We propose a unified ontological framework in which the fundamental distinction is not between quantum states and dynamical processes, but between static configurations with no internal current and dissipative processes characterized by energy loss and irreversibility. Static states describe atomic orbitals, nuclear levels, spin, entangled states, and metastable configurations, whereas every real transition—emission, absorption, decay, tunneling, measurement—requires a dissipative channel (Breuer & Petruccione 2002; Weiss 2012). We extend the framework to black holes, interpreted as surfaces of total dissipation: at the horizon, the cost of the links of the physical network diverges, preventing any internal dynamics and producing ontological demolition. The emitted radiation is generated by external dissipative relaxation, not from the interior (Hawking 1975; Unruh 1976), and carries sub‑threshold information. We show that in this scheme wormholes cannot emerge, since the internal region lacks topology, space, and time. Gravity emerges as a deformation of minimal paths in the external network, while dark energy is interpreted as dissipative metastability of the links. The framework provides a coherent conceptual basis for atomic, nuclear, gravitational, and cosmological phenomena, in continuity with our previous ScienceOpen publications dedicated to dissipation as the foundation of microscopic physics (Bornacin 2026a, 2026b, 2026c).
We propose a unified ontological framework in which the fundamental distinction is not between quantum states and dynamical processes, but between static configurations with no internal current and dissipative processes characterized by energy loss and irreversibility. Static states describe atomic orbitals, nuclear levels, spin, entangled states, and metastable configurations, whereas every real transition—emission, absorption, decay, tunneling, measurement—requires a dissipative channel (Breuer & Petruccione 2002; Weiss 2012). We extend the framework to black holes, interpreted as surfaces of total dissipation: at the horizon, the cost of the links of the physical network diverges, preventing any internal dynamics and producing ontological demolition. The emitted radiation is generated by external dissipative relaxation, not from the interior (Hawking 1975; Unruh 1976), and carries sub‑threshold information. We show that in this scheme wormholes cannot emerge, since the internal region lacks topology, space, and time. Gravity emerges as a deformation of minimal paths in the external network, while dark energy is interpreted as dissipative metastability of the links. The framework provides a coherent conceptual basis for atomic, nuclear, gravitational, and cosmological phenomena, in continuity with our previous ScienceOpen publications dedicated to dissipation as the foundation of microscopic physics (Bornacin 2026a, 2026b, 2026c).
We propose an ontological reformulation of quantum mechanics based on a fundamental distinction between static states and dissipative processes. Static states are time‑independent configurations of charge or matter density, devoid of internal dynamics. Dissipative processes, in contrast, involve real changes in density, energy loss, and irreversibility. This distinction enables a coherent and realistic reinterpretation of electronic orbitals, spin, atomic transitions, nuclear decay, tunneling, and entanglement. We show that every emission or absorption event requires dissipation, and that in an ensemble of excited systems the number of ideal observable transitions is always smaller than the number of initially excited systems. We extend the framework to nuclear structure and quantum correlations, highlighting the conceptual continuity of the theory and its compatibility with the thermodynamics of information.
