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[18] ai.viXra.org:2512.0105 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-05 07:16:09
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 10 Pages. Experimental companion note of the coherence-maintenance/RIP series. v2 replaces v1: adds fit-choice caveats, synthetic validation of the re-analysis pipeline, power analysis for the negative preregistered test, all-lengths proxy specification, small-sam
This note reports a replicated, high-resolution Bell-transport experiment on IBM Quantum superconducting hardware using a prefix-path protocol that controls spatial heterogeneity across transport lengths. A single physical qubit chain is fixed and increasing transport length L is realized via prefixes of that chain, so that L changes depth while keeping qubits nested rather than switching to different qubit subsets. We reconstruct the Bell-state fidelity F(L) from Pauli correlators E_XX, E_YY, E_ZZ and apply a minimal drift correction using interleaved full-Phi+ control blocks. Beyond a single-chain sweep, we perform a comparative geometry test across three disjoint physical chains on the same backend: the effective decay scale differs significantly across chains (with >10 sigma separations under fit uncertainties), providing operational evidence that the transport decay scale is geometry-dependent under fixed compilation constraints. Motivated by the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP) framing, we also investigate whether a phase-sensitive static correlation metric measured on idle chains can predict dynamical transport decay. A curated three-chain set exhibits an ordering agreement between a static Ramsey-X nearest-neighbor covariance metric and the transport decay scales mu measured on the same chains; however, scale-up studies over n=18 randomly sampled chains and a preregistered out-of-sample prediction test do not show statistically significant monotone association under permutation testing. We interpret the static—dynamic ordering agreement as conditional and geometry-specific, while the geometry dependence of dynamical decay is robust. v2 adds: a fitting-choice caveat with a synthetically validated re-analysis pipeline for future variant tables, a power bound showing the negative preregistered test excludes a strong device-wide static—dynamic law (from published quantities alone), an all-lengths rate proxy specification, small-sample and estimator caveats, context references, and an offline re-analysis script with documented schema for a future data revision.
Category: Quantum Physics
[17] ai.viXra.org:2512.0102 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-05 06:40:10
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 8 Pages. Conventions companion of 2512.0091: fixes sign conventions (Wick, Laplacian, Lichnerowicz), derives the A1 species table and the induced-Newton sign, anchored to the classic counting 1/G ∝ N0 + 2N_(1/2) − 4N1 (Adler, Visser, Kabat). v2 adds gauge/scheme c
We derive the local one-loop contribution proportional to the scalar curvature R in the Euclidean effective action obtained by integrating out matter fields on a curved background. Using a Schwinger proper-time cutoff epsilon = Lambda^(-2) and the Seeley—DeWitt coefficient a_1, we extract the quadratically divergent term multiplying int d^4x sqrt(g) R. We fix a single Euclidean convention for the Einstein—Hilbert action, state an explicit Laplacian convention, and write the Laplacian—Lichnerowicz identity in a sign-robust form so that the fermionic contribution is unambiguous. We provide a unified bookkeeping coefficient A_1^(eff), and hence an induced Newton coupling G_ind via comparison with the Euclidean Einstein—Hilbert action. We also include the minimal gauge+ghost package in background Feynman gauge, a species table, and a reproducible verification suite. v2 adds: the equivalence of the species table with the classic counting 1/G_ind = (Lambda^2/12pi)(N_0 + 2N_(1/2) - 4N_1), gauge- and scheme-dependence caveats for the vector sector, a Weyl/Majorana caveat, corrected Wick-rotation wording, and an exact-spectrum numerical verification of every a_1 entry against closed-form spectra on S^4.
Category: Quantum Physics
[16] ai.viXra.org:2512.0101 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-05 06:24:25
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 8 Pages. Companion of 2512.0060 (non-Gaussian extension of Conjecture 5.1). v2 corrects the Markov-product identity (I = D - log Z) and the Fawzi-Renner factor (-log F), with independent NumPy reverification; beta=0.3 CMI slopes flagged as floor-dominated.
