Posting on this page since it might interest people:
Most of this is over my head but it sounds pretty damn significant if something is really going on.
Do we know what the hell a wave of space time is in Bohmian physics? Like, wtf is a "wave" of space time? Does it have to do with gravity and mass and does this mean anything new for what "time" is?
I'm so confused.
I don't know, but I think it has to do with probabilities. Things that are close to one another would have a higher
probability of having interactions with one another than things that are far away.
I think it relates to Zeno's paradox (or the similar Quantum Zeno effect).
So what might happen is that if you have two particles at 10 light years away from one another, if there is nothing else at all in the universe between or around them, the probabilities that would result from their interactions (as in, where will either be in the next "frame" as a result of an interaction with one another) would be the same than if they were at ANY distance. Distance is irrelevant in influencing the outcome in this context; close or far, distances being relative and space being infinitely dividable means that there is no notion of space to measure in this case: is it really 10 light years or 10cm? You can't form a distance notion when you have nothing but two bits with infinite space everywhere around them; zoom in or zoom out, who knows how far they are? So the probabilities in this scenario can't take the distance into account.
But if you add a third particle somewhere closer to either than the other, the probabilities that their interactions will define where they end up next is higher than the probabilities that would result from an interaction with the one that is farther away; it's never zero, but lower. Now at this point space has a measure, through probabilities, or probabilities are now measurable as a result of space, same thing. Closer just means more probable, father means less.
So from what I can imagine, the "wave" in space is probabilities; no matter how great the distances are between two particles there is a
chance that one will influence the other, mathematically speaking. It's just extremely unlikely that something really far will influence something close in our every day life, but possible.
There might be some ways to significantly increase the probabilities that two things will interact with one another without doing the obvious which is to move things closer.
The probabilities could be altered WITHOUT altering their spatial relationship. To us it would look like they are still far from one another, but we would have altered the probabilities of interaction, since they are just that; probabilities, that were just increased. They would react as if closer to one another, even if not.
The wave would be this mutation of probabilities that spreads through space or another dimension, altering interaction probabilities, even if spatial relationships are unchanged or fairly unchanged. With entangled particles, maybe we change the spatial relationship without changing the interaction probabilities; we make a change in one dimension that doesn't translate into a change in the other dimension.