Time, Quantum Values, and Whitehead’s Speculative Philosophy
It appears that time in quantum theory operates at the boundary of deterministic evolution but while opening up the discussion of determinacy to more contest because the causality of time appears, on the surface, to be axiomatic. Attempts at constructing arguments on time may appear tautological on the outset. At a microstate level, the coupling of time to position, momentum, and energy at the quantum level is more hidden than what one might have encountered at the classical level. The visual diagrams produced of the mathematics demonstrating the couplings of these physical states where gauge interactions are effected, such as the Feynman diagram for instance, locate time within a simplified epistemology of graphical vertices. While there have been discussions concerning the individuality and indeterminacy of quantum events in the arrow of time (Stengers 2011): and on whether the past can be indeterminate, and if such level of determinacy can be worked ...