Here’s a proposed explanation of wave function collapse in quantum mechanics by using the concept of something called "seyons" - a simple and singular lowest level particle.
Seyons are hypothesized pre-spatiotemporal constituents underlying all known particles, fields, and spacetime itself. They have no intrinsic mass, charge, or position; instead, they possess only internal relational states and phases. What we call particles (photons, electrons, etc.) are stable, large-scale configurations of vast numbers of seyons. A photon corresponds to a maximally coherent, phase-locked configuration whose internal dynamics cancel out, yielding zero emergent proper time and enforcing propagation at the speed of light. Massive particles correspond to configurations with non-zero internal reconfiguration rates, giving rise to proper time, rest mass, and localization. Spacetime, causality, and relativistic structure emerge statistically from the collective behavior of seyons rather than existing fundamentally.
In this framework, the quantum wave function is not ontic but an effective, coarse-grained description of many compatible microscopic seyon configurations. Measurement is not a special observer-dependent act; it is a physical interaction between a microscopic seyon configuration and a macroscopic one with vastly larger and more stable attractor states. Wave-function collapse occurs when this interaction destabilizes a coherent seyon configuration and forces it to rapidly reorganize into one macroscopic attractor, irreversibly excluding alternatives. The apparent randomness of outcomes arises from extreme sensitivity to unobserved seyon microstates, while the Born rule emerges from the relative volumes of attractor basins in seyon state space.
Because seyons are not embedded in spacetime, fundamental nonlocal correlations are natural, allowing Bell-inequality violations without faster-than-light signalling at the emergent level. Lorentz invariance and locality arise statistically, not fundamentally, explaining why no photon substructure or collapse dynamics are directly observable. In this view, wave-function collapse is neither mystical nor observer-dependent, but a real, rapid, subquantum reconfiguration of an underlying seyon substrate from which quantum mechanics itself emerges.
Gravity is not an extra ingredient here; it is an emergent consequence of the same seyon dynamics. In this picture, spacetime itself is a large-scale, statistical description of seyon relational structure. What we perceive as gravitational effects arise from gradients in the stability and reconfiguration rates of seyon configurations: massive configurations distort the surrounding seyon network, altering the propagation of neighbouring configurations and the effective rate at which time emerges locally. This reproduces the core content of general relativity, where gravity is not a force but a manifestation of spacetime geometry.
In other words, just as particles and wave functions are emergent descriptions of seyon configurations, spacetime curvature (and therefore gravity) is an emergent description of how those configurations collectively constrain motion and time. No additional force carrier or postulate is required.
Link to original discussion with an AI: intrepidis.neocities.org/blog/post/seyons-disc
Link to a prompt for an AI to understand the Seyon hypothesis: intrepidis.neocities.org/blog/post/seyons-prompt