There Never Was a Smallest Particle Except by Compulsion / Necessity

Gunn Nathon

Published Feb 4, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

Conceptual preprint arguing no smallest particle exists; discreteness is a resolution artifact stabilized by scale, sampling, and consensus—not ontological bedrock. Particles as resolution-stabilized events in continuous fields. Builds on prior Framing Light–Time Theory (Zenodo 18476136). Draws from personal provenance in graphics, fractals, virtual systems. Ties to renormalization, decoherence, entropy costs. Claims: infinity structural, not bug; reality collectively smoothed via agreement. no smallest particle, resolution artifact, discreteness reframing, scale-dependent reality, consensus stabilization, renormalization implication, boundary-making infinity, entropy cost of discretization, particle as agreement, continuous fields, phenomenological physics, cross-domain synthesis, outsider intuition, quantum measurement context

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18476233

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