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The Speed of Light as a Regularization Parameter of a Distributed-Estimation Vacuum: Causal Bandwidth, Early-Stopping Suppression, and Latency Congestion
The speed of light $c$ is measured, codified in the SI, and used daily, but it is normally treated as a kinematic axiom rather than as a parameter with a physical function. This paper develops and quantifies the conjecture that a finite causal speed acts as a regularization parameter of a vacuum…
Singularity as an Epistemic Artifact: Finite Cyclic Cosmology without Actual Infinities
Cosmological singularities — states in which density, curvature and temperature diverge — mark the breakdown of predictive physics at the Big Bang and inside black holes, and they block any quantitative continuation of collapse or of the early universe. Whether these infinities are features of…
Time as Epistemic Emergence on a $p$-Adic Bruhat–Tits Tree: Static Constraint, Counting Laws, and the Observer-Generated Arrow
The problem of time in quantum gravity blocks any straightforward union of general relativity, in which the time coordinate is dynamical, with quantum mechanics, in which evolution requires an external background parameter; until it is resolved, a non-perturbative quantum theory of gravity cannot…
Time as Bruhat-Tits Tree Depth: Discrete $p$-Adic Temporal Ordering and Tree-Geodesic Causality
We develop a conjectural but internally precise model in which physical time is not a continuous real parameter but a discrete depth coordinate on a Bruhat-Tits tree: an event is a vertex of a rooted $(p+1)$-regular tree, and its time is the integer depth $d\in\mathbb{N}$, identified conjecturally…
Booklet Cosmological States as Random-Tensor Codes: Recovery Bounds and Entropic Diagnostics for Multi-Boundary Baby Universes
Cosmological states in holography can contain closed "baby" universes inaccessible to any single asymptotic boundary, raising the question of whether the information they carry is recoverable, and from where. The booklet cosmology construction extends the two-boundary cosmological-state proposal of…
Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction Beyond the Large \(N\) Limit via the Twirled Petz Map
Entanglement wedge reconstruction (EWR) furnishes the most precise holographic statement of bulk locality: the bulk region bounded by the quantum extremal surface is recoverable from a chosen boundary subregion. At leading order in the large‑\(N\) expansion this statement is underpinned by modular…
The Informational Universe: A Synthesis of Holographic Bounds, Thermodynamic Gravity, and Finite-Dimensional Quantum Constraints
We present a synthesis of three established research programs — the holographic entropy bound, thermodynamic gravity, and the finite-dimensional Hilbert space constraint — into a unified informational framework for physical law. The framework's core claim is that entanglement entropy in any finite…
Time from a Timeless Universe
The problem of time in physics stems from a foundational conflict between the static, geometric reality described by fundamental theories and the dynamic, flowing time of human experience. Physicalist models that attempt to reify this experiential time, such as the Evolving Block Universe (EBU),…
Emergent Physical Reality
This work presents a comprehensive, first-principles derivation of physical reality, positing that the universe is a hierarchical, emergent structure founded upon a minimal set of foundational postulates governing information, conservation, and logical inference. The argument proceeds in two stages:…
A Skeptical Journey Through Conventional Reality
Journey Through Conventional Reality Questioning the Foundations Beneath Our Scientific Stories Rowan Brad Quni We live immersed in narratives woven by science–tales of fundamental particles, computational minds, and infinite cosmic possibilities. These stories are powerful, shaping our…
Computational Toolkit for p-Adic Spacetime
The fundamental incompatibility between the continuous manifolds of general relativity and the discrete nature of quantum mechanics remains a central tension in theoretical physics. This manuscript develops and validates a computational toolkit designed to test theories of p-adic spacetime, which…
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…
Clockwork Cosmos
Classical physics operates on the foundational assumption that space and time form a smooth, infinitely divisible continuum. Providing the mathematical scaffolding for calculus, this geometric model allowed early physicists to calculate macroscopic gravitational trajectories with high reliability.…
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.…
Formal Derivation of Emergent Spacetime to the Bruhat-Tits Tree
The fundamental incompatibility between the continuous spacetime of general relativity and the background-dependent time of quantum mechanics suggests that time is not a fundamental constituent of reality. This paper addresses the ontological crisis of time by formally deriving macroscopic spacetime…
Super-Universe
The central problem of modern theoretical physics resides in the irreconcilable conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity, alongside the persistent philosophical mystery of consciousness. This monograph proposes a radical ontological synthesis: the universe is not fundamentally…
Entropic-Operational Paradigm
Thesis: Gravity, spacetime, and quantum mechanics are not fundamental geometric structures, but emergent artifacts of thermodynamic information processing, necessitating the rejection of mathematical Platonism in favor of strict operational realism. Gravity is not a fundamental interaction; it is…
SPACETIME CONDENSATE
Standard cosmology (\(\Lambda\)CDM) is currently fractured by two statistically significant anomalies: the \(5\sigma\) Hubble tension between early-universe (Planck) and late-universe (SH0ES) expansion rates, and the 120-order-of-magnitude vacuum catastrophe separating the theoretical Planck density…
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…
Superfluid Vacuum Theory
The historical incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics is identified not as a fundamental paradox of nature, but as an artifact of the “binning error”—the methodological fallacy of mistaking emergent topological stability for fundamental discreteness. This paper proposes a…
Base State–Disturbance (BS-D) Ontology
This presents the formalization and computational validation of the Base State–Disturbance (BS-D) Ontology, a framework proposed to resolve the conceptual fragmentation between Quantum Field Theory (QFT) and General Relativity. We posit that physical reality is reducible to two interdependent…
