Dear Emmanuel,
I should have used a comma: ''in a self-creating universe, particles, particle properties''
The Copenhagen-, the de Broglie-Bohm- and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics all try to understand quantum mechanics in terms of cause and effect.
In my essay I try to show how what seems so strange from the viewpoint of classical mechanics (including big bang cosmology and relativity theory), is self-evident in a self-creating universe.
In particles in a self-creating universe have to create themselves, each other, then particles and particle properties must be as much the product as the source, of their interactions, of forces.
As much the cause as the effect of their interactions, in a self-creating universe fundamental particles simply cannot be understood causally.
The problem is that we confuse causality with reason: the flaw of causality, however, is that if we understand something only if we can explain it as the effect of some cause, and understand this cause only if we can explain it as the effect of a preceding cause, then this either goes on ad infinitum or we end up at some primordial cause which cannot be understood by definition, so causality ultimately cannot explain anything.
Our logic isn't some infallible ability to distinguish sense from nonsense; it at best is but a reflection of nature's logic, which is what we want to decipher.
Science is not about interpreting observations to fit our ideas about what is logical, a logic which may very well be based upon preconceptions, but about remaining alert for signs which may prove our assumptions wrong, our ideas of what is logical.
Regards, Anton