Relational Event-Time in Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

Some authors, inspired by the theoretical requirements for the formulation of a quantum theory of gravity, proposed a relational reconstruction of the quantum parameter-time—the time of the unitary evolution, which would make quantum mechanics compatible with relativity. The aim of the present work is to follow the lead of those relational programs by proposing a relational reconstruction of the event-time— which orders the detection of the defnite values of the system’s observables. Such a reconstruction will be based on the modal-Hamiltonian interpretation of quantum mechanics, which provides a clear criterion to select which observables acquire a defnite value and to specify in what situation they do so.