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Quantum Structural Theory of Harmony (QSTH 5.0 Revised) — The Entropic Clock Revisited

Rostislav Stepanik

Published Aug 17, 2026• 0 citations
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Description / Abstract QSTH 5.0 Revised — The Entropic Clock Revisited examines whether the readable ordering of physical change can be represented through an entropic-informational description of temporal readability. Rather than introducing a new physical time coordinate, the work develops the Temporal Information Metric (TiM) as a candidate measure of how changes in informational organization become readable as ordered records. The publication builds directly on the Born-readout architecture of the QSTH Revised Trilogy. Starting from the standard quantum-mechanical probability readout P = |ψ|² and its informational representation ΔS_coh = −ln|ψ|², it considers an effective informational balance between coherent and reductive contributions, S_eff ~ (ΔS_coh − ΔS_red), and investigates whether changes in this balance can provide an auditable description of temporal readability, persistence, record formation, and settlement. The central distinction is between physical time and readable temporal structure. QSTH 5.0 Revised does not propose that TiM replaces physical time, general relativity, or standard quantum mechanics. Instead, TiM is treated as a candidate informational descriptor asking when physical change becomes sufficiently persistent and organized to support a distinguishable ordering of “before” and “after.” Within this framework, readable temporal flow is associated not with isolated events alone but with the persistence and organization of records. The resulting conceptual architecture is: Born → ΔS_coh → S_eff → TiM → Settlement → Record → E₀. The work therefore provides the second pillar of the QSTH Revised Trilogy: Probability → Readability → Settlement, connecting the Born Readout Ledger developed in QSTH 6.0 Revised with the subsequent treatment of settlement and Entropic Zero in QSTH 6.1 Revised. All proposed quantities and interpretations are presented as components of an auditable informational model, not as experimentally established new physical laws. Additional description / Notes Part II of the QSTH Revised Trilogy: Probability → Readability → Settlement. QSTH 5.0 Revised develops the temporal-readability layer of the trilogy and connects QSTH 6.0 Revised — Born Set Invariants with QSTH 6.1 Revised — Entropic Zero Revisited. Its central question is: How does informational readability become history?

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10.5281/zenodo.21977971

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Description / Abstract QSTH 5.0 Revised — The Entropic Clock Revisited examines whether the readable ordering of physical change can be represented through an entropic-informational description of temporal readability. Rather than introducing a new physical time coordinate, the work develops the Temporal Information Metric (TiM) as a candidate measure of how changes in informational organization become readable as ordered records. The publication builds directly on the Born-readout architecture of the QSTH Revised Trilogy. Starting from the standard quantum-mechanical probability readout P = |ψ|² and its informational representation ΔS_coh = −ln|ψ|², it considers an effective informational balance between coherent and reductive contributions, S_eff ~ (ΔS_coh − ΔS_red), and investigates whether changes in this balance can provide an auditable description of temporal readability, persistence, record formation, and settlement. The central distinction is between physical time and readable temporal structure. QSTH 5.0 Revised does not propose that TiM replaces physical time, general relativity, or standard quantum mechanics. Instead, TiM is treated as a candidate informational descriptor asking when physical change becomes sufficiently persistent and organized to support a distinguishable ordering of “before” and “after.” Within this framework, readable temporal flow is associated not with isolated events alone but with the persistence and organization of records. The resulting conceptual architecture is: Born → ΔS_coh → S_eff → TiM → Settlement → Record → E₀. The work therefore provides the second pillar of the QSTH Revised Trilogy: Probability → Readability → Settlement, connecting the Born Readout Ledger developed in QSTH 6.0 Revised with the subsequent treatment of settlement and Entropic Zero in QSTH 6.1 Revised. All proposed quantities and interpretations are presented as components of an auditable informational model, not as experimentally established new physical laws. Additional description / Notes Part II of the QSTH Revised Trilogy: Probability → Readability → Settlement. QSTH 5.0 Revised develops the temporal-readability layer of the trilogy and connects QSTH 6.0 Revised — Born Set Invariants with QSTH 6.1 Revised — Entropic Zero Revisited. Its central question is: How does informational readability become history?
