Frequency of Real-Time Actualisation via Metastable Entropy (FRAME): A Collapse-Based Interpretation of the Speed of Light as the Universal Refresh Rate of Classical Reality
This paper presents the FRAME model (Frequency of Real-Time Actualisation via Metastable Entropy), an informational interpretation of the speed of light as the universal refresh rate of classical reality. Developed within the Feldt–Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) framework, FRAME proposes that spacetime arises through discrete cycles of collapse in which quantum potential is rendered into classical structure. The model interprets c not only as a propagation constant but as the upper limit of collapse frequency that defines the tempo of spacetime actualisation. Each act of observation represents a partial resolution of quantum uncertainty, constrained by entropy and coherence thresholds. By expressing c as Δx / τ₍collapse₎, FRAME links light, information, and perception within a single operational cadence. The paper explores how metastable entropy maintains temporary coherence, allowing matter and geometry to stabilise as a synchronised informational process. Comparative analysis with Gheorghe’s Event-Driven First Passage Model (EPFPM) identifies parallel structures connecting informational decay, coherence limits, and quantum-to-classical transitions. This correspondence suggests empirical pathways for testing collapse viability through interferometric, optical, and coherence-based experiments. FRAME thus extends the F-HUB ontology from theoretical to measurable domains, interpreting reality as a dynamic field of continuous informational rendering where light is the medium, entropy the driver, and observation the sustaining mechanism.
This paper presents the FRAME model (Frequency of Real-Time Actualisation via Metastable Entropy), an informational interpretation of the speed of light as the universal refresh rate of classical reality. Developed within the Feldt–Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) framework, FRAME proposes that spacetime arises through discrete cycles of collapse in which quantum potential is rendered into classical structure. The model interprets c not only as a propagation constant but as the upper limit of collapse frequency that defines the tempo of spacetime actualisation. Each act of observation represents a partial resolution of quantum uncertainty, constrained by entropy and coherence thresholds. By expressing c as Δx / τ₍collapse₎, FRAME links light, information, and perception within a single operational cadence. The paper explores how metastable entropy maintains temporary coherence, allowing matter and geometry to stabilise as a synchronised informational process. Comparative analysis with Gheorghe’s Event-Driven First Passage Model (EPFPM) identifies parallel structures connecting informational decay, coherence limits, and quantum-to-classical transitions. This correspondence suggests empirical pathways for testing collapse viability through interferometric, optical, and coherence-based experiments. FRAME thus extends the F-HUB ontology from theoretical to measurable domains, interpreting reality as a dynamic field of continuous informational rendering where light is the medium, entropy the driver, and observation the sustaining mechanism.
Death of Reality presents the final movement of the Feldt–Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) Theory, completing the informational cycle initiated in Birth of Spacetime and Life of the Cosmos. It extends the F-HUB framework to describe the phenomenon of de-collapse: the dissolution of coherent structure when observation ceases and informational stability fails. Within this formulation, reality is not destroyed but gradually unravels as organised light returns to the quantum potential. Building on Frequency of Real-Time Actualisation via Metastable Entropy (FRAME) and Informational Entropic Gravity (IEG), this paper models death as a recursive reversal of collapse governed by exponential decay laws for mass, coherence, curvature, and entropy. These processes are defined by the observer-interface coupling (Λₒ), whose viability determines whether quantum information remains classically resolved. When Λₒ < 1, coherence fails and form returns to potential. A worked example demonstrates how the dimensionless parameter εₒ (expressing coherence, entropy gradient, and decoherence resistance) could be estimated experimentally in optical or biological systems. The resulting formulation renders collapse failure empirically tractable and conceptually unites quantum, relativistic, and informational domains. Death of Reality therefore establishes F-HUB as a complete informational cosmology linking observation, entropy, and spacetime within a single recursive process: birth as emergence, life as stabilisation, and death as the return of light to its source.
Death of Reality completes the Feldt-Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) trilogy begun with Birth of Spacetime and Life of the Cosmos. It formalises the process of de-collapse, describing how mass, gravity, information and entropy dissolve when observation ceases and coherence falls below the threshold for structural persistence. Building on FRAME (Frequency of Real-Time Actualisation via Metastable Entropy) and Informational Entropic Gravity (IEG), the paper introduces the observer-interface parameter εₒ, a dimensionless measure of collapse viability. The work develops coupled decay laws for mass, coherence, curvature and entropy, showing how classical structure reverts to quantum potential. This formulation reframes physical death not as extinction but as informational reversion, a recursive renewal through light and entropy. The study advances the F-HUB framework toward empirical testability, linking informational entropy, coherence and observation as measurable aspects of reality’s self-organising process.
