Quantum Theories

In this paper, we propose an elastic-deformation interpretation of wave–particle duality and light propagation. The photon propagates through deformation transfer among vacuum dots, with its path governed solely by the density distribution of these dots. This model offers a physically intuitive picture of wave–particle switching and naturally accounts for the bending of light in nonuniform vacuum densities, including around massive celestial bodies, with minimal assumptions.

In this paper, we propose a geometric ontology for the photon and demonstrate its capacity to explain the wave properties of light. Specifically, we discuss the nature of time and wave-particle duality. Also, we show how the geometric characteristics of photons naturally give rise to their frequency and amplitude.

Across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, an inherited habit of mind is being dismantled: thing-thinking, the presupposition that reality is composed of separable things. This article advances the first sustained processual rereading of Nietzsche’s corpus and argues for a paradigm shift in Nietzsche scholarship that brings the discipline into the broader interdisciplinary process turn. From the earliest lectures to the final notes of 1889, Nietzsche’s thought moves through four mutually implicating operators: process as forces, will to power, eternal (...) return and chance. Together they make apparent things, subjects, causes and values legible as temporary stabilisations within becoming, while familiar contradictions emerge where commentary stills what Nietzsche keeps in motion. The argument is tested against Bergson, Whitehead and Deleuze, then subjected to its hardest independent test at the seam where Nietzsche’s ontology and quantum theory converge structurally, without prophecy, reduction or anachronism. Nietzsche’s singular contribution is diagnostic. He reveals why thought needs things, how language fabricates them and what kind of life can endure their disappearance. Processual rereading becomes a condition of adequate interpretation and a discipline for thinking, inhabiting and creating after the world of things. (shrink)

Quantum Orientation Dynamics (QOD) is a deterministic contextual theory in which quan- tum phase is treated as physical orientation transport. QOD is not a Bell-style hidden-variable theory. It does not assign a hidden table of answers to measurements that were never physically performed. Spin is real rotation. A detector setting is a real orientation field. The registered result is produced by local coupling between the system orientation and the apparatus orien- tation in the protocol that actually exists. Probability is used (...) only as a forecast measure over unresolved but physically real context-conditioned states. The paper gives a deterministic bridge from the complete causal state to the quantum fore- cast. The initial state evolves into a detector basin. The unresolved basin measure gives the forecast weight. The Hilbert-space state is the compressed representation of those basin weights and preserved phase relations. On this reading the Born rule is not a primitive stochastic postu- late. It is the equality between projection weights and deterministic basin measures. For spin- 1/2, the detector measure is derived as the pushforward of an invariant orientation-equilibrium measure over unresolved detector microframes. The one-particle relativistic sector is connected to the Hestenes real-spinor form of the Dirac equation. QOD also gives a possible empirical dis- tinction: if detector microframe equilibrium can be physically disturbed and held, the standard Born spin forecast should acquire controlled deviations. Bell-type violations are read as rejec- tion of setting-independent counterfactual co-definability. The observed pair correlations are carried from the common preparation in the prepared relational state, not sent by superluminal influence at measurement. (shrink)

This document formulates the ontological and epistemological foundations of the Unified Information-Density Theory (UIDT). Rather than postulating spacetime as a primordial arena, UIDT investigates the hypothesis that a single real scalar field, the vacuum information density S(x), may serve as a fundamental geometric degree of freedom. The present edition is deliberately conservative: it is the product of a line-by-line honesty audit that downgraded several earlier claims and that treats the framework as a falsification-first research programme rather than a completed theory. (...) -/- The framework rests upon four explicit axioms and addresses four areas: (I) a quantum field-theoretic foundation in which the pure-SU(3) Yang-Mills spectral gap Delta = 1.710 +/- 0.015 GeV [B] functions as a necessary stress test of internal consistency rather than as a sufficient foundation, and in which the gap value is lattice-compatible under an explicitly recorded evidence-class reclassification (section 1.2); (II) cosmological calibration to DESI, JWST, and ACT data, capped at [C] and never presented as a resolution of the H0 or S8 tensions; (III) laboratory-relevant predictions, including a candidate scalar resonance at mS = 1.705 +/- 0.015 GeV [D] and a Casimir-scale anomaly at lambda = 0.66 nm [D]; and (IV) a structural mapping between the vacuum scalar and effective refractive-index profiles, retained as an interpretive analogy. -/- The calibrated invariant gamma = 16.339 is classified throughout as [A-] (calibrated, never derived from renormalisation-group first principles); any future derivation must satisfy an explicit anti-target-leakage criterion. The naive scalar-gradient route to non-trivial gauge curvature, A = dS => F = dA = d2S = 0, is recorded as a clean [A] negative result. The central open problem, the GSM-Origin Gap, is preserved as unsolved. -/- Every quantitative claim carries an explicit evidence classification (A through E), every prediction is accompanied by a falsification criterion, every known limitation (L1-L12) is disclosed, and speculative observer-phenomenology material is retained strictly as bounded Category [E] research-programme content within an interpretive stratum. The ontological position is a form of dynamic Ontic Structural Realism in which sufficiently constrained mathematical structure is taken to constitute, rather than merely describe, physical reality, subject always to the demarcation that interpretation never substitutes for empirical or formal closure. (shrink)

This work re-examines Penrose’s 1965 singularity theorem from a variational standpoint. The analysis shows that the theorem relies on a fixed set of structural assumptions—such as geodesic completeness, energy conditions, and a pre-defined spacetime ontology—that are not derived from a closed dynamical principle. -/- When reformulated within a self-contained variational framework, these assumptions are no longer required, and the configurations associated with singular behavior are replaced by regular, coherence-limited states. In this setting, neither curvature divergence nor geodesic incompleteness arises as (...) a necessary feature. -/- The result suggests that the original theorem should be understood as a statement about the internal consistency of a specific formal structure, rather than as a universal prediction about physical reality. -/- More generally, the analysis highlights the importance of distinguishing between mathematical consistency within a chosen framework and genuine physical necessity when assessing foundational results. (shrink)

This document contains the complete Python source code for the FED v2.0 Analytical Propagator. It enables the reproduction of the empirical results presented in Annex 12, covering the fractal quantization of radii, masses, densities, orbital periods, surface gravity, temperature, and angular momentum.