QSTH 6.0 Revised — Born Set Invariants returns to the foundational role of the Born rule within the broader architecture of the Quantum Structural Theory of Harmony (QSTH). Rather than treating the Born rule solely as a probabilistic output of quantum measurement, the work examines its informational representation and its possible role as a bridge between quantum amplitude, effective entropic balance, record formation, and informational admissibility. The central observation is that the Born readout can be mapped into an informational representation through the relation ΔS_coh = −ln|ψ|². This provides a direct bridge between the standard quantum-mechanical probability readout and the later QSTH ledger quantities, including S_eff, TiM, Settlement Dynamics, and Entropic Zero. The publication introduces Born Set Invariants as a candidate class of informational quantities, relations, or structures whose meaning may survive admissible changes of representation, projection, or system readout. It further distinguishes probability from admissibility, asking whether a non-zero probability is sufficient for the formation of a stable physical record. Within this framework, S_eff is developed as an informational ledger between coherent and reductive contributions, while Ψ and κ(Γ) are retained respectively as candidate regime-signature and regime-sensitivity descriptors. These quantities are not proposed as new forces or fundamental constants. QSTH 6.0 Revised does not modify or replace the Born rule and does not propose a new quantum mechanics. The Born rule remains a CANON experimental and mathematical anchor. The purpose of the work is instead to construct a disciplined and auditable informational language linking probability → information → ledger → invariance → admissibility → regime. The publication forms the first pillar of the QSTH Revised Trilogy and provides the informational entry point for the subsequent treatment of temporal readability, settlement, and Entropic Zero. Part I of the QSTH Revised Trilogy: Probability → Readability → Settlement. QSTH 6.0 Revised establishes the Born Readout Ledger and provides the informational foundation for QSTH 5.0 Revised — The Entropic Clock Revisited and QSTH 6.1 Revised — Entropic Zero Revisited.
This QSTH 8.11 working publication develops the Entropic Genesis of Photon as a candidate interpretive bridge between coherent possibility, entropic transition, record formation, and the emergence of a minimal transferable carrier of electromagnetic interaction. The publication follows the broader QSTH 8.x condensation sequence, especially QSTH 8.7 — Lambda_lock Technical Note, QSTH 8.8.S — Spin-Locking and Structural Orientation, QSTH 8.9.XS2 — Schrödinger Equation with QSTH Locking Term, and QSTH 8.10.H — Hessian Geometry of Record Settlement. QSTH 8.11 asks the next physical question: If possibility can become a stable record, what is one of the most elementary transferable carriers of such record-like interaction? Within this framework, the photon is not presented as a replacement for the standard quantum-electrodynamic description. Instead, QSTH proposes a candidate interpretive layer in which the photon may be read as a minimal transferable record of electromagnetic interaction: a carrier of energy, momentum, phase, polarization, and readable interaction structure. A central QSTH reading is: Photon = minimal transferable electromagnetic record The publication connects this interpretation to the candidate QSTH distinction between coherent entropy and reductive entropy: Delta S_eff ~ Delta S_coh - Delta S_red where Delta S_coh represents a candidate coherence-preserving contribution and Delta S_red represents a candidate reductive / settlement contribution. These terms are not presented as confirmed thermodynamic state functions, but as candidate bookkeeping variables for future formalization. The text also places the photon in contrast with the Higgs / entropic weight motif. In this contrast, the photon represents a near-massless transferable coherence carrier, while the Higgs-related branch represents the question of how a state acquires structural weight, mass-related settlement, and entropic cost. QSTH 8.11 v1.2 also includes a Spin Audit Bridge. This bridge connects photon-level record transfer with the prior QSTH spin-locking line. In this reading, photon polarization and helicity are not treated as proof of QSTH, but as physically meaningful orientation channels through which the broader QSTH question of spin, directionality, and record readability may be cautiously connected to known physics. A safe candidate relation is: Gamma_lock = Gamma_0 + Gamma_spin + Gamma_wall + Gamma_entropy where Gamma_spin represents a provisional spin-orientation contribution to the broader candidate locking functional. The publication also keeps a strict methodological boundary. QSTH 8.11 does not claim to derive the photon from first principles, replace quantum electrodynamics, or prove a new physical law. It proposes a structured candidate interpretation intended for future formalization, toy-model