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About Relativity Theories: only a conscious observer can experience events moment by moment in the present moment

Maarten Vergucht

Published Sep 4, 2026• 0 citations
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Only conscious observers can experience the unfolding of events moment by moment. Establishing a reference zero point requires privileging an actual present moment, something that inanimate matter within the four-dimensional continuum is, in principle, incapable of doing. Because an inanimate object merely forms a static worldline with no preference for any particular spacetime point, the true origin of a reference frame can never be a material particle. Only a conscious observer can: an animal, a human being.

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10.5281/zenodo.22288922

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Only conscious observers can experience the unfolding of events moment by moment. Establishing a reference zero point requires privileging an actual present moment, something that inanimate matter within the four-dimensional continuum is, in principle, incapable of doing. Because an inanimate object merely forms a static worldline with no preference for any particular spacetime point, the true origin of a reference frame can never be a material particle. Only a conscious observer can: an animal, a human being.
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Modern physics speaks of observing quantum events as they unfold in real time, yet this claim contains a fundamental impossibility: observation requires duration, and by the time any measurement is complete, the event being measured has already passed. We introduce the concept of the existential instant — the infinitesimal moment of actual change that can never be directly observed because all measurement occurs in the past. As measurement resolution increases, we approach this instant asymptotically but can never arrive. This creates observational boundaries at both the microscopic and macroscopic scales where all structure collapses to points, not because reality is point-like at these extremes, but because we have reached the limits of what can be measured from our fixed observational bandwidth. Three foundational errors in modern physics — treating scale as static, misunderstanding consciousness as direct experience of the present, and ignoring observational limits — generate cascading false paradoxes including wave-particle duality, quantum uncertainty, the measurement problem, and cosmological tensions. When corrected through the framework of universal dynamic scale, these paradoxes dissolve, revealing them as artifacts of observational boundaries rather than properties of reality itself.
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