Quantum Mechanics

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Summary Issues in the philosophy of quantum mechanics include first and foremost, its interpretation. Probably the most well-known of these is the 'orthodox' Copenhagen interpretation associated with Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, John von Neumann, and others. Beginning roughly at the midway point of the previous century, philosophers' attention began to be drawn towards alternative interpretations of the theory, including Bohmian mechanics, the relative state formulation of quantum mechanics and its variants (i.e., DeWit's "many worlds" variant, Albert and Loewer's "many minds" variant, etc.), and the dynamical collapse family of theories. One particular interpretational issue that has attracted very much attention since the seminal work of John Bell, is the issue of the extent to which quantum mechanical systems do or do not admit of a local realistic description. Bell's investigation of the properties of entangled quantum systems, inspired by the famous thought experiment of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, seems to lead one to the conclusion that the only realistic "hidden variables" interpretation compatible with the quantum mechanical formalism is a nonlocal one. In recent years, some of the attention has focused on applications of quantum mechanics and their potential for illuminating quantum foundations. These include the sciences of quantum information and quantum computation. Additional areas of research include philosophical investigation into the extensions of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (such as quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory more generally), as well as more formal logico-mathematical investigations into the structure of quantum states, state spaces, and their dynamics.
Key works Bohr 1928 and Heisenberg 1930 expound upon what has since become known as the 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics. The famous 'EPR' thought experiment of Einstein et al 1935 aims to show that quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory which should be supplemented by additional ('hidden') parameters. Bohr 1935 replies. More on Bohr's views can be found in Faye 1991, Folse 1985. Inspired by the EPR thought experiment, Bell 2004 proves what has since become known as "Bell's theorem." This, and a related result due to Kochen & Specker 1967 serve to revive the discussion of hidden variables and alternative interpretations of quantum mechanics. Jarrett 1984 analyses the key "factorisability" assumption Bell uses to derive his theorem into two distinct sub-assumptions, which Jarrett refers to as "locality" and "completeness". Two important volumes dedicated to the topics of entanglement and nonlocality are Cushing & McMullin 1989 and Maudlin 2002. Among the more discussed alternative interpretations of quantum mechanics are: Bohmian mechanics (Bohm 1952, and see also Cushing et al 1996), and Everett's relative state formulation (Everett Iii 1973). The latter gives rise to many variants, including the many worlds, many minds, and decoherence-based approaches (see Saunders et al 2010). Other notable interpretations and alternative theories include dynamical collapse theories (Ghirardi et al 1986), as well as the Copenhagen-inspired QBist view (Fuchs 2003, Fuchs 2010). An attempt to axiomatize quantum mechanics in terms of information theoretic constraints, and a discussion of the relevance of this for the interpretation of quantum mechanics is given in Clifton et al 2002. Discussion of this and other issues in quantum information theory can be found in: Timpson 2004. Key works in the philosophy of quantum field theory include: Redhead 1995, Redhead 1994, Ruetsche 2013, Teller 1995.
Introductions Hughes 1989 is an excellent introduction to the formalism and interpretation of quantum mechanics. Albert 1992 is another, which focuses particularly on the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics.
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  1. The Boundaries of Physics: A Hierarchical Reorientation Under the One-Body-Three-Functions Framework.金杰 宛 - 2026 - Dissertation, Independent Researcher
    Abstract: The major branches of physics exhibit persistent tensions at the interpretive level—quantum mechanics and general relativity are incompatible, the arrow of time in thermodynamics conflicts with the time-reversal symmetry of microscopic physics, and the mathematical structure of string theory resists experimental verification. These tensions are currently treated as independent problems within existing frameworks. This paper, based on the One-Body-Three-Functions hypothesis, proposes a hierarchical reorientation of physical phenomena across three functional layers—the Ontological Layer, the Linking Layer, and the Material Layer—and (...)
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  2. A Perspective Shift in Quantum Mechanics: From Physical Law to Mind-Matter Linkage An Epistemological Reconstruction Based on the Mind-Matter Unity Hypothesis.金杰 宛 - 2026 - Dissertation, Independent Researcher
    Abstract: The mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics has achieved undeniable success over the past century, yet its interpretation remains persistently divided. The Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, and Quantum Bayesian interpretations—none can coherently address the recurring "observer participation" issue in quantum phenomena without introducing additional ad hoc assumptions. This paper argues that this division does not stem from deficiencies in mathematical formalism, but from a deeper paradigmatic presupposition: that quantum mechanics is tacitly regarded as a theory of "matter itself." This paper proposes a (...)