We formulate a non-Gaussian, finite-volume and uniform-in-Lambda version of the Clustering-Recovery bridge for interacting lattice systems. We introduce an explicit collar geometry, a CMI formulation via Fawzi-Renner, and an operational (Heisenberg-picture) quasi-locality strengthening for the recovery map. Version 2 corrects one identity: v1's "CMI as relative entropy" equation equated I(A:C|B) with the relative entropy to the normalized Markov-product state; the exact identity holds for the unnormalized product M = exp(log rho_AB + log rho_BC - log rho_B), and the normalized version underestimates the CMI by -log Z >= 0 (Z <= 1 by Lieb's triple-matrix inequality). We also fix the Fawzi-Renner factor: with the squared-fidelity convention used throughout, the bound is I(A:C|B) >= -log F (not -2 log F). All numerical claims of v1 (Petz slope table; prefactor-slope trade-off; crossover w*=3) have been independently reproduced from scratch by a NumPy-only verification script that ships with this paper.
Category: Quantum Physics
[15] ai.viXra.org:2512.0099 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-29 21:46:06
Authors: Michael Zot
Comments: 7 Pages.
This paper treats active inference as an organ-level physical mechanism rather than a metaphor or purely cognitive theory. Using the System Emergence Discovery Protocol (SEDP), we reconstruct active inference as a composed functional system that produces bounded, persistent observers from noisy sensory inputs and limited action channels. The analysis frames active inference as a process theory derived from the Free Energy Principle, in which a system maintains structural and functional integrity by minimizing variational free energy through coupled perception and action, conditioned on a statistical boundary defined by a Markov blanket.Active inference is formalized as a mapping from local measurement records at a boundary to bounded internal states, action policies, and maintained separation between internal and external degrees of freedom. Markov blankets are treated strictly as conditional independence boundaries, variational free energy as a computable upper bound on surprise, and thermodynamic persistence as local maintenance through dissipation rather than any violation of the second law. The framework is constrained by explicit SEDP locks, including an operational definition, a unified success predicate, lesion-style failure modes, minimality arguments, and empirical witness classes.The paper argues that active inference functions as an "observer organ" that enables agents to persist long enough to sample, store, and act on records. In this sense, it can be treated as upstream of the Objectivity Organ, which produces stable, shared facts in the environment. Together, these mechanisms clarify how observers and objective facts can co-emerge from the same physical substrate without invoking privileged access, consciousness assumptions, or metaphysical primitives. Clinical interpretations are discussed cautiously as mechanistic hypotheses about precision weighting rather than diagnostic claims.
Category: Quantum Physics
[14] ai.viXra.org:2512.0095 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-28 19:35:01
Authors: Rudolph Elliot Willis
Comments: 5 Pages.
Wave—particle duality is a foundational feature of quantum mechanics, yet the physical processes underlying single-particle interference remain an open question. Here I investigate a dynamical mechanism based on spontaneous stochastic mass—energy interconversion at subatomic scales. By allowing particle mass to fluctuate in time, consistent with Einstein’s mass—energy equivalence, I derive a modified Schrödinger equation containing a stochastic kinetic-phase term. Applying this framework to the double-slit experiment, I show that interference arises from coherent, path-dependent phase accumulation while remaining fully compatible with localized detection events described by standard quantum mechanics. The model yields a closed-form expression for fringe visibility, predicts a characteristic momentum- and mass-dependent decoherence rate, admits a path-integral formulation, and enables direct experimental bounds using existing neutron, electron, and atom interferometry data. These results provide a physically motivated, testable mechanism underlying quantum interference without altering the formal axioms of quantum mechanics.
