This accepted manuscript is structurally governed by THE META-INDEX (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18169167) This work introduces an α-scaled phenomenological threshold model for ontological latency in quantum systems. The framework proposes that ultra-fast quantum operations are constrained not only by the standard time–energy uncertainty relation but also by a structural interaction rhythm governed by the fine-structure constant (α ≈ 1/137). A minimal ontological time constant, τ_B = 1/(αω), is defined, introducing a resistance layer to instantaneous state realization without modifying linear quantum mechanics. The model predicts a threshold-gated decoherence regime emerging when operational durations approach τ_B (≲ 5 ns for 5 GHz transmon qubits). Numerical estimates are provided together with explicit falsifiability criteria, including frequency-dependent threshold scaling (τ_B ∝ 1/ω) and nonlinear error growth correlated with an exponential gating function. The framework remains consistent with low-energy precision experiments while identifying a potentially testable ultra-fast error regime.
This accepted manuscript is structurally governed by THE META-INDEX (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18169167) This work introduces an α-scaled phenomenological threshold model for ontological latency in quantum systems. The framework proposes that ultra-fast quantum operations are constrained not only by the standard time–energy uncertainty relation but also by a structural interaction rhythm governed by the fine-structure constant (α ≈ 1/137). A minimal ontological time constant, τ_B = 1/(αω), is defined, introducing a resistance layer to instantaneous state realization without modifying linear quantum mechanics. The model predicts a threshold-gated decoherence regime emerging when operational durations approach τ_B (≲ 5 ns for 5 GHz transmon qubits). Numerical estimates are provided together with explicit falsifiability criteria, including frequency-dependent threshold scaling (τ_B ∝ 1/ω) and nonlinear error growth correlated with an exponential gating function. The framework remains consistent with low-energy precision experiments while identifying a potentially testable ultra-fast error regime.
This accepted manuscript is structurally governed by THE META-INDEX (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18169167) This paper introduces the A–B Transition Ontology as a structural completion criterion layered onto standard unitary quantum evolution. Rather than treating the wave function as an indeterminate ontological state, we interpret it as a regime of structured incompletion between a potential configuration (A) and a realized outcome (B). Central to the framework is Process Resistance (ρ), defined as an action-barrier proportional to the system’s maximal information capacity, ρ = αℏ ln(D_eff). Completion is modeled as a rate-limited accumulation of action governed by environmental coupling and intrinsic energy scales, yielding a characteristic transition time τ = ρ / (E_int + ℏ(γ + Γ)). In the limit of vanishing environmental interaction, the model predicts a structural lower bound on completion time (Saturation Lag), τ_min = ρ / E_int. For superconducting qubits (f ≈ 5 GHz), this lag lies in the picosecond regime. The framework does not modify linear quantum dynamics; instead, it proposes a completion criterion consistent with decoherence theory and information thermodynamics, offering a structurally constrained interpretation of quantum-to-classical emergence.
