Foundations of General Informational Theory (TGI) v1.1 This foundational preprint presents the current formulation of Teoría General Informacional (TGI), a relational framework organized around the sequence distinction → access → stored history → backreaction. The framework remains under active development. This manuscript is intended to freeze and publicly document the present foundational structure rather than to claim a completed theory of nature or a finished Theory of Everything. The work isolates a minimal relational-access core and distinguishes its exact algebraic consequences from conditional constructions, no-go results, and open problems. Particular emphasis is placed on making the assumptions and epistemic status of each result explicit. The principal purpose of this deposit is to establish a public, versioned scholarly record of the formulation developed to date, including: the exact identities of the relational-access core; sharpened algebraic and structural no-go results; the explicit separation between core statements, completion-dependent results, conditional sectors, and open problems; reversible dynamical memory and operational non-invertibility; conditional constructions of operational time and probe-defined locality; the emergence of transport, holonomy, and curvature from relational access structures; a conditional route to a minimal saturated four-dimensional active geometric phase; an infrared complex/Schrödinger-form sector; and a conditional derivation of Born weights for an explicitly defined ideal first-hit measurement class. The manuscript deliberately does not claim that these results establish TGI as a complete fundamental theory. Several central problems remain open, including the derivation of a smooth continuum limit from the underlying relational dynamics, uniqueness of admissible completions, complete gravitational closure, unrestricted quantum composition and entanglement, Bell/Tsirelson structure, post-measurement dynamics, and the numerical derivation of the action scale identified experimentally with ℏ, Newton’s constant (G_N), and the cosmological constant (\Lambda). Standard-Model dynamics, particle masses and couplings, and any new blind, experimentally confirmed TGI-specific prediction also remain outside the established claims of this version. This version supersedes earlier internal drafts. Subsequent developments are intended to be deposited as new versions within the same research lineage, preserving a transparent record of revisions, strengthened results, discarded approaches, and remaining open questions.
Foundations of General Informational Theory (TGI) v1.1 This foundational preprint presents the current formulation of Teoría General Informacional (TGI), a relational framework organized around the sequence distinction → access → stored history → backreaction. The framework remains under active development. This manuscript is intended to freeze and publicly document the present foundational structure rather than to claim a completed theory of nature or a finished Theory of Everything. The work isolates a minimal relational-access core and distinguishes its exact algebraic consequences from conditional constructions, no-go results, and open problems. Particular emphasis is placed on making the assumptions and epistemic status of each result explicit. The principal purpose of this deposit is to establish a public, versioned scholarly record of the formulation developed to date, including: the exact identities of the relational-access core; sharpened algebraic and structural no-go results; the explicit separation between core statements, completion-dependent results, conditional sectors, and open problems; reversible dynamical memory and operational non-invertibility; conditional constructions of operational time and probe-defined locality; the emergence of transport, holonomy, and curvature from relational access structures; a conditional route to a minimal saturated four-dimensional active geometric phase; an infrared complex/Schrödinger-form sector; and a conditional derivation of Born weights for an explicitly defined ideal first-hit measurement class. The manuscript deliberately does not claim that these results establish TGI as a complete fundamental theory. Several central problems remain open, including the derivation of a smooth continuum limit from the underlying relational dynamics, uniqueness of admissible completions, complete gravitational closure, unrestricted quantum composition and entanglement, Bell/Tsirelson structure, post-measurement dynamics, and the numerical derivation of the action scale identified experimentally with ℏ, Newton’s constant (G_N), and the cosmological constant (\Lambda). Standard-Model dynamics, particle masses and couplings, and any new blind, experimentally confirmed TGI-specific prediction also remain outside the established claims of this version. This version supersedes earlier internal drafts. Subsequent developments are intended to be deposited as new versions within the same research lineage, preserving a transparent record of revisions, strengthened results, discarded approaches, and remaining open questions.
A finitist, relational axiomatization of physics: quantum theory and a relativity sector derived from four axioms about group-valued relations and closure. Contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics (Born rule derivation, quantum reconstruction, local tomography, complex field selection), the emergence of time and causal structure in discrete networks, discrete Noether theorems, lattice gauge structure, and the Schrödinger equation derived by two independent routes. Every claim is graded in a Claim Ledger; every numerical claim is machine-verified with archived scripts; negative results are reported at full strength. What this paper does The universe is taken to be constituted by relations rather than objects. Stable relations form closures (self-consistent cycles) whose holonomies carry the physical content. Four axioms — primacy of relations (group-valued, edge-borne), closure stability, chirality from order, and observation as bidirectional group exchange — yield, at explicitly graded and conditional levels: Quantum sector Exchange-completeness theorems for finite label groups: abelian at all cycle ranks; non-abelian on the single cycle (Wilson readouts plus class-sum convolutions generate the full matrix algebra); the multi-cycle non-abelian case on the operational-equivalence quotient, with the obstruction completely characterized via class-preserving outer automorphisms — and the quotient's necessity now stratified by the source of word blindness (see New in Version 24.0). The Born rule, proved for finite abelian networks from a strictly weaker relational readout premise (statistics of realizable effects depend only on relational content); non-contextuality has this single source; additivity is