The Machine Takes a Quantum Exam (Quest for Entropy #3)

Marijus Masteika

Published Jul 28, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

Quest for Entropy #3: twenty questions, one deterministic clockwork, and the two answers it could not give. This is a demonstration, not a discovery about nature. The scorecard says one family of machines, at one frozen setting, reproduced twenty specific behaviours — it does not say our universe is a clockwork, does not reinterpret quantum mechanics, and does not dodge Bell's theorem, since the hidden machinery here is global, not local. Question 16 is unfinished, not won: the certified pair sits exactly on the classical bound, and entanglement remains unreproduced. Question 6 is a confessed failure, and the cliff-or-floor dichotomy is a named conjecture, measured on both sides and proved on neither. Every number behind this piece is at the machine's own precision, about one percent, and every pass means "within that".

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21650671

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