This deposit contains the complete English translation of v1 (28 January 2026) of the preprint “Dualité onde-corpuscule, choix retardé et présentisme probabiliste”. Published French source and related work Published French v1: Zenodo 18404150 — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Concept DOI for the French work: 10.5281/zenodo.18404149 Reference preprint on probabilistic presentism: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Scope. Wave–particle duality and delayed-choice experiments are often presented as if present choices could rewrite the past. This article develops an alternative reading within probabilistic presentism: only the present exists ontologically, while the future corresponds to a structured space of possibilities. Central distinction. The wave aspect describes a coherent structure of possibilities before actualization; the particle aspect describes a present fact in the form of a localized event. The “late choice” fixes the experimental context in which a fact becomes defined; it does not retroactively alter an already factual past. Experiments and constraints. The discussion covers Born's rule, interference, which-path information, decoherence, outcome uniqueness, no-signalling, the double slit, Wheeler's delayed choice, delayed-choice quantum erasers, and EPR/Bell correlations. Conditional interference patterns are treated as post-selected correlations and not as signals sent into the past. Status. This is a conceptual and exploratory preprint. Interpretive claims are identified as such, and the framework is not presented as an experimentally validated replacement for quantum mechanics. Translation fidelity. This English edition is a translation, not a revised scientific version. It preserves the argumentative structure, equations, references, links, limitations, and epistemic qualifications of the published French v1.
This deposit contains the complete English translation of v1 (28 January 2026) of the preprint “Dualité onde-corpuscule, choix retardé et présentisme probabiliste”. Published French source and related work Published French v1: Zenodo 18404150 — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Concept DOI for the French work: 10.5281/zenodo.18404149 Reference preprint on probabilistic presentism: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Scope. Wave–particle duality and delayed-choice experiments are often presented as if present choices could rewrite the past. This article develops an alternative reading within probabilistic presentism: only the present exists ontologically, while the future corresponds to a structured space of possibilities. Central distinction. The wave aspect describes a coherent structure of possibilities before actualization; the particle aspect describes a present fact in the form of a localized event. The “late choice” fixes the experimental context in which a fact becomes defined; it does not retroactively alter an already factual past. Experiments and constraints. The discussion covers Born's rule, interference, which-path information, decoherence, outcome uniqueness, no-signalling, the double slit, Wheeler's delayed choice, delayed-choice quantum erasers, and EPR/Bell correlations. Conditional interference patterns are treated as post-selected correlations and not as signals sent into the past. Status. This is a conceptual and exploratory preprint. Interpretive claims are identified as such, and the framework is not presented as an experimentally validated replacement for quantum mechanics. Translation fidelity. This English edition is a translation, not a revised scientific version. It preserves the argumentative structure, equations, references, links, limitations, and epistemic qualifications of the published French v1.
Ce dépôt contient la version v1 (2026-01-28) du texte « Dualité onde-corpuscule, choix retardé et présentisme probabiliste ». Préprint de référence (présentisme probabiliste, v2 — 2026-01-10) : Zenodo 18207811 — DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.18207811DOI concept (toutes versions, pointe toujours vers la dernière) : 10.5281/zenodo.17899327 Objectif. Clarifier la lecture des expériences de dualité onde-corpuscule (interférence / information de chemin), du choix retardé (Wheeler) et des variantes « effaceur quantique », sans invoquer de rétrocausalité — en s’appuyant sur une séparation explicite entre : une couche des possibles (état, cohérence, amplitudes, corrélations), une couche des faits (événements effectivement enregistrés, localement, au présent). Point clé. Le « choix tardif » ne réécrit pas le passé ; il fixe le contexte de factualisation (quel type de fait est défini, où et quand il le devient). L’apparition/disparition des franges dans les variantes “effaceur” s’explique par des corrélations conditionnelles (post-sélection) tout en respectant strictement le no-signalling. Cadre (présentisme probabiliste). Seuls les faits présents existent ; le futur est une multiplicité locale de possibles. Une hypothèse de travail est d’introduire un champ d’actualisation π(x)∈(0,1) modulant un taux local λ(π,C) de factualisation dans un contexte expérimental C. Ici, π(x) est compris opérationnellement comme une probabilité par pixel/cellule de détection (résolution finie), reliée à la densité standard par π(x)≈|Ψ(x)|²Δx ; le « quel résultat » reste gouverné par la règle de Born. Statut. Préprint conceptuel : il vise la cohérence interne et une terminologie unifiée. Les affirmations de nature interprétative sont signalées comme telles ; les références sont données au format DOI/arXiv quand disponible.