Relativistic Topological Superfluid
Standard cosmological models assume a static vacuum energy density, yet this premise conflicts with the renormalization group flow of quantum field theory and the fine-tuning required for dark energy. Simultaneously, high-energy astrophysical observations impose a strict “glass floor” on Lorentz…
Resonant Spinor Topology and the Vacuum Horizon
Standard chemical models assume a scalar accumulation of protons defines periodicity. However, the breakdown of group homology in superheavy elements remains unexplained by electrostatics alone. Here, the periodic table is re-derived as a topological manifold of relativistic spinor modes generated…
Superfluid Substrate
The paradoxes limiting contemporary physics—from the vacuum energy catastrophe to the thermodynamic scaling of quantum computers—are artifacts of a static ontology. A unified framework is defined where physical systems are topological modes within a dynamic, relativistic condensate. By modeling the…
THERMODYNAMIC GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL
This paper investigates the thermodynamic viability of the Base State-Disturbance ontology, which posits that the Standard Model emerges from a topological phase transition in the early universe. We hypothesize that the vacuum is the ground state of a Rank-42 Walker-Wang model derived from the…
THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF A FILAMENTARY VACUUM
The theoretical program of analogue gravity has established a robust kinematic correspondence between the propagation of excitations in condensed matter systems and the behavior of quantum fields in curved spacetime. This framework, developed over decades of research, posits that the geometric…
Connecting Geometrogenesis and Biogenesis
A grand conjecture in foundational science posits a deep connection between the emergence of spacetime (geometrogenesis) and the evolution of life (biogenesis), rooted in a shared quantum-informational substrate. However, a direct test of this conjecture is currently computationally and…
Process Ontology and Hydrodynamic Vacuum
Standard cosmological models face a foundational epistemic crisis at the Big Bang singularity, where the geometric description of General Relativity breaks down. This paper proposes a unified framework integrating Whiteheadian Process Philosophy with the hydrodynamics of a “stiff” superfluid vacuum.…
Dimensionless Physics
This work presents dimensionless physics as the fundamental language of nature, demonstrating how all physical laws can be expressed as relationships between pure dimensionless ratios rather than anthropocentric units. Building upon the Buckingham Pi Theorem, this document shows that dimensional…
Derivation of Einstein from Thermodynamics
Objective: To derive the Einstein field equations of general relativity from thermodynamic principles applied to local causal horizons, framed within the category-theoretic language of scale-invariant relationships. This derivation formalizes the physical argument of Jacobson (1995) and demonstrates…
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…
Math is NOT the Universe
This report re-evaluates our Euclidean understanding of reality, showing its inadequacy for modern physics. It traces the shift from Newtonian absolute spacetime to Einstein’s curved spacetime and the scale-dependent complexities of fractal geometry and quantum theory. This analysis argues for a…
The Ouroboric Universe and Time
Comprehending time’s fundamental nature exposes a foundational dissonance within modern physics. This arises from the seemingly incommensurable descriptions provided by its two most successful, yet distinct, theoretical pillars: General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These frameworks,…
Placeholder functions for demonstration
This paper presents a theoretical framework that unifies quantum mechanics and general relativity through the fundamental mechanism of quantum field correlations at Compton frequencies. The Quantum Correlation Synchronization Theory of Emergent Gravity (QCS-EG) demonstrates that gravity emerges as…
Risks of Pancomputationalism
This paper addresses the profound challenges inherent in developing theories of emergent spacetime, which posit that spacetime is not fundamental but arises from a deeper, pre-geometric reality. The central generative thesis is that the pursuit of this pre-geometric bedrock is fraught with two…
Scale-Divergence Problem
This document provides a rigorous examination of the Scale-Divergence Problem, a fundamental schism in modern cosmology that arises from the antithetical performance of the two leading theoretical frameworks—Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)—across different…
Scale-Invariant Information Thermodynamics Proof
We derive precise, falsifiable formalisms showing how gravity emerges from scale-invariant information dynamics and how all fundamental forces unify under a single information-theoretic principle. The framework is explicitly falsifiable via observational signatures. Axiom 1 (Local Scale Invariance).…
Emergence
The Conventional View: Spacetime as a Pre-existing Arena. Our conventional understanding of the cosmos is deeply rooted in the notion of spacetime as a fundamental, pre-existing arena—a stage upon which the events of the universe unfold. Newtonian physics posited absolute space and absolute time,…
Critical Examination of Spacetime, Mass, and Gravity through Competing Ontological Frameworks
Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO ORCID: 0009-0002-4317-5604 DOI: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers Related Works: - A Critical Examination of Spacetime, Mass, and Gravity through a Meta-Analysis of Competing Ontological…
Geometric Unification Framework
The pursuit of a so-called “theory of everything” (TOE) aims to move beyond phenomenological descriptions of nature, establishing an explanatory framework based on fundamental first principles. Such frameworks derive the observed laws of physics and their associated constants not from empirical…
Continuum is Real
For over a century, physics has been defined by an ontological schism. The continuous, deterministic, and local reality described by classical mechanics and general relativity stands in direct opposition to the discrete, probabilistic, and non-local phenomena of quantum mechanics. This division has…
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