F-HUB framework integrates insights from: • Quantum Information Theory • Black Hole Thermodynamics • The Holographic Principle • Higgs Field Interactions • Entropy and Spacetime Structure Published Work: • Birth of Spacetime: The Feldt-Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) Theory, Part One - A Universal Informational Framework for Mass, Gravity and Entropy. International Journal of Current Science Research and Review, 08(05), 1978–1997. Available Online (Cambridge open Engage): • Life of Cosmos: The Feldt-Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) Theory, Part Two: Measurement Density as the Informational Driver of Cosmic Expansion Available Online (Cambridge Open Engage): • Death of Reality: The Feldt–Higgs Universal Bridge (F-HUB) Theory, Part Three – Through the Quantum-to-Classical Passage: De-Collapse and the Return to Light. Release: 27 November 2025 This paper forms the concluding part of the F-HUB trilogy. It develops a cohesive informational–entropic model of collapse failure, terminal decoherence, and the transition from quantum structure to classical dissipation. The work introduces a viability threshold formalism for de-collapse, connects F-HUB to first-passage frameworks, and outlines how informational degradation governs the final stages of physical systems. As the capstone of the series, Part Three provides the theoretical closure to F-HUB and positions the framework within the emerging landscape of information-based cosmology. Published Work: https://doi.org/10.47191/ijcsrr/V8-i5-06 https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2025-wv1g6 https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2025-ppd0m https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2025-6xdxr https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2026-vd80k https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2025-tmhw1 Website: www.f-hub.net Contact: f-hub@outlook.com TikTok: @fhub_theory Committed to scientific integrity, open inquiry, and paradigm-shifting discoveries.
General relativity and quantum mechanics rely on fundamentally incompatible conceptions of spacetime: the former treats spacetime as a smooth, dynamical entity, while the latter presupposes a fixed background on which quantum states evolve. This work introduces the Collapse Spacetime Model (CSM), a foundational framework in which spacetime itself is not fundamental but emerges from discrete ontological transition events (OTEs)—objective, irreversible acts of actualization that generate localized spacetime structure. Within CSM, quantum state reduction is reinterpreted as one particular manifestation of a more general ontological transition, rather than as an anomaly within unitary dynamics. A central refinement, the Multiplicity of Spacetime Hypothesis (MSH), proposes that physical systems construct their own partial spacetimes, with the classical spacetime continuum arising from stable intersections among these locally generated structures. Constants such as the speed of light are interpreted as invariant structural ratios of spacetime co-generation, rather than as fundamental properties of matter or signals. The model aligns conceptually with causal set theory, emergent network geometry, and collapse-based approaches, while offering a unified ontological account of spacetime emergence, time’s passage, and the relational origin of geometry. CSM reframes physical reality as a becoming universe, providing a coherent foundation for quantum gravity, cosmology, and the philosophy of time, while deliberately postponing detailed dynamical and mathematical formalization to future work.
Abstract This study extends the complex-time framework introduced in Part I, where time was formulated as an intrinsic complex coordinate . Within this framework, the imaginary unit is reconsidered not as an algebraic symbol but as an operator of indeterminacy, representing the undetermined future phase of physical existence.The real component corresponds to the determined past. Temporal evolution is thus interpreted as a continuous projection through which potential states become actualized. Building upon this model, we propose a unified interpretation of measurement, entropy, entanglement, and nonlocality. Measurement may be viewed as a temporal projection fixing latent existence from the imaginary phase into the real domain; entropy growth corresponds to the cumulative conversion of undetermined futures into fixed pasts, giving rise to the arrow of time. Quantum indeterminacy is reinterpreted as the openness of the future, while entanglement appears as a form of temporal coherence connecting events through a shared phase structure. When correlations become fully realized, the internal -phase vanishes and the relation attains , implying a null-temporal state beyond spacetime separation. At the macroscopic level, matter with rest mass can be regarded as a dense network of such microscopic fixations. Each quantum interaction functions as a micro-instance of temporal fixation, producing the statistical rhythm perceived as continuous time. This interpretation suggests that reality may evolve through a self-referential process in which the universe continuously projects its potential phase into realized history—a dynamic structure of physical reality emerging from complex-time geometry. Running Title: Complex-Time Structure and Physical Reality Keywords: Complex Time; Temporal Projection; Quantum Measurement; Quantum Entanglement; Decoherence; Entropy; Information Dissipation; Physical Reality
The concepts of “observation” and “collapse” in quantum mechanics have long been treated as either mysterious or merely phenomenological. Within the information‐dynamics framework of the Logical Universe (LU_v3.1), we propose a complete ontological model in which observation is identified as chiral–topological coupling between information solitons; collapse is the topological compression of a superposed field state into a single material path; and decoherence is the release of the material state back into the field, but this return is not reversible—it irreversibly inscribes the entire topological history of the collapse into the global light‐field structure. Matter is thus interpreted as a temporary collapsed snapshot of the field, and the “past” is defined as the irreversible information texture engraved into the topological structure of the field. This model provides a unified ontological foundation for the quantum–classical transition, the measurement problem, and the origin of temporal irreversibility, and yields experimentally testable consequences.