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The Breathing Universe: 601_Quantum Correspondence and the Emergence of Information

Ivo Gerlach Angela Noel Cerfontaine

Published Jan 3, 2026• 0 citations
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We extend the Breathing Universe Model (BUM) into the quantum–informational domain by introducing a Quantum Correspondence Layer that links microscopic quantum phenomena to the macroscopic dynamics of a breathing spacetime. In this framework, the vacuum is not a passive background but a dynamic tension field whose phase coherence underlies quantum superposition, entanglement, and measurement. The quantum wavefunction is reinterpreted as a local expression of field-phase coherence, while entanglement arises from phase-locking across the zero-line—the balance surface between expansive and contractive vacuum modes. Information is defined physically as vacuum memory: the persistence of relative phase alignment within the breathing field. Entropy and the arrow of time emerge from phase dispersion driven by asymmetric breathing dynamics, while apparent quantum randomness reflects fine-grained phase noise rather than fundamental indeterminism. Measurement and wavefunction collapse correspond to local phase realignment rather than non-unitary processes. We develop a breathing Schrödinger formalism consistent with relativistic covariance, derive conservation relations linking energy, coherence, and information, and show how nested phase coherence naturally organizes structure across scales—from particles and fields to biological systems and conscious observers. The model resolves major quantum paradoxes, including wave–particle duality, nonlocality, and information loss, without invoking superluminal signaling or external observers. Finally, we outline falsifiable observational signatures across laboratory, particle-physics, and cosmological domains, including correlated phase modulations in precision clocks, neutrino oscillations, gravitational-wave backgrounds, and large-scale structure. Quantum correspondence thus emerges as a natural consequence of a living, self-coherent vacuum, unifying physics, information, and meaning within a single dynamical framework.

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10.5281/zenodo.18135831

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