basis-relative and declared as such. The Schrödinger equation by two routes of unequal premise grade, maintained side by side: a spectral route — the action operator is a weighted Cayley-graph Laplacian in the Pontryagin dual basis, the derived Gibbs state's unique canonical (modular) flow yields the Schrödinger equation with Hamiltonian equal to the action operator, no continuum limit, zero conjectures consumed, the single non-theorem step one flagged identification; and a Madelung route — physical and mechanism-rich (probability density derived from constraint gaps), valid exactly on the domain of the pseudo-continuity conjecture, with its full premise bill stated (continuity equation, Wallstrom circulation condition, m, V). A dedicated comparison subsection gives the line-by-line premise accounting and the machine-measured agreement region. Complex field selection: ℂ selected over ℝ and ℍ within the GPT comparison class in the covered sectors, with a second independent route from chirality (Frobenius–Schur dichotomy, quaternionic double exclusion); "uniquely selected" expressly not claimed. Positivity as pairing: all five in-text positive-semidefiniteness theorems traced to one mechanism (M = B†B with native factor); the Kraus form and complete positivity derived rather than assumed. The Noether sector on Noether's two theorems exactly: Noether I recovered on the holonomy action (compact Lie realization); Noether II identified as present (Bianchi as horn-filling, Schläfli as its Regge form); selection rules recovered for finite groups; the GNS bridge proved non-vacuously on the full exchange algebra; the sole potential extension — conservation as the kernel of exchange — isolated as a registered conjecture, consumed nowhere. A local–global representation theorem: six generative quantities (closure invariant, flux quantization, Weyl phase, non-abelian Stokes, orientation visibility, terminal normalization) are evaluations of cohomology classes against closed chains — one syntax, six exact machine probes. The gatekeeper no-go theorems registered and discharged: Kochen–Specker (the framework posits no global valuation — outcomes are resolutions of constraint gaps, and basis-relative additivity blocks state-independent variants), Pusey–Barrett–Rudolph (the statistical envelope is over resolutions yet to happen, not values already held; machine witness: identical configuration ensembles with opposite relative phase have opposite statistics), Wallstrom (registered as an explicit input, structurally discharged in the finite-abelian sector), Hegerfeldt (the Lieb–Robinson exponential tail identified as the only claimable front form for the continuum limit), Frauchiger–Renner (cross-agent certainty transfer presupposes kernel-free record transport, exactly what exchange-incompleteness excludes), and no-cloning (inherited in the covered sectors); Conway–Kochen and Colbeck–Renner noted as concordant. Relativity sector Time from finite capacity plus genuine randomness: the staging theorem (Θ(d) dependency depth, unbounded chains via the Moore bound; the quantitative failure law conditionalized on measure-level independence with exact minimal witnesses); the temporal quantum defined combinatorially, no Hamiltonian input. The speed of light grounded in an exact discrete dependency cone (combinatorial, no quantum input), the Lieb–Robinson bound consumed at cross-check grade only; a boost no-go theorem reducing Lorentz invariance to named statistical conditions, with the Collins fine-tuning objection recorded as a gate. The trace-descent theorem group: the growth-history measure forced onto the Mazurkiewicz trace quotient; chain reflection positivity at every depth with completely explicit spectrum. An equation sector of nine verification families (Schrödinger, Dirac, Maxwell/U(1), canonical commutator, Yang–Mills SU(2), Regge calculus, Klein–Gordon, Noether loop, Cartan curvature), where every machine-precision claim is the shadow of a proved backbone lemma — including the factor ½ of H = ½L + V, identified as the Wilson Fourier coefficient fixed by the action theorem. Four experimentally testable predictions, including a discriminating flat-versus-sigmoid visibility protocol. The Standard Model gauge group, ħ, and G remain open, with attack routes registered. How to read Three entry paths are marked in the document. Path A (derivational core): axioms → group structure → Noether sector → least action → Born rule → positivity. Path B (physical mechanisms): constraint propagation → time as determination → wave function as gap envelope → fields. Path C (scope and limits): the Claim Ledger, then Discussion and Open Problems — for the reader who wants to know what is claimed and what is not before reading anything else. The Claim Ledger is the single authoritative register of claim status; wherever body text sounds stronger, the Ledger governs. New in Version 24.0 (Version 23.0 is the immediately preceding public release; this version supersedes the internal V12–V15 and V17–V19 series, whose numbers are not used externally.) Version 24.0 resolves the structure of the multi-cycle non-abelian obstruction — the sector's longest-standing open front — following an external research exchange with three rounds of independent re-verification (fourteen core figures, three commutant instruments implemented independently, exact integer arithmetic on the obstruction side) and two rounds of counter-review that corrected one quantifier on each side: A dichotomy of the multi-cycle obstruction (new remark). Word blindness on multi-cycle networks has two identified sources, jointly covering every tested case, with opposite behaviour as cycle rank grows. Type I (global; graded): a class-preserving outer automorphism yields a commutant element by an argument free of cycle-rank reference; its non-triviality holds at theorem grade for b₁ ≥ d(G) via generating tuples, is monotone in b₁, and the threshold is measured at b_σ = 2 on the tested Wall group (at b₁ = 1 the permutation is the identity — no universal claim is made, and the existence of groups with threshold above 2 is registered open). Type II (local; measured): Out_c trivial but fusion fails on a proper subgroup, the blind pairs sitting in non-generating sectors — the same mechanism that defeats Wilson generation; this blindness heals: on every verified group (A₄, SL(2,3), A₄×ℤ₂) the full commutant collapses to trivial at b₁ = 3 by exact computation on two independently implemented instruments, although word readouts remain blind — the shift primitives separate, above a threshold, and the natural explanation (tuples becoming generating) is refuted by the persistence of blind blocks. Three boundaries at full strength: no exhaustiveness proof (a third source is not excluded); no general healing theorem (the verified groups all heal at 3, cause unidentified); the verified Type II sample is narrow. The quotient