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The Hydrodynamic Observer Effect and Time-Symmetric Vacuum Transactions

Pavel Banic

Published Jul 12, 2026• 0 citations
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This component archives the sixteenth preprint, providing a deterministic resolution to the measurement problem and delayed-choice experiments. It demonstrates that physical detectors act as active thermodynamic sinks, pre-conditioning the hydrodynamic phase gradients of the contiguous vacuum before a particle is emitted, creating the illusion of retrocausality.

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10.17605/osf.io/4ydq8

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