Trans-Coordinate Physics

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are completely compatible when space-time coordinate systems are eliminated from physics. Standard practice attempts to remove coordinate influence through invariance because it is recognized that coordinates are physically meaningless. But this is shown to be insufficient. This paper investigates a trans-coordinate physics in which space-time coordinate systems are not introduced in the first place. Instead, differentials from the local metrical invariants are defined for a particle’s wave function. This is sufficient to allow the particle’s dynamic principle to propel it through time without the use of numbers (i.e., coordinates) that uniquely identify every event and relate it to a distant origin. With coordinates out of the way quantum mechanics and general relativity are found to be harmonious. This treatment also leads to a new definition of state that allows a consistent relativistic treatment of the superluminal collapse of a quantum mechanical wave upon measurement.