This preprint develops a staged framework for testing whether matter-wave dynamics contain a source-dependent reciprocal contribution beyond ordinary phase evolution. The conceptual motivation comes from the asymmetry of standard pilot-wave theory, in which the wave guides material configurations without an established reciprocal action of those configurations on the wave. The proposed approach represents any candidate back-reaction through an effective scalar–vector connection and uses matched matter-wave states with opposite phase gradients as a symmetry-based lock-in test. Ordinary phase motion reverses between the two states, whereas a source-fixed reciprocal contribution would remain as a measurable common-mode residue. The experimental program begins with calibration using a known synthetic gauge field in an ultracold-atom platform. It then advances to a source-free null campaign, followed by a blinded four-state experiment combining phase reversal with reversal of a compensated polarized-spin source. Candidate signals would be tested through source parity, internal-state and species dependence, distance scaling, modulation-frequency response, circulation, curl, and spacetime-holonomy measurements. A coherent counterpropagating Bragg-pair readout and numerical source-to-signal benchmarks are developed to estimate the required phase sensitivity and identify dominant backgrounds. The interpretation is deliberately hierarchical. A nonzero residue would first indicate an unexplained source-dependent interaction; additional evidence would be required to establish connection-like behavior, compatibility with an axial-vector or contorsion effective theory, or genuine pilot-wave back-reaction. Null results would still provide model-independent bounds. If interested please request experimental brief, source code, numerical data, figures, and reproducibility documentation.
This preprint develops a staged framework for testing whether matter-wave dynamics contain a source-dependent reciprocal contribution beyond ordinary phase evolution. The conceptual motivation comes from the asymmetry of standard pilot-wave theory, in which the wave guides material configurations without an established reciprocal action of those configurations on the wave. The proposed approach represents any candidate back-reaction through an effective scalar–vector connection and uses matched matter-wave states with opposite phase gradients as a symmetry-based lock-in test. Ordinary phase motion reverses between the two states, whereas a source-fixed reciprocal contribution would remain as a measurable common-mode residue. The experimental program begins with calibration using a known synthetic gauge field in an ultracold-atom platform. It then advances to a source-free null campaign, followed by a blinded four-state experiment combining phase reversal with reversal of a compensated polarized-spin source. Candidate signals would be tested through source parity, internal-state and species dependence, distance scaling, modulation-frequency response, circulation, curl, and spacetime-holonomy measurements. A coherent counterpropagating Bragg-pair readout and numerical source-to-signal benchmarks are developed to estimate the required phase sensitivity and identify dominant backgrounds. The interpretation is deliberately hierarchical. A nonzero residue would first indicate an unexplained source-dependent interaction; additional evidence would be required to establish connection-like behavior, compatibility with an axial-vector or contorsion effective theory, or genuine pilot-wave back-reaction. Null results would still provide model-independent bounds. If interested please request experimental brief, source code, numerical data, figures, and reproducibility documentation.
Orientation-Conditioned Relative Phase in Weighted Light-Matter Networks Kevin L. BrownOctober 2026 This paper presents a falsifiable quantum-optical hypothesis: whether the oriented structure of a bounded three-link interaction network can contribute a measurable relative phase beyond the predictions of conventional quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics. The experimental question is narrow. After ordinary optical path phase, material response, detector effects, nonlinear optics, geometric phase, synthetic gauge structure, chiral response, nonreciprocity, and other justified conventional mechanisms have been modeled or controlled, the proposal asks whether a residual phase remains that follows a predetermined transformation law set by the physical interaction network. Each auxiliary link is defined operationally by an independently measured reciprocal coherent coupling rate J_ij. With J̄ denoting the mean of J_12, J_23, and J_31, the orientation-sensitive shape variable is χ(J) = [(J_12 − J_23)(J_23 − J_31)(J_31 − J_12)] / J̄³, and the dimensionless interaction exposure is Ξ(J) = τ_int · J̄ · χ(J), which incorporates network shape, absolute