This document provides a massive empirical validation of the Dynamic Spacetime Fluid Theory (FED) v2.0. By applying the fractal logarithmic grid based on the lattice step , this work demonstrates the quantization of seven fundamental physical magnitudes: radii, masses, densities, orbital periods, surface gravity, thermal temperature, and angular momentum. -/- The analysis spans scales from the atomic radius to galactic structures, showing relative errors below 0.03% in critical objects such as Solar System planets and reference stars (e.g., Betelgeuse, Sirius A). (...) This annex includes the "Analytical Propagator" source code in Python, ensuring full reproducibility of the results and the generation of the universal node network. (shrink)

Please visit the article at International Journal of Quantum Foundations website. Thank you. -/- Bell–CHSH is often read as a universal prohibition on \emph{local hidden variables}. Mathematically, however, the CHSH bound $S\le 2$ is a theorem about a particular hypothesis class: a \emph{single} Kolmogorov probability space carrying all counterfactual outcomes, together with measurement independence, Bell locality (factorized response functions), and bounded outputs. On that class the proof is pointwise and unconditional, so no algebraic reformulation of a parameter (including a “phenomenological (...) velocity” (PV)) can yield Tsirelson-scale singlet correlations $E(a,b)=-\cos(a-b)$ on a Tsirelson quartet. We then make precise two distinct ways in which PV can remain meaningful as a \emph{local} and in that sense “hidden” parameter while coexisting with Tsirelson-scale correlations, without contradicting Bell’s theorem. First, we formalize “exceptional-locus/defined-only” conventions as setting-dependent acceptance (post-selection): reported correlators are conditional expectations under a setting-indexed family of accepted laws $\{\nu_{ab}\}$. Within this rung-1 semantics we give an explicit Bell-local deterministic base model whose accepted-sample joint law exactly matches the singlet law (unbiased marginals and correlator $-\cos(a-b)$) for all $a,b$, via an explicit acceptance rule $\gamma(a,b,\lambda)\in[0,1]$. Second, we give a PV-indexed microcausal (operator-algebraic) realization: PV parameterizes a canonical $SU(2)$ unitary that conjugates local observables inside commuting Alice/Bob subalgebras, and in the singlet state the unconditional correlator equals $-\cos(a-b)$ and attains Tsirelson’s value $2\sqrt2$. The results clarify a semantic and structural trichotomy: any “PV-to-Tsirelson” account must (i) change the effective ensemble by selection/context, or (ii) leave the Kolmogorov (commutative) model class (e.g.\ via noncommutativity or quasi-probability), or (iii) relax a Bell premise such as measurement independence or Bell locality. In this sense, Bell–CHSH constrains a specific formalization of hidden variables rather than ownership of the terms “local”, “real”, or “hidden” in physics discourse. (shrink)

The measurement problem persists not because the right collapse mechanism has yet to be found, but because competing frameworks share a structural assumption, ontological flatness, that generates the problem itself. This paper traces the problem to three premises, the flatness assumption being the third: that system and apparatus inhabit a single ontological domain governed by a single dynamical story. The paper rejects that premise, proposing instead that physical reality is ontologically stratified into three distinct layers related by a cross-layer admissibility (...) principle. Within this framework, wavefunction collapse is the perspectival appearance of a cross-layer transition rather than a dynamical event, observers carry no special ontological weight, and the demand for a collapse mechanism is shown to be a category error. The paper then situates the framework against existing interpretations, argues that its consolidation of ontological primitives constitutes genuine explanatory progress, and is explicit about what the framework cannot do. The contribution is an interpretive account of why certain foundational puzzles are consequences of assumptions rather than open questions for physics to resolve, while also identifying empirical consequences that distinguish the framework from standard quantum mechanics and motivate a companion experimental programme. (shrink)

The quantum measurement problem has resisted resolution for nearly a century, fragmenting into three seemingly independent challenges: the Born rule's probabilistic interpretation, the EPR paradox of simultaneous reality, and Bell inequality violations challenging local realism. This fragmentation has obscured a common structural origin. -/- This work demonstrates that all three problems arise from a single theoretical defect: the misapplication of commutative probability theory to non-commutative operational structures. Within the framework of Cognitional Mechanics (CM), grounded in two axioms—non-commutativity ([Ô_A, Ô_B] ≠ (...) 0) and finite operational resolution (Level of Detail)—these problems dissolve simultaneously through structural reconstruction. -/- The Born rule emerges as the unique projection measure compatible with resource conservation and tensor-product linearity under non-commutative constraints, repositioning probability as an epistemic consequence of finite resolution rather than ontological randomness. EPR correlations are resolved as constraint propagation across shared operational stacks, eliminating the apparent conflict between quantum completeness and local realism without invoking non-local signaling. Bell inequality violations follow from the logical impossibility of factorization: non-commutativity structurally excludes the simultaneous eigenstates required by the factorization condition, rendering the measure space for joint distributions undefined rather than merely violated. -/- The framework derives from Tier 1 axiomatic necessity within Cognitional Mechanics. Mathematical formalisms—Hilbert spaces, operator algebras, measure theory—serve as Tier 3 projection tools expressing this structure, not as foundational requirements for its validity. -/- This paper builds on Operational Quantum Mechanics I (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18649525), which resolved Schrödinger's cat through operational stack management, and forms a symmetrical counterpart to Universal Relativity (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18645324) within the CM framework. (shrink)

Operational Quantum Mechanics presents a structural reinterpretation of quantum theory grounded in two axioms derived from Cognitional Mechanics: non-commutativity of operations (A∘B ≠ B∘A) and finite operational resolution (Level of Detail). The wave function Ψ is redefined as Operational Potential Density (ρ_op) encoding resource distribution for Type I internal generation—the symmetrical counterpart to Universal Relativity's Type II external constraint expressed through operational delay δt(x). -/- Quantum probability arises epistemically from finite resolution limits rather than ontologically from fundamental randomness. Wave function (...) "collapse" becomes an operationally grounded Commit operation triggered by interface formation between systems, eliminating observer dependence and resolving the measurement problem through deterministic buffer resolution. -/- Schrödinger's cat paradox dissolves structurally via four discrete operational steps: queueing of decay trigger as pending operation, thresholding at specific operational cycle, committing to single state via projection ρ ↦ P_iρP_i/Tr(P_iρP_i), and reporting as read command to pre-determined memory address. The cat exists in a pending execution state—not ontological superposition—until interface-triggered Commit resolves unresolved operational cycles below the resolution limit. -/- Born rule statistics |Ψ|² = ρ_op are adopted as the canonical projection measure compatible with resource conservation and tensor-product linearity. Bell inequality violations follow from the logical impossibility of factorization under non-commutativity and finite resolution. -/- This framework maintains strict mathematical equivalence with standard quantum mechanics while repositioning probability as an epistemic consequence of structural resolution limits inherent to non-commutative operational structures. (shrink)

