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Geometric Monism and the Ontology of Quantum Entities: A Continuous-Geometric Alternative to Particle and Wavefunction Ontologies

Andre Peter Steynberg

Published Apr 30, 2026• 0 citations
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The ontology of quantum theory remains contested. Particle ontology struggles with the non-classical behavior of quantum entities, while wavefunction realism appears to locate the fundamental ontology in a high-dimensional mathematical state space rather than in ordinary physical space. Quantum field theory further complicates particle ontology by treating particle number as representation-dependent and, in interacting theories, often only emergent or approximate. This paper develops a philosophy-facing account of Geometric Monism (GM), a continuous-geometric ontology in which quantum entities are modeled as finite torsional standing-wave structures in a 5-dimensionalm geometric manifold governed by a universal Planck Stiffness κT = c4/G.The aim is not to replace the predictive formalism of quantum mechanics or quantum field theory. Rather, the paper asks whether the entities represented by those formalisms may be interpreted as continuous geometric structures rather than point particles, abstract wavefunctions, or merely emergent field excitations. GM distinguishes between continuous entity ontology and localized interaction events. To resolve the scale mismatch between the fundamental geometric stiffness and empirical observables, GM proposes a tripartite ontology: a Planck-scale topological core, a dimensional matching transition layer, and a macroscopic exterior dressing field. Observed measurement outcomes arise through boundary-conditioned interactions with this macroscopic dressing in accessible 4-dimensional spacetime.The paper presents the core ontological commitments of GM, including the active but observationally constrained embedding coordinate, the tripartite scale ontology, and the exact 40-degree operational microscopic sector obtained by imposing the Anti-Axial Constraint on the 5-dimensional torsion tensor. These commitments are compared with point-particle ontology, wavefunction realism, Bohmian mechanics, Everettian interpretations, and structural realism. The result is a proposed continuous-geometric primitive ontology: quantum objects are real, multi-scale geometric entities, while probabilities and measurement outcomes arise from localized boundary access to their macroscopic field extensions. Furthermore, the paper outlines the rigorous mathematical stability proofs required to validate such continuous ontologies.

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10.5281/zenodo.19929595

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