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Quantum foundations. Measurement, Born rule, interpretation Tagged papers: 108.
The Bruhat–Tits Tree as a Unifying Computational Primitive: Confluence, Quantum Walks, and Tree‑Distance Attention
Hierarchical data, quantum‑amplitude dynamics, and proof‑normalisation each rely on distinct geometric primitives that incur sample‑inefficiency, slow convergence, or non‑confluent reductions. The $p$‑adic Bruhat–Tits tree provides a single ultrametric structure that can replace Euclidean…
The Self-Referential Scalar Family: e, the Half-Turn, and the Unification of Information Theory, Statistics, Thermodynamics, and QND Measurement in the Adelic Picture
Standard information theory measures uncertainty at the archimedean place; the adelic program extends it to all completions of the rationals, carrying a p-adic valuation entropy alongside Shannon entropy. This paper shows that the two most familiar distributions of statistical mechanics are already…
Signal-Worker Boundary Confinement: A Corrected Ontology of Surface vs Bulk Transport
The Signal-Worker (S-W) ontology — boson = signal (the delocalized field instruction), fermion = worker (the localized state that performs work) — is the QNFO corpus's proposed decomposition of the wave–particle duality fog. This paper delivers the red-team-hardened correction of that ontology's…
The Adelic Physics Program: Epistemological Foundations and Communications Framework
The QNFO Adelic Physics Program proposes that the physically accessible base field of physics is ℚ (the rational numbers), not ℝ (the real numbers). Ostrowski's theorem — a proven result in number theory — then demands that all p-adic completions of ℚ be physically meaningful, transforming the…
Vanishing ZBW Signal: The ZBW-Majorana Hypothesis as a Unified Framework for Topological Fermion Distinction
The ZBW-Majorana hypothesis, developed across four companion papers (P1--P4), establishes that Zitterbewegung (ZBW) --- the rapid trembling motion of Dirac fermions at the Compton scale --- is a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological observable that distinguishes Dirac from Majorana fermions at the hardware…
Zitterbewegung as a p-Adic Observable: Ultrametric Readout and Intrinsic Topological Protection for Majorana Qubits
The Zitterbewegung (ZBW) of a Dirac fermion — the rapid oscillatory motion at the Compton frequency arising from interference between positive- and negative-energy states — has resisted direct experimental observation for nearly a century. The standard interpretation attributes this to the Compton…
Meta-Pattern of Reification in Physics
The practice of physics, like all scientific inquiry, operates through a delicate interplay between the observable world and the conceptual frameworks we construct to understand it. At the heart of this interplay lies a persistent cognitive trap: the tendency to mistake our mathematical models,…
REIFICATION AND NON-ARCHIMEDEAN FOUNDATIONS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
This synthesis examines the persistent difficulties in contemporary theoretical physics through the lens of the Copernican diagnostic: the proliferation of unobservable entities (virtual particles, dark matter, the inflaton, etc.) signals not that nature is complex but that the descriptive framework…
All Things Are One
Human experience presents a world of objects, events, and continuous flow. Our senses provide a coherent picture of an external reality that seems independent of our minds. This apparent reality, however, is mediated by complex biological and psychological processes. The brain constructs a model of…
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