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[11] ai.viXra.org:2603.0105 [pdf] replaced on 2026-04-06 20:27:28
Authors: Xiangqian Zhang, Mingming Zhao, Linchao Ge
Comments: 11 Pages.
The Standard Model of modern physics contains dozens of free parameters (such as the finestructure constant ) that cannot be derived theoretically. Abstract "point particles" and "probability waves" do not exist in the universe. This paper establishes the "Spatial Right-Handed Cylindrical Helical Light-Speed Motion" as the sole first-principle axiom. By combining fluid dynamics vortex theorems with Knot Theory, we prove that electrons, protons, and neutrons are essentially topological vortex knots of spatial fluid. Furthermore, this theory rigorously derives the pure geometric origin of the fine-structure constant and directly introduces a second-order topological residual mechanism governed by the "square law of amplitude." This leads to the deduction of an infinite-order residual geometric cascade enclosed entirely within the axiom, constructing the topological full-order energy level formula for the hydrogen atom. This paper not only conducts a rigorous, zero-fitting algebraic examination of this formula but also provides a pure geometric resolution to the "Proton Radius Puzzle," demonstrating the paradigm-shifting predictive power of topological geometry.
Category: Quantum Physics
[10] ai.viXra.org:2603.0104 [pdf] replaced on 2026-04-06 00:54:09
Authors: Hyun-Kyu Koh
Comments: 21 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references)
We propose the Impact-Triggered Flash Cascade (ITFC) model, a phenomenological framework in which visible light is interpreted as a cascade of flashes emitted by an unobservable background of particles (U-particles) excited through contact with a high-speed driver (P-particle). In this picture, the observable signal is not the P-particle itself but the propagation of the U-cascade. The light constant c is reinterpreted as the critical transfer speed of U, while observable information transfer remains bounded by the effective cascade speed, preserving local relativistic consistency.The model is governed by two phenomenological parameters: an effective transfer length and a local dwell/lag time. From these, we derive an effective propagation law and refractive index that consistently account for rectilinear propagation, reflection and refraction, scattering and turbidity, and diffraction and interference through time-synchronization. An effective-action sketch is also provided to encode nonlocal memory and finite transfer range while reproducing the long-wavelength behavior of the model.The present framework may also be viewed as a quantum-interpreted reformulation of a background-medium picture. Rather than reviving a classical ether in its historical sense, we treat the unobservable background as a set of latent degrees of freedom whose localized excitations and transfer dynamics generate the observable optical signal. The present work is intentionally phenomenological; a detailed microscopic model of U-particles, their interactions, and their relation to standard field theory is deferred to subsequent papers. Possible large-scale background modulation may be explored in future work, but it is not essential to the present quantum-interpreted phenomenology of local light propagation.
Category: Quantum Physics
[9] ai.viXra.org:2603.0097 [pdf] submitted on 2026-03-27 20:58:25
Authors: Charles A. Streb IV
Comments: 6 Pages.
We identify the entropy field of Caticha's entropic dynamics program with the holographic screen entropy S = π k_B c³ r² / (G ħ). The Schrödinger equation is recovered exactly as the Wick rotation of the entropy diffusion equation, now grounded in a specific physical substrate. Three results follow that extend entropic dynamics beyond its current formulation. First, the Born rule P = |ψ|² is derived from the continuity equation of entropy diffusion, not postulated. Second, the quantum-classical measurement boundary is given by the exact decoherence time τ_D = ħ / (m k_B T), yielding calculable transition thresholds for any system. Third, quantum entanglement is identified as a topological property of the entropy field on the holographic screen: entangled particles are nodes of a single entropy vortex with conserved winding number. Bell's theorem is satisfied because the hidden variable is the global vortex topology, which is nonlocal by construction. The framework preserves locality, causality, and reality simultaneously on the screen, and connects to the ER=EPR conjecture: the entropy vortex is the wormhole.