This deposit contains the complete English translation of v1.1 (4 September 2026) of the preprint “Temps propre et temps ontologique : densité de devenir et champ des possibles dans le présentisme probabiliste”. Published French source and related work Published French v1.1: Zenodo 22306324 — DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22306324 Concept DOI for the French work: 10.5281/zenodo.20764379 Reference preprint on probabilistic presentism: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Related preprint on wave–particle duality and delayed choice: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Scope. This preprint distinguishes coordinate time, relativistic proper time, and ontological time understood as a cumulative measure of locally consolidated becoming. Formal proposal. It introduces the local consolidation density Θ = dτont/dτ and relates it, as a working hypothesis, to the field of possibilities π through Θ = f(π). Coordinate time t remains descriptive, proper time τ remains the duration measured by clocks, and ontological time τont denotes accumulated becoming. Safeguards and limits. The proposal does not replace relativistic proper time, treat Θ as a metric factor, introduce a global simultaneity, derive the limiting speed c from the actualization rate, or claim a complete covariant dynamics. The relation Θ = f(π) remains a hypothesis whose separate empirical identifiability is not yet established. Status. This is a conceptual and exploratory preprint. Interpretive claims are identified as such, and the framework is not presented as an experimentally validated replacement for relativity or quantum mechanics. Translation fidelity. This English edition is a translation, not a revised scientific version. It preserves the 333 content blocks, 79 headings, 324 mathematical expressions, 10 URLs, references, appendices, limitations, and epistemic qualifications of the published French v1.1.
Overview This deposit contains version 1.0-en of Feedback Loops and Actualization: Memory, Context, and Reshaping the Field of Possibilities in Probabilistic Presentism, a faithful English translation of the published French version 1.0 (4 September 2026). Objective The paper proposes a conceptual formalization of feedback loops within probabilistic presentism. Feedback is not treated as a return from the future to the past, but as a local dynamics of the present: actualized facts leave present traces, these traces modify the local context, and that context reshapes the field of possibilities for subsequent actualizations. Formal proposal The enriched local present is represented by Fn(x)=(sn(x), Mn(x), Cn(x), πn(x)). The scalar π measures a local degree of canalization; it is distinct from the operational kernel K, which carries the detailed distribution and direction of accessible transitions. The minimal loop is sn → A → sn+1 → T → Mn+1 → G → Cn+1 → R → πn+1 → A → sn+2. The proposed relation Θ=f(π) requires calibration before a change in π can receive an identifiable temporal interpretation. Safeguards and limits Feedback is distinguished from retrocausality: the past acts only through traces presently inscribed. An anticipated future does not act; anticipation is a present model of possible futures. The proposal assumes no signalling to the past and no global present, and retains the thermodynamic constraints on memory. The operators A, T, G and R do not yet constitute a complete covariant physical dynamics, and no quantitative law for π is claimed. Status This is a conceptual and programmatic preprint. It proposes a minimal grammar of feedback loops within probabilistic presentism without claiming to provide a complete quantitative theory of dynamical systems, cognition, or quantum measurement. Related works French source, version 1.0: 10.5281/zenodo.22307131 Main preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.18207811 Wave-particle duality and delayed choice: 10.5281/zenodo.18404150 Proper and ontological time: 10.5281/zenodo.22306324 Translation fidelity The English edition preserves all 322 content blocks, 79 headings, 209 mathematical expressions, 14 URLs, numbers, tables, qualifications, appendices and references of the authoritative French source. All 24 rendered pages were visually reviewed.