The original Adaptive Quantum Coherence (AQC) paper established the conceptual program of coherence-regulated quantum dynamics and adaptive measurement, but left unresolved the mathematical status of state dynamics, branch weighting, measurement update, and composite-system consistency. This paper does not revisit those motivations. Its purpose is narrower and more technical, to provide the minimal formal closure required for AQC to function as a consistent finite-dimensional, nonrelativistic quantum measurement framework. To that end, I reformulate AQC at the level of density operators, distinguish global (...) coherence as a state functional from measurement-contextual branch weighting, and define an admissible class of coherence-arbitrated dynamics compatible with effective measurement theory. I then introduce an instrument-level AQC measurement formalism in which outcome probabilities are generated by normalized contextual branch weights rather than an independent collapse postulate. Within standard projective measurement contexts, I prove an exact Born-recovery result, showing that AQC reproduces ordinary quantum probabilities in the closure regime. I further establish composite-system consistency, including no-signaling under local measurement choices, so that entangled systems remain compatible with the operational structure of standard quantum theory. The result is not a deformation of ordinary quantum mechanics, but a formal completion of the original AQC program in the regime where its mathematical gaps were most exposed. Standard quantum mechanics is recovered as the operational limit of the closure framework, while infinite-dimensional, relativistic, and field-theoretic extensions are left for future work. (shrink)

This theory demonstrates that existing theories can be unified through a change in perspective. Furthermore, it explains physical puzzles that existing theories cannot explain with consistent logic within the theory, and is expected to provide clues for solutions. -/- Instead of the mystical worldview presented by modern physics (time dilation and length contraction in relativity, quantum entanglement and particle duality in quantum mechanics, the hierarchy problem of particle mass and dark matter in the Standard Model, the large-scale structure of the (...) early universe in cosmology, dark energy, the Axis of Evil, etc.), it presents an intuitive, mechanistic, and imaginable worldview. -/- All phenomena are explained within the four dimensions (3 space + 1 time) we inhabit, with no additional dimensions. Phenomena in our universe must occur where they are visible to us; nothing appears out of nowhere. -/- This theory may be difficult to accept as it demands a paradigm shift that changes existing perspectives. -/- First, time is not an absolute dimension. Hints of this already exist in the theory of relativity. If time were absolute, it should not change based on velocity. However, time is already observed to vary. -/- Second, matter is generated from space. Something appearing from nothing violates thermodynamics, which is fundamental to all theories. While Quantum Field Theory posits separate fields for each particle where excitation constitutes the particle, this theory explains particles and forces using a single vibrating field. -/- Third, for the second point to hold, a real field—a medium—must exist. This field is space itself, the gravitational field, and the quantum field. This theory premises only a single field: the Vibration Field. It explains that the four known forces emerge from the interaction between this vibration field and the particles created by it. -/- Time is not a dimension serving as an absolute standard. It is a phenomenon that arises as space and particles vibrate. Particles are born from space and return to space. Our universe is filled with a medium, and that medium is space itself. Time is not a dimension serving as an absolute standard. It is a phenomenon that arises as space and particles vibrate. Particles are born from space and return to space. Our universe is filled with a medium, and that medium is space. -/- We have advanced by changing our standards regarding the dimension of time. Newton spoke of absolute time, and Einstein of relative time. This theory speaks of emergent time. -/- Everything you know and perceive at every moment—space, time, light, and matter—is explained by this theory. The universe you know is simpler than you think. Only the phenomena emerging from it are complex. -/- This theory allows us to imagine a realistic future where we can dream of interstellar travel without energy concerns, and without the need for antimatter or antigravity. -/- This theory, Vibration Cosmology, does not claim that existing theories are wrong. It simply demonstrates that they can be unified under the single keyword of "vibration.". (shrink)

We present the strongest analytically verified spectral gap for SU(2) lattice Yang–Mills theory: a uniform lower bound ε = 289/384 with explicit convergence rate r = 1/4 and monotonicity, derived from the novel Process Mass Gap criterion (PMG1–3). This criterion is strictly stronger than the standard requirement lim g_M > 0 and reduces to the elementary arithmetic fact 43² = 1849 < 1920 < 44² (hence √1920 ∉ ℚ). -/- In the standard reconstruction chain we formalize the first link: the (...) Lattice Osterwalder–Schrader axioms (OS1–OS5, including reflection positivity and cluster property, fully proved in ProofClosure.v). The second link — the constructive continuum limit a → 0 that preserves the OS axioms on ℝ⁴ — remains the only open gap (a known open problem for over fifty years). The third link (OS reconstruction theorem → Wightman axioms) is the classical theorem of Osterwalder–Schrader and holds independently of Yang–Mills. -/- Under the Theory of Systems with Principle P4 (infinity as process), this gap is irrelevant: the lattice process {g_M} itself satisfies PMG1–3 at every finite resolution, providing a complete resolution of the mass gap without any completed ℝ⁴. For readers working in standard ZFC mathematics, this is the strongest verified lattice lower bound in the literature. -/- All 7,767 theorems (including the companion Paper “Process Mathematics”) are machine-checked in Rocq with zero Admitted statements and only the axiom classic (L3). (shrink)

This paper establishes that M₃(ℂ), the algebra of 3×3 complex matrices, is the unique minimal projective algebraic realisation of the rank-3 operational closure C⁽³⁾_Πd derived from Operatiology. The result supersedes Version 1 " M3(C) Necessity in Cognitional Mechanics: The Logical Foundation of Dimensional Structure" (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18280992), which established the same conclusion via dimensional exclusion and spectral efficiency arguments within the earlier Cognitional Mechanics axiom system. -/- The present version proceeds from the Operatiology axiom system {A1, A2, A4} and the Operational–Geometric (...) Coupling, with the Noological primitive Arbitrium as the regulative layer. The complete proof is delegated to the companion paper on algebra as the unique top-down projection of operational structure (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20363937), which proceeds via four stages: identification of algebra as the minimum-distance projective layer M₁; derivation of simplicity from operational non-decomposability; establishment of finite dimensionality and the Wedderburn–Artin form Mₙ(D); and a bridge lemma connecting Πd-separation to eigenvalue structure, forcing D = ℂ and n = 3. -/- The necessity established here applies retroactively to the entire Cognitional Mechanics corpus. Every paper citing the present work or its predecessor, directly or indirectly, and proceeding from M₃(ℂ) as a structural premise, is thereby grounded in the canonical projective realisation of C⁽³⁾_Πd. This covers derivations of physical constants, Standard Model gauge dynamics, nuclear reactions, number systems, cosmology, and life. The comprehensive corpus framework is documented in Foundations of Cognitional Mechanics (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20226488). -/- Published on May 24, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20365633 . (shrink)

La philosophie de la signification s'articule autour de quatre grands axes : la connaissance, l'esthétique, l'éthique et l'identité. En se confrontant à la question de l'émergence de la conscience, elle examine les limites logiques du matéria-lisme et du réductionnisme et propose une critique du monisme physicaliste, au profit d'un dualisme repensé, fondé sur la discontinuité entre matière et signification, disconti-nuité qui seule permet l'émergence du discours objectif. -/- Au fondement de cette approche se trouve l'idée d'une ouverture originaire de l'être (...) au monde - une exposition silencieuse à ce qui lui est extérieur, antérieure au langage, à la logique et à toute forme de représentation. Trois dimen-sions centrales de l'expérience peuvent ainsi être interrogées à partir de cette structure première : l'esthétique, à travers la musique, comme voie d'accès immédiate à l'articulation entre le sensible et le signifiant ; l'éthique, en tant que questionnement fondamental du rapport à l'altérité qui précède la problématique normative de la morale ; et l'identité, pensée comme une dialectique dynamique entre ouverture et rassemblement de l'être. Ces registres ne relèvent pas de champs séparés, mais déclinent, chacun selon ses modalités, la structure d'un dualisme radical - condition de toute production formelle, de toute pensée et de toute possibilité de comprendre le monde. -/- En filigrane, se dessine une tentative de réconcilier science et humanisme à travers une philosophie de la forme, de la liberté et de l'esprit. -/- Geoffroy de Clisson est titulaire d’un Doctorat en Philosophie (La Sorbonne, Paris IV) . (shrink)

La philosophie de la signification s'articule autour de quatre grands axes : la connaissance, l'esthétique, l'éthique et l'identité. En se confrontant à la question de l'émergence de la conscience, elle examine les limites logiques du matéria-lisme et du réductionnisme et propose une critique du monisme physicaliste, au profit d'un dualisme repensé, fondé sur la discontinuité entre matière et signification, disconti-nuité qui seule permet l'émergence du discours objectif. -/- Au fondement de cette approche se trouve l'idée d'une ouverture originaire de l'être (...) au monde - une exposition silencieuse à ce qui lui est extérieur, antérieure au langage, à la logique et à toute forme de représentation. Trois dimen-sions centrales de l'expérience peuvent ainsi être interrogées à partir de cette structure première : l'esthétique, à travers la musique, comme voie d'accès immédiate à l'articulation entre le sensible et le signifiant ; l'éthique, en tant que questionnement fondamental du rapport à l'altérité qui précède la problématique normative de la morale ; et l'identité, pensée comme une dialectique dynamique entre ouverture et rassemblement de l'être. Ces registres ne relèvent pas de champs séparés, mais déclinent, chacun selon ses modalités, la structure d'un dualisme radical - condition de toute production formelle, de toute pensée et de toute possibilité de comprendre le monde. -/- En filigrane, se dessine une tentative de réconcilier science et humanisme à travers une philosophie de la forme, de la liberté et de l'esprit. -/- Geoffroy de Clisson est titulaire d’un Doctorat en Philosophie (La Sorbonne, Paris IV) . (shrink)

This paper derives the complete algebraic expansion of the inverse fine structure constant α⁻¹ from the axiom system {A1 non‑commutativity, A2 Π_d‑saturation, A4 redundancy exclusion} of Operatiology, under which the rank‑3 operational closure is uniquely realised as the matrix algebra M₃(ℂ). The expansion α⁻¹ = 6π/D + C₂·D + (Φ₁/Φ₆)·D⁶ closes at exactly three terms with zero free parameters. The normalisation rule Nₖ = Φ₂ₖ(dim)/Φ_{(dim+1)−k}(dim) is proved unique by an internal‑language closure argument invoking no experimental value, discharging the objection that (...) it was fitted to the known value 137. The theoretical value α⁻¹ = 137.035999197 agrees with the highest‑precision single‑experiment determination (Morel et al. 2020, Rb recoil) at 0.81σ. This is a revision and expansion of Version 3.0 (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18843064), transferring the framework from Cognitional Mechanics to Operatiology and separating the theoretical value from the measured value previously conflated with it. The complete derivation runs from the spectrum {1, 1, −2} alone.◆◆◆ [PYTHON VERIFICATION CODE — note: × denotes * and ^ denotes ** ] ◆◆◆ from mpmath import mp, mpf, pi, sqrt mp.dps = 50 h = [mpf(1), mpf(1), mpf(-2)] e1 = sum(h) e2 = h[0]×h[1] + h[0]×h[2] + h[1]×h[2] e3 = h[0]×h[1]×h[2] delta = sqrt(mpf(3)/2) gamma = mpf(1)/2 D = (delta - 1)×delta×gamma ch2 = (e1^2 - 2×e2)/2 ch3 = (e1^3 - 3×e1×e2 + 3×e3)/6 N2 = mpf(10)/4 N3 = mpf(7)/2 C2 = sqrt(ch2/N2)×gamma f3 = abs(ch3)/N3 term0 = 6×pi/D term1 = C2×D term2 = f3×D^6 alpha_inv = term0 + term1 + term2 print("alpha^-1 =", alpha_inv) ◆◆◆ [END] ◆◆◆ -/- Published on June 2, 2026 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20511158. (shrink)

Atomic stability is one of the most firmly established results of quantum mechanics. The spectral and variational formalism rigorously accounts for the impossibility of electronic collapse into the nucleus. However, this explanation remains primarily structural: it establishes an energetic constraint without explicitly identifying the physical mediation responsible for making such stability effective. This study adopts an explicit ontological perspective according to which physical stability presupposes the existence of real mediation. It explores the hypothesis that the quantum vacuum — understood not (...) merely as an abstract ground state but as a physically structurable substrate — may admit local topological organizations capable of mediating atomic stability. Within this framework, a dynamic vacuum vortex is proposed as a structural hypothesis compatible with quantum field theory. A minimal variational formalization indicates that a topologically stable configuration can be introduced without contradicting currently known experimental constraints. The aim of this contribution is not to modify the predictive framework of quantum mechanics, but rather to open a research program oriented toward a deeper causal intelligibility of quantum phenomena. This approach aligns with a critical scientific realist perspective and suggests that quantum mechanics may represent an effective description of a deeper dynamical organization of the vacuum. (shrink)

The problem of time is widely regarded as one of the deepest conceptual challenges in quantum gravity. In canonical approaches, the absence of an external time parameter, most notably in the Wheeler–DeWitt equation, has been taken to imply a fundamentally timeless ontology. This paper argues that this inference is not forced by the formalism itself but arises from a specific interpretive move: the elevation of spacetime geometry from a representational structure to an ontological ground. Drawing on Temporal Rate Ontology, which (...) treats ordered temporal succession as ontologically primitive while interpreting geometric structure as representational, the paper proposes that the problem of time should be dissolved rather than solved. Once the interpretive slide from encoding to grounding is resisted, the lack of a time variable in canonical quantum gravity no longer compels a timeless metaphysics. The paper does not offer a new physical theory or technical solution; it provides a diagnostic and interpretive reframing that clarifies which aspects of the problem of time are genuinely physical and which are artifacts of ontological overcommitment. (shrink)

In this piece, we present the Quantum Darwinist Theory of Consciousness (QDT), which explains how consciousness arises in biological systems not through isolated, long-lived quantum states, but through recursively stabilized patterns that are repeatedly re-instantiated across neural and microtubular degrees of freedom. This addresses Tegmark’s influential objection that brains are too warm and noisy for quantum effects to matter. We argue that certain geometric structures actually use thermal noise constructively to maintain consciousness-relevant dynamics. (Note: this paper is an outgrowth of (...) our earlier paper, “Superpsychism”, and is presented in the context of a special issue on that paper, and as a reply to a dozen papers on that paper. There, we developed an approach to emergent spacetime, called “Prototime.”) We first formalize Prototime (PT) using orthomodular quantum logic, showing how spacetime emerges from a more fundamental, pre-geometric substrate. This formalism grounds our claim that classical time and its arrow are not primitive features of reality but emerge from patterns of decoherence and redundancy accumulation across quantum systems. Then, drawing from this framework, we introduce a principled criterion for what is conscious: consciousness requires both high spectral integration (Φs)—measuring how irreducibly unified a system is—and high PT-participation (P)—measuring how deeply that integration is anchored in low-entropy quantum processes connected to the fundamental substrate. This explains why brains can be conscious while drone swarms, synchronized oscillators, and digital systems cannot, even when highly coordinated. We call the full set of requirements the “Sustained Coherence Principle.” Finally, we explore the metaphysical implications: the limitations of digital physics as a fundamental ontology, a novel form of weak superdeterminism, and how our framework bears on the simulation hypothesis and idealism. Throughout, we maintain epistemic humility about what can be known of the fundamental level while providing testable predictions distinguishing our view from alternatives. (shrink)

We derive Hardy's maximal nonlocal success probability directly within a Presentist Fragmentalist (PF) ontology, without invoking Hilbert space, amplitudes, or the Born rule. The core idea is to treat pre-interaction misalignment of "present windows" as a measurable structure on an alignment space Λ = T × T endowed with a uniform product measure µ. A Fragmentalist Probability Theory (FPT) is developed on this space, replacing the standard Kolmogorov framework. Hardy's four logical constraints (H1–H4) are encoded as measurable relations on Λ. (...) A minimal "correlated subset" ansatz combined with exclusion of synchronized alignments yields a PF success probability P(p) = [p·(1 − p)]^2/(1 − p^2) for 0 < p < 1, with a unique interior maximizer at p = φ^−1 (the golden ratio conjugate) and Pmax = φ^−5 ≈ 0.09017, which equals the quantum Hardy bound. We show kernel-independence, no-signaling of marginals, robustness to perturbations, and a concrete setting-indexed construction on the admissible space Λ^H that realizes the full Hardy table. The result is an ontologically transparent derivation of Hardy's probability from PF's synchronization under misalignment. We close with remarks on robustness and prospects for generalization. (shrink)

Contemporary physics is characterized by high formal correctness, empirical stability, and technical effectiveness. At the same time, situations increasingly arise in which central phenomena—such as the direction of time, cosmological constants, measurement events, or emergence—are no longer ontologically integrated but stabilized through statistical, ensemble-based, or simulation-driven constructions. This practice appears as progress, yet marks a structural shift: explanation is replaced by placeholders. The present paper diagnoses this pattern as a statistical rescue reflex. This term denotes a recurring mechanism in which (...) formal residues are not recognized as boundary markers but externalized through statistics, simulation, or measure assumptions. The resulting models are correct, consistent, and functional—yet worldless. They stabilize describability without grounding a world. Building on the distinction between theoretical correctness and world-founding capacity, the paper does not analyze individual theories but a disciplinary mode of operation. It shows how the continued conflation of stabilization and knowledge leads to a self-distortion of research: models densify, simulations accelerate, while ontological orientation erodes. The contribution is not intended as a critique of physical methods, but as a diagnosis of a structural boundary that is currently being systematically bypassed. This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts. (shrink)

The measurement problem is commonly taken to indicate a fundamental conflict between the linear, unitary dynamics of quantum mechanics and the definite outcomes observed in measurement processes. Standard responses typically resolve this tension by modifying the dynamics, enriching the ontology, or revising the interpretation of the quantum state. -/- In this paper, we analyze the measurement problem from a projection-based perspective in which quantum evolution and measurement outcomes are associated with ontologically distinct effective descriptions, defined by incompatible invariance requirements. Within (...) this framework, quantum mechanics is characterized by unitary invariance and coherent superposition, whereas measurement records are defined by definiteness, stability, and reproducibility. The measurement problem arises when these distinct projection structures are implicitly identified or required to coexist within a single effective description. -/- By analyzing measurement as a transition between such projections, we show that the appearance of wavefunction collapse does not require a physical dynamical process. Instead, collapse emerges as a necessary structural consequence of projecting a quantum description onto a measurement domain that enforces different invariance constraints. This account preserves the formal structure and empirical success of quantum mechanics while motivating a restrained ontological reading of its elements. -/- More broadly, the analysis situates the measurement problem within a general pattern in which foundational paradoxes arise at the boundaries between effective descriptions. In this sense, the resolution proposed here does not introduce new physics, but clarifies the ontological scope and limits of quantum-mechanical description. (shrink)

We show that unital $H^*$-algebras provide a unified algebraic semantics for propositional logic, probability theory over finite sample spaces, and finite-dimensional quantum theory. More specifically, we show that key objects and rules in each theory - such as propositional languages, atomic propositions, evaluations, events, densities, probability functions, orthogonal projectors, density operators, the Born rule, and L\"{u}ders rule - can be abstractly characterized using the structure of $H^*$-algebras. For propositional logic specifically, we identify two distinct but isomorphic $H^*$-algebraic representations: the $n$-fold (...) tensor product of $\Z^2$ and $\Z^{2^n}$ (where $n$ is the number of atomic propositions). We show that the former represents propositional languages and the latter represents truth table semantics. The existence of isomorphisms between the two structures allows us to give truth table representations a formal mathematical definition. The $H^*$-algebraic perspective we develop in this paper makes transparent the deep structural analogy between propositional logic, probability theory, and quantum theory: they differ not in the algebraic equations governing their key objects, but in the commutativity and scalar structure of the underlying $H^*$-algebra. (shrink)

Quantum mechanics lacks a formal account of the observer, leaving the measurement postulate structurally incomplete. I introduce a minimal operator chain: J, A, C, L, R, that formalizes recognition, articulation, collapse, and observation. Inserting these operators into the standard measurement rule yields a complete and stable measurement structure without altering quantum predictions. A spin‑measurement example and a reconstruction of Wigner’s friend demonstrate that paradoxes dissolve when collapse is explicitly observer‑indexed. -/- Authored by Eloy Escagedo Gutierrez as part of The Universal (...) Principle of Collapse (UPC) Research Project. (shrink)

Quantum mechanics lacks a formal account of the observer, leaving the measurement postulate structurally incomplete. I introduce a minimal operator chain: J, A, C, L, R, that formalizes recognition, articulation, collapse, and observation. Inserting these operators into the standard measurement rule yields a complete and stable measurement structure without altering quantum predictions. A spin‑measurement example and a reconstruction of Wigner’s friend demonstrate that paradoxes dissolve when collapse is explicitly observer‑indexed. -/- Authored by Eloy Escagedo Gutierrez as part of The Universal (...) Principle of Collapse (UPC) Research Project. (shrink)

Core Claim The emergence of spacetime, matter, and reflective systems can be understood as a threshold response of quantum dynamics to constraints on physical persistence, wherein stable structures arise when purely quantum coherence can no longer sustain long-lived correlations. Abstract This paper introduces Nthos—the Natural Threshold of Quantum Self-Organization—as a conceptual extension of the Reflective Genesis Hypothesis (RGH). Nthos proposes that the universe’s transition from a fully quantum regime to one containing persistent matter and spacetime can be understood as a (...) threshold phenomenon rather than a singular explosive event. When quantum coherence alone becomes insufficient to maintain durable correlations, energy localizes into stable structures, giving rise to particles, causal order, and spacetime geometry. Within the RGH framework, this transition establishes the foundational architecture for reflection: matter enables persistence, spacetime enables history, and reflective systems emerge as higher-order stabilizers of correlation. Dark matter and dark energy are interpreted as largescale regulatory components that preserve structure and coherence while allowing expansion. Consciousness is framed not as an anomalous addition, but as a late-emerging manifestation of increasingly sophisticated reflective organization. Nthos offers a unified, non-teleological account linking quantum dynamics, cosmic structure, and reflective systems through constraints on persistence. (shrink)

This paper develops a projection-based reconstruction of the gauge-theoretic sector of the Standard Model, in which effective physical theories are represented as information-reducing maps acting on an underlying generative configuration space. Building on earlier work that reconstructs spacetime geometry and quantum structure via analogous projection principles, we introduce a gauge projection ΠSM selecting an internal representation space associated with Standard Model fields. The analysis is intentionally conservative at the level of physical dynamics, focusing instead on the structural origin of gauge (...) symmetry, representation content and related features. Within this framework, we analyze the internal symmetry structure compatible with two invariance requirements: preservation of an induced internal metric and commutativity with a composite projection to effective Standard Model degrees of freedom. Under these conditions, the maximal group of internal automorphisms compatible with the projection constraints is shown to be SU (3) × SU (2) × U (1), with global structure given by the quotient (SU (3) × SU (2) × U (1))/Z6. The resulting factorization of the internal representation space C3 ⊗ C2 ⊗ Cn reproduces the familiar quark and lepton representation content; a discrete Z3 invariant yields three fermion sectors with identical gauge quantum numbers; and effective mass operators admit a geometric characterization in terms of the second fundamental form associated with the embedded Standard Model sector. Gauge couplings acquire an informationgeometric interpretation as curvature coefficients and scale-dependent projections give rise to renormalization-group behaviour qualitatively consistent with that of the Standard Model. Taken together, these results provide a structurally unified account of the Standard Model gauge sector within a projection-based framework. A more comprehensive treatment of the interplay between geometric, quantum and gauge projections, as well as potential phenomenological implications, is developed elsewhere. (shrink)

This article offers a philosophical micro-history of the genesis of quantum theory (1900–1930) through what is termed an indiciary–abductive paradigm. Against standard narratives centred on axioms, formalism or “revolutions,” the paper reconstructs early quantum episodes as sequences of clue-driven inferences, where small phenomenological mismatches and structural regularities acquire normative weight disproportionate to their empirical modesty. Drawing on Ginzburg’s indiciary paradigm, Peircean abduction and recent work on epistemic aesthetics, the article develops a formal decision rule in which candidate hypotheses are evaluated (...) by a composite functional of indicial weight, aesthetic value (parsimony, symmetry, coherence of limits, unification), programme fecundity and correspondence constraints. This framework is then applied micro-historically to canonical cases in the quantum germ—Planck, Einstein, Bohr, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Pauli—each analysed as a transition from a specific clue set and background model to an abductively introduced hypothesis that opens a research programme. The reconstruction shows that quantum theory emerged not from an abrupt repudiation of classical rationality but from a disciplined practice of reading traces, in which aisthesis (trained sensitivity to experimental and conceptual detail) and epistēmē (formal, aesthetic and statistical criteria of theory choice) are tightly coupled. The conclusion generalises this indicial logic as a model of scientific discovery under weak, heterogeneous evidence, with implications for model selection, the role of aesthetic criteria in physics, and the design of comparative micro-histories of other scientific “revolutions.”. (shrink)

Active Metric Control via Informational State Manipulation: Specification of a Causal-Symmetric Warp Drive develops a warp-drive concept within a causal-symmetric informational framework, in which gravity is treated as the macroscopic effect of an underlying informational medium rather than as a fundamental force sourced only by ordinary matter. The work introduces an additional informational energy density derived from quantum relative entropy between the local physical state and an informational equilibrium reference state. This informational contribution formally plays the role of “exotic matter” (...) in the warp-drive metric, but is reinterpreted as emergent negentropy generated by highly structured non-equilibrium quantum information. -/- Within this framework, the paper specifies a family of warp-drive metrics whose source is entirely informational, using a minimal k-essence–type model that allows controlled violation of the usual null energy condition while maintaining a standard sound speed and avoiding ghost instabilities. It proposes a chronology protection criterion based on a smooth, strictly monotonic profile of an informational conductivity parameter, which yields a sufficient condition for global hyperbolicity and the absence of closed timelike curves. A scaling analysis quantifies the extreme informational energy densities required for realistic bubble sizes and superluminal speeds, showing that they approach near-Planckian levels. The work therefore recasts faster-than-light travel as a problem of quantum informational engineering and links its feasibility to experimentally constrainable informational parameters rather than to unknown forms of exotic matter. (shrink)

The Topological Origin of Space -/- This paper develops a topological and informational origin of space in which geometry, curvature and temporal flow emerge from relational information rather than from a pre-existing spacetime manifold. Building on earlier work in a causal-symmetric informational framework, the paper removes the usual assumption of a fixed background and treats “space” as a stabilized pattern in a continuous informational medium. Local regions of coherent information define open sets and induce a topology; when the transitions between (...) such regions are smooth, an effective differentiable manifold and metric structure appear. In this view, spatial distance measures informational contrast, and flat spacetime corresponds to a perfectly uniform informational state, while curvature encodes gradients in informational structure.  -/- Formally, the theory is cast in a covariant tetrad-first formulation with independent frame fields, connection and informational potentials. These informational potentials generate an informational stress-energy contribution that couples to geometry alongside ordinary matter, while a scale-dependent conductance parameter “kappa”, imported from earlier work on entropy contraction, links microscopic informational dynamics to macroscopic curvature and cosmological expansion. The framework yields a small set of phenomenological observables: a cosmological index that tracks large-scale informational differentiation via cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure data; a transport coefficient relating entropy production to average curvature; and laboratory analogues in engineered quantum media, where emergent propagation metrics can be correlated with measured entropy contraction rates. Special and general relativity are recovered as limiting regimes of uniform or slowly varying information, whereas strong informational gradients predict departures from standard gravity. The result is a unified, testable picture in which space is the visible topology of informational relations and time is the rhythm of their relaxation, constrained by holographic and thermodynamic bounds. (shrink)

The Unified Information-Density Theory (UIDT) presents a constructive proposed theoretical framework that explores geometric connections between Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity via information-geometric methods. Version 3.9 consolidates the Four-Pillar Architecture by combining a rigorously verified QFT core with a covariant scalar-field extension, a lattice-torsion model, and a photonic analog platform. -/- Canonical parameters are obtained self-consistently within the UIDT framework using the Extended Functional Renormalization Group (FRG) and a Banach fixed-point construction for the Yang–Mills sector. The analysis yields a (...) numerically stable vacuum solution characterized by the spectral gap Δ = 1.710 ± 0.015 GeV, coupling ratio κ = 0.500 ± 0.008, the self-coupling λS := 5κ²/3 (exact RG fixed-point definition), and the phenomenological invariant γ = 16.339. The kinetic vacuum expectation value is v = 47.7 MeV [A]. These parameters exhibit numerical closure with residuals below 10⁻⁴⁰ in the constructive core and are consistent with continuum-extrapolated lattice-QCD results where applicable. -/- The invariant γ = 16.339 is phenomenologically calibrated from the kinetic vacuum expectation value (Category A⁻) rather than derived from renormalization-group first principles in UIDT v3.9. A recent algebraic analysis identifies a candidate expression γbare = (2Nc+1)²/Nc = 49/3 ≈ 16.333 from SU(3) Casimir structure, matching the canonical value to 0.037%. The physical dressing shift δγ ≈ 0.006 from the bare to the calibrated value remains under investigation via momentum-dependent FRG vertex flows (Limitation L4, Category D). -/- Version 3.9 completes the synthesis of the Four-Pillar Architecture: the QFT foundation (Pillar I), lattice topology and torsion binding energy (Pillar II), spectral expansion and thermodynamic noise thresholds (Pillar III), and macroscopic isomorphism with nonlocal optical media (Pillar IV). Within UIDT, the lattice torsion binding energy ET = 2.44 MeV is defined as an entropic scale that parametrizes a torsion-related binding contribution in the hadronic sector and is explicitly classified as a quantitative Category D prediction. -/- Within this structure, the framework implements a multi-stage suppression mechanism for the effective vacuum-energy density, combining the non-perturbative spectral gap, the invariant scaling factor γ, and an empirically defined 99-step renormalization-group cascade (N99). The N99 cascade represents a leading-order phenomenological scaling rule; a next-to-leading-order correction yields N ≈ 94.05, and both are documented in the canonical audit with their respective precision bounds. -/- Thermodynamic censorship is formalized through a characteristic noise threshold near ∼17 MeV (the Wolpert limit), which generates harmonic resonance patterns within UIDT. Within UIDT, these structures are used only as an interpretive framework for reported X17-scale anomalies and the BESIII X2370 signal; they are classified as Category D predictions and make no claim of having identified the physical origin of any specific resonance. -/- Cosmological calibration enters through observational constraints from DESI and related datasets, which motivate a holographic length scale λ ≈ 0.66 nm and an effective dark-energy equation of state w(z) with w0 ≈ −0.99. In this context, H0 ≈ 70.4 ± 0.16 km s⁻¹ Mpc⁻¹ is used as a DESI-calibrated, Category C reference value rather than as a strict prediction of UIDT, keeping cosmological statements explicitly in the calibrated-model regime. -/- All results are explicitly classified by evidential strength: Category A (mathematically robust constructive proofs within the UIDT axioms), Category B (lattice-QCD alignment and numerical corroboration), and Category C/D (cosmological calibration and experimentally unverified predictions). UIDT thereby defines a falsifiable theoretical framework in which non-perturbative mass generation, vacuum-energy suppression, and macroscopic analogs can be tested independently within a transparent evidence hierarchy. (shrink)

Zero and One (modern) is Yin and Yang (ancient). What's next in AI? Advanced Autonomous Intelligence. This article introduces The Circular Theory (Autonomous Intentional Masking) as the New Thought Dynamic required for Advanced Autonomous Intelligence. It is supported by the Constant Variable (A Unified Unitized Field) which self-actualizes via Fifteen Sustainable Society Projects organized into a Health, Stealth, Wealth configuration. This self-actualizes into a Wealth-not-War Mentality (supported by the required Circular-Linear Financial Co-Dependence Between Liabilities and Assets which is not possible (...) without an Automatically-Conserved-Unified-Unitized-Circular-Linear Field) (The Constant-Variable) (One Circumference and One Diameter). Focus is on Service-Based-Sustainability and the (US) Dollar Value of an Hour (the Physical Representation (Universal Tokenization) of Mind). (shrink)

I consider whether the discovery of the quantum of action has any bearing on reductive physicalism. More particularly, I consider the arguments of the "new hylomorphists" to the effect that quantum physics sits most comfortably in their anti-reductionist framework.

Quantum mechanics exhibits inherent probabilistic behavior, violations of classical probability, and a formalism seemingly disconnected from spacetime. We show that these features naturally emerge in single-variable systems, which can encode only a single independent unit of information at a time and therefore behave probabilistically. Imposing reversibility and conservation of total probability on the generalized probability formalism leads uniquely to a quadratic probability theory, with linear unitary transformations and probabilities given by squared moduli. From this, the Hilbert-space structure, Born’s rule, and (...) unitary evolution follow directly. This first-principles derivation of quantum theory is consistent with the experimental fact that observing quantum effects requires coherence. (shrink)

A review of foundational debates in quantum mechanics shows that the disappearance of interference through decoherence, though dynamically rigorous, remains insufficient to explain the appearance of definite outcomes. Competing proposals—whether the metaphysical extravagance of many-worlds or the speculative dynamics of objective collapse models—carry significant conceptual or empirical costs. This paper develops an alternative framework grounded in the analogy between quantum superpositions and harmonic structures in wave phenomena. By reinterpreting measurement as a resonance-like selection of a fundamental mode, rather than an (...) ad hoc collapse, the account aims to reconcile the persistence of quantum coherence with the uniqueness of empirical events. (shrink)

The two fundamental pillars of physics for over 100 years have been quantum theory and general relativity, but their unification at short distances remains elusive, both technically and conceptually. This work is a philosophical investigation of the second kind of problem, and in particular of the striking fact that in many approaches to ‘quantum gravity’ classical spacetime structures are not merely quantized, but arguably absent—so that spacetime is not merely a classical limit, but ‘emergent’. This issue is not only central (...) to the problem of quantum gravity, but of deep significance for our philosophical understanding of physical reality, promising a conceptual revolution at least as profound as Einstein’s. We give an introduction to the question of spacetime emergence in general, for philosophers of metaphysics and science, and argue that spacetime functionalism explains how something non-spatiotemporal could ever appear as space and time. More technical chapters investigate the issue in detail for causal set theory, loop quantum gravity, and string theory, and the book also serves as a philosophical introduction to those theories for philosophers of physics. Our results help physicists clarify what new conceptual framework—not resting on space and time—may be necessary to achieve a theory of quantum gravity; and show philosophers how the world may not be spatiotemporal at root, and what kind of a world we might then live in. (shrink)