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  3. The Principal Bundle Remains: Gomes' "Gauge theory without Principal Fiber Bundles" merely reinvents Principal Fiber Bundles as their Potential Line Bundle (Frame Bundle). [REVIEW]Jennifer Nielsen - manuscript
    Gomes (2025) argues that gauge theory, as applied to the Standard Model, can be formulated without principal fiber bundles by working instead with ``structured'' vector bundles whose fibers carry an inner product and orientation. I show that this elimination is illusory and that the paper is self-contradictory. A $G$-structured vector bundle $E$ cannot be specified independently of a principal $G$-bundle; more precisely, the frame bundle $L'(E)$ is the \textit{potential bundle} of the principal bundle~--- the bundle of horizontal lines perpendicular to (...)
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  4. The Blackbody Law of Quantum Gravity: One Thermal Kernel, Three Laws.Daniel Toupin - manuscript
    The ultraviolet catastrophe of cavity radiation and the ultraviolet divergence of quantum gravity admit the same cure, and the sameness is a chain of identities, not an analogy. This paper assembles the exact statement from two companion papers and from results proved here. The Plancherel weight P(λ) = πλ/sinh(πλ) that renders the celestial loop expansion finite at every order is the Planck law of the Lorentz boost: the partition function of a single modular oscillator at the Bisognano–Wichmann temperature β = (...)
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  5. On Kinematics: Celestial Conformal Blocks at the Boundary of the Principal Series.Daniel Toupin - manuscript
    The companion paper—On Self-Dual Measure and Finite Quantum Gravity—on the Plancherel loop measure established a structural factorization of celestial loop amplitudes into a spectral factor, governed by the measure P(λ) = πλ/sinh(πλ) on the principal series, and a kinematic factor, the conformal block evaluated on the unit circle of cross-ratio. This paper develops the kinematic factor. Four exact structures are established. First, the chiral block k_h(z) = z^h ₂F₁(h,h;2h;z) on the principal series h = ½(1+iλ) reduces exactly to a conical (...)
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  6. Consciousness Holography under the Mind-Matter Unity Perspective: A Dynamic Model of Storage and Retrieval.金杰 宛 - 2026 - Dissertation, 独立研究者
    Abstract: Addressing the "Hard Problem" of consciousness and the theoretical dilemma of mind-body dualism, this paper further explores the holographic temporal attributes of consciousness based on the ontological hypothesis of Mind-Matter Unity established in The Unified Model of One Body and Three Functions. We propose that the Ground Consciousness Field (GCF), as the hypothetical ontological background of all existence, holographically accommodates all potential and manifested temporal information in an implicit state of "Super Implicate Order." By defining the dynamic mechanisms of (...)
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  7. 基于全域射线耦合模型的可控核聚变极限增益范式与分阶段工程路线.Mingxiang Liu - manuscript
    可控核聚变传统磁约束范式受限于固定装置拓扑的表象性能极值,即便通过自组织优化逼近架构上限,仍无法突破人为认知截切带来的固有约束。本文为复杂系统演化元方法论的工程应用系列第二篇,基于本真物理层的相继射线 耦合框架,从底层拓扑视角揭示了传统装置性能天花板的本质:人为将连续电磁耦合网络切割为孤立分支,固化了系统的耦合连通度上限。 本文提出全域射线耦合突破范式,通过重构磁体拓扑、新增跨维度耦合分支提升全局耦合连通度 Ω,从根源上打破现象化层的固定增益极值。文章明确了本真层射线耦合本征效能定律的物理内涵,设计了从现有装置改造到全域耦合原型堆的三阶段递进工程路线,给出了各阶段的硬件配置、性能目标与核心约束,并系统分析 了多层磁体电磁兼容、观测扰动平衡等核心工程挑战与应对方案。 研究表明,本真层方案不存在理论层面的固定性能天花板,耦合拓扑每升级一次,系统增益上限即同步抬升。该范式为可控核聚变提供了一条从存量优化到极限突破的完整技术路径,也为复杂系统的原理级创新提供了可复用的工 程化范本。.
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  8. The Record-Species Constraint on Induced Gravity: Whether a World-Side Record-Relevance Filter Restricts the Induced-G Species Sum or Merely Re-weights Entanglement Entropy.Tomoyuki Uchida - manuscript
    This paper is the thirty-ninth in a sequence developing an interpretive framework that redescribes physical reality as a causally consistent history of information updates. It is the second panel of the eleventh grouping — a Gate-VII / U3 audition, which asks whether the framework can force a distinctive world-side observable rather than one more warrant-side redescription. The three panels audit independent seams: Paper 38 a dynamical one (leading result: a null), this one a structural one, Paper 40 the synthesis. -/- (...)
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  9. The Magnitude of Record Backreaction Without a Global Heat Tax: A Weak-Field Audition for Arrow-Specific Record Decoherence, and Why the Leading Answer Is a Null.Tomoyuki Uchida - manuscript
    This paper is the thirty-eighth in a sequence developing an interpretive framework that redescribes physical reality as a causally consistent history of information updates. It opens the eleventh grouping — a Gate-VII / U3 audition. After the tenth grouping crossed the dynamical quantum-mechanics–gravity gates (IV–VI) but produced no distinctive empirical signature (Papers 36 and 37 flag U3 and Gate VII as unreached), the eleventh grouping asks whether the framework can force a distinctive world-side observable rather than one more warrant-side redescription. (...)
