The nRules are empirical regularities that were discovered in macroscopic
situations where the outcome is known. When they are projected theoretically
into the microscopic domain they predict a novel ontology including the
frequent collapse of an atomic wave function, thereby defining an nRule based
foundation theory. Future experiments can potentially discriminate between this
and other foundation theories of (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics.
Important features of the nRules are: (1) they introduce probability through
probability current rather than the Born rule, (2) they are valid independent
of size (micro or macroscopic), (3) they apply to individual trials, not just
to ensembles of trials. (4) they allow all observers to be continuously
included in the system without ambiguity, (5) they account for the collapse of
the wave function without introducing new or using old physical constants, and
(6) in dense environments they provide a high frequency of stochastic
localizations of quantum mechanical objects. Key words: measurement, stochastic
choice, state reduction.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures,Trieste/Losinj Conference, 5-9 Sept. 200
