When God created the Heavens and the Earth, He created a block universe. During this process, when He sees someone doing the double slit experiment, when there is a particle detector behind the slits, He looks at the Schroedinger equation, sees that the result is to put a particle-like pattern on the screen so that's what He does. And when there is no particle detector, God checks the Schroedinger equation and finds out there should be a wave-like pattern on the screen so He makes a wave-like pattern on the screen. I think I must be the first person to propose this interpretation, so I get to name it. I'll call it the Genesis 1 Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

I could just end this essay right here. People who know about quantum mechanics already understand the interpretation. And, of course, they will OVERWHELMINGLY not like it. Bringing God into physics is politically incorrect. The whole universe must be explained using only laws of physics that work automatically without any intelligent intervention. So, to avoid God, they made up all sorts of other interpretations of quantum mechanics. But all of them are quite strange and no one can agree that any one of them is right.

The problem of interpreting quantum mechanics is they all begin with the outlook on the world called presentism. With presentism, only the present exists and there are all these particles moving around through the universe. The past is gone and there is no future yet. In the double slit experiment you send particles to a screen that has two vertical slits (openings) in it that will let the particles though. Usually the particle is a particle of light, a photon, but the experiment works with larger things too. A pattern of light and dark will show up on another screen that is behind the screen with the double slits. When you don't have a particle detector behind the slits, you get a wave-like pattern on the screen. You get a wave-like pattern because the particle going through the slits goes through both slits at the same time, as if the particle is really a wave. (So they say.) Again, the wave-like pattern on the screen is what you would expect if light is a wave, like a water wave.

If you do the experiment again, but with one of the two slits closed, you get a pattern on the screen you would get if the particle was just a particle and not a wave.

If you now put a particle detector behind the screen with both slits open again, you get a pattern on the screen that you would get if light is a particle. It's as if the particle of light really is a particle and it went through just one of the slits. Now thinking about this is terrible. It's AS IF the particle knew that it was going to find a particle detector in it's future so it went through one slit instead of both. How can that be? It should not know what it is going to run into on the other side. The future isn't ``out there" yet, right? So how could the future influence the present? And, so, if you're stuck with believing in presentism, you have to make up all sorts of weird interpretations of what is going on. Of course, with the Genesis 1 Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics that relies on God creating a block universe, He takes into account what happens to the particle during its whole lifetime and builds the world according to the equations that are his ``laws" of physics.

In recent times there is the relational blockworld (RBW) interpretation of quantum mechanics where the developers of the interpretation say basically the same thing. The whole of reality includes the future and the future has to be taken into account when doing physics. But they're not interested in bringing God into it because that is politically incorrect. Instead, they basically say, in effect, "To do physics correctly, to get the right answer, you need to adopt the viewpoint of the block universe where the past, present, and future are all equally real. But thinking about how the universe got to be the way it is, is something we're going to ignore."

On a philosophical note, what happens to particles in the double slit experiment also shows up in the real world with people. In the double slit experiment what happens to a particle at any point during its life is determined by everything else that happens to it during its entire lifetime. The same thing happens to people in the real world. What happens in the future affects a person's past and present. Everyone's life is arranged ahead of time to fit together perfectly with everything else that happens to them.