This work presents a unified, realistic, and mechanically grounded interpretation of fundamental physics across all scales, from quarks and elementary particles to atoms, macroscopic bodies, planetary motion, and black holes. The proposed framework provides a single coherent physical description capable of reproducing and explaining, within a common dynamical structure, the full range of phenomena traditionally treated separately by general relativity, quantum mechanics, and quantum electrodynamics. Within this approach, long-standing conceptual problems such as wave–particle duality, quantum interference, entanglement, and wavefunction collapse are not postulated as fundamental features of nature, but emerge naturally as dynamical properties of a physically real medium. The apparent dual behavior of matter and radiation, as well as nonlocal quantum correlations, arise from coherent and topologically constrained excitations of this medium, without invoking probabilistic ontologies or nonphysical abstractions. The theory is based on a revised physical concept of space, treated as a real superfluid medium endowed with density, elasticity, viscosity, permittivity, permeability, and a very small but non-zero electrical conductivity. In this model, space is no longer a passive geometric background, but an active physical system capable of storing, transmitting, and dissipating energy.Mass is interpreted as an isotropic compression of the superfluid, electric charge as an oriented torsional configuration, and fields as elastic stress and vorticity distributions of the medium itself. Electromagnetic and gravitational waves are described as propagating perturbations of the superfluid, while particles correspond to stable solitonic configurations sustained by the medium dynamics.At the microscopic level, starting from classical fluid equations (continuity and Euler equations) and applying the Madelung transformation, the Schrödinger equation is shown to emerge as a compact complex representation of the underlying real fluid dynamics, rather than as a fundamental postulate. Quantum phenomena such as quantization, tunneling, spin, and exclusion principles follow from stability, coherence, and topological constraints of solitonic wave structures. On cosmological scales, the same framework provides a unified interpretation of redshift, large-scale expansion phenomena, and the cosmic microwave background as cumulative dynamical and dissipative effects of wave propagation within the superfluid medium, rather than as consequences of metric expansion alone. Effects commonly attributed to dark matter and dark energy are reinterpreted as emergent manifestations of spatial density gradients, elastic stresses, and dissipative properties of the superfluid, without introducing additional unknown components. A wide range of experimentally verified phenomena—including the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, Zeeman–Stark effects, the Aharonov–Bohm effect, Casimir effect, Unruh radiation, and cosmological attenuation effects—are consistently described within this unified framework. The proposed model offers an alternative foundational paradigm for physics, in which space, matter, and interactions emerge from a single physically intelligible dynamical system, restoring a continuous and causal description of nature from microscopic to cosmological scales.
This work proposes a conceptual and ontological reformulation of classical dynamics, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics based on a single postulate: dissipation is a fundamental property of all physical processes. Traditional dynamics relies on the idealization of isolated, reversible systems, yet no real physical system satisfies such conditions. By introducing an intrinsic dissipative energy term into the equations of motion, we suggest that dissipation entails an irreversible loss of physical information, from which a classical uncertainty principle naturally follows. Stationary states are reinterpreted as zero‑dissipation configurations, lacking internal temporal evolution, thereby offering an ontological basis for quantization, non‑locality, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Quantum mechanics can thus be viewed as the mathematical description of these stationary states and of the dissipative transitions connecting them. The framework is conceptually consistent with fluctuation‑dissipation theory, open‑system quantum dynamics, decoherence theory, and relaxation phenomena in NMR spectroscopy. Several experimental proposals are outlined to discriminate this ontological model from both classical mechanics and standard quantum mechanics.
Contact Jonathan.duchesne@hotmail.com 418-953-0596 This thesis presents Time–Decoherence Gravity (TDG), a unified theoretical framework in which spacetime geometry, gravitation, and the physical flow of time arise from fundamental quantum decoherence. Rather than treating decoherence as an environmental or effective process, TDG builds on a covariant extension of the Gorini–Kossakowski–Sudarshan–Lindblad (GKSL) equation, where four directional Lindblad operators encode intrinsic, irreversible information loss. These operators define a “decoherence tensor,” which acts both as a memory of quantum irreversibility and as the generator of emergent spacetime geometry through a nonlinear constitutive relation. The theory provides a coherent gravitational collapse mechanism based on the incompatibility of decoherence patterns across quantum branches. This leads to an intrinsic “decoherence energy,” whose magnitude determines the collapse timescale, extending and generalizing the well-known Penrose–Diósi models. TDG predicts a smooth transition from persistent microscopic coherence to rapid macroscopic collapse. At cosmological scales, a homogeneous decoherence tensor naturally generates modified Friedmann dynamics, early-universe stiff-fluid behavior, and late-time acceleration without requiring a fine-tuned cosmological constant. Black-hole entropy emerges as a saturation of decoherence memory at the horizon, while Hawking radiation appears as the dissipative relaxation of this saturation. The theory also predicts short-range deviations from Newtonian gravity and a universal spectrum of fundamental gravitational noise. Finally, TDG offers several experimentally testable signatures involving optical clocks, mesoscopic interferometry, short-range force measurements, and correlated phase noise in global timing networks. The framework is internally consistent, falsifiable, and provides a novel and unified approach to the relationship between quantum mechanics, gravity, and the arrow of time.