testing, falsification, and comparison with standard null models. Short description QSTH 8.11 proposes the photon as a candidate minimal transferable record of electromagnetic interaction. It connects photon-level transfer with coherent entropy, reductive entropy, Lambda_lock, spin-locking, Hessian settlement, Higgs contrast, and the broader QSTH 8.x condensation sequence. Methodological status This publication is part of the QSTH CORE/CAND/SUPPORT/FUTURE framework. It should be read as a structured working publication, not as a confirmed physical model. The photon is treated according to standard physics as a quantum of the electromagnetic field. QSTH adds only a candidate interpretive layer: the photon may be read as a minimal transferable record of electromagnetic interaction. This interpretive layer remains CAND / SUPPORT / FUTURE FORMALIZATION. Computability note Several parts of the proposed framework may become suitable for future toy-model exploration. Candidate variables such as Delta S_coh, Delta S_red, Gamma_lock, Gamma_spin, and H_eff can be studied in simplified models once operational definitions are fixed. At the present stage, QSTH 8.11 does not claim empirical confirmation. It identifies candidate modeling entry points and clarifies which claims remain interpretive, which are connected to known physics, and which require future mathematical or experimental development. Safe Zenodo equation block Photon = minimal transferable electromagnetic record Delta S_eff ~ Delta S_coh - Delta S_red Gamma_lock = Gamma_0 + Gamma_spin + Gamma_wall + Gamma_entropy integral Gamma_lock(t) dt >= Lambda_lock -> R_stable H_eff = nabla^2 Phi_lock These expressions are not presented as confirmed physical laws. They are candidate modeling relations and interpretive bridges intended for future formalization, toy-model construction, numerical testing, falsification, and comparison with null models. Diamond sentence The photon is not treated here as proof of QSTH. It is treated as a luminous candidate bridge: a minimal transferable record through which coherence, interaction, orientation, and readable structure may meet. Notes field This record belongs to the QSTH 8.x publication sequence. It follows QSTH 8.7 — Lambda_lock Technical Note, QSTH 8.8.S — Spin-Locking and Structural Orientation, QSTH 8.9.XS2 — Schrödinger Equation with QSTH Locking Term, and QSTH 8.10.H — Hessian Geometry of Record Settlement. QSTH 8.11 provides the photon-level bridge of the 8.x sequence. After possibility, locking, spin orientation, and Hessian settlement have been introduced, this publication asks how a minimal electromagnetic carrier may be interpreted as a transferable record. The publication also prepares the later QSTH 8.XC Closure Note and the future M-independent horizon framework, where the question shifts from local record formation toward horizon-scale ledger closure.
Quantum Structural Theory of Harmony (QSTH) 5.0 – The Entropic Clock (TiM) introduces a structural notion of time defined by the balance and flow of entropy and information between coherent order and reductive noise. The work proposes an operational entropic time coordinate TE(t) together with an Entropic Clock parameter TiM(t) that can be read in two consistent ways: (i) as a dimensionless clock index N°_QSTH(t) (a metronomic tick-rate), and (ii) as the rate of entropic time dTE/dt (a structural time-flow speed). The two views are linked by a calibration factor and share the same underlying driver: the coherence–reduction balance encoded in the QSTH ledger. Within the QSTH framework, the effective state of reality is tracked by the entropic ledger variable Seff = ΔScoh − ΔSred. The instantaneous coherence ratio is R(t) = ΔScoh / ΔSred, and the entropic frequency is ωE(t) = d/dt[ ln R(t) ]. Operationally, QSTH 5.0 treats the entropic clock as a measurable structural parameter controlled by R(t) and an effective entropic curvature/impedance term Λeff(t), with experimental/observational proxies discussed for interferometric visibility, spectral broadening, and field-gradient environments. The bundle includes two appendices extending the core thesis: Appendix A (G-Gate) formulates open operational mechanisms (operator/selector/metronome) as selection thresholds governing when entropic channels become physically active; Appendix B (Quantum Tunneling & TiM) connects tunneling, barrier crossing and apparent superluminality to entropic channel activation without violating causality. Together, the three documents form a compact, test-oriented QSTH 5.0 layer designed as a readable bridge between conceptual structure and experimental/observational windows. We propose extending the typology of Entropic Stars with an ER-type (Embedded-Relic Entropic Star): a star hosting an embedded compact relic (e.g., a primordial black hole) that acts as a long-lived internal entropy driver (sink/source) and can redirect the star’s evolutionary track. In such a scenario, the star may appear evolutionarily “odd” (e.g., unusually cool/extended for its population) because internal accretion feedback modifies energy transport and