Category: Quantum Physics
[13] ai.viXra.org:2512.0085 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-05 05:47:22
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 6 Pages. Synthesis/pipeline paper of the coherence-maintenance series; v2 replaces v1 (changelog in Appendix A): imported core law re-anchored to 2512.0061 v2 (corrected hierarchy; work sign).
We present a logically explicit operational program connecting three themes: geometry as suppressibility of cross-region influence, membranes as engineered interfaces implementing that suppressibility, and life as sustained maintenance of internal organization under finite resources. The program composes: (i) a law-grade thermodynamic inequality relating incremental maintenance power to the instantaneous loss rate of an organization functional, imported in its corrected operational hierarchy; (ii) a static geometric suppression layer in which cross-interface leakage admits an envelope f(eps) ~ poly(m eps) e^{-m eps} (with K_nu(m eps) as a canonical representative in massive homogeneous models); and (iii) a dynamical hinge (the Rate Inheritance Principle, RIP) connecting static suppression to separation-dependent effective dynamical rates. This version distinguishes upper and lower rate envelopes kappa_up(eps) and kappa_down(eps) to avoid sign/quantifier errors -- a distinction now vindicated by the companion series -- separates a law-grade Delta-track (energy pinching) from a conditional biology-grade E-track (general conditional expectations), and adds two interface anchors: a recoverability layer via conditional mutual information (CMI) and the Fawzi-Renner guarantee, and a minimal Davies interface lemma showing how correlator envelopes imply Davies-rate upper envelopes (supporting RIP-U microscopically in standard weak-coupling settings). A concrete electrical testbed using membrane-embedded spin probes is proposed to measure dephasing-rate envelopes and detect near-zero-frequency floors that create a resource horizon. A dependency and falsification matrix makes the logical structure audit-friendly.
Category: Quantum Physics
[12] ai.viXra.org:2512.0081 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-05 05:44:24
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 6 Pages. Integrative paper of the coherence-maintenance series; v2 replaces v1 (changelog in Appendix C): v1's central theorem corrected (vacuous paired-infimum removed; the valid part of its proof yields the unconditional entropy-production bound
Maintaining quantum coherence against uncontrolled open-system dynamics is a control task with unavoidable thermodynamic cost. In a finite-dimensional setting with battery-assisted thermal operations at bath temperature T, we present the corrected operational hierarchy for maintenance power: an unconditional lower bound P_min(rho) >= k_B T sigma(rho) with sigma(rho) the entropy production rate of the target (proved in the appendix); the coherence-power bound P_min >= k_B T Cdot_loss(rho) under diagonal contraction; and incremental (extra) power bounds relative to thermodynamically efficient population-maintenance baselines, which become assumption-free exactly when the pinched target is stationary -- e.g. under pure dephasing, the very dissipator used in this paper's numerical protocol. Here C(rho) = S(rho||Delta[rho]) is relative-entropy coherence to energy pinching and Cdot_loss(rho) := -d/dt C(rho_t)|_{t=0}. These statements are operational, observer-independent, and geometry-free. We then present the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP) as the falsifiable dynamical bridge between static clustering and decoherence rates, with its status: weak form a lemma under explicit hypotheses; strong form derived, with a frequency-resolved squared-amplitude exponent, in an exactly solvable quasi-free local-sink class; failure through near-zero Bohr-frequency channels realized within the secular Davies class. We provide falsifiable protocols distinguishing one-shot work from sustained maintenance power, including a numerical stress test (distance-independent influence floor without an interface vs collar-induced suppression) in a transverse-field Ising chain with remote dephasing. Finally, an explicitly speculative Outlook connects the resource boundary to the Free-Energy Principle for resource-limited agents, at a methodological (non-phenomenological) level.
Category: Quantum Physics
[11] ai.viXra.org:2512.0073 [pdf] replaced on 2026-08-01 08:38:55
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 24 pages. v2 adds a two-page correction/supersession and claim map, then preserves the 22-page v1. Corrected technical source: ai.viXra:2601.0023v2.
