TEMPORAL INFORMATION ACCESS THEORY (TIAT)
Christian Miglioli
Temporal Information Access Theory (TIAT) proposes a conceptual framework for investigating the relationship between mass-energy, informational accessibility, observation, quantum interaction, and temporal experience. The framework preserves established physical principles, including Einstein's mass-energy equivalence, Shannon's quantitative treatment of information, Boltzmann's statistical interpretation of entropy, Landauer's physicality of information, and the relational perspective of quantum mechanics. TIAT introduces an informational accessibility factor, I_O(t), defined as the fraction of information about a physical system that is accessible to an observer O at time t. The model distinguishes between intrinsic physical existence and informational access to that existence. Its central working equation, E_O(t)=mc^2 I_O(t), is interpreted not as a modification of mass-energy equivalence but as a definition of informationally accessible energy. The framework further proposes that the future should not be understood only as a predetermined sequence of events, but as a structured landscape of physically possible states that becomes progressively constrained by information-generating interactions. In the quantum domain, TIAT is formulated as compatible with decoherence and quantum information theory by connecting informational accessibility to uncertainty and, in a proposed extension, to normalized von Neumann entropy. The paper outlines mathematical definitions, theoretical postulates, potential predictions, experimental directions, limitations, and comparisons with existing frameworks. TIAT is presented as a speculative but structured research program whose scientific value depends on future operational definitions of K_O(t), empirical tests, and falsifiable predictions.
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