On the Possible Connections between Quantum Mechanics and Gravitation

Abstract

Since those memorable days when Louis de Broglie had the brilliant idea of associating a wave with the electron, the problems of the interpretation of this wave and its relations with observed phenomena have been and remain an intriguing source of puzzles for us. Not only are we far from agreement on the answers, we often disagree even more about the sort of questions to ask.

In this brief report I would like to present a possible way to formulate the main problem in the theory of measurement and a particular attempt to solve it. I wish to make clear that the ideas and the work carried out on the basis of these ideas belong to Professor F. Károlyházi, who is working at the Fötvös University in Budapest. The results are contained in his second thesis defended in 1972, published only in Hungarian [1].

A brief note on the general ideas has been published[2]. The thesis is much more complete and contains important results which are not even mentioned in the note of 1966. With the authorization of F. Károlyházi I have prepared this article making use of his thesis. I had to select material, of course, in a way which was inevitably not impartial. Nevertheless I hope that what I am going to say is not in contradiction with the author’s view.