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  10. Liminal Consciousness Theory: Stable Domains of In-Between Existence and Their Implications for Consciousness, Identity, and the Supernatural.Kwan Hong Tan - manuscript
    This thesis presents Liminal Consciousness Theory (LCT), a novel theoretical framework that addresses the fundamental philosophical question of whether reality includes stable domains of in-between existence that are neither fully material nor fully immaterial. Through comprehensive analysis of existing literature in consciousness studies, quantum mechanics, phenomenology, and process philosophy, this work develops a unique perspective that has yet to be considered by human researchers. LCT proposes that consciousness, personal identity, and phenomena traditionally classified as supernatural emerge from stable liminal domains (...)
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  11. Horizon Instability as an Admissible Reconstruction Obstruction (Black-Hole ARC Paper 1).Amos Jay Maley - manuscript
    Black-hole horizons are ordinarily discussed through classical causal structure, semiclassical evaporation, quantum information, holography, complementarity, and remnant proposals. This paper does not modify general relativity, compute Hawking radiation, derive a Page curve, choose a quantum-gravity model, or assert that classical event horizons cannot be useful idealizations. It proves a narrower fixed-domain closure result. Once an exterior black-hole domain is treated as a coherent construction of persistent physical reference, the admissibility kernel is instantiated automatically: admissibility, standing, reference, and irreversibility become non-optional (...)
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  12. A Philosophical Analogy Between Quantum Theory and Phenomenal Consciousness.Konstantinos Voukydis - 2025 - Brolly 6 (2):43-62.
    This study outlines the core objective: to explore an analogical argument between quantum mechanics and phenomenal consciousness. The work proposes that phenomenal consciousness and quantum phenomena share structural features—such as observer-dependence, contextual emergence, and perspectival constitution—that justify the use of analogy not as metaphor, but as a philosophical method. It also critically examines the status, limits, and epistemic implications of analogical reasoning in this context.
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  13. On Computing - The Philosophical Gap Between Computer and Medical Science.Jamison Johnson - manuscript
    On Computing is an entry in the On ——ing series — a sequence of lyric-philosophical essays. Moving from a childhood memory of a first home computer and an Encarta entry on the Apollo 11 landing, the essay traces the processor's lineage from Babbage's imagined gears through the 1947 transistor and the integrated circuit to the first microprocessor, and sets the architecture of the machine — hard drive, RAM, processor — beside the architecture of the brain — cortex, prefrontal cortex, thalamus, (...)
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  14. 相继耦合动力学:基于认知相继本体论的统一物理数学框架.Mingxiang Liu - manuscript
    量子力学与广义相对论的数学统一是基础物理学的核心目标。现有统一路径多依赖特设性数学构造,缺乏自洽的本体论支撑,且未能产出可明确检验的定量预言。 本文为系列研究第四篇,基于认知相继本体论的核心框架,将“相继射线-横向耦合”的定性本体论模型转化为严格的数学形式体系,建立相继耦合动力学。该理论以三项基本公理为逻辑起点,以一维相继射线为本真物理层的基 本实在,以横向耦合为唯一相互作用机制,推导出支配所有物理过程的统一积分-微分动力学方程。 本文从框架层面证明:薛定谔方程是相继耦合动力学在微观单射线弱耦合极限下的近似表达,爱因斯坦场方程是其在宏观多射线统计平均极限下的近似表达。该理论自然解释了引力不可量子化的本体论根源,并给出三项可与现有 理论明确区分的定量预言。本工作为物理学的终极统一提供了兼具本体论根基与数学可检验性的全新路径。.
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  15. The Circular Theory on Medium Summarized.Ilexa Yardley - 2026 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory.
    Life as Nature's Circular-Linear Reaction to Death.
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  16. Field Bundles are Not Rings (and the Truth about Verlinde).Jennifer Nielsen - manuscript
    Wu and Yang (1975) identified gauge fields with principal fiber bundles: a gauge field is a bundle with a connection; this is not a choice of formalism but the definition of the object. This paper examines two lines of work that detach gauge-theoretic vocabulary from the geometric object it names, then identifies why the standard computational tools work despite this detachment. Part I reviews the metaplectic fusion category papers, which classify solutions to the pentagon and hexagon equations for the SO(2p+1)₂ (...)
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  17. EQT Joint-Detection Volume III: The RAR Prediction}: A Multi-Probe EQT Test of the Dual-Field Gradient Mechanism.Li Kaisheng & Li Longji - 2026 - Seattle, WA: Published by Amazon KDP.
