{ "id": "2305.13335", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-05-20T18:40:25.000Z", "updated": "2023-05-20T18:40:25.000Z", "title": "Quantum without Quantum", "authors": [ "Julian Barbour" ], "comment": "3 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "quant-ph", "cond-mat.stat-mech", "gr-qc" ], "abstract": "In my contribution to the collection at https://dd70th.weebly.com marking the 70th birthday of David Deutsch I suggest that hitherto unrecognised properties of the Newton gravitational potential made scale-invariant through multiplication by the N-body root-mean-square length hint at redundancy of quantum wave functions for the explanation of physical effects.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-05-20T18:40:25.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "n-body root-mean-square length hint", "quantum wave functions", "newton gravitational potential", "70th birthday", "hitherto unrecognised properties" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 3, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }