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A New Glossary for a Wave-Based Physics
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The short version
This paper lists and explains key terms for a new physics framework called General Mechanics. It reimagines the universe as one continuous wave medium. The glossary covers ideas from quantum computing to consciousness.
Why a new glossary is needed
The authors want to change how we think about physics. They believe current physics has grown too complex. They blame this on small mistakes made long ago. These mistakes forced scientists to add layer upon layer of fixes. The authors call this growing burden the "complexity tax." A new glossary helps start fresh. It gives plain names to ideas that the authors see differently.
How this physics sees the universe
The framework has two main names. General Mechanics is the broad theory. Continuous Wave Mechanics is the physical part of it. The universe is not made of tiny separate bits. Instead, it is one flowing medium. Everything we see is a pattern in this medium. Matter, light, space, and time all emerge from wave patterns. The authors say this view is simpler. It avoids the need for many separate rules.
Key ideas in the new terms
The glossary defines many words in this new way. A particle is a stable standing wave. An antiparticle is a wave with the opposite phase. When they meet, they cancel out. This is called annihilation. A black hole is an extreme clump of wave patterns. Space and time are not fixed backgrounds. They emerge from how the medium behaves at large scales. Consciousness is a very complex, self-sustaining wave pattern. The authors also give new meanings to older ideas. The Big Bang was a primordial resonance. The Big Crunch would be a re-coherence of the medium. The Big Freeze would be total loss of wave patterns.
What this glossary does not show
The paper does not prove that this wave view is correct. It does not test ideas against experiments. It does not show how to measure the universal medium directly. It does not resolve disagreements with standard physics. It leaves open whether the new terms will lead to better predictions. It also does not show that the complexity tax of current physics is truly due to foundational errors rather than the natural growth of knowledge.
Words used here
- complexity tax
- the growing burden of extra rules and math needed when a theory rests on flawed starting points
- standing wave
- a wave pattern that stays in one place, like a guitar string vibrating at a fixed note
- phase
- the timing of a wave's peak, like whether two people clap together or at opposite moments
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- PhaseSimple English Wikipedia
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In the paper's words
Acoustic/Phononic Systems: Systems that manipulate material vibrations (phonons) to encode information in collective modes and perform computation via controlled phonon-phonon interactions. Acoustic Transducers: Devices that convert electrical signals into sound waves and vice versa, used in QRC to generate or detect frequency patterns. Action Functional: A mathematical functional mapping a system’s “history” or path to a scalar value (the “action”).
The abstract, verbatim, and its opening sentence is the claim. Every line below is quoted from the text.
Numbers it reports
Dark Sector: The collective term for Dark Matter and Dark Energy, representing approximately 95% of the universe’s energy density, whose nature remains unknown in the Standard Model.
from Foundational(Theory of General Mechanics, Section 16) Autaxic Trilemma: The fundamental and irresolvable tension within Autaxys between three competing but globally synergistic imperatives: Persistence (P), Efficiency (E), and Novelty (N).
from Foundational(Physical Interpretation of Mass and Spacetime, Section 23.3) Bekenstein Bound: A universal upper limit on the entropy (information) that can be contained within any finite region of space with a finite amount of energy.
from Foundational(Critiquing Quantum Indeterminism's Foundations, Section 3.1) Entropic Gravity: A theory proposing that gravity arises from changes in the information associated with the positions of material bodies, linking it to entropy and the Holographic Principle.
from Foundational(Theory of General Mechanics, Section 13) Excitons: Bound electron-hole pairs, a type of emergent, collective excitation in condensed matter.
from Foundational(Formal Framework for a Non-Local Frequency-Based Reality, Section 2.2) Ontological Fitness: A quantifiable measure within General Mechanics (via the Autaxic Lagrangian) of how well a given state of the universe aligns with the principles of Autaxys (Persistence, Efficiency, Novelty), guiding its evolution.
from Foundational
How it is done
Algorithmic Randomness: A property of a sequence or object indicating high Kolmogorov complexity, meaning it cannot be significantly compressed or described by a shorter algorithm.
from FoundationalPhysicalist Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis .
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What would falsify it
Its consistent experimental violation is a foundational postulate (Postulate I) of CWM, serving as the empirical refutation of local realism.
from FoundationalCWM frames modern anomalies as such critical disconfirmations.
from Foundational(Theory of General Mechanics, Part II) Computational Irreducibility: A property of computational processes where the only way to determine their future state is to run the computation itself, as no computational shortcut or simpler algorithm exists to predict their evolution.
from Foundational
Where the claim stops
Algorithmic Randomness: A property of a sequence or object indicating high Kolmogorov complexity, meaning it cannot be significantly compressed or described by a shorter algorithm.
from FoundationalIn CWM, classical mechanics is an emergent approximation of the underlying continuous wave dynamics at large scales and low energies, where individual wave phenomena average out.
from Foundational(Treatise on Clocks and Taxonomies, Chapter 2) Coding Theorem Method: A method based on algorithmic probability that provides an upper bound approximation for Kolmogorov complexity by observing the output frequencies of all possible programs run on a universal Turing machine.
from Foundational
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