[WITHDRAWN] Horizons as High-Activity Stabilizer Surfaces: A Structural Proposal Toward Resolving the Firewall Paradox on the Truncated Cubic Honeycomb Substrate
David Elliman
WITHDRAWAL / SUPERSESSION NOTICE (2026-05-31). Subsumed and refined by the canonical ANCHOR §11 black-hole paper (`updated_black_hole.tex`), which incorporates the firewall-resolution mechanism into a broader operator-algebra closure with KMS-derived Hawking temperature, monogamy-firewall horizon, condensate-core interior, and bulk-boundary scale separation. Current canonical version: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20478667. The AMPS firewall paradox [1] arises from three quantum-mechanical statements that are jointly required by standard physics for old black holes but mutually inconsistent: uni- tarity (information conservation), the equivalence principle in its quantum form (vacuum at the horizon), and monogamy of entanglement. Standard resolutions either weaken one of these or invoke complementarity / ER=EPR redundancy without specifying a concrete mechanism. We propose, building on the quantum-error-correcting substrate framework [6, 7, 8], that horizons are 2D surfaces of high stabilizer-measurement activity on the Trun- cated Cubic Honeycomb (TCH) substrate, structurally distinct from bulk vacuum but non- destructive (QND) at the quantum level. This proposal weakens the strong quantum form of the equivalence principle while preserving its geometric form, in a manner that is specific and physically motivated rather than ad-hoc. We identify three explicit derivations that would constitute a complete resolution: a derivation of horizon dynamics from substrate properties; an explicit isometry between interior and exterior mode-encodings establishing QEC redundancy; and recovery of Hawking’s thermal spectrum from substrate dynamics. The framework’s structural ingredients are laid out as a basis for these derivations. We do not claim the firewall paradox is resolved; we claim the framework provides specific tools that may resolve it, and that the proposed mechanism is structurally motivated rather than chosen to match desired outcomes.
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