radiative balance. Crucially, this is not a test-free speculation: models of “PBH-in-stars / Hawking stars” motivate asteroseismology/pulsation signatures as a way to distinguish an embedded relic from standard astrophysical explanations of anomalous stars. In our framework, ER-type is presented as an archetype—latent internal sink/source → measurable macroscopic deviation—as a complement to EO-type and the general ES-type, without making a claim about dark matter. TiM is reported as the dimensionless index N°_QSTH and, under fixed calibration, equivalently as the entropic time-rate dTE/dt. Related QSTH Zenodo records (recommended entry points) QSTH 1.0 — Foundational Publication — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17455814QSTH 1.0 — Horizon Set — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18015679QSTH 4.1 — Planckian Horizon 2.0: The Entropic Bridge between Quantum and Cosmological Reality — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17899867QSTH 5.2 — OMEG: The Operational Metric Plane of Entropic Geometrodynamics — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17937840QSTH 6.0 — The Info-Dim (I-Dim) Package — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18156387QSTH 6.1 — Entropic Zero (E0) & Entropic Stars — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18165254QSTH 6.2 — Vacuum as an Entropic Ledger and the Origin of Baryon Asymmetry — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18641674QSTH 6.3 — Ledger Reality Reconstruction: I-Dim Mediation, DM/DE, and Arrow-of-Time Diagnostics (with the Eddington Paradox) — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18646924QSTH 6.4 — QSTH vs. Feynman Diagrams — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18648120QSTH 6.5 — Planckian Horizon 2.0 as a Ledger Boundary — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18649631QSTH 6.6 — Planckian Horizon 2.0 as an Operational Entropic-Coherence Principle — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18701036QSTH 6.7 — Variational Entropic Lagrangian (R10) — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18715255QSTH 6.8 — Mendeleev Table of Relationships among Physical Constants — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18762028QSTH 6.9 — I-Dim Elementary Coupling and Semi-I-Dim Classification of the Fine Structure Constant α ≈ 1/137 — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18864069QSTH 6.10 — The Fifth Dimension as an Account: A Ledger Formulation in (3+1)D — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18871791QSTH 6.11 — The Galois Ledger: Horizon Projection Π : Ω → 𝓛, Gauge Redundancy G, and Operational Invariants S/T/J — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18879079QSTH 6.12 — The Emergence of Dimensions as an Entropic Reconstruction — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18899448
Description QSTH X.INTRO introduces the methodological architecture of QSTH Series X: a structural audit program designed to separate possibility, admissibility, physical settlement, stability, geometric recognition, readout, and record formation without inserting a preferred outcome in advance. The central methodological result is the Selector-Separation Principle: Entropy may characterize admissibility; it does not by itself identify the winner. This principle leads to a revised and more restricted role for the QSTH effective entropy S_eff. The earlier phenomenological construction is distinguished from the later microphysical readout S_eff^micro = C - R, where C and R represent two relative-entropy distances associated with a physically selected intermediate pointer projection and a settled reference state. The mathematical ingredients of this construction have established precedents in quantum information theory and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The QSTH-specific question is therefore narrower: whether the signed balance C - R carries independent physical information beyond C, R, or the total account C + R. Series X consequently separates several levels that earlier QSTH work treated more closely together: entropic admissibility, multipole selection, residual-symmetry selection, stability, and readout. These layers may interact, but they must not be identified without an explicit physical bridge. This separation was tested through the sector-blind NRP program. Within the numerical witness class studied here, the parent model produced preferred finite-multipole scales with ell* = 5 and ell* = 6 without inserting 5 or 6 as sector targets. Subsequent blind geometric recognition, performed only after stationary settlement, Hessian stability, basin, persistence, and robustness tests, did not identify the corresponding lowest stable states as C5 or C6. The result therefore establishes an important methodological distinction: finite-multipole selection does not by itself imply finite-Cn symmetry selection. The negative C5/C6 result is retained rather than repaired by a post-hoc coupling. It shows that a model may spontaneously select a characteristic angular scale while settling into a