    This volume is the third book in the EQT series on the multi-instrument reinterpretation of observational data. Its central question is whether the radial acceleration relation (RAR) can be moved beyond post hoc dark-matter inversion and formulated as a mechanistic, falsifiable prediction. The RAR is one of the most striking regularities in galactic dynamics: observed accelerations depart from the Newtonian expectation based on baryons around a nearly universal acceleration scale, with small scatter and a smooth transition. Standard approaches describe this (...)
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  18. EQT Joint-Detection Volume II: Cosmic Distances Without Dark Energy: A Multi-Probe EQT Reinterpretation of Cosmic Acceleration.Li Kaisheng & Li Longji - 2026 - Seattle, WA: Published by Amazon KDP.
    This volume is the second book in the EQT series on the multi-instrument reinterpretation of observational data. Its central question is whether coordinated distance probes can test a possibility that single-probe analyses usually cannot distinguish: that cosmic acceleration may be explained without introducing an independent dark-energy entity or a fundamental cosmological constant. The book does not deny cosmic acceleration, does not reject the expansion of the universe, and does not reinterpret cosmological redshift. Instead, it accepts redshift as a reliable distance–time (...)
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  19. EQT Joint-Detection Volume I: The Active Universe: A Multi-Instrument EQT Reinterpretation of Cosmic Structure.Li Kaisheng & Li Longji - 2026 - Seattle, WA: Published by Amazon KDP.
    This volume is the first book in the EQT series on the multi-instrument reinterpretation of observational data. It asks whether coordinated observations across different instruments and frequency bands can formulate and test a possibility that single-instrument studies can rarely isolate: the active evolution of the universe. The book does not seek to replace ΛCDM, nor does it reinterpret cosmological redshift. Instead, it treats ΛCDM as an effective limiting description and accepts redshift as a reliable distance–time scale, while examining whether the (...)
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  20. Perspectivism and Quantum Mechanics.Philipp Berghofer & Mahdi Khalili - 2026 - Foundations of Physics 56:1-12.
    This special issue brings perspectivism, as a recent development in the philosophy of science, into contact with non-objectivist interpretations of quantum mechanics. By “objectivist interpretations,” broadly understood, we mean interpretations that seek to eliminate operational notions such as “measurement” from the fundamental postulates of the theory and insist that quantum mechanics, like classical mechanics, yields a purely objective, third-person description of how reality evolves in time. The guiding hypothesis, exemplified in several contributions to this issue, is that quantum mechanics supports (...)
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  21. Constraint Closure Across Mind and Matter: Quantum Non Separability, Affective Entanglement, and Their Empirical Convergence in Somatic and Computational Neuroscience.Jamel Bulgaria - manuscript
    This paper develops a cross domain account of how constraint closure mechanisms generate determinate structure in both quantum systems and affective cognition. Constraint Theory (CT) holds that “spatial properties…are downstream expressions of causal constraint propagation relations between token level actualities,” interpreting entanglement as the behavior of a unified constraint profile. The Core Emotion Framework (CEF) models emotion as ten somatic operators whose interactions form structured, vector valued states. Beyond this conceptual parallel, the paper integrates empirical findings from predictive coding, polyvagal (...)
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  22. Intrinsic Distinction: A Non-Relational Ground of Identity and Difference.Roberto Woodrow Popolla - manuscript
    What must be the case for real relation between distinct beings to be possible? Familiar answers fail to hold distinction and relation together: reduction collapses beings into their relations, dissolution denies distinct beings prior to relation, and withdrawal secures distinctness only by removing beings from relation. These views share an unexamined premise, namely that genuine presence in relation and inexhaustible actuality are incompatible, so that whatever a being holds in reserve must be subtracted from its presence. Against this, the paper (...)
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  23. The Ontology of Bound Possibility: A Comparative Analysis of Quantum Non-Separability in Constraint Theory and Affective Entanglement in the Core Emotion Framework.Jamel Bulgaria - manuscript
    The intersection of quantum foundations and cognitive modeling offers a fertile landscape for exploring how structural constraints govern both physical reality and subjective experience. This analysis evaluates the profound conceptual and empirical alignments between Dr. P. D. Prideaux's Constraint Theory (CT) of quantum non-separability and Jamel Bulgaria's Core Emotion Framework (CEF). By exploring how physical entanglement and constraint closure relate to affective entanglement, operational optimization, and quantum-like contextuality, this report demonstrates a unified structural-constructivist ontology wherein determinacy emerges through the restriction (...)
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  24. The Intersection of Fintech and Biotech.Ilexa Yardley - 2017 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.
    Humans need to survive in order to reproduce, so, thus, the intersection of fintech and biotech (finance and biology and technology). Government steps in. -/- .
