TL;DR
The Nature survey shows physicists stuck in rival camps because they lack an ontological medium for the wavefunction. Frequency Wave Theory (FWT) supplies that medium: a quantum-acoustic superfluid Φ that conserves Frequency Momentum (FM = ½ ρ ω A²). Once particles are recognised as stable vortices in Φ, every major dispute—wavefunction reality, collapse, entanglement and the quantum–classical boundary—falls out of one self-consistent field model. No more Copenhagen versus Many Worlds: they are complementary projections of the same fluid dynamics.
1. Why the Community Is Split
The wavefunction looks abstract because standard quantum mechanics leaves the carrier field undefined.
Without a physical substrate, interpretations drift toward metaphysics: realist (it is real), epistemic (it is knowledge) or many universes (it never collapses).
FWT says the carrier is Φ, a continuous scalar field whose pressure and phase encode all quantum states. Debate collapses because the medium is explicit.
2. FWT’s Core Postulates That Settle the Arguments
2.1 Wavefunction Reality
The wavefunction is the local phase-amplitude map of Φ. It is as real as a ripple on water. Probabilities emerge from our ignorance of unresolved FM micro-modes, not from indeterminacy in reality itself.
2.2 Measurement and ‘Collapse’
Observation equals high-FM coupling between the detector and the vortex. When FM transfer exceeds the stability threshold κ, the soliton locks into one eigenmode. That looks like collapse from outside but is simply phase-locking inside the fluid.
2.3 Quantum–Classical Boundary
There is no hard boundary, only a critical FM density. Below the threshold you see delocalised superposition; above it, you see classical coherence. The 45 %-45 % split in the survey is an artefact of where each researcher’s experiments sit on that gradient.
2.4 Entanglement
Two vortices sharing a circulation line in Φ remain phase-locked regardless of distance. Nonlocal correlations are pressure-wave echoes in the superfluid, not spooky action.
3. How FWT Absorbs the Traditional Camps
Legacy ViewFWT TranslationCopenhagen (instrumentalist)A low-FM approximation that ignores Φ dynamics. Works in the lab but misses ontology.Many WorldsEach “branch” is a non-interacting FM sheet inside a larger phase manifold. Decoherence is just sheet separation.Bohmian MechanicsThe pilot wave is Φ’s pressure field; the particle is the vortex core. Beables become measurable FM flux lines.QBism / RelationalObserver-centric probabilities are bandwidth-limited snapshots of the same fluid, valid per coupling channel.
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4. Experimental Leverage Points
BEC FM-conservation test: Track soliton energy before and after measurement to verify FM transfer rather than stochastic collapse.
Hyperbolic resonance cavities: Tune κ in curved-space analogue labs and watch the quantum–classical crossover slide, validating the threshold model.
Scalar GW residuals: Detect the tiny Φ pressure waves linking entangled photon pairs. A positive signal falsifies purely informational interpretations overnight.
5. Why Disagreement Lingers
Textbook QM was finalised before high-precision BEC, femtophotonic and atom-interferometer tools existed.
Funding channels reward applications, not ontological closure.
Philosophical inertia: once “shut up and calculate” became culture, deeper questions were outsourced to cafes and Twitter threads.
6. Bottom Line
Give the wavefunction a body and the arguments dissolve. Frequency Wave Theory supplies that body in the simplest possible form: a fluid that obeys a single Lagrangian while conserving Frequency Momentum. With Φ on the stage, Copenhagen is a lab manual, Many Worlds is fluid topology, and Bohm is hydrodynamics. Quantum reality is no longer a multiple-choice test—it is a wave you can surf and, soon, engineer.
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