coupling strength, and interaction time. The proposed phase is Φ_I = κ_IP · Ξ(J), represented by the effective unitary scattering map U_I(J) = exp[i κ_IP Ξ(J) (n_1 − n_3)/2], where κ_IP is an unknown dimensionless coupling coefficient. A balanced three-path interferometer converts Φ_I into a directly measurable detector contrast, C = (2√3/9) sin Φ_I. The experiment is preregistered around several independent checks rather than a single anomalous measurement: network-off, symmetric, and asymmetric-zero null configurations; sign reversal under physical mirror transformation; scaling across multiple network configurations and across absolute coupling strength at fixed shape; coherent-state and single-photon consistency tests; independently measured conventional-systematic controls; and a held-out mirror-pair endpoint at |χ| = 0.30, predicted with one frozen κ_IP. A pre-unblinding feasibility threshold sets the sensitivity at which the test is interpretable. The model is rejected at the tested sensitivity if a justified conventional mechanism explains the residual, if required nulls or transformation laws fail, if the predicted scaling is not observed, or if held-out configurations cannot be predicted using the preregistered parameter. Null results are interpreted as quantitative bounds on |κ_IP| rather than proof that an arbitrarily small interaction is impossible. The hypothesis is motivated by the Unified Informational Physics Ontology (UIPO), but the optical law is stated as an independent phenomenological realization: the test stands or falls on the preregistered phase law and does not require UIPO to be accepted. The paper does not claim that a nonzero effect has been observed, that standard quantum electrodynamics has been falsified, or that UIPO has been experimentally confirmed. Its purpose is to convert a proposed informational-physics relationship into a quantum-optical experiment explicit enough to be independently modeled, criticized, implemented, falsified, and replicated. Independent Laboratory Testing and Replication This research includes an Independent Laboratory Feasibility Brief designed to support external experimental assessment and replication. The brief identifies the minimum apparatus requirements, independently measurable coupling parameters, sensitivity targets, physical symmetry conditions, conventional-physics controls, and preregistration requirements. The proposed testing pathway begins with a limited feasibility assessment before proceeding to a full confirmatory experiment. Laboratories are encouraged to assess whether their existing equipment can implement the proposed three-link interaction network and distinguish the hypothesized phase from conventional optical effects. The experimental hypothesis remains unconfirmed. Both positive and null results are scientifically relevant when obtained under adequately controlled and preregistered conditions. Independent researchers are invited to evaluate, challenge, test, or replicate the proposal. Experimental teams retain scientific independence over their measurements, analyses, and conclusions
We present a deterministic extension of de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory that resolves the fundamental action-reaction asymmetry of the standard formulation. By introducing a reciprocal coupling term sourced by the imaginary part of the momentum weak value, Im(pw) = -(ħ/2)∇ ln ρ, we enable the particle configuration to influence the guiding wavefunction locally. To prevent the anti-diffusive instabilities inherent in such back-reaction models, we introduce a parameter-free "Fluctuation Clamp" mechanism. This mechanism budgets allowed gradient sharpening against a numerical vacuum surrogate scale, ensuring stability over 10^5 simulation steps while preserving time-symmetry and normalization. The model recovers standard quantum mechanics in equilibrium (ρ = |ψ|²) and in the weak-coupling limit (λ → 0), but predicts falsifiable deviations in non-equilibrium regimes, specifically in neutron interferometry (velocity shifts Δv ~ 5 × 10^-3 m/s) and tunneling time measurements (dwell time shifts δτ/τ ~ 0.1).
Bohmian mechanics contains a structural asymmetry: the wave guides primitive variables, but those variables do not source the wave. We formulate a reciprocal completion in which the feedback channel is a four-connection rather than an arbitrary nonlinear term. The categorical “defect of commutativity” between wave evolution and guidance is represented physically by connection curvature, [D_μ, D_ν]Ψ = i F_{μν} Ψ. In spinor geometry this connection is identified with the Abelianized low-energy projection of axial contorsion, yielding κ = −λ T ℏ S. If the axial torsion field is sourced by an ontic spin current, the theory splits into two branches: minimal Einstein-Cartan contact torsion or nonminimal propagating axial-vector torsion EFT. Floquet driving gives harmonic thresholds for radiative torsion response.