Category: Quantum Physics
[8] ai.viXra.org:2603.0096 [pdf] submitted on 2026-03-25 23:43:38
Authors: Ioannis Karachalios
Comments: 4 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite and listed scientific references)
We present a geometric derivation of the fine-structure constant α ≈ 1/137.036 from first principles using the D3-symmetric Apollonian circle packing. Starting from a regular tetrahedron inscribed in a sphere (a natural geometric model for the electron’s spherical symmetry), we apply stereographic projection to obtain a planar configuration that, after inversion, yields the D3 Apollonian gasket. The curvatures in this packing belong to the quadratic field Q(√3) and follow a recurrence governed by the Pell equation. Within this packing, we identify a circle of curvature 92 + 26√3 whose radius (in units where the outer circle has radius 1) equals α to within 0.0002% of the experimentally measured value. This deriva-tion requires no free parameters and emerges naturally from the geometry of the tetrahedron, the most symmetric arrangement of four spheres. The result suggests that the fine-structure constant is not arbitrary but is encoded in the recursiveself-similarity of the electron’s projected spherical geometry.
Category: Quantum Physics
[7] ai.viXra.org:2603.0086 [pdf] submitted on 2026-03-23 00:12:36
Authors: Reinaldo Johnson
Comments: 12 Pages. Submitted to arXiv quant-ph (endorsement pending). Independent researcher, Chile.
We introduce the perceptual decoherence functional Dp(rho, epsilon) = C(rho) - C(epsilon(rho)), defined as the difference between the l1-norm coherence of an input state rho and the coherence of its image under a quantum channel epsilon, both computed relative to a fixed reference basis. This work does not propose a new resource theory of coherence, nor a replacement for standard decoherence theory. Instead, it defines a state-dependent, observer-relative functional that quantifies how much coherence becomes inaccessible in the observer-accessible description induced by a given channel. We establish non-negativity for coherence non-generating (CNG) channels, monotonicity under channel composition, and an upper bound; derive the classical limit of Dp under a dephasing channel parameterized by a resolution parameter Lambda, showing it becomes analogous to mutual information in the fully dephased regime; compute Dp for canonical examples including single-qubit dephasing, amplitude damping, and partial-trace channels on entangled states; and position Dp explicitly relative to decohering power and Quantum Darwinism. Four falsifiable experimental predictions follow from the framework.
Category: Quantum Physics
[6] ai.viXra.org:2603.0078 [pdf] submitted on 2026-03-18 00:04:04
Authors: Adrian Rohr
Comments: 5 Pages.
We compute the one-loop effective action for the metric obtained by integrating out the stochastic fluctuations of the Onsager—Machlup (OM) probability fluid on a curved spin manifold. The OM action describes 9 internal degrees of freedom: density amplitude, phase, Lorentz rotor (6 bivector components), and Takabayasi angle. Expanding to second order around the classical vacuum and applying the Schwinger—DeWitt heat kernel expansion, we derive the Seeley—DeWitt coefficients au2080 = 9 and au2081 = (7/4)R − 10m², where R is the Ricci scalar and m the particle mass. Three features are essential: (i) the cross-coupling between density and phase fluctuations generates an effective gauge connection contributing +4m² to the scalar sector; (ii) an algebraic mass cancellation renders density fluctuations massless; and (iii) the rotational kinetic term generates the Bochner Laplacian (not Hodge—de Rham), so the Weitzenböck curvature endomorphism is absent (κ = 0). The positive coefficient 7/4 ensures that the induced Newton constant G_ind = 8πℏ²/(7m²c²) is positive (attractive gravity). This is a signature of the Clifford-algebraic structure of the OM framework.
Category: Quantum Physics
[5] ai.viXra.org:2603.0070 [pdf] replaced on 2026-03-18 17:34:06
Authors: Marco Travan
Comments: 49 Pages.