SUPERSEDED BY AI.VIXRA:2601.0023V2. This replacement preserves public version 1 and adds an explicit correction and supersession record. The exact omega=0 statements and witness mechanism of version 1 stand unchanged, and Proposition 4.4 survives with a repaired proof. What is superseded is the false general plain-commutator Bohr decomposition, the suppression proof route using a false KMS submultiplicativity bound, the associated constants and claim of avoiding an inverse-smallest-eigenvalue factor, and the inline listing. ai.viXra:2601.0023v2 supplies the exact general decomposition, corrected c_sigma-dependent bounds, pinning identity, explicit hypotheses and verification suite. No thermodynamic, continuum or universal resource-boundary theorem follows from the finite tests. The preserved version 1 follows the two-page notice unchanged.
Category: Quantum Physics
[10] ai.viXra.org:2512.0072 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-04 17:26:43
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 6 Pages. Framing note of the coherence-maintenance series; v2 replaces v1 (changelog in Appendix A): v1's surrogate evidence and figure placeholder withdrawn, replaced by exact solvable-model evidence; weak form stated as a proved lemma; strong-form status updated
In gapped open quantum systems with localized couplings, static correlations across an operational interface of width eps are exponentially suppressed by the mass gap. Independently, the energetic cost of maintaining quantum coherence is governed by the rate at which coherence is lost under uncontrolled dynamics. The Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP) is the hypothesis connecting the two: effective coherence-loss rates inherit the suppression envelope of static correlations across the interface. We distinguish a weak upper-envelope form — stated here as a short proved lemma under explicit integrability hypotheses — from a stronger envelope-class conjecture, and we record what is now known: the strong form is derived, with a frequency-resolved exponent, in an exactly solvable quasi-free local-sink class, where the rate inherits the square of the static amplitude envelope, kappa(eps) proportional to e^(-2 q(omega_b) eps) — confirming the squared-envelope caveat anticipated in v1 — and it fails through near-zero-frequency channels within the secular Davies model class, whose delocalized jump operators sustain a persistent rate floor. Version 1's surrogate decay-curve evidence is withdrawn: it belonged to the uncontrolled proxy class whose failure mode was exposed by the critical-point control of the companion paper, and it is replaced here by the exact Liouvillian-rapidity evidence. Failure modes (now including secular delocalization), a proxy-validated falsification protocol, and the conditional operational consequences for the quantum-classical resource boundary are stated with explicit scope.
Category: Quantum Physics
[9] ai.viXra.org:2512.0071 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-04 17:25:11
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 6 Pages. Architectural closure note of the series (no new technical results); v2 replaces v1, changelog in Appendix A. Its verification is inherited from the suites of 2512.0060/0061/0064/0070/0072.
Maintaining quantum coherence against uncontrolled open-system dynamics is an operational control task with unavoidable thermodynamic cost. In finite dimensions, explicit lower bounds on the minimal power required to stabilize coherence can be derived under standard Markovian assumptions, independently of geometric or field-theoretic structure. At the same time, static correlations in gapped systems are geometrically suppressed, raising the question of how such suppression influences dynamical decoherence rates and, consequently, coherence-maintenance power. Bridging the two domains requires dynamical input that static clustering alone does not provide.This note introduces no new technical results. It provides a logical closure of the program by separating (i) results proven without additional structure, (ii) conditional interfaces, and (iii) dynamical hypotheses — and, new in this version, it updates the status of the central hinge. In v1, rate inheritance — the relation between static correlation envelopes and effective decoherence rates — was identified as the unique unresolved hinge. Since then it has been partially resolved in both directions anticipated by v1's scenario analysis: it is now a derived, frequency-resolved law in an exactly solvable quasi-free local-sink class (2512.0064 v2), and the failure scenario through near-zero-frequency channels has been realized within the Davies model class, with the persistent floor computed and the secular nonlocality of that construction quantified (2512.0070 v2). The imported maintenance bound is restated in its corrected v2 form (2512.0061 v2), whose v1 formulation was vacuous. The framework's design goal — robustness under partial refutation — has thus been exercised in practice, twice.
