Quantum mechanical observer and superstring/M theory

Abstract

Terms are suggested for inclusion in a Lagrangian density as seen by an observer O2, to represent the dynamics of a quantum mechanical observer O1 that is an initial stage in an observation process. This paper extends an earlier paper which suggested that the centre-of-mass kinetic energy of O1 could correspond to, and possibly underlie, the Lagrangian density for bosonic string theory, where the worldsheet coordinates are the coordinates which O1 can observe. The present paper considers a fermion internal to O1, in addition to O1's centre of mass. It is suggested that quantum mechanical uncertainties in the transformation between O1's and O2's reference systems might require O2 to use $d$ spinor fields for this fermion, where $d$ is the number of spacetime dimensions. If this is the case, and if the symmetry/observability arguments in arXiv:hep-th/0601104 apply, the resulting Lagrangian density for the dynamics of O1 might resemble, or even underlie, superstring/M theory.