Quantum realism (QR) is the theory that quantum waves are real and they create physical events.
In physical realism, the physical world is real and the quantum world is imaginary.
In quantum realism, the quantum world is real and the physical world is the virtual reality it generates. This theory satisfies logic, science, and the equations of physics.
In the Figure, physical, informational, personal, and social observations emerge from quantum reality, which provides the observer. These chapters will eventually be a published book.
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Part I. The Observed Reality. (Chapters 1-5). Reverse engineers physical events, as described by physics, to deduce the quantum processing that generates them.
Chapter 1. The Physical World as a Virtual Reality (March, 2025). The initial case that the physical world is a virtual reality generated by quantum processing. Download and Print.
Chapter 2. Creating Space and Time (March, 2025). How a virtual world could generate a space and time that appears to its residents as our space and time does to us. Download and Print.
Chapter 3. The Light of Existence (August, 2021). Attributes the strange properties of light to quantum processing, including the two-slit experiment. Download to Print.
Chapter 4. The Matter Glitch: An alternative to the standard model (Sept, 2021). How electrons, quarks and atoms evolved from the first light. Predicts that extreme light colliding will create matter. Download and Print.
Chapter 5. The Quantum Field (Sept, 2021). Derives gravity, charge and magnetism from a single quantum field and in so doing, to unite relativity theory and quantum theory. Download and Print.
Part II. The Observer Reality. Attributes the observer experience to quantum reality, just as Part I attributed observed physical events to it.
Chapter 6. The Mystery of Consciousness. Applies quantum realism to the hard problem of consciousness (Jan, 2024). Download to Print.
Chapter 7. Being The Observer (Jan 2024, in progress). Explores whether mysticism and science are complementary ways to study reality, by studying the observer and the observed respectively.
Part 1 evaluates the premises of world scriptures based on quantum realism. Download to print.
Annex 1. Varieties of Virtualism. A short paper on how quantum realism comparese to other versions of virtualism (2025). Download and Print.
Glossary (2025). Defines key terms used in this book. Download and Print.
FAQ (2025) Answers common questions about quantum realism. Download and Print,
Translations. Currently earlier versions of Chapters 1-5 in Spanish and Chapter 1 in Portugese.
Links:
- Ten Reasons why our Universe is a Virtual Reality, 2014, A Listverse link.
- FQXi Essay, 2010, Exploring the virtual reality conjecture, which was awarded a Fourth Prize. In the discussion, many scientists give their points of view.
- This Virtual World, Computerworld Interview, Jan 2008.