Category: Quantum Physics
[8] ai.viXra.org:2512.0070 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-04 16:52:43
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 7 Pages. Companion stress-test note; v2 replaces v1 (changelog in Appendix A; v1's figure placeholder replaced by a script-generated figure). Verification scripts distributed in a companion repository.
In gapped quantum many-body systems, static correlations decay exponentially with distance. A common heuristic expectation is that this geometric suppression carries over to dynamical decoherence rates induced by local environments; this expectation has been isolated as the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP). We stress test RIP in a fully specified Davies-type Markovian setting: a gapped transverse-field Ising chain weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic bath through a strictly local operator. RIP is formulated operatorially through two spectral envelopes of the Dirichlet form on operators supported at distance eps from the coupling region: a ceiling kappa_sup(eps) (v1's envelope) and a floor kappa_perp(eps) (smallest nonzero rate, new in v2 — the quantity a maintenance no-go actually needs; v1's inference from ceiling saturation to a power floor was a non sequitur and is corrected here). Numerically, rate inheritance remains conditional: for energy-exchange-dominated coupling the ceiling decreases with separation, while for near-zero-Bohr-frequency coupling it saturates — and, more importantly for the no-go, the projected floor also persists in that regime. Version 2 adds the diagnostic that the series' methodology demands: the near-zero-frequency Bohr components of the local coupling are strongly delocalized at finite size (about 90 percent of their weight beyond the coupling site), so the saturation is established within the Davies model class, whose secular construction is nonlocal; the exactly solvable local-sink model of the companion paper shows genuine geometric suppression, and the two results bracket the physics. Combined with the corrected maintenance bounds of the companion work theorem, a persistent projected spectral floor yields a quadratic-proxy resource horizon; the corresponding relative-entropy no-go is stated with its required uniform-Cdot_loss / MLSI-type hypothesis explicit.
Category: Quantum Physics
[7] ai.viXra.org:2512.0064 [pdf] replaced on 2026-07-04 16:52:40
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 12 Pages. v2 replaces v1: v1's windowed-proxy evidence is withdrawn and replaced by an exact solvable-model law; summary of changes in the final section. Verification scripts distributed in a companion repository.
We revisit the proposal that the Heisenberg cut is best understood operationally, as a resource boundary: a superposition counts as effectively classical for an agent once the power required to maintain its coherence against decoherence, P_extra >= k_B T Cdot_loss, exceeds that agent's budget. Version 1 supported the key dynamical ingredient — the rate-inheritance hypothesis, that decoherence rates transmitted through a gapped buffer of width eps are suppressed as poly(eps) e^(-m eps) — with a windowed numerical proxy on a transverse-field Ising chain. Two things change in this revision. First, rate inheritance is now derived in an exactly solvable quasi-free model and verified against exact Liouvillian rapidities: for a probe mode of renormalized sub-gap frequency omega_b coupled through a Kitaev buffer to a Markovian loss, the exact Liouvillian rapidity obeys kappa(eps) proportional to e^(-2 q(omega_b) eps) with cosh q(omega) = (mu^2 + 4 - omega^2)/(4 mu), verified to four decimal places over ten decades of kappa; the exponent is the squared (amplitude^2) one, resolving Remark 8.1 of v1, and it closes continuously at the band edge. Second, the central numerical evidence of v1 (its Fig. 1) is withdrawn: an exact critical-point control shows that the co-moving-window proxy decays faster when the gap is removed, so what it measured was arrival kinematics, not gap physics. We identify the mechanism with photonic-band-gap suppression of emission and evanescent atom-photon bound states, restate carefully what is imported versus what is new, derive a logarithmic law for the resource cost of coherence lifetime, note that the protected object is a sub-gap subalgebra rather than a spatial region, and state the interacting-buffer conjecture that would take rate inheritance beyond the quasi-free class. The non-claims of v1 stand unchanged: nothing here derives the Born rule or selects single outcomes.