This accepted manuscript is structurally governed by THE META-INDEX (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18169167) Quantum theory achieves unparalleled empirical success, yet it remains ontologically incomplete with respect to the nature of transitions between physical states. While quantum states are rigorously defined, the process by which a system moves from a potential state to a realized state is typically treated as instantaneous, probabilistic, or measurement-dependent, leaving the transition itself conceptually unexamined. This structural omission underlies several persistent foundational problems, including the measurement problem and the ambiguous status of probability. In this work, quantum behavior is reinterpreted not as an intrinsic property of discrete entities, but as the manifestation of threshold organization governing stable transitions between states. To formalize this perspective, the concept of an Organizational Field (OF) is introduced. The Organizational Field is defined as a topological–temporal regulatory structure that constrains admissible transitions without functioning as a force, energy carrier, or particle field. Within this framework, quantization emerges as a consequence of stability regulation during transitions rather than fundamental discreteness. The fine-structure constant α is accordingly reinterpreted not as a fundamental coupling parameter, but as the stability-band signature of the Organizational Field as projected onto electromagnetic processes. This interpretation accounts for the dimensionless character of α, its small but nonzero value, and its universality across physical scales, without attempting to derive its numerical magnitude. A conceptual distinction is drawn between π as a constant of static geometric form and α as a constant of dynamic transition stability. The framework yields falsifiable predictions, including the existence of micro-band structures in transition statistics and context-sensitive deviations under extreme conditions. The proposed model offers a structural completion of quantum theory by introducing an explicit ontology of transition grounded in threshold organization
This accepted manuscript is structurally governed by THE META-INDEX (Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18169167) Modern quantum mechanics represents an unprecedented computational success in the history of physics, predicting the outcomes of subatomic processes with extraordinary accuracy. Despite this mathematical precision, however, the ontological status of quantum phenomena remains unresolved. This work argues that quantum mechanics correctly describes how systems behave, but fails to explain what quantum phenomena actually are. Concepts such as uncertainty, probability, and superposition are shown to be epistemic constructs—tools that describe incomplete transitions rather than fundamental properties of reality. Through a series of thought experiments and an A–B transition framework, this paper proposes that quantum phenomena should be understood as a constrained and harmonious transition regime between potentiality (A) and realized outcome (B). In this view, quantum is not a domain of indeterminacy, but the physics of becoming: a regulated ontological interval in which outcomes have not yet formed, rather than existing in an indeterminate state. This reinterpretation offers a coherent ontological foundation for quantum mechanics without invoking intrinsic randomness or observer-dependent reality.
This work proposes an operational framework, denoted OFID-G, to investigate whether quantum coherence remains fully reconstructible from locally accessible information, even when global unitary evolution is preserved. The framework is formulated within the Ontological Framework of Imbricated Degrees (OFID), in which physical states may involve degrees of freedom that are not fully accessible within a given local observational regime. Within this perspective, OFID-G defines a possible structural limitation on the local accessibility of coherence, without introducing any modification to quantum dynamics. The central concept is regime-dependent reconstructibility: coherence is said to be reconstructible if a single recovery operation, fixed by calibration alone, can operationally recover it across a tomographically informative family of preparations, and non-reconstructible if a persistent limitation remains despite such procedures. This state-independent formulation anchors the criterion in the theory of approximate recoverability of quantum channels. Rather than predicting a specific mechanism, the framework defines a falsifiable structural criterion distinguishing reconstructible and non-reconstructible regimes, based on controlled variation of physically relevant parameters. The approach remains fully compatible with standard quantum mechanics and does not invoke collapse models or deviations from unitarity. Its empirical content lies in testing whether all observed decoherence effects can be fully accounted for by known environmental mechanisms. This provides a minimal and operational test of the completeness of standard decoherence modeling, shifting the focus from dynamical mechanisms to structural limitations of information accessibility. The framework is developed within the OFID research program (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18868538); its concrete experimental realization is developed in a companion operational paper (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19351945). Project page :https://alexsasfrance.github.io/OFID-framework/
We propose Ontological Intelligence (OI) theory — a speculative but falsifiable research program in which quantum coherence constitutes a candidate non-spatiotemporal substrate from which spacetime and biological complexity emerge through decoherence. The paper makes four connected contributions. First, we argue that temporal ordering requires coherence loss as its generative mechanism: time is produced by decoherence events, not presupposed as a background parameter. The tick rate K(Psi) = alpha * Phi_m * (1-Psi), derived from Lindblad information leakage rates, gives emergent time as t = 1/K(Psi). The Mandelstam-Tamm quantum speed limit provides a system-specific minimum time pixel tau_pixel = max(tau_QSL, 1/K(Psi)), replacing universal Planck time with a coherence-dependent local temporal resolution. Second, we derive the logistic coherence growth law dPsi/dt = alphaPhi_mPsi*(1-Psi) from first principles by combining Lindblad open quantum system dynamics with Friston's Free-Energy Principle under bounded metabolic resources. The coupling parameter is derived as alpha = eta^2/lambda. Third, fitting the logistic model to an extended Chaisson energy rate density dataset (n=20, all Phi_m from published measurements, spanning galaxy clusters to jet aircraft) yields alpha = 0.732 (95% bootstrap CI: [0.628, 0.864]; R2 = 0.975; AIC = -119.8). Fourth, we derive a critical decoherence threshold (betaD)/(alphaPhi_m) = 1/4, propose an assembly theory bridge (beta proportional to 1/MA), and identify a coherence-time phase boundary as a testable prediction. The Gompertz alternative is excluded on physical grounds: its information-leakage rate diverges as Psi approaches 0, violating Lindblad finite-rate requirements. Seven falsifiable predictions (P1-P7) are proposed. Nine limitations are explicitly stated. OI theory is a testable research program, not proven ontology.
