An interpretation of the measurement problem in quantum physics




The measurement postulate goes as:
"A measurement of an observable causes a drastic, uncontrollable alteration in the state vector of the system; specifically, regardless of the form of the state vector just before the measurement, immediately after the measurement, it will coincide with the eigenvector corresponding to the eigenvalue obtained in the measurement. "
In the quantum world, objects move at very high speeds. And for objects moving fast, their time slows down. So they, (say electrons) are behind us in time. When we are measuring them, they in their reality still think we are not measuring them. In our reality we are measuring them . That means we are measuring the future state of the electrons.
When the observer is measuring, he is interacting with the future of the system. In this reality, the things are all probabilistic because the future, any future, doesn't exist till the present interacts with it. Interpreting the mentioned postulate, we say that our present is interacting with the system's future which didn't exist until now. So, obviously, the system, after the measurement (i.e. the interaction between our present and the system's future) will become something once we measure it but wasn't 'anything' before.
Briefly put, if the measurement's result will give say an eigenvalue @.
Then the system , according to the observer, will go into the eigenstate corresponding to the @. This is the condition of the future self of the system. This future, now that it has come into formation, is unalterable
Now the system's future is decided.
The system has to become that because in the observer's reality it already has been that.

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