Particle Phenomenology from Coherence Selection and Admissible Structure (IM-F004, v0.3)

Anders Nils Gunnar Widgren

Published Jan 23, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

This paper is part of the Informational Mechanics (IM) framework, a coherence- and admissibility-based approach to physical description. The document is published as part of the first public wave of IM papers, providing a regime-based phenomenological bridge to particle-like structure. This work presents a particle-regime interpretation in which stable particle-like structures emerge as coherence-selected discrete invariant carriers under nonzero noise. No new particle species, numerical constants, or modified dynamics are proposed.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18348963

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