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  25. The c-Budget: Speed, Structure, and the Seam A First-Principles Exploration of the Twin Paradox and Wave-Particle Duality.Nikita Shchevyev - manuscript
    This paper explores what follows when the speed of light is understood not as a constraint on a single physical process but as the total structural budget distributed across the seven-operator chain of Structural Primitive Architecture (SPA). Beginning with the twin paradox and working toward wave-particle duality and wave-function collapse, I trace a continuous argument from first structural principles. The central claims have different evidential weights, which I flag throughout: (1) time and space are structural inverses grounded in the H/K (...)
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  26. How does a Brownian Particle move when Nobody Measures its Position?Evgenii Rudnyi - manuscript
    The theory of Brownian motion was the first physical theory in which a physical quantity (the diffusion coefficient) was connected to a moment of a random variable (the mean squared displacement). As a result, the experimentally measured position of a Brownian particle must be regarded as a realization of a random variable, and a sample of such measurements allows us to estimate the physical quantity associated with the moment. This is discussed within the framework of two criteria for measurement outlined (...)
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  27. The Record-Closure Problem — What Makes a World Internally Complete Enough to Be Lived?Federico Batori - manuscript
    What makes a world a world rather than a fragment, hallucination, dream, simulation-frame, Boltzmann-brain episode, or unstable configuration? This paper introduces the record-closure problem: the problem of specifying what degree of internal record coherence, stability, depth, channel-connectivity, and update-admissibility is required for a domain to function as a livable world for finite agents. A world need not be metaphysically complete in an absolute sense. It must, however, be sufficiently closed under record-based continuation: memories must connect to admissible histories; perceptions must (...)
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  28. Metricity as Licensed Description.Amos Jay Maley - manuscript
    Physical theories routinely use metric structure–distance, duration, locality, propagation, curvature, scale, and metric-dependent parameters–as part of their operative descriptive apparatus. This manuscript asks the prior question: under what structural conditions may metric description be used at all? For any non-degenerate target regime (a regime with stable target reference, identitypreserving reuse, irreversible commitment, and admissible continuation), the Admissibility And Standing Constraint (AASC) kernel is instantiated by necessity rather than assumed by convention. The dependency is target-typed: non-degenerate target regime ⇒ AASC kernel (...)
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  29. Sobre una teoría ‘pura’de casi-conjuntos y su aplicación a una ontología cuántica de propiedades.Décio Krause & Juan Pablo Jorge - forthcoming - Forthcoming in Principia.
  30. Coherence Thresholds and the Dark Sector: An Ontological Reinterpretation.Andrzej Rebacz - manuscript
    The standard cosmological model (ΛCDM) attributes the observed dynamical anomalies of the universe to two components—dark matter and dark energy— whose nature remains unknown. The present work does not propose an alternative physical model. Instead, it offers an ontological reinterpretation of the dark sector within the framework of coherence thresholds. It is assumed that temporal autonomy does not arise from mere existence or interaction, but from crossing a coherence threshold λ(c), understood as the condi- tion under which the characteristic timescale (...)
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  31. Boundary-Access Holonomy and the Quantum Reversible Quotients: A Finite-Distinction Framework for the Zero-Record-Holonomy Sector.Yining Wu - manuscript
    Standard finite-dimensional quantum mechanics is usually formulated after its symmetric structure has already been assumed: states live in a complex projective Hilbert space, reversible dynamics is unitary, and distinguishability is symmetric inside the closed-system formalism. FDS-Q0 asks a prior question: why should physical distinguishability become symmetric at all? The answer proposed here is that standard quantum mechanics is the zero-holonomy reversible quotient of a more primitive asymmetric finite-boundary access dynamics. A physical distinction is first directed, boundary-relative, and capacity-limited: a system (...)
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  32. Four Operator-Seam Tests of Structural Primitive Architecture in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting: The 127 K Invariant and a Corrected Forward Prediction.Nikita Shchevyev - manuscript
    Structural Primitive Architecture (SPA) identifies seven operators co-necessary with the predomain condition H > K and predicts that physical systems optimised for appearance-sustaining functions should operate simultaneously at all relevant operator-seam conditions — dimensionless ratios that equal 1 at the structural threshold H = K. A prior paper (Shchevyev 2026a) established the Coherence-seam condition J·T₂/ħ = 1 in photosynthetic light-harvesting. This paper extends the test to three further operators — Relation (Δε/J = 1), Gradient (ΔE/kT = 1), and Orientation (k_fwd/k_bwd (...)
