The RQF is primarily a quantum foundations solution. Its chief motivation is to answer basic story-telling questions about Nature that the last 125 years have been unable to answer, owing to foundational disarray stemming from the conceptual intractability that has pervaded quantum physics. The RQF is all about the what, where, when, and how of quantum physics, as it plays out in space-time arena of special and general relativity. It is based on a quantum ontology consisting of two fundamental ontic entities, called W-state and P-state, that respectively account for the wave- and particle-like aspects of quantum systems. W-state is wave-like, local, physical state, embodying the physicality of matter-energy, whereas P-state is particle-like, global, informational state, mediating entanglement effects and particle holism. Historically, the single most difficult challenge of putting quantum theory on a realist footing has been to provide mechanistic explanation of how weak non-locality, manifest in entanglement phenomenology, can be squared with the no-signaling stricture of special relativity (SR). The challenge is so centrally important to making sense of quantum physics that the theoretical minimum of the RQF is dedicated exclusively to addressing and resolving it. Work to date consists of four papers: 1 The pilot paper (https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5920722) focuses principally on quantum foundations and the theoretical minimum of W-state and P-state, showing how the two separate realms of reality can interoperate to produce non-local entanglement effects fully compliant with the causal structure and no-signaling stricture of special relativity. 2 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6194219 is a shorter paper, identifying multi-situationality, not probability, as the central metaphor of quantum physics. Multi-situationality signifies the facet of physical reality that permits two or more situations to coexist, despite their being mutually incompatible by all classical reckoning. The RQF interprets the uncertainty principle as a mandate for a minimal level of multi-situationality in quantum systems. 3 zenodo.org/records/20581089 elaborates on the detailed structure of W-state, which is the structure of elementary particle matter in the Standard Model: leptons, neutrinos, and quarks. Quantum theory and the core subject matter of nuclear physics are rebuilt from the ground up in the new realist framework. 4 zenodo.org/records/20671848 extends the RQF to cosmology, addressing the key topics of quantum gravity, origin of inertia, and phasal polarity (matter and anti-matter). It offers an Analysis of Alternatives that was historically lacking in the acceptance of Lemaitre's primeval atom.
Edward Larson (Thu,) studied this question.