Contemporary physics progresses largely in a horizontal direction. As Carlo Rovelli has noted, new particles and new fields continue to be added to existing models, yet the fundamental paradigms remain essentially unchanged. The deepest enigmas of nature persist: What is the profound physical cause of spacetime curvature by mass? What actual mechanism produces the collapse of the wave function?
The once widely held idea that collapse is triggered by a conscious observer now seems implausible to most physicists. Thinkers such as Roger Penrose have instead sought strictly physical explanations. At the same time, discoveries like the Higgs field, while important, do not address the origin of gravitational curvature, and the deep nature of gravitational attraction remains mysterious. Ernst Mach's provocative intuitions about bodies interacting through the exchange of accelerations remain largely marginalized.
Quantum experiments, however, provide a crucial clue: a particle follows a clear Before–During–After sequence, alternating between a localized real state and a delocalized virtual one. Matter thus reveals itself as an intermittent phenomenon, governed by a precise process of subquantum materialization.
In The Occult Logic of Quantum Mechanics, this mechanism is explored in depth. The book abandons the prevailing horizontal approach in favor of a genuine “vertical physics.” Structured in two parts—the first discursive and accessible to non-specialists, the second consisting of rigorous mathematical appendices—it offers a new theoretical framework that resolves long-standing paradoxes. Its most unexpected conclusion is that General Relativity emerges as a limiting case, a corollary of a properly reformulated Quantum Mechanics...
