Complete theoretical formulation of the Interference-First Reality (IFR) framework, a variational information-geometric theory in which physical objectivity, spacetime, gravitation, and temporal order are not primitive but emerge from a pre-spatiotemporal interference state Ψ via multi-observer contraction and redundant dispersion minimization. 171 pages. Primary repository: Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20528552. ORCID: 0009-0009-0558-7908.
Complete theoretical formulation of the Interference-First Reality (IFR) framework, a variational information-geometric theory in which physical objectivity, spacetime, gravitation, and temporal order are not primitive but emerge from a pre-spatiotemporal interference state Ψ via multi-observer contraction and redundant dispersion minimization. 171 pages. Primary repository: Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20528552. ORCID: 0009-0009-0558-7908.
We introduce Interference-First Reality (IFR), a theoretical framework in which physical objectivity is not assumed as a primitive property of the world, but is derived as a stable multi-observer limit of an underlying interference structure. The fundamental object of the theory is a pre-spatiotemporal interference state Ψ defined on an abstract configuration space X, together with a family of operational observer maps projecting Ψ into observer-accessible representation spaces. Agreement between observers is quantified by an information-geometric redundant dispersion functional. Within IFR, objective structures are defined as stable Fréchet-type centers of observer projections, and physical configurations are selected by a variational principle involving interference dynamics, informational curvature, and redundant multi-observer contraction. The parameter λ is not identified with physical time. Instead, temporal order is defined as the ordered succession of stable minima of redundant dispersion, while effective spacetime geometry arises when the underlying information geometry admits a low-dimensional metric representation. The framework derives objectivity, time, space, and gravitation from a single variational structure. Contents of this deposit. Alongside the complete-formulation preprint, the archive contains the consolidated information-geometry module ifr_core, implementing Jensen–Shannon divergence and distance, geometric and arithmetic barycenters, and the redundant-dispersion functional, together with its verification routines, the full set of analysis scripts, and self-configuring ready-to-run launcher packages for Windows, macOS, and a flat code archive. The ifr_core module is byte-identical across all packages and hash-verified, and reproduces all reported JSD/KL values with a maximum numerical discrepancy below 1e-13. The packages are strictly code-only. Data directories contain only .gitkeep or README.md placeholders, and the public re-downloadable datasets used in the analyses, including Planck, GWOSC, JWST/JADES, and PhysioNet, are intentionally excluded from the deposit. Citation. The Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20528552 is the stable DOI to be used for citation and resolves to the most recent version. Each deposit mints a version DOI for archival versioning only; version DOIs should not be used in manuscripts. Peer-reviewed publication. This document is the complete and unified formulation of the IFR framework, subdivided into six parts for peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (JAMP). The empirical validation referenced here has been published in Bianchi (2025), JAMP 13, 4355–4378, and Bianchi (2026), JAMP 14, 1627–1674. Part I of the series has been published as Bianchi, M. (2026) Interference-First Reality Theory: Foundations and Objectivity, JAMP 14(7), 2735–2772, DOI 10.4236/jamp.2026.147137. Part II is under peer review; Parts III–VI are in preparation for sequential submission.
This project collects all research materials related to the Interference-First Reality (IFR) framework, a variational information-geometric theory in which physical objectivity, spacetime, time, and gravitation are derived as emergent structures from a pre-spatiotemporal interference state. The project includes the complete theoretical formulation, peer-reviewed publications, empirical validation code, and datasets. Published: Part I, JAMP 14(7), 2735-2772, DOI 10.4236/jamp.2026.147137; Part II, JAMP 14(9), 3571-3618, DOI 10.4236/jamp.2026.149178; Part III, JAMP 14(10), 4234-4278, DOI 10.4236/jamp.2026.1410206. Parts IV–VI in preparation.
We present the Interference-First Reality (IFR) framework, in which physical objectivity is not assumed as primitive but is operationally characterized through the stabilization of observer-induced probability distributions under redundant observation. The emergent shared reality is identified with the Fréchet barycenter in Jensen-Shannon geometry. Framework instantiated across five physical domains: CMB, HRV, JWST spectroscopy, large-scale structure (LSS), and gravitational-wave data (GWOSC). Published in Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 14, 1627-1674 (2026). DOI: 10.4236/jamp.2026.144077
We present the Interference-First Reality (IFR) framework, in which physical objectivity is not assumed as primitive but is operationally characterized through the stabilization of observer-induced probability distributions under redundant observation. Within this framework, emergent shared reality is identified with the Fréchet barycenter of an ensemble of observer-induced probability distributions in Jensen-Shannon geometry. A consistency theorem shows that empirical barycenters converge almost surely to their population counterpart as the number of independent observers grows, grounding objectivity in standard metric barycenter theory rather than in additional physical postulates. Alongside this variational construction, we introduce a complementary weighted geometric-overlap estimator and analyze its relation to the barycentric formulation. We instantiate the framework across five physical domains: cosmic microwave background (CMB), heart-rate variability (HRV), JWST spectroscopy, large-scale structure (LSS), and gravitational-wave open data (GWOSC). Across all domains, we find reproducible multi-observer collective summaries, bounded Jensen-Shannon distances consistent with stabilization, and a cross-domain distinguishability hierarchy stable under bootstrap resampling and insensitive to the choice between arithmetic and geometric aggregation. Permutation-based null tests further show that the observed clustering structure exceeds domain-specific random baselines. The empirical scope is nevertheless domain-specific: the GW cross-event comparison mainly reflects observational context and noise geometry, while the JWST case probes structured instrumental heterogeneity within a common observing program rather than independent platforms. Finally, we outline an extension in which time is defined as cumulative informational arc-length between successive stabilized collective states, leaving its full development to a companion study.
This is Part III of the six-part series presenting the Interference-First Reality (IFR) Theory. Part I established the kinematic foundations and the definition of objectivity; Part II supplied the variational principle and the gravitational sector. The present part derives what both left open: physical time. We develop the emergence of temporal order as the ordered succession of stable minima of redundant dispersion, and we show that the arrow of time need not be posited separately—it follows from a single, explicitly stated dynamical hypothesis, the monotonic decrease of the redundant dispersion along admissible histories (objectivizing dynamics), which identifies D red as a Lyapunov functional and makes the high-redundancy regime a dynamical attractor (dynamic classicalization). We prove that this hypothesis is not implied by the second-order interference equation of Part II, which conserves the interference energy, and we state what supplies it. From the same monotonicity, together with the requirement that admissible histories be generated forward in the ordering parameter, we derive three consequences that fix the operational content of emergent time: no admissible protocol delivers a decodable determination to an earlier stage of an objective history; recurrence of an objective structure is not reversal, since informational duration is strictly positive on any non-constant closed excursion; and a closed timelike curve of the emergent metric, if it is the image of an admissible history, does not close the informational order: its endpoints are distinct, strictly ordered stages of the history, which may carry the same objective centre. We then establish the semiclassical and effective-field limits in which general relativity and quantum theory are recovered, deriving from the same attractor, with an explicit rate, the reduction step ℛ Γ → ℛ ℰ ( R ) of the curvature correspondence of Part II and the vanishing of the correction Lagrangian.