THERE ARE NO QUANTUM JUMPS, NOR ARE THERE PARTICLES

Quantum theory does not require the existence of discontinuities: neither in time (quantum jumps), nor in space (particles), nor in spacetime (quantum events). These apparent discontinuities are readily described objectively by the continuous process of decoherence occurring locally on a very short time scale according to the Schrodinger equation for interacting systems, while the observer's ''increase of information'' is appropriately represented by the resulting dynamical decoupling of the corresponding components of the global wave function.