Temporal Rate Ontology (TRO) proposes that the locally realized rate of temporal progression is more fundamental than spacetime geometry. In its simplest representation, dτ = ρ(x,t) dt, where ρ is the local temporal-rate field and spacetime geometry is interpreted as an effective representation of relations among locally accumulated temporal rates. This paper develops a phenomenological, falsifiable test of TRO at the interface between temporal-rate structure and quantum measurement, and formulates the proposal around three explicit mathematical consistency conditions rather than a single postulated weighting law. The primitive object is a physically instantiated history γ, admissible only as a member of a decoherent partition C = {γ_1,…,γ_n} in the sense of consistent- or decoherent-histories quantum mechanics. Within such a partition, ordinary quantum-measure theory already supplies well-defined probabilities p_Q(γ_i|C), satisfying Σ_i p_Q(γ_i|C) = 1; this paper does not modify Sorkin's quantum measure itself, which is not in general additive outside a decoherent partition, but reweights the ordinary probabilities that quantum measure theory already assigns within one. The proposed TRO probability is P_TRO(γ_i|C) = p_Q(γ_i|C) exp(ηΘ[γ_i]) / Σ_{γ_j∈C} p_Q(γ_j|C) exp(ηΘ[γ_j]), where Θ[γ] = ∫_γ dτ = ∫_γ ρ dt is the accumulated temporal measure along γ, well-defined only for a timelike physical history. We require three consistency conditions. First, shift invariance: normalized probabilities must be unchanged under a common additive shift of every history's Θ value. Under positivity and mild regularity, this fixes the weighting function uniquely up to normalization as F(Θ)=C exp(ηΘ). Second, history-partition invariance: two admissible decoherent partitions describing the same physically coarse-grained outcome must assign it the same TRO probability. At a single coarse-graining step this forces the effective temporal composition law Θ_eff[Γ]=(1/η) ln[(Σ_i p_i e^{ηΘ_i})/(Σ_i p_i)], which reduces to the ordinary probability-weighted mean proper time as η→0 and is associative under arbitrary finite regrouping. Third, no-signalling: temporal weighting must not allow a spacelike-separated measurement choice to alter a remote marginal. A local-reweighting plus constrained information-projection construction guarantees no-signalling marginals by definition but encounters a support obstruction for maximally correlated states. For binary full-support quantum tables, the constrained reconstruction can nevertheless be reduced exactly to an odds-ratio equation for the reconstructed correlation E_xy; the resulting correlation differs from the quantum value only at second order in the local temporal biases, so CHSH deviations begin at O(η²) for fixed finite temporal contrasts. This does not establish quantum realizability or the Tsirelson bound, which remain additional consistency tests. The antecedent physical premise, that an accumulated temporal history may enter outcome probabilities at all, is not derived here from the deeper dynamics of ρ. It is the phenomenological TRO hypothesis tested by this paper; the propositions below determine what mathematical form and consistency constraints such a dependence must satisfy if it exists. We also state explicitly, that in the minimal model developed here temporal weighting does not modify coherent unitary evolution; it enters only in the probability assigned to members of an already-decohered history set, after ordinary quantum dynamics and decoherence have run their course. We separate this proposal from the decoherence-based proper-time witness of Zych, Costa, Pikovski, and Brukner (2011), note that a photon cannot carry Θ since dτ = 0 identically on a null worldline, and record the dimensional content [η] = T⁻¹, with η = κ/τ* for dimensionless κ and characteristic temporal scale τ*.