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  33. 本体波场理论下的量子波动方程——克莱因-戈登、薛定谔、狄拉克方程的同源导出.金龙 章 - manuscript
    本体波场理论以核心公理 u^2 + v^2 = \Phi c^2 和能量关系 E = \gamma_{\Phi v} m_0 \Phi c^2 为基础。本文从该公理出发,严格导出能量-动量平方关系 E^2 = m_0^2 c^4 \Phi + \Phi p^2 c^2。在标准量子化规则下,通过对称化处理得到包含引力标量势的相对论性标量波动方程(克莱因-戈登型);在低速弱场缓变近似下,该方程退化为薛定谔方程,并精确给出牛顿引力势;进一步通过对平方根算符的矩阵线 性化,得到含 \Phi的旋量波动方程(狄拉克型),并在平直时空下回归标准狄拉克方程。本文工作表明,从本体波场理论的单一公理出发,可以自洽地导出量子力学的三大核心波动方程,为量子力学与引力的统一提供了新的第一性原理基 础。 -/- 版权与版本声明 本文为《高维本体投射下的三维波场统一物理理论》(主篇物理本体论,DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19656043)的配套实证研究,属高维本体波场理论体系子篇。 著作权均归作者所有,全文统一采用知识共享署名-非商业性使用-禁止演绎 4.0 国际许可协议(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0国际许可)进行版权许可。 未经作者书面正式授权,任何组织及个人不得对本系列文档全部或部分内容进行篡改、改编、演绎、商业使用、商用传播等侵权行为;合法转载需完整注明原文作者及出处,不得擅自修改文档内容与理论核心表述。 本声明适用于本套理论体系全部篇章,具有同等版权约束效力。.
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  34. Coherence as the Fabric of Reality: A Unified Physical–Theological Framework.Denis Bailey - manuscript
    This paper develops a unified ontology in which coherence is the fundamental operator underlying physical, cognitive, and theological structure. Drawing on quantum field theory, coherence is presented as the continuous, full, infinite‑dimensional condition that sustains waves, stabilizes matter, and enables identity, time, and consciousness. Collapse is interpreted as the local resolution of coherent potential under constraint, dissolving the wave–particle duality and reframing matter as a stable, self‑maintaining collapse. Higher‑order phenomena such as temporal flow, persistent identity, and unified subjective experience are (...)
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  35. Scientifica Metaphysica: A Critique of Pure Appearance.Nikita Shchevyev - manuscript
    This book derives and applies a predomain condition — H > K (holding exceeds dissolution) — that must hold for anything to appear at all. The argument is transcendental and self-securing: any denial of H > K from within any domain of inquiry instantiates the condition it denies. Seven structural operators co-necessary with H > K are derived and mapped to physical, logical, and mathematical instantiations. The framework crosses Hume's is/ought and fact/value divides by generating quantitative predictions from purely structural (...)
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  36. (1 other version)The Kh-Stiffness Formalism: A Unified Mechanical Resolution to the H_0 Tension and the 10^122 Vacuum Catastrophe.Mahdiyar Khaghani - manuscript - Translated by Mahdiyar Khaghani.
    This paper presents an expansion of the Kh-Stiffness formalism, a novel theoretical framework that reinterprets the ontology of spacetime not merely as a smooth geometric manifold, but as an elastic medium characterized by a fundamental stiffness modulus, Kh = c^2/G. By shifting away from the rigid manifold assumption of standard General Relativity, we introduce a tripartite conceptual symmetry termed the "Khaghani Triangle" which mathematically links temporal flux (Δτ), energy density (ρ), and quantum wave-states (Ψ). Through the Density-Induced Rigidity (DIR) mechanism, (...)
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  37. From Action to Inscription: A Structural–Contextual Analysis of Physical Information.Maksym Altunin - 2026 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 16:47.
    This article develops a structural–contextual account of how physical information is generated, stabilized, and rendered objectively determinate. Rather than treating information as ontologically primitive, the paper develops a framework in which quantized action provides a lower physical scale for the discrimination of alternatives, while contextual constraints determine when and how a specific informational value may be objectively attributed. -/- First, the quantum of action ℏ is not itself a bit, but sets a characteristic lower action scale for the registration of (...)
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  38. Indivisible Effective Dynamics of Coarse-Grained Observers.Ryan Williams - manuscript
    Recent work has shown equivalence between the formal apparatus of quantum mechanics and a general class of non-Markovian systems called indivisible stochastic systems. This short paper demonstrates how these indivisible dynamical systems can be used to describe the effective dynamics of coarse-grained observers. The observation suggests that quantum mechanics may arise as the expected phenomenology of coarse-grained systems in a classical, deterministic substrate.
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  39. Matter as Stabilized Pattern: Wave Behavior as the Universal Signature of Pre Stabilized Structure.Denis Bailey - manuscript
    This paper reframes wave–particle duality as a structural transition rather than a paradox. Waves are treated as the distributed, unconstrained form of a pattern prior to stabilization, while particles are the same pattern after environmental constraints force coherence into a localized, temporally persistent configuration. Under this view, matter is not a substance but a stabilized relational pattern. Collapse is simply the moment when contextual conditions restrict the pattern’s degrees of freedom enough to produce a stable solution. This framework unifies quantum (...)
