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RealClock Quantum Mechanics: Preface, Chapter 1. Executive overview, Chapter 2. RealClock quantum kinematics

Gracia, Jose

Published Jan 22, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

RealClock Quantum Mechanics: Preface, Chapter 1. Executive overview, Chapter 2. RealClock quantum kinematics These are the preliminary version of the firsts chapters from the book project RealClock Quantum Mechanics, where I explore a simple but powerful idea: the “phase” of a quantum state isn’t an abstract mathematical trick — it’s a real internal clock with a geometric orientation that gets transported, compared, and rotated just like any other physical structure. These chapters introduce the core ingredients of the framework: energy as the rotation rate of this internal clock, spin as the representation carried by the seed, mass as the intrinsic ticking frequency, charge as the weight of about‑axis transport, and a new structural degree of freedom — time‑chirality — that cleanly separates clock handedness from energy. None of this changes the successful predictions of quantum mechanics or relativity; it reorganizes them into a single transport picture that is operational, geometric, and experimentally grounded. If you’re curious about quantum mechanics and how phase, spin, gauge transport, and gravity can be understood as different limits of one unified mechanism, these chapters are a good place to start.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18341072

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