This work proposes a minimal, falsifiable experimental test of whether phase orientation (sign) can stabilize prior to realization, independently of amplitude and discrete detection events. The test uses a dual-channel interferometric setup combining a weak, phase-sensitive, non-projective readout (e.g. balanced homodyne detection) with a separate final click detector that operationally defines realization. The key observable is sign coherence, quantified through model-independent nearest-neighbour metrics and benchmarked against blind permutation null models. The central predictions are: statistically significant sign coherence appearing before final click events, invariance of this coherence under amplitude-magnitude scrambling, and disappearance of coherence under controlled dephasing. The proposal does not modify quantum mechanics, introduce hidden variables, or rely on interpretational assumptions. It tests a single empirical question: whether phase orientation constitutes a stable, measurable degree of freedom prior to realization. The experiment can be implemented as a low-overhead extension of standard quantum-optics setups and is intended to motivate direct experimental investigation.
This work proposes a minimal, falsifiable experimental test of whether phase orientation (sign) can stabilize prior to realization, independently of amplitude and discrete detection events. The test uses a dual-channel interferometric setup combining a weak, phase-sensitive, non-projective readout (e.g. balanced homodyne detection) with a separate final click detector that operationally defines realization. The key observable is sign coherence, quantified through model-independent nearest-neighbour metrics and benchmarked against blind permutation null models. The central predictions are: statistically significant sign coherence appearing before final click events, invariance of this coherence under amplitude-magnitude scrambling, and disappearance of coherence under controlled dephasing. The proposal does not modify quantum mechanics, introduce hidden variables, or rely on interpretational assumptions. It tests a single empirical question: whether phase orientation constitutes a stable, measurable degree of freedom prior to realization. The experiment can be implemented as a low-overhead extension of standard quantum-optics setups and is intended to motivate direct experimental investigation.
This work introduces and formalizes a pre-transitional physical regime as a distinct and empirically accessible state preceding realization events such as measurements, decays, or phase transitions. Contrary to standard treatments that regard the pre-realization interval as noise or transient instability, the paper demonstrates that phase orientation (sign) can stabilize independently of magnitude, event occurrence, or long-range order. The present study is conceptual and unifying in nature, and explicitly builds on a series of earlier empirical investigations by the author, in which sign stabilization and orientation-first behavior were identified across multiple physical systems. These empirical results—documented in the referenced works—include analyses of CP asymmetries in three-body decays, neutrino oscillation residuals, and continuous quantum measurement, and provide the observational foundation for the framework developed here. Drawing on these established findings, the paper identifies a regime in which interferential or collective selection fixes orientation while realization remains absent. This regime is characterized by robust sign coherence, independence from amplitude, and the absence of an intrinsic internal time scale. Within this framework, transitions are reinterpreted not as instantaneous events, but as the termination of a finite, already structured state. The concept naturally leads to dynamically forbidden signs—orientations that cannot stabilize under given constraints—and implies ex-ante determination of the sign of any eventual outcome prior to realization. The work does not introduce new experimental data or microscopic dynamics. Instead, it provides a unifying physical interpretation of existing empirical observations reported in the referenced publications. By treating the pre-transition as a physical object rather than a null interval, the paper highlights a previously unrecognized layer of physical structure that precedes events, measurements, and phase changes.
Orientation-Conditioned Relative Phase in Weighted Light-Matter Networks Kevin L. BrownOctober 2026 This paper presents a falsifiable quantum-optical hypothesis: whether the oriented structure of a bounded three-link interaction network can contribute a measurable relative phase beyond the predictions of conventional quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics. The experimental question is narrow. After ordinary optical path phase, material response, detector effects, nonlinear optics, geometric phase, synthetic gauge structure, chiral response, nonreciprocity, and other justified conventional mechanisms have been modeled or controlled, the proposal asks whether a residual phase remains that follows a predetermined transformation law set by the physical interaction network. Each auxiliary link is defined operationally by an independently measured reciprocal coherent coupling rate J_ij. With J̄ denoting the mean of J_12, J_23, and J_31, the orientation-sensitive shape variable is χ(J) = [(J_12 − J_23)(J_23 − J_31)(J_31 − J_12)] / J̄³, and the dimensionless interaction exposure is Ξ(J) = τ_int · J̄ · χ(J), which incorporates network shape, absolute coupling strength, and interaction time. The proposed phase is Φ_I = κ_IP · Ξ(J), represented by the effective unitary scattering map U_I(J) = exp[i κ_IP Ξ(J) (n_1 − n_3)/2], where κ_IP is an unknown dimensionless coupling coefficient. A balanced three-path interferometer converts Φ_I into a directly measurable detector contrast, C = (2√3/9) sin Φ_I. The experiment is preregistered around several independent checks rather than a single anomalous measurement: network-off, symmetric, and asymmetric-zero null configurations; sign reversal under physical mirror transformation; scaling across multiple network configurations and across absolute coupling strength at fixed shape; coherent-state and single-photon consistency tests; independently measured conventional-systematic controls; and a held-out mirror-pair endpoint at |χ| = 0.30, predicted with one frozen κ_IP. A pre-unblinding feasibility threshold sets the sensitivity at which the test is interpretable. The model is rejected at the tested sensitivity if a justified conventional mechanism explains the residual, if required nulls or transformation laws fail, if the predicted scaling is not observed, or if held-out configurations cannot be predicted using the preregistered parameter. Null results are interpreted as quantitative bounds on |κ_IP| rather than proof that an arbitrarily small interaction is impossible. The hypothesis is motivated by the Unified Informational Physics Ontology (UIPO), but the optical law is stated as an independent phenomenological realization: the test stands or falls on the preregistered phase law and does not require UIPO to be accepted. The paper does not claim that a nonzero effect has been observed, that standard quantum electrodynamics has been falsified, or that UIPO has been experimentally confirmed. Its purpose is to convert a proposed informational-physics relationship into a quantum-optical experiment explicit enough to be independently modeled, criticized, implemented, falsified, and replicated. Independent Laboratory Testing and Replication This research includes an Independent Laboratory Feasibility Brief designed to support external experimental assessment and replication. The brief identifies the minimum apparatus requirements, independently measurable coupling parameters, sensitivity targets, physical symmetry conditions, conventional-physics controls, and preregistration requirements. The proposed testing pathway begins with a limited feasibility assessment before proceeding to a full confirmatory experiment. Laboratories are encouraged to assess whether their existing equipment can implement the proposed three-link interaction network and distinguish the hypothesized phase from conventional optical effects. The experimental hypothesis remains unconfirmed. Both positive and null results are scientifically relevant when obtained under adequately controlled and preregistered conditions. Independent researchers are invited to evaluate, challenge, test, or replicate the proposal. Experimental teams retain scientific independence over their measurements, analyses, and conclusions
Exploratory experimental quantum-preparation preprint investigating whether prior state-transition history can leave measurable residual timing signatures after a quantum system has stabilised into an identical repeated final state. The work proposes a falsifiable high-statistics timing experiment comparing direct state preparation against deep alternating preparation histories, while measuring only during the stabilised phase. The framework includes timing-resolved observables, decay analysis, systematic controls, sequence inversion tests, statistical sensitivity estimates, and reproducibility pseudocode using modern photonic timing hardware. Intended as an experimental proposal rather than a claim of established non-standard quantum behaviour.
This paper presents an experimental proposal to test the Consciousness Causes Collapse (CCC) hypothesis in quantum mechanics. We propose a tabletop experiment employing a single-photon interferometer combined with quantum memory systems capable of preserving which-path information over long timescales. A key innovation in our design is a two-stage readout process: during a 400 ms delay the quantum memories are probed via a quantum non-demolition (QND) readout at moderate coupling strength, and afterward a full readout pulse extracts the stored state for recombination and interference measurement. By implementing a rigorous double-blind, randomized protocol with three conditions (automated recording only, conscious observation of the readout, and a scrambled-signal control in which the observer is present but views non-informative data), we isolate conscious registration of meaningful quantum information as the sole experimental variable. All standard interpretations of quantum mechanics predict identical outcomes across conditions; only the CCC hypothesis predicts a measurable difference. Detailed theoretical background, operational definitions, experimental components, and control measures are provided. This approach bridges philosophical conjecture and empirical test, potentially offering the first direct test of whether consciousness plays a unique role in wave function collapse.
Abstract. Why a quantum measurement yields a single outcome has remained without direct experimental access for a century, largely because the question was considered interpretation-dependent and therefore untestable. We argue that the era of error-corrected logical qubits changes this status, and we identify the specific observable that makes it testable. First, we show that the postselection intrinsic to quantum error correction absorbs any event-level anomaly: hypothetical decision dynamics (objective collapse and allied mechanisms) can only manifest, on a logical register, through changes in functional laws rather than through individual events. Exactly two observables survive this filter — the coherence decay rate of a logical Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state and the syndrome acceptance rate. Second, we show that standard quantum mechanics predicts both observables to be strictly independent of the branch-amplitude imbalance w = |α|² − |β|² of the GHZ state, for all local Markovian noise channels. Third, a systematic inventory of the published record — spanning trapped ions, neutral atoms, superconducting and photonic platforms — shows that this imbalance has never been varied in any GHZ experiment, physical or logical. The amplitude axis of measurement dynamics is therefore experimentally virgin. Fourth, we specify a null-test protocol that requires only machine time on existing hardware: parity-oscillation scans at five imbalance values on logical GHZ states of N = 16 to 94 qubits, with and without postselection, at roughly 10⁴ shots per point, reaching slope sensitivities of about 10 % of the coherence decay rate and about 1 % absolute on the acceptance rate. A measured zero slope bounds all amplitude-coupled decision dynamics at values of N never before probed; a nonzero slope would constitute the first measured deviation from standard quantum dynamics on a macroscopic entangled register. We delineate precisely what such a test can and cannot decide, including a rigorously established indiscernibility class (Everett-type, hidden-variable, and retrocausal accounts) that no experiment of this kind can separate. The protocol is offered to all interested laboratories; its cost is machine time, not development. Preprint intended for journal submission (Phys. Rev. A / PRX Quantum). Companion record to OCU-IPC V10 (same Zenodo account). The enumeration programs referenced in Appendices A and B are included in this record. Contact: Denis Bernard phyborder838@gmail.com
The physical status of empty components in quantum states—such as vacuum modes or emptywaves in realist interpretations—remains an open foundational question. Here, a direct experimentaltest using a single-photon polarization system is proposed: after preparing a photon in a pure|H⟩ state and separating the orthogonal (nominally empty) |V ⟩ mode, controlled transformationsare applied exclusively to the empty mode before final measurement. Standard quantum opticspredicts no effect on photon statistics, while a phenomenological coupling parameter α quantifiespossible deviations. A null result would constrain models attributing physical reality to emptymodes, whereas a positive observation would motivate new theoretical developments. The proposedexperiment is feasible with current technology and defines a clear, falsifiable test at the interface ofquantum foundations and optics.