We propose a unified physical framework in which four-dimensional spacetime vacuum is the unique physical reality, and all quanta are its localized topological excitations. Matter particles correspond to stable knot-like configurations, while radiation quanta correspond to weak propagating ripples of the same substrate. From this single ontological commitment, we derive: (1) wave–particle duality is resolved—particle behavior belongs to the localized excitation, wave behavior to the disturbance field it generates in spacetime; (2) double-slit interference arises from coherent superposition between a quantum's newly sourced disturbance and its own historical disturbance field, not from ontological self-superposition; (3) the wave function is a statistical tool encoding ensemble distributions of trajectories modulated by disturbance feedback, and collapse is epistemic convergence rather than a physical process; (4) quantum entanglement corresponds to Planck-scale topological connectivity (microscopic Einstein–Rosen bridges), preserving relativistic causality; (5) gravity is the macroscopic accumulation of universal but individually weak quantum–vacuum couplings, explaining both its microscopic weakness and macroscopic dominance without requiring a graviton; (6) the four fundamental interactions are differentiated coupling modes of quanta to one spacetime vacuum field; and (7) apparent dark matter and dark energy are reinterpreted as collective topological curvature and large-scale vacuum self-relaxation, respectively. We formulate falsifiable predictions at both laboratory and cosmological scales, including disturbance–corpuscle separation interferometry, tunable decoherence threshold measurements, and galaxy rotation–topology correlations. The framework compresses the conventional axiomatic structure of quantum mechanics and cosmology into one master axiom and eliminates at least twenty-eight independent interpretive assumptions.
This paper proposes a theoretical framework—Relational Theory—based on dynamic relational networks, in which discrete spacetime serves as the fundamental ontology, while continuous geometry and gravity emerge as macroscopic statistical phenomena. This framework unifies the description of matter, spacetime, and gravity, aiming to bridge the theoretical divide between quantum field theory and general relativity, while providing a discrete spacetime physical substrate for the orthodox prob abilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics. The fundamental ontology of the universe is defined as the evolution of a dynamic relational network, where nodes represent fundamental quantum units of space, edges correspond to adjacency relations between units, and matter manifests as complex probability amplitude excitation modes propagating on the network. The framework is built upon two foundational axioms: the matter field undergoes unitary evolution driven by the graph Lapla cian operator, and the network topology dynamically reconfigures in response to the matter energy density, with links undergoing continuous generation and decay, while matter evolution exhibits the discrete alternating character of “annihilation here, creation there.”Under the mean-field continuum limit, the two axioms respectively evolve into a Schr¨odinger equation describing matter propagation in curved space and a link density equation characterizing the response of spacetime geometry to matter distribution. These two sets of equations form a self-consistent feedback mechanism in which matter and spacetime geometry mutually constrain each other. The study demonstrates that grav ity is not a fundamental interaction, but rather a statistical emergent entropic force driven by the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of network link density.This paper further proposes a dynamic relational network interpretation, circumventing the collapse paradox of the Copenhagen interpreta tion, the universe-splitting problem of the many-worlds interpretation, and the non-locality dilemma of hidden variable theories. It provides an underlying topological explanation for wave function evo lution, the measurement problem, and the origin of quantum probability. The laws of black hole thermodynamics and the fundamentals of the holographic principle can all be reasonably explained within this microscopic topological framework. The paper systematically verifies the mathematical self-consistency of the model, distinguishes rigorously derived conclusions from conjectures awaiting verification, and demonstrates the feasible pathways for numerical simulation tests and astronomical observational corroboration.