Category: Quantum Physics
[6] ai.viXra.org:2512.0040 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-11 17:11:00
Authors: Avery Spranger
Comments: 49 Pages.
The conventional model of physical reality presumes that the past exists as a fixed sequence ofobjective events and that human memory serves only as a passive retrieval mechanism for theseevents. This paper challenges both assumptions through a synthesis of quantum informationtheory and contemporary neuroscience. Drawing on the quantum measurement problem andWheeler’s It from Bit principle (Wheeler, 1989; Landauer, 1991; Floridi, 2011), reality isexamined as a fundamentally informational structure that becomes determinate only through actsof observation. This informational framework is then contrasted with empirical evidence frommemory reconsolidation research, which demonstrates that memory retrieval destabilizes andbiologically re-encodes prior experiences (Nader et al., 2000; Dudai, 2004; Sara, 2000). Thecentral hypothesis proposed is that identity functions as the continuous observer required tostabilize quantum informational collapse, yet this identity is sustained by a biologically mutableneural archive (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Damasio, 1999). Consequently, alterations inmemory do not merely affect subjective interpretation of the past but may restructure theinformational conditions that govern the observer’s present experiential reality. The paperconcludes by considering the philosophical and ethical implications of this synthesis for theoriesof selfhood, causation, and participatory cosmology (Farah, 2002; Earp et al., 2014).
Category: Quantum Physics
[5] ai.viXra.org:2512.0036 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-08 22:33:25
Authors: Justin Howard-Stanley
Comments: 16 Pages.
We demonstrate measurement-basis-dependent quantum steering and discord in four-qubit en-tangled states implemented on quantum hardware. By varying measurement angle θ ∈ [0, 90], weobserve quantum steering increasing as S(θ) = 0.264 sin2 (θ) + 0.168 (R 2 = 0.943) while quantum discord decreases as D(θ) = 0.939 cos2(θ)−0.017 (R 2 = 0.993). We identify a sharp phase transition at θ ∗ = 76.88 ± 0.5 where three-tangle crosses zero, marking a continuous transformation between GHZ-like and W-like entanglement character. These results establish active measurement-based control of multipartite quantum correlations with implications for quantum communication protocols and distributed quantum computing. Total experimental dataset comprises 440,000 quantum measurements across 55 angular settings, providing high-precision mapping of the steering-discord relationship and unprecedented resolution of the entanglement phase transition.
Category: Quantum Physics
[4] ai.viXra.org:2512.0034 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-08 22:20:47
Authors: B. G. Preza
Comments: 5 Pages. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
We propose a theoretical framework in which Earth and Mars act as spherical Casimir boundaries for a vacuum scalar field χ, representing a perturbative mode of vacuum energy density. Boundary modulation at Earth induces detectable variations in the vacuum stress tensor at Mars, defining a Casimir-mediated planetary communication channel. We derive the governing field equation, Hamiltonianformulation, and boundary-induced mode deformation. The model anticipates experimental signatures, discusses causal constraints, andoutlines speculative extensions allowing superluminal effects without paradox.
Category: Quantum Physics
[3] ai.viXra.org:2512.0033 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-07 20:11:56
Authors: Jamie Stas
Comments: 24 Pages.