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  40. Observation-Rank Effects Scale-Organized Gradient Interfaces and the Physical Inheritance of Difference.Sunny Sun - manuscript
    Physical interaction is often treated as the basic unit from which measurement, record, and fact are understood. Yet not every interaction becomes a measurement; not every registration becomes a record; not every record becomes an inheritable physical fact; and not every inheritable fact becomes reportable. This paper develops observation-rank: the degree to which a difference becomes registrable, stabilizable, redundantly accessible, inheritable, and reportable within a scale-organized physical field. Observation-rank is not a new physical quantity or a rival interpretation of quantum (...)
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  41. 本体波场理论对量子力学与规范场论的兼容与本源重构 ——四大相互作用定性统一.金龙 章 - manuscript
    本文在前期波场理论基础上,引入“分层双级频率调制机制”(源自公理 u^2+v^2=\Phi c^2):地球相对于绝对波场的整体漂移速度(V\approx370\,\text{km/s})作为一级公共因子,被局域引力势吸收,因此近地原子钟(GPS、地面光钟等)、高能粒子、引力的方向性效应被完全 屏蔽,原预言的12小时周期信号与方向性各异的判断不再存在,与现有观测一致。然而,绝对运动的痕迹在宇宙学尺度依然保留:CMB偶极的一阶幅度(V/c)及二阶时间膨胀调制(V^2/(2c^2))由地球绝对速 度唯一决定;而LSS计数偶极的异常幅度(2-5倍于CMB偶极)则源于地球与星系群的绝对速度矢量差。若试图以LSS为参考系解释大偶极,将导致CMB二阶调制幅度过大,与普朗克数据矛盾。因此,高精度测量CM B偶极的二阶效应并与LSS偶极一阶幅度交叉比对,即可作为区分波场理论与相对论的判决性实验。该检验基于已有观测数据,有望在下一代CMB和LSS巡天中实现。作者将在后续更新版本统一解释 ”分层频率调制机制“ -/- 【本文中关于普朗克常数可变的推论将在1.1版本引入修正,保持普朗克常数不变,物质内部基波数量产生改变而产生质能变化,将在后续版本发布详细说明。】 -/- 杨‑米尔斯规范场论、量子场论均建立在量子力学核心关系式 E=hν 之上。波场理论从第一性原理出发,完整推导出聚束积分质能方程与量子力学 E=hν 实现定性等价;揭示静止质量是波场振幅空间聚束积分,E=hν 是聚束质能方程在一个波动周期内的特征能量值,必然受相位放缓因子(洛伦兹因子)γ_Φv调制;证明普朗克常数h非绝对常数,在高速、强场、高能场景中会受物理环境调制发生变化,据此提出普朗克参数的修正方案与可 观测实验预言,也能够以此解释当下高能物理、超导、聚变领域中诸多理论与实验不符的系统偏差(注意:方向性偏差通过分层调制机制修复,方向性偏差预言作废,版本将在后续更新)。在相互作用统一层面,引力本质为质能 沿标量势高能量区向低能量区自发流动,结合波场相位耦合、波包聚束、速率分配机制,实现电磁、弱、强、引力四大基本相互作用的定性统一,搭建贯通微观量子规律与宏观引力效应的完整物理框架。 -/- 版权与版本声明 本文为《高维本体投射下的三维波场统一物理理论》(主篇物理本体论,DOI:10.5281/zenodo.19656043)的配套实证研究,属高维本体波场理论体系子篇。 著作权均归作者所有,全文统一采用知识共享署名-非商业性使用-禁止演绎 4.0 国际许可协议(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0国际许可)进行版权许可。 未经作者书面正式授权,任何组织及个人不得对本系列文档全部或部分内容进行篡改、改编、演绎、商业使用、商用传播等侵权行为;合法转载需完整注明原文作者及出处,不得擅自修改文档内容与理论核心表述。 本声明适用于本套理论体系全部篇章,具有同等版权约束效力。.
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  42. If the Universe Had a Floor: A Meta-Theoretical Inquiry of Physics.Nikita Shchevyev - manuscript
    This paper applies the Structural Primitive Architecture (SPA) / Archontologic Conditions framework across eight domains of physics. The central structural condition H > K (holding power exceeds dissolution pressure) generates an appearance amplitude A = √(H − K) whose seam (H = K) is the universal locus of critical behavior. Eight areas of application are developed: (1) dark energy cosmology, where the co-necessity of seven structural operators derives a structural attractor conjectured to be w* = −5/7 and prohibits phantom crossing; (...)
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  43. Physical Persistence Architectures: LP Admissibility as the Structural Ground of Physical Persistence.Marc Maibom - manuscript
    This is the first paper of the La Profilée Domain Series. Following the Domain Principle (D012), it establishes the bridge assumptions connecting LP structural variables to physical observables and derives the LP structural account of physical persistence architectures. The central bridge claim: physical systems persist through the LP admissibility structure. The four LP structural variables are physically realized as: Frame (F) through conserved quantities, symmetry invariants, and topological stability; Module (M) through degrees of freedom, accessible state space, and phase flexibility; (...)