different residual geometry. Series X therefore treats admissibility, scale selection, and symmetry selection as separate physical questions. The publication also clarifies the current status of Lambda_lock. Lambda_lock^gate is retained as a downstream closure verdict over independently audited conditions. It is not identified with a universal scalar constant or with an interaction law. A physical threshold or window, Lambda_lock^thr, remains an open possibility and may be introduced only if it can be derived from an independently specified response or transition law with a clear operational meaning. Conceptually, Series X has an earlier genealogy within QSTH. QSTH 8.6.XS — Schrodinger Equation as a Ledger of Possibility — already separated coherent possibility from stable record formation and distinguished probability from admissibility. QSTH 8.6.XP — Lambda_lock and Objective Settlement — extended this line toward objective settlement and treated Lambda_lock as a candidate threshold, functional, stability window, or variational term rather than as a completed law. QSTH X.INTRO does not replace these publications; it subjects their proposed bridges to a stricter program of separation, blind settlement, stability analysis, geometric recognition, and falsification. The resulting audit backbone of Series X is: Possibility -> Admissibility -> Settlement -> Stability -> Readout -> Record This sequence is not claimed as a universal six-stage law of nature. It is an audit order: downstream interpretations are admitted only after the preceding structural gates have been passed. Series X is not presented as an empirical confirmation of QSTH. It is a methodological audit program in which PASS, CONDITIONAL PASS, HOLD, FAIL, and OPEN are explicit epistemic statuses. Model-internal and numerical witness-class results are kept distinct from physical derivation and empirical validation. The guiding question of the series is therefore not whether a preferred structure can be written into the theory, but whether a stable structure survives when its identity is not supplied in advance.
This QSTH 8.8.S working publication develops spin-locking as a candidate orientational module within the broader QSTH 8.x condensation sequence. The publication follows QSTH 8.6.XS, where the Schrödinger equation was interpreted as a ledger of coherent possibility, QSTH 8.6.XP, where Lambda_lock was introduced as a candidate threshold for objective settlement, and QSTH 8.7, where Lambda_lock and Gamma_lock were developed into a technical locking framework. QSTH 8.8.S asks the next structural question: if a record becomes lockable, how does it acquire orientation? Within this framework, spin is not treated merely as a label attached to an already formed state. It is explored as a candidate orientational contributor to record formation, structural settlement, and directional readability. The text proposes that spin may help determine how a candidate record aligns, stabilizes, and becomes compatible with later Hessian settlement. The publication also includes an audit upgrade from older QSTH spin-related work. Earlier QSTH lines such as Spin Set, SSS9 Spin Structural Spectrum, Spin Entropy Dynamics, R8 Spin–Entropy Equation, and S_eff are not presented as proof, but as legacy anchors showing that spin has long been part of the QSTH architecture. A central candidate bridge is expressed as: dS/dt = f(J_spin, Delta S_coh - Delta S_red) This is not presented as a confirmed physical law. It is used as a candidate spin–entropy skeleton suggesting that spin orientation may interact with the balance between coherent entropy and reductive entropy. A second candidate modeling relation places the spin contribution inside the locking channel: Gamma_lock = Gamma_0 + Gamma_spin + Gamma_wall + Gamma_entropy where Gamma_spin represents a provisional spin-orientation contribution to the broader candidate locking functional. The publication also introduces a Skeptics Contract for spin-locking: any future spin-locking model must specify a null limit, gate-off condition, unit consistency, sign convention, and a measurable failure mode. In the gate-off limit: Gamma_spin -> 0 the model should reduce to the non-spin locking framework. This publication belongs to the QSTH 8.x working sequence. It is not presented as a confirmed physical theory, but as a structured conceptual and methodological bridge between Lambda_lock, Gamma_lock, spin orientation, Hessian stability, and later physical record carriers such as the photon. Short description QSTH 8.8.S develops spin-locking as a candidate orientational module of information condensation into structure. It connects spin, entropy, Gamma_lock, Lambda_lock, record formation, and Hessian settlement through a cautious audit-based framework. Methodological status This publication is part of the QSTH CORE/CAND/SUPPORT/FUTURE framework. It should be read as a structured working publication, not as a confirmed physical model. The proposed spin-locking contribution is a candidate construct. Its role is to provide a disciplined modeling language for future