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Conditions of Objecthood: A Structural Analysis of Energy and Physical States

Yuliya M. Onishchuk

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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This project presents a structural and normative analysis of the conditions under which an object-based descriptive language is physically applicable. Rather than proposing new dynamical laws or models of mass generation, the work identifies minimal structural criteria required for interpreting physical states as objects, understood operationally as localized, temporally persistent entities with internal structure. Key concepts include microstate capacity as a measure of internal structural multiplicity, the role of relativistic kinematics in distinguishing lightlike and timelike excitations, and the separation between propagating correlations and object-like states. The analysis is model-independent and applies across classical, quantum, and relativistic regimes. Its conclusions are intended as constraints on interpretation rather than as causal explanations.

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10.17605/osf.io/3fhtc

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