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  44. No Phantom Crossing: A Theorem from Structural Primitive Architecture and Its Predictions for DESI and Euclid.Nikita Shchevyev - manuscript
    The paper shows that the admissibility condition D > K implies, as a theorem, that the dark energy equation of state satisfies w > −1 at all redshifts. It argues the apparent phantom crossing at z ≈ 0.37–0.42 in DESI DR2 data is an artifact of the CPL parametrization. It derives w = −K/D from five structural constraints, establishes a Bernoulli-type evolution equation for w(z), and predicts a local minimum in w(z) testable by the Euclid Wide Survey (~2027).
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  45. Quantum Computers as Substrate-Interface Devices: Decoherence Anomalies as K-Kernel Stress Signatures.Augusto Bartolomeu - manuscript
    This paper is organized in three distinct layers, each with a different epistemological status. Readers are invited to evaluate each layer independently. -/- Part I presents an observational case: quantum hardware, when operated far from equilibrium, produces a systematic cluster of anomalous physical phenomena, time crystals, exotic topological phases, thermal law violations, and measurable entanglement timescales. Each anomaly has a domain-specific conventional explanation. The structural observation is the cluster: these phenomena share a common operational boundary, appear conditionally at the same (...)
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  46. Quantum Morality: How Entanglement Demands a New Ethics of Radical Interdependence.Kwan Hong Tan - manuscript
    This paper argues that if quantum non-locality is ontologically fundamental, then Emmanuel Levinas's concept of "infinite responsibility" is not merely a phenomenological discovery but a physical mandate embedded in the structure of reality itself. Drawing on Bell's theorem, the EPR paradox, and contemporary interpretations of quantum holism, I demonstrate that the non-separable nature of quantum entanglement provides the metaphysical foundation for an ethics that transcends traditional assumptions of autonomous, independent moral agents. Through a synthesis of quantum foundations, Levinasian phenomenology, and (...)
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  47. The Structural Conditions of Physical Identity - How Physics Instantiates Without Deriving the Foundations of Persistent Transformation.Marc Maibom - manuscript
    La Profilée (LP) is a structural law of persistent identity under transformation. From three minimal assumptions — distinguishability (M1), real transformation (M2), determinable persistence relation (M3) — LP derives the complete persistence architecture: F·M·K decomposition, IR = R/(F·M·K) ≤ 1, the Frame Continuity Condition (FCC), and the two universal persistence conditions Q1 and Q2. This paper establishes LP's architecture across physical domains. -/- The central claim: every physical theory instantiates Q1–Q2 and the F·M·K architecture. No physical theory derives them. -/- (...)
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  48. RZS Series: Projection-Stable Regge Geometry from Relational Graphs.Felipe G. Romero - 2026 - Zenodo 1.
    This paper asks a simple question: if we begin not with space, but with a network of relations, when is it legitimate to say that geometry has been recovered? -/- I study this question through the RZS-ELCL benchmark pipeline. The pipeline starts from weighted relational graphs, filters candidate geometric edges, builds local clique and simplicial structure, and then measures curvature with Regge-style operators. The goal is not to prove that spacetime emerges from a relational zero state. The goal is narrower (...)
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  49. Science, history, theatre: theorizing in two alternatives to positivism.Tobin Nellhaus - 1993 - Theatre Journal 45:505-527.
  50. 物理世界的本体论重构:基于认知相继原理的全域统一框架.Mingxiang Liu - manuscript
    现代物理学的核心困境根植于两个未经严格证明的本体论预设:时空是先于物质存在的先天容器,物质由不可分割的基本粒子构成。二者共同导致了广义相对论与量子力学的底层范式割裂,衍生出波粒二象性、量子测量佯谬、引 力本质、暗物质与暗能量等一系列长期悬而未决的基础难题。 本文为系列研究第一篇,以“认知的本质是前后相继”这一不可证伪的认识论事实为锚点,结合因果序列不可分割、耦合全有或全无两项基本公理,通过本体论演绎构建了一套自洽的物理世界解释框架:本真物理世界的终极基底 为一维相继因果序列(射线)及其横向耦合关系;时间是射线的相继延展属性,空间是耦合关系的网络结构,物质是射线闭合耦合的稳态显现,基本粒子则是耦合事件在现象层面的点状端点表象。 基于该框架,本文对微观量子领域与宏观相对论领域的核心物理现象给出了统一的本体论解释,从基底层面消解了传统物理的经典悖论,为四大力的统一提供了本体论基础,并提出了三项具备可证伪性的理论预言。本文认为,传 统物理学理论是本真物理世界在现象层面的近似有效描述,其局限源于将耦合端点误判为原生实体的认知路径颠倒。本研究为基础物理学的本体论重构提供了一条新的过程-关系论路径。.
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