toy-model construction, numerical testing, falsification, and comparison with standard null models. Computability note Several parts of the proposed framework are suitable for future toy-model exploration. A candidate Gamma_spin contribution can be introduced into a broader Gamma_lock function. The gate-off condition Gamma_spin -> 0 can be used as a null test. Candidate spin-orientation effects can then be compared against models without spin contribution. These expressions are not yet confirmed physical laws. They are structured modeling entry points for future numerical testing, falsification, and scientific collaboration. Suggested Zenodo Notes field This record belongs to the QSTH 8.x publication sequence. It follows QSTH 8.7 — Lambda_lock Technical Note and prepares the later branches QSTH 8.9.XS2 — Schrödinger Equation with QSTH Locking Term, QSTH 8.10.H — Hessian Geometry of Record Settlement, and QSTH 8.11 — Entropic Genesis of Photon. QSTH 8.8.S provides the spin-orientation bridge: after possibility becomes lockable, spin may act as a candidate orientational channel through which a record acquires structural directionality. One-line public summary QSTH 8.8.S proposes spin-locking as a candidate orientational module through which a lockable record may acquire structural directionality. Safe Zenodo equation block dS/dt = f(J_spin, Delta S_coh - Delta S_red) Gamma_lock = Gamma_0 + Gamma_spin + Gamma_wall + Gamma_entropy Gamma_spin -> 0 integral Gamma_lock(t) dt >= Lambda_lock -> R_stable H_eff = nabla^2 Phi_lock These expressions are not presented as confirmed physical laws. They are candidate modeling relations intended for future toy-model construction, numerical testing, falsification, and comparison with null models. Diamond sentence If Lambda_lock asks when possibility becomes record, spin-locking asks how that record acquires orientation.
QSTH Publication 6.10 reframes “extra-dimension” language without adding new geometric space. Instead of introducing a fifth coordinate w, QSTH models the “extra degree of freedom” as a non-geometric, audit-level state parameter: an information–entropy infrastructure (“ledger”) governing transitions between R-layers—discrete reality modes spanning coherence, record formation, decoherence/thermalization, and macro-classical behavior. The core claim is operational: many 5D-like effects can be rewritten in (3+1)D as an audit balance between coherence and reduction, ΔS_coh ↔ ΔS_red. In this framing, the “fifth dimension” becomes an accounting axis: how much structured information remains coherently accessible versus already booked into classical record and noise. The paper defines measurable signatures of this ledger picture—thresholds, hysteresis, and stability windows—and provides vignettes plus an audit mini-table that map each marker to “what to measure” and PASS/FAIL/INCONCLUSIVE criteria (bridge to QSTH 6.9 audit methodology). A dedicated Dimensional Note clarifies the distinction between mathematical dimensions (parameters, state spaces, symmetries, RG scales) and physical geometric dimensions, using a practical metaphor (“dimensions as columns in a table”) to prevent category errors. Within QSTH, I-Dim is explicitly defined as an internal state axis (not extra space) describing the depth of information accessibility / ledger depth, with sensitivity controlled by α_I-Dim and environmental permeability modeled by FSSC (Fine-State Semi-Constant). Status: EN CORE, ready for Zenodo. Cross-reference: complements QSTH 6.9 (Audit/Verification Framework). Related QSTH Zenodo records (recommended entry points) QSTH 1.0 — Foundational Publication (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17455814) QSTH 1.0 — Horizon Set (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18015679) QSTH 4.1 — Planckian Horizon 2.0: The Entropic Bridge between Quantum and Cosmological Reality (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17899867) QSTH 5.2 — OMEG: The Operational Metric Plane of Entropic Geometrodynamics (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17937840) QSTH 6.0 — The Info-Dim (I-Dim) Package (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18156387) QSTH 6.1 — Entropic Zero (E0) & Entropic Stars (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18165254) QSTH 6.2 — Vacuum as an Entropic Ledger and the Origin of Baryon Asymmetry (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18641674) QSTH 6.5 — Planckian Horizon 2.0 as a Ledger Boundary (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18649631) QSTH 6.6 — Planckian Horizon 2.0 as an Operational Entropic-Coherence Principle (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18701036) QSTH 6.7 — Variational Entropic Lagrangian (R10) (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18715255) QSTH 6.8 — Mendeleev Table of Relationships among Physical Constants (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18762028) QSTH 6.9 — I-Dim Elementary Coupling and Semi-I-Dim Classification of the Fine Structure Constant α ≈ 1/137 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18864069)