[ExI] Superposition of Vacuum States

[Stuart LaForge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmWPAHcnKk

Penrose recently figured out a very precise mathematical inconsistency 
between GR and QM. Imagine you perform an experiment in a lab where the 
measurement of a quantum system can produce a macroscopic change in the 
position of massive object like a robot arm connected to a Gerlach-Stern 
device that will move a bowling ball or other suitable mass to position 
A if the spin of the particle is up or position B if the spin of the 
measured particle is down. If you solve Schrodinger's equation for the 
system, then you will end up with a wavefunction with the bowling ball 
in in a superposition of position A and position B.

Now Penrose's twist is that you solve the equations for the very same 
experiment in a rocket ship accelerating at 1 g, then you get the same 
wavefunction but with a different complex phase coefficient in front of 
it. This requires the two situations occur in different vacuums with 
different ground state energies. This puts the equivalence principle of 
GR and the superposition principle of QM into direct opposition, since 
you can't have a superposition of vacuum energies in QM. (Except maybe 
in a multiverse? Does an ontological universal wavefunction rescue one 
or both principles?)

Stuart LaForge