ON THE PHYSICAL BACK-REACTION OF SUSTAINED QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY

Darren Cudd

Published Jan 3, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

This paper examines whether large-scale or long-lived quantum uncertainty can persist without physical consequence. It argues that sustaining extended quantum uncertainty is not a free or purely formal allowance, but a physically enforced state that requires isolation, control, energy throughput, and material infrastructure. These requirements necessarily introduce entropy production, heat dissipation, mass–energy presence, and reciprocal back-reaction. Beyond a scale-dependent limit, the very resources needed to maintain uncertainty destabilize the conditions required for its persistence. The paper identifies this self-destabilization as a necessary physical constraint on macroscopic superposition, without modifying small-scale quantum mechanics or invoking observers, interpretations, or stochastic collapse laws.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18142247

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