The Wave-Particle Phase Transition Hypothesis within a Unified Information-Energy-Time Framework: A Dual-Path Falsifiable Criterion
wang jinqiang
This paper proposes a physical hypothesis based on the axiomatic system of "Information = Energy = Mass," reinterpreting wave-particle duality as a phase transition between two material states of the photon: the "wave-photon" (massless, volumeless) and the "particle-photon" (massive, occupying volume). In this framework, observation is defined as an external perturbation that pays energy to the underlying system through information interaction, triggering a wave-to-particle phase transition. The core falsifiable criterion is as follows: in an interferometer experiment, as the observation intensity (I) is gradually increased, the photon's time-of-flight delay (ΔT) should exhibit a monotonic increase followed by a plateau. To eliminate systematic errors, a second independent verification path is proposed: simultaneous measurement of the real-time power consumption inflection point of the path marker. This hypothesis predicts that the inflection points (plateau onsets) of the two paths must coincide; if the inflection points are misaligned, the hypothesis is invalidated. If the two paths independently measure the same energy threshold E₀, this would prove the existence of a new physical constant connecting the quantum and classical domains. This paper further proposes an alternative interpretation of the "Many-Worlds Interpretation (parallel universes)": quantum interference does not split off new universes but manifests the overlapping and de-correlation of logical links within the underlying information-energy field.
•Aug 5, 2026•0 citations