Guided Potential Collapse: A Hybrid Framework for Classical Space-Time Emergence and Multiverse Map Attempt

Abstract

We introduce the Guided Potential Collapse (GPC) framework-a hybrid interpretation of quantum cosmology that integrates Bohmian trajectory realism with context-sensitive collapse dynamics, inspired by the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) approach. In GPC, the guiding potential is fundamentally quantum and enables smoother navigation through superspace. Collapse fields are seeded by multiversal interactions, where external universes act as contextual observers that suppress non-classical branches and preferentially stabilize Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) geometries. These geometries serve as classical reference beacons, facilitating the inference and mapping of multiversal space-time structures across distinct minisuperspaces. We distinguish between two probabilistic regimes: Born-rule-like probabilities that emerge across intersuperspace interactions-mediated by entanglement and decoherence between universes-and standard Born probabilities confined within individual minisuperspaces. This dual structure allows for deterministic Bohmian evolution locally, while enabling classical emergence and multiversal inference globally. The framework resonates with recent efforts to clarify the empirical and ontological foundations of collapse dynamics [8], and is reinforced by pilot-wave analogs that converge toward Bohmian behavior under specific coupling conditions [7], offering a classical substrate for quantum trajectory realism.