We propose a pregeometric quantum theory in which spacetime and proper timeemerge from the throughput capacity of a fundamental relational network of quantuminformation channels. The universe is modelled as a weighted quantum causal setwhose directed links carry a density-dependent permeability. Proper time is identified with the local rate of coherentinformation transfer: dτk = κk dλ.Gravitational time dilation, the thermodynamic arrow of time, and the Einsteinfield equations arise as macroscopic consequences of local information congestion.The global dynamics are governed by a linear Page—Wootters constraint Cˆ |Ψ⟩ = 0,guaranteeing unitarity and complete positivity. Saturation of local information capacitytriggers irreversible transfer into fermionic matter degrees of freedom, providing aquantum-mechanical origin for rest mass and Pauli exclusion.When the bath Hilbert space is identified with the complexified octonions Hbath =C ⊗ O—as developed in a companion paper—the Fano-plane structure generatesthe Standard Model gauge group S(U(2)×U(3)), SO(8) triality yields exactly threefermionic generations, and sub-threshold bath occupation provides a dark mattercandidate. The present paper establishes the core framework; the octonionic extensionand its phenomenological consequences are derived in Paper II.The framework is fully testable in analogue-gravity platforms—in particular Bose—Einstein condensates—and predicts distinctive signatures: density-dependent soundspeed suppression with a specific permeability denominator structure, modified analogue Hawking spectra, a second-order proper-time correction beyond linearised generalrelativity, and a density-dependent decoherence rate whose functional form distinguishes the QIP mechanism from standard open-system models.
Category: Quantum Physics
[4] ai.viXra.org:2603.0043 [pdf] replaced on 2026-03-14 14:26:19
Authors: Adrian Rohr
Comments: 12 Pages.
We extend the stochastic coherence framework based on the Onsager-Machlup action to Minkowski spacetime. The configuration space R^n is replaced by M4, the scalar phase by a Lorentz rotor R in Spin+(1,3), and the observables by the four-current j^mu and spin tensor S^mu nu, both bilinear in R.We show that the combination of the relativistic stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the C^infty regularity of the bilinear observables over nodal surfaces forces the orbital winding number around nodal tubes to satisfy alpha = 2k with k a natural number, yielding orbital angular momentum quantized in integer multiples of h-bar: L = k in the non-negative integers. This establishes a strict topological separation between orbital angular momentum (determined by nodal regularity on the base manifold) and intrinsic spin (determined by the fiber group Spin+(1,3)).The variational derivation from the Onsager-Machlup action produces hydrodynamic equations that match the Takabayasi-Hestenes decomposition of the Dirac equation term by term. The derivation is non-circular: the dynamical constraint and the regularity requirement are logically independent.Additionally, we establish that the positivity condition rho >= 0 (inherent to any probability density) requires the internal orientation to be described by rotors in Spin+(1,3) rather than by SO+(1,3), as only the spinorial formulation guarantees a future-directed probability current. Finally, applying the Laidlaw-DeWitt decomposition to the many-body configuration space, we show that the double-cover structure of Spin+(1,3) fixes the exchange character to chi = -1 for spinorial representations, recovering Fermi-Dirac statistics without an independent symmetrization postulate.The framework remains within the domain of the free theory; extensions to curved spacetimes and many-body interactions are left for future work.
Category: Quantum Physics
[3] ai.viXra.org:2603.0033 [pdf] replaced on 2026-03-30 21:04:09
Authors: Michael Quigley
Comments: 75 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite and list scientific references)
For over a century, theoretical physics has hidden behind the "Abstract Curtain" of empty space, curved time, and the paradox of "Action at a Distance". This paper marks the end of that era by offering a theoretical model that explains established evidence through mechanical engineering. We propose that the Universe is not a void, but a Solid-State Granule Sea (High-Density Plenum) of 1024 ether granules where nothing is truly separate. By identifying the Ethos-648 Monobrick as the fundamental engine of reality, we demonstrate that matter is a geometry of movement and mass is a product of torsional friction.We formally solve the Instability Paradox of heliocentric motion by confirming the (1) Shack (2018) Tychosian geo-axial model. We demonstrate that in a 1024 density plenum, a planet moving at 66,600 mph would generate terminal etheric friction, causing the atmospheric bubble to strip and the crust to vaporize into plasma instantly (2) Quigley (2026). This stationary hub is forensically validated by the CMB "Axis of Evil" identified by (3) Land & Magueijo (2005) and (4) Copi, et al. (2013), which identifies the Earth's ecliptic as the Master Bearing of the universal machine (5) Quigley (2026). By reinterpreting the Fine Structure Constant as a Mechanical Gear-Tolerance, we link the subatomic 1836 Squeeze directly to the planetary Fibonacci Record Grooves, proving the universe is a singular, fractal instrument.We formally challenge the Einsteinian postulate of photonic velocity, reinterpreting it as a Mechanical Phase-Locking Delay within the lattice. Citing the logical inconsistencies identified by (6) Dingle (1972), which demonstrated that Special Relativity is a physical impossibility, we replace the abstract observational equation E=mc2 with the Universal Seesaw (7) Quigley (2026). This model provides the physical hardware required for the wave-mathematics of (8) Maxwell (1861), (9) Yee (2019), and (10) Wolff (1990). We provide a mechanical rebuttal to Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) by replacing "probability clouds" and "virtual particles" with Acoustic Granule Directivity and the 648-node standing wave.Furthermore, we resolve the "Infinities" of the Standard Model by reinterpreting Schrödinger's Equation as a balance of potential lattice pressure and kinetic vibration, and Planck's Quanta as whole-number nodes in a finite 7,776-capacity cell. We redefine Black Holes not as singularities, but as Terminal Gear-Jams where density exceeds the 1/137 mechanical tolerance, leading to Acoustic Evaporation. Finally, we solve the Hubble Tension by identifying redshift as three-tiered acoustic friction and provide the mechanical origin of the 1,836:1 proton-to-electron mass ratio.
