The measurement problem is a time problem

If you look at a probability wave that describes the likelihood of finding a particle at a given location, there are two ways I see of looking at this. The first is the that there is an initial state of memory for a system in question from which the particle has emerged. And that this memory, which is the status of the system itself, will manifest the location of the particle accordingly as you advance through time into a future.

The other way of looking at this is to assume that this memory is not stored in the present. Rather, the alternative is to assume that the information about where the particle will be found is connected to the future. That is to say that at any give point in time, there has to be knowledge of where it the particle will be found across time to conform to the wave function for it’s location.

If it is a problem that a spread out probability wave can never really be observed other than to collapse it. That, you can never see it’s breadth or width at a single moment of time (otherwise known as an observation), it would then seem to be the case that the probability wave itself is spread across time, for that is the only way it can be observed.

This is what we see and it is how we’re limited in terms of observations which are either at a given moment of time, or the sum of a series of observations across a period of time.

If the wave function of a particle can’t be observed at a single moment of time, it must then only exist a across time, unless it can be stored in a memory at each moment of a present state which is not observable.

The unobservable domain that might store this wave function in every present state could be the otherwise random vacuum virtual particles since they are not observable. The alternative is to say that the wave function exists across time and that future states exists side by side in a higher dimensional space with higher dimensional interactions. In the latter sense, the wave evolves across time. In the former sense, the wave evolves within the vacuum.

The only problem with this picture is that relativity suggests relative futures can be shorter or farther away depending on the relative speed or mass of particles to their observers. Here, the solution seems to almost illuminate itself because this relativity is defined by the vacuum that gives us such distinctions. Therefore, the idea that there exists future states side by side is one in the same with the idea that all future unobservable information can be stored in the vacuum.

This seems to suggest that all of time may co-exist in some way within the vacuum. Our notion of time as a dimension or even the very notion of dimension as a concept, may be wrong. I take this to be yet another indication that the holographic principle may be the only safe haven for a true reality.