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Cascading Bayesian Choke‑Node Forecasting for Multi‑Era Paradigm Shifts
Strategic planners and technology‑road‑mapping teams must allocate scarce resources across long‑horizon scientific and technological transitions. Existing foresight methods treat each milestone as an independent probabilistic estimate, ignoring the cascading dependency structure that links…
Beyond the Qubit, Part II: A Constructive Research Programme for Post-Particle Computation, with Quantified Instrument Budgets, a Fano-Scale Admissibility Gate, and Embodied-Verification Pathways
Research programmes that frame computation as a circuit of qubits face a growing epistemic critique: the companion analysis argues that the qubit-gate-circuit model projects a particle ontology onto systems better described relationally and field-theoretically [9]. The specific gap is that critiques…
Critical Values on a Non-Uniform Number Line: Bifurcation Markers, Normalization Dependence, and the Conjectured Specialness of Physical Constants
We examine the conjecture that the real number line, as a model of physical state space, is misleadingly uniform: that certain parameter values act as topological phase boundaries rather than smooth increments, and that fundamental constants such as the fine-structure constant $\alpha \approx 1/137$…
The Thermodynamic Wall: Heat Dissipation as a Boundary Condition on Quantum Coherence Time
We introduce the thermodynamic wall: a boundary-condition formulation of the trade-off between macroscopic heat dissipation and quantum coherence time in engineered systems. Just as computational wall models in fluid dynamics encode unresolved near-boundary physics into an enriched boundary…
Operating the Quniverse Fleet: Objectives, Successes, Failures, and Roadmap of an Autonomous Cloud Research System
The Quniverse is a self-maintaining research and publishing system running on the Cloudflare Workers platform: thirty-six deployed workers (thirty-eight at the session's start) sharing ten SQL databases, eight vector indexes, nineteen object-storage buckets, and a metered model gateway, operated by…
A Critical Treatise on the Load-Bearing Assumptions of Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Computation
The electron is the most precisely measured particle in physics and the workhorse of modern computation, yet the theoretical structure in which it lives rests on assumptions that are load-bearing but rarely interrogated: the complex Hilbert-space postulate, the spin-statistics theorem's premises,…
JPCUB as a Leading Indicator of Computing Paradigm Shifts: Retrospective Validation and Prospective Forecast
Abstract The computing industry lacks a single, cross-domain metric that can compare energy efficiency across fundamentally different paradigms — CPU, GPU, neuromorphic processor, in-memory accelerator, or spintronic logic. Traditional metrics (FLOPS, MIPS, transistor count) describe what already…
When Will Non-Archimedean Geometry Displace the Real Numbers? A Structured Assessment of the Adelic Substrate Thesis
The real numbers are the default continuum for physical modeling — every quantum state lives in a Hilbert space over $\mathbb{C}$, every neural network optimizes over $\mathbb{R}^n$, every error-correcting code is designed with Euclidean distance. Yet Ostrowski's theorem (1916) demonstrates that the…
Computing After Silicon: A History-Constrained Forecast of Computing Machine Evolution, 2026-2050
A history-constrained forecast of computing machine evolution 2026-2050. Seven post-silicon candidates assessed; heterogeneous convergence (AI accelerators, quantum co-processors, processing-in-memory) is the central thesis; twelve dated falsifiable predictions registered for 2030-2040.
CFPE Methodology v2.0: Cascading Bayesian Foresight Engine with Historical Back-Casting Calibration
The Cascading Bayesian Foresight Engine (CFPE) methodology for generating and stress-testing long-range paradigm-shift forecasts: Bayesian cascading dependency models, adversarial red-teaming, evidence strength grading, fault-tree decomposition, counterfactual pathway generation, and automated arXiv…
Autaxys and its Generative Engine
Autaxys and its Generative Engine: Foundations for a New Way of Seeing Reality Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO Prevailing foundational paradigms in science and philosophy encounter significant limitations when addressing the ultimate origin of order, the…
Physics, Solved
The canonical unsolved problems in physics are reframed as diagnostic signatures of an incomplete descriptive paradigm. This paper proposes a generative framework in which physical reality emerges from a deterministic computational process on a topological substrate—the circle \(S^1\). Its first…
Riemannian-Geometric Approach to Superdeterministic Bell-Violations
The foundational conflict between the probabilistic non-locality of quantum mechanics and the geometric determinism of general relativity remains the central challenge of modern physics. This paper addresses the tension by proposing a locally causal framework where Bell-inequality violations emerge…
Open Thinkers Guide to the Universe
The standard cosmological model describes an expansion of matter and energy into a pre-existing spatial vacuum, conceptualizing the universe as a fragmentation event. However, the thermodynamic state of the early universe presents a significant anomaly for models based on random expansion.…
Convergence Consilience and the Hierarchical Architecture of Reality
This document argues that convergence (nature independently producing similar forms across separate lineages) and consilience (knowledge from different disciplines converging on the same truths) are symmetric faces of a single deeper structure: a hierarchically organized reality shaped by attractors…
Time as Epistemic Cognitive Fiction
URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/time-as-epistemic-cognitive-fiction/ Date: 2026-03-19 Version: 1.0 Human perception operates as a highly specialized biological interface designed for survival rather than objective truth. The sensory organs gather limited environmental data to construct a…
Hydrodynamic-Topological Continuum
The reconciliation of general relativity with quantum field theory remains the premier open problem in theoretical physics, exemplified by the “vacuum catastrophe”—the 120-order-of-magnitude discrepancy between the calculated vacuum energy density and the observed cosmological constant—and the…
Iceberg of Reality
The human quest to understand the cosmos has been a journey of progressively stripping away familiar assumptions. Each deeper layer of reality, revealed by physics, shows that our previous conceptions were not false but incomplete models—effective approximations of a stranger, more abstract, and…
Resonant Equilibrium
This work presents a unified framework for intelligence, synthesizing concepts from artificial intelligence, mathematical logic, and theoretical physics. It begins by proposing the Fourier paradigm, which models Large Language Model (LLM) computation as a physical process of resonance and waveform…
Scale-Invariant Reality
The foundational principles of a scale-free, epistemically-grounded reality establish the philosophical and mathematical bedrock upon which the entire Scale-Invariant Epistemic Framework is constructed. This framework posits that physical reality is fundamentally scale-invariant, with no intrinsic…
Formal Framework for a Non-Local Frequency-Based Reality
Rowan Brad Quni Principal Investigator, QNFO ORCID: 0009-0002-4317-5604 DOI: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers The early 20th century witnessed a profound revolution in physics with the emergence of General Relativity (GR) and Quantum…
POST QUANTUM SYNTHESIS
For over a century, physics has been captivated by a perceived intrinsic strangeness of the world, mistaking mathematical models for reality itself. This intellectual entanglement has given rise to persistent paradoxes, including wave-particle duality, wavefunction collapse, spooky action at a…
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