A Calculable Model in One, Two, and Three Spatial Dimensions This preprint develops a first calculable basis for the treatment of records and feedback in probabilistic presentism. It introduces the V3 reconstruction through an explicit quantum model, retaining potentialities through the joint quantum state while removing an additional scalar degree of actualization. Model and contribution A propagating excitation couples locally to a two-state memory. The resulting record remains readable over a declared finite interval. A fixed reflector returns the excitation, and interventions on the memory affect its later field evolution. A sufficient storage bound follows from occupation of the interaction region. The same scalar lattice law is implemented in one, two and three spatial dimensions. Reproducibility The accompanying archive contains the simulation programs, 24 reference runs, 12 step/domain comparisons, four calculated figures, independent solver checks, storage-bound counter-tests, spatial-snapshot audits and instructions. The reference batch was reproduced from an extracted package in the recorded environment. A CPU is sufficient; no GPU dependency is required. Scope Quantum dynamics, Born probabilities and the terminal reading instrument are adopted. The results establish properties of the declared finite model. Physical outcome selection, emergent duration relations, gravity, continuum Maxwell electrodynamics and experimental discrimination of the ontology remain open. This is a partial calculable formulation of the presentist programme. Related publications and provenance Main V2: French original, 10 January 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.18207811; English translation 2.0-en, 9 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22675807. Wave-particle duality: French original, 28 January 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.18404150; English translation 1.0-en, 9 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22677490. Feedback loops: French original, 4 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22307131; English translation 1.0-en, 9 September 2026, 10.5281/zenodo.22678920. Files and licenses The PDF contains the illustrated article. The ZIP contains the manuscript source, PDF, programs, figures, data, audits, instructions and license notices. Text, figures and data are licensed under CC BY 4.0; software source is licensed under MIT. These licenses apply to the respective components described in LICENSES.md. Author: Alexandre Leroy. Affiliation: LA RESIDENCE Développement. Independent research in theoretical physics and the philosophy of time. Contact: a.leroy.research@gmail.com.
This work presents a unified, interpretive account of quantum interference and delayed-choice experiments that applies equally to photons and massive particles. Rather than invoking spacetime trajectories, wave–particle duality, retrocausality, or collapse postulates, the paper locates quantum interference in the coherent evolution of internal, pre-geometric degrees of freedom defined over classical spacetime. Within this framework, “which-path” questions are not merely unanswered but fundamentally ill-posed: interference arises from global coherence of an internal field subject to experimental boundary conditions, while spacetime itself remains single-valued and classical at laboratory scales. The approach reproduces all standard quantum-mechanical predictions without modification and is explicitly interpretive rather than predictive. A central result is a unified explanation of why interference occurs across disparate physical systems—photons, electrons, atoms, and molecules—while decoherence manifests through system-dependent physical mechanisms. Photons and massive particles differ in how internal coherence is lost (e.g., electromagnetic absorption versus collisional and thermal interactions), but not in the underlying principle. Delayed-choice experiments are reinterpreted without paradox: changes to the apparatus modify boundary conditions for the internal field rather than retroactively altering particle histories. By removing spacetime paths from the fundamental ontology, the framework offers a consistent, path-free account of interference, decoherence, and localized detection that preserves the empirical success of quantum mechanics while clarifying its conceptual foundations.
The problem of wave-particle duality is considered within the framework of the algebraic approach. Contrary to the widespread belief, we demonstrate that wave-particle duality can be reconciled with the assumption that there exists some local physical reality determining the results of local measurements. A number of quantum experiments—double-slit electron scattering, Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment, the past of photons passed through the interferometer—are discussed using the concept of locality. A clear physical interpretation of these experiments that does not contradict classical concepts is provided.