Category: Quantum Physics
[2] ai.viXra.org:2603.0032 [pdf] submitted on 2026-03-07 17:04:32
Authors: Michael Quigley
Comments: 82 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: This submission is speculative, so it may not be within the scope of this platform - Please cite listed scientific references)
This paper proposes a Rigid Universal Touching (R.U.T.) framework, modeling the vacuum as a high-density medium of hard-sphere granules (1024 density). We reinterpret the Fine Structure Constant ( =1/137.036) not as a dimensionless coupling strength, but as a critical Volumetric Slip-Ratio (SARec /VSph+Cone) required for frictionless granule rotation. We formally challenge the Einsteinian postulate of photonic velocity (c), redefining it as a Mechanical Phase-Locking Delay within the lattice. Consequently, we replace the observational equation E=mc2 with the mechanical equation E=m , defining energy as the Volumetric Expansion of a Fibonacci Vortex.This framework provides a verifiable engineering protocol for Z-Pinch plasma stabilization via a 137.036-degree conical taper and resonant modulation at the 1.42 GHz Hydrogen Line. We provide specific, falsifiable predictions for instantaneous longitudinal propagation (Time Zero) via Phase-Shift Interferometry, bridging the gap between ancient resonant megaliths and modern superconducting stellar physics.
Category: Quantum Physics
[1] ai.viXra.org:2603.0022 [pdf] submitted on 2026-03-05 00:30:29
Authors: Kelly Sonderegger
Comments: 26 Pages. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license
The quantum measurement problem has persisted for nearly a century, yet its resolutionmay have been encoded in quantum field theory’s mathematical structure from the beginning. This paper advances a specific thesis: QFT’s two canonical formulations—Lagrangianand Hamiltonian—are not merely equivalent mathematical descriptions of the same physics.They are descriptions of two distinct physical regimes, connected by a physical processthat the Legendre transform shadows mathematically. The Lagrangian formulation, withits action principle and path integrals summing over all field configurations, is the naturallanguage of waves—extended, atemporal, exploring spacetime democratically. The Hamiltonian formulation, with its definite states evolving in a privileged time coordinate, is thenatural language of particles—localized excitations with observable eigenvalues. What wecall "measurement" is the physical transition between these regimes: environmental couplingdrives extended Lagrangian field configurations into localized Hamiltonian excitations. Thisreading—where the ontology of quantum systems recapitulates the mathematics of quantum field theory—dissolves the measurement problem without invoking new physics. Itreinterprets "superposition" as Fourier decomposition (one wave in different bases, not ontological multiplicity), explains complementarity as an intrinsic property of wave structurerather than epistemic limitation, and identifies the physical mechanism as three coordinated Standard Model processes: Higgs-generated mass establishes the structural capacity for temporal participation and sets coupling strength; environmental quantum fields(gauge fields, phonons, thermal modes) provide the infrared noise spectra that drive ir1reversible phase diffusion; and definite outcomes emerge when cumulative environmentalentanglement crosses an irreversibility threshold. The thesis connects to broader questionsin philosophy of physics about the relationship between mathematical formalism and physical reality, extending the methodological tradition Einstein established when he elevatedPlanck’s mathematical E = hν to ontological status.
Category: Quantum Physics