Experimental Signatures and Falsifiability of Phase Ontology: How a Phase-Primary Framework Can Be Tested (Phase Ontology — Part VII) completes the Phase Ontology series by translating its core claims into concrete, falsifiable expectations. While Parts I–VI argue that phase coherence is physically real and that spacetime is an emergent projection of stable phase relations, this paper makes the scientific demand explicit: the framework must constrain what should be observed in the laboratory—not merely reinterpret existing results. The paper outlines a set of testable signatures that should appear if measurement is genuinely a phase-locking process, if coherence is a physical resource that can be preserved or dispersed, and if detectors and environments are active material participants rather than generic sources of noise. Key experimental arenas include: (1) detector-dependent phase-locking thresholds (e.g., interferometry where small, controlled detector-material changes produce disproportionate shifts in localization/fringe behavior), (2) coherence capacity and delayed classicality (engineered environments that produce non-linear regime changes rather than only smooth decoherence), (3) entanglement under structured phase environments (sensitivity to structured phase modulation beyond standard loss/noise parameters), (4) precision clocks as phase probes (searching for residual coherence-environment dependencies beyond known systematics), and (5) macroscopic coherence bridge regimes in superconducting and mesoscopic networks where topology and coupling geometry should matter in structured ways. Crucially, the paper states what falsification would look like in practice: if across multiple platforms detector variations yield no structured threshold effects, coherence isolation produces only fully predictable smooth behavior, entanglement responds solely to standard channel parameters, and precision clocks show no reproducible residual coherence-structure dependence, then Phase Ontology remains an interpretation but loses its claim to be an empirically distinct physical framework. A staged experimental program is proposed, moving from tabletop interferometry to progressively more demanding coherence and clock tests.
We propose a transport-enabled program of decoherence cartography: the inference of environment-conditioned decoherence functionals for a localized stored charged-particle qubit across distinct laboratory sites after controlling for measured technical noise. The framework is formulated generically for transportable matter and antimatter qubits, while being motivated in particular by recent progress in coherent spectroscopy of a single antiproton spin and by the physical transport of trapped antiprotons in a portable cryogenic Penning-trap. For each site and control sequence, we formulate the experiment as a hierarchical null test in which the measured coherence of the localized qubit is decomposed into a nuisance contribution predicted from monitored magnetic, vibrational, thermal, timing, and control channels, together with a residual environment-conditioned functional. In the conservative null model, transport and relocation induce only deterministic phases and standard open-system dephasing fixed by measured spectra. A residual signal that remains stable under revisits, control sequence changes, and site permutations would define an irreducible site-dependent decoherence effect and motivate targeted follow up searches for new physics, manifested in beyond the Standard Model and cosmology-motivated sectors. We formulate the operational observables, filter-function framework, identifiability conditions, dictionary examples, and benchmark sensitivities required to render both null and non-null outcomes interpretable.
Recent experimental developments provide important empirical context for phase-based approaches to physical dynamics. The direct measurement of quantum phase accumulation during free fall using a Quantum Galileo Interferometer (QGI) reported by Dobkowski et al., Science Advances (2026) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj8028, demonstrates that gravitational dynamics can be directly encoded in a measurable phase evolution. Independently, the realization of magnetic-free non-reciprocity through parametric phase modulation reported by Estep, Sounas, Soric, and Alù, Nature Physics (2014) DOI: 10.1038/nphys3134, demonstrates that the relative temporal phase of spatially distributed resonators ( for ) can generate synthetic angular momentum and modify collective dynamics. These results do not validate the Universal Applied Time (UAT) or Unified Principle of Causality (UPC) frameworks. Both experiments were developed and interpreted within established frameworks. Nevertheless, they provide robust experimental precedents for treating discrete phase geometry and temporal modulation as primary experimental variables. Within this context, this work analyzes the eight-coil rotational matrix developed under the UAT/UPC program as an exploratory macroscopic platform. The system implements a synthetic rotational configuration with discrete phase increment , where physical coil opposition is replaced by controlled phase relationships. For eight ideal equal-amplitude components, . Any measured residual must therefore be decomposed into instrumental, phase, frequency, electronic, and potentially structural contributions. During development, a candidate residual was identified under phase/frequency confrontation, alongside a central-coil RMS scale . Both values are treated strictly as candidate invariants requiring independent reproduction. This work explicitly defines the falsification protocol (ideal signals, real channels, random permutation, phase inversion, and frequency variation ) and the hypotheses : residual explained by systematics vs : persists after controls. The detector, calibration code and methodology are documented in the 8+1 coil report. Related identifiers: UAT: 10.5281/zenodo.17729221 UPC: 10.5281/zenodo.18210808 Resonant Hunter v8.4: 10.5281/zenodo.18446712 8+1 Coil Rotational Detector & Calibration: 10.5281/zenodo.19646349 Alù et al. (2014): 10.1038/nphys3134 Dobkowski et al. (2026): 10.1126/sciadv.adj8028