As Janos indicates, the Transactional Interpretation (TI) of Quantum Mechanics is very similar to the ideas I developed just by applying Special Relativity to massless quanta.
I would recommend reading "Understanding Our Unseen Reality", a book about the Transactional Interpretation by Ruth E. Kastner. It can really change the way you think about the universe:
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Our-Unseen-Reality-Solving-ebook/dp/B00TZPIOM2
Kastner states that the current picture of the quantum world, that considers quanta evolving in spacetime, is incomplete and creates all the quantum riddles and paradoxes.
In TI, spacetime is an emergent phenomena, created by all the energy transactions performed by quantum objects in the quantum realm. Everything we observe is prepared "behind the scenes" by wave exchanges that take place outside the spacetime realm. Change and momentum are more fundamental than space and time because, unlike the latter, the former always imply a relation between two entities, so there can be no energy exchanges without both emitter and absorber.
TI considers each spacetime energy exchange as the realization of one among all possible transactions between an emitter and all potential absorbers. The possibilities are handled in the non-observable quantum realm, and when virtual exchanges meet certain constraints, they are introduced into spacetime as real energy exchanges.
What materializes in spacetime each time is not a unique event, but two events (emission and absorption), separated by the spacetime interval that express the exchange of energy that took place between the emitter and the absorber. There are no single or isolated events happening in the universe. Any event has to be linked, at least, to another one in order to define a transaction, so they always emerge as linked pairs at the ends of any interval or exchange that develops in spacetime for material observers.
But as I said before, the strongest reason I have to think TI really hits the spot is that I reached the same conclusions just from Special Relativity, before even knowing TI existed.
I realized that, precisely by applying SR, any quantum object travelling exactly at the speed of light would experience no time or distance elapsed from emission to detection. I found this insight (that massless quanta know nothing about our space or time dimensions) so remarkable that I decided to analyze QM from this vantage point. To my surprise, I was able to find intuitive explanations for entanglement, nondeterminism, wave/particle duality, wave function collapse, Bell’s theorem, faster than light communication, EPR paradox, Scrhödinger’s cat experiment, double-slit experiment, delayed choice experiment...
In the end, I think my viewpoint works correctly because I reached the same key concepts required by TI:
- Absorption is a fundamental part of any energy exchange.
- Both emission and absorption are required to define any transaction (massless quanta).
- Exchanges we observe as spacetime processes are, at the same time, instantaneous events taking place "outside spacetime" for the quanta involved.
Kastner's book is by far the most approachable reading about the true nature of reality and the inner workings of QM I've ever seen. I only hope this new scientific description of reality would become more widespread, as it resonates so nicely with my own findings.
