I am an independent researcher working on a theoretical framework in which time is not a fundamental dimension, but an emergent property arising from discrete energy oscillations within a network of ontological nodes. In this framework, each oscillation represents a minimal energy transition—analogous to a chronon in QED—and the passage of time corresponds to the sequential counting of these oscillations. Relativistic effects, including time dilation, and phenomena related to the time paradox, emerge naturally from variations in local network coherence (Γ). While the theory provides clear predictions, i currently do not have access to the laboratory resources and infrastructure required to test it experimentally. Therefore, I am seeking collaboration with research groups and laboratories equipped with ultra-stable atomic clocks, quantum cavities, and expertise in QED experiments to implement the following experimental concept:
We present an ontological reading of the discrete-time framework obtained from the joint application of two of Einstein's 1905 results — the photoelectric effect (energy-quantum hypothesis) and special relativity — and apply it to the frame-proper behaviour of the photon. The framework treats time as the discrete sequence of interaction events between energy packets, with characteristic tick T = h/mc2 for a packet of mass m. We argue that the present has internal structure: a past-of-the-present (the most recent scar), an in-between (the ongoing resolution), and a future-of-the-present (binary potentials).The in-between of any resolution is identified, structurally, with the Bohr quantum leap (Bohr 1913, Nobel 1922): no intermediate state, no intermediate position, empirical correctness in the cases tested. We give the constant c its ontological reading as the metrological signature of the leap as observed in any massive frame, while explicitly stating that the framework does not derive c's numerical value or its frame-invariance, both of which are taken as empirical input. Heisenberg's indeterminacy is recovered as a consequence of position belonging to the past-of-the-present and momentum belonging to the future-of-the-present (different ontological modes). Seven empirical signatures are listed under which the framework would be falsified.