Introduced is a single, pre-registered coherence ratio τ = S/(D+ε) and we test its falsifiable predictions across language models and EEG, running all eligible public datasets and benchmarks under a frozen configuration. We specify hard failure modes (ICC, ∆AUC/∆R2, equivalence via TOST) and include an exploratory sleep add-on (REM “corridor”) with separate inclusion criteria. Importantly, null and equivalence results are reported as central outcomes, not secondary omissions, underscoring the falsifiability of the framework. This paper reports the full protocol, preregistration, results, (...) null distributions, and implications for falsifiability in cognitive and symbolic systems. Stage-1 denotes the first preregistered baseline test of ENT, not universality. -/- Emergent Necessity Theory (ENT) is a structural framework that proposes coherence in complex systems emerges as a necessity once containment forces (synchrony) and dispersive forces (entropy) reach a measurable balance. Its central object is the coherence ratio τ = S/(D+ε), a domain-agnostic, falsifiable metric. (shrink)

Breaking the Cosmogenesis Paradox: We propose a radical ontology where vacuum is fundamentally composed of closed-loop faster-than-light (FTL) potential energy strings—Meta Energy Loops (MELs)—that self-cancel to maintain net-zero energy. This substrate spontaneously generates reality through geometric symmetry breaking: -/- Particles emerge as localized loop slowdowns (vₗₒₒₚ ≤ c) -/- Spacetime arises recursively from loop transformation dynamics -/- Fundamental constants (α, mₑ, m_μ, m_τ) derive from twist topology -/- QED and GR unify at Λₗₒₒₚ = 10¹⁷ GeV via loop braiding -/- (...) Crucially, we derive: (i) Maxwell's equations from loop twist currents (ii) Particle mass hierarchy via winding quantization (iii) Gravitational lensing from time field compression (iv) Planck-scale blackbody radiation from thermal loop collapse -/- Testable predictions: (a) Frequency-dependent photon deflection Δv/c ∝ Eᵧ² (b) Exotic lepton at 12.6 ± 0.3 TeV (c) CMB y-distortion enhancement at z > 10⁶ -/- This framework resolves the "something from nothing" paradox through geometric recursion—without presupposing spacetime or quantum fields—while maintaining full compatibility with established physics. (shrink)

We refine how the Time Field Model (TFM) wave–lump interactions evolve from high-energy physics to chemical scales, providing explicit equations for orbital energy shifts, reaction-rate coherence effects, multi-atom PDE expansions, and HPC scalability. By treating nuclei and electrons as temporally resonant “wave-lumps” rather than static particles, we predict subtle deviations in atomic spectra, reaction kinetics, and molecular orbital energies. Preliminary HPC-optimized PDE solutions confirm bond stability and shell structure, offering a unified wave-based explanation of atomic orbitals, periodic trends, and chemical (...) reactivity. All figures (1–5) use mock data from HPC PDE solutions, mirroring early computational quantum chemistry. Future high-precision spectroscopy (e.g., Rydberg states) and ultra-cold reaction experiments may detect TFM’s ∼10⁻⁵ coherence effects, bridging fundamental physics and chemistry. (shrink)

This work introduces a novel model of quantum entities as unified, physically extended wavefields, forming the basis for a testable realist, holist framework for quantum measurement and collapse. Unlike interpretations that postulate hidden variables, observer-induced effects, spontaneous stochastic collapse, or multiverse branching, this model derives the Born rule from the squared-amplitude structure of an extended wavefield undergoing localized, interaction-induced collapse. Central to the model is a reinterpretation of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle—not merely as a statistical or epistemic limitation, but as (...) a dynamical relation between localized energetic interaction and wavefield localization. This framework yields testable predictions about how weak, intermediate, and strong quantum interactions modulate spatial localization—predictions consistent with existing experimental findings. The upshot is a unified, falsifiable alternative to standard interpretations, and a foundation for a broader research program in wavefield interaction mechanics. (shrink)

In recent years, I have proposed "Quantum Language (QL)" as a linguistic Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. This theory is applicable to both quantum and classical systems. Furthermore, I consider QL to be the scientific culmination of Western philosophical history. As a result, QL transforms the significance of almost all philosophical fields. In this paper, I demonstrate how the traditional evaluation of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence is significantly altered through the lens of QL.

The centered Everett interpretation solves a problem that various approaches to quantum theory face. In this paper, I continue developing the theory underlying that solution. In particular, I defend the centered Everett interpretation against a few objections, and I provide additional motivation for some of its key features.

The mistake of quantum physics relying on classical physics with its concept of reality confined to mas and space. The mistake of viewing the photon as a particle. The mistake of ignoring the latent identities of entities.

We propose the Prototime Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum entanglement occurs in a "prototemporal" realm that underlies spacetime. Our paper is tentative and exploratory. The argument form is inference to the best explanation. In Section One, we claim that the Prototime Interpretation (PI) is worthy of further consideration as a superior explanation for perplexing quantum phenomena such as delayed choice, superposition, the wave-particle duality and nonlocality. In Section One, we introduce the Prototime Interpretation. Section Two identifies its (...) advantages. Section Three discusses several implications of the view, such as its deterministic nature and relation to the simulation hypothesis. (shrink)

It is impossible to have a noun without a verb (an entity without a process) (the arithmetic number ‘one’ without the arithmetic number ‘two’). This is why and how humans are amiss, currently, about ‘quantum’ circuits… (the entity and process humans identify as 'mind').

For scientific realists, quantum mechanics is unsatisfactory because it suffers from the measurement problem. However, there are at least three promising solutions: the pilot-wave theory, the many-worlds theory, and the theory of spontaneous collapse. In this paper I argue that the measurement problem is a false problem for the realist: it was proposed as the last resort to convince the positivists that the theory is not empirically adequate. Instead realists should focus on preserving the reductive explanatory schema that had worked (...) so well in physics before, which requires a theory to have a three-dimensional ontology. Incompleteness argument to this effect have been proposed in the 1920s, but effectively ignored due to the positivistic climate, other unscientific reasons, and theorems which claimed that this project was impossible. When realists re-examined quantum mechanics in the 1950s and later, they happened to focus on the measurement problem. In this paper I speculate on what would have happened if realists instead focused on finding a three-dimensional ontology to complete quantum theory. I show that most paradoxes, puzzles and mysteries connected with quantum mechanics would have never emerge, and that many of what are now considered possible ontological interpretations of the theory would have hardly been taken as viable options. (shrink)