve Raines, PhD
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...