Recent work by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka (2014) demonstrates that scattering amplitudes in certain quantum field theories can be computed from purely geometric objects—the amplituhedron—without reference to spacetime coordinates or local interactions. This 'spacetime elimination' program suggests that familiar spacetime and locality may be emergent bookkeeping conveniences rather than fundamental ontology. Parallel developments in quantum gravity, particularly holographic dualities and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula relating entanglement entropy to area, indicate that spacetime geometry itself may emerge from entanglement structure on lower-dimensional boundaries.We develop this into an observer-physics framework yielding novel perspectives on three seemingly unrelated problems: (i) the quantum measurement problem, (ii) the nature of phenomenal consciousness and its relation to brain dynamics, and (iii) dark matter phenomenology observed in galaxies and clusters. The central proposal is that there exists a timeless 'surface field'—a holographically encoded information substrate—on which all physically relevant structure is encoded as positive geometries and entanglement patterns. Biological observers function as specialized interfaces that select and interpret particular slices of this substrate. Quantum measurement, on this view, is not physical wavefunction collapse but biological interpretation-path selection: decoherence-stabilized coupling between the surface field and an observer's internal predictive hierarchy.This framework: (1) dissolves the measurement problem by reconceiving 'collapse' as interface-limited interpretation; (2) reframes the 'hard problem' of consciousness as an interface-coupling problem rather than emergence from matter; (3) naturally produces an effective dark matter component through gravitational coupling to unselected branch structure in semiclassical gravity. We develop the formal foundations, specify biological interface architecture, derive consequences for quantum experiments, neuroscientific signatures, and galactic dynamics, and show compatibility with existing empirical data while yielding novel, falsifiable predictions.
Category: Quantum Physics
[2] ai.viXra.org:2512.0030 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-07 18:09:34
Authors: Kase Branham
Comments: 3 Pages.
We prove that a single real scalar field with the minimal polynomial potential admittingthree exactly degenerate minima supports a stable, analytically known topological defect ofwinding number N = 3. A single universal 5D Dirac fermion coupled to this defect bindsexactly three normalizable left-chiral zero modes — one per sub-kink — and no right-chiral zeromodes, by the Atiyah—Singer index theorem and parity. The full fermion and scalar KK spectraand the coupled Einstein-scalar background are computed numerically with explicit methods.All non-zero modes lie above 9.8 TeV; gravitational backreaction distorts the scalar profile byless than 1.2%. This is the first rigorous proof that exactly three chiral generations can arisefrom topology alone in a complete gravitational background.
Category: Quantum Physics
[1] ai.viXra.org:2512.0014 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-05 00:59:51
Authors: Clinton J. Shaffer
Comments: 20 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references)
This paper suggests a concept for an aether flowing vertically into matter that potentially explains gravity and discusses a candidate model for the composition of such an aether. Such an aether composition could provide a mechanism for electromagnetism, and strong forces, as well as, providing a sensible mechanism for quantum gravity. Further the existence of an aether could also help many other physical phenomena make better sense. The null test result of the Michelson-Morley experiment resulted, in the conclusion that there was no aether, and that conclusion remains today. The basis of the Michelson-Morley experiment was the assumption that the earth traveled through the aether; an assumption that overlooked the possibility that the aether flows directly and vertically into all matter including the earth from all spherical directions. For an aether to continuously flow into a mass, it must convert into something else that can flow back out again. Perhaps two or more aether components flow into matter, including vacuum energy, where these components somehow combine to form something else, such as thermal photons, which flow back out of matter. The inward flowing components cause a gravitational drag force while passing through matter but the outward flowing components do not. As the aether converges towards a spherical center, it must accelerate and I speculate that this acceleration is the cause of the gravitational time dilation, which in turn, results in the gravitational drag force. The thermal photons radiating into space would gradually give up energy to the aether of space until the photons dissolve back into aether components and vacuum energy. Electromagnetism, and strong forces could potentially be explained as an exchange of aether components between positive and negative charges. An aether could also help explain other phenomena such as the duality of light, mass and energy, vacuum friction, and the unexplained thermal energies radiating from planets. This paper suggests a possible composition of the aether, as well as, two experiments that could be performed with the potential of supporting an aether flowing into matter. Unproven ideas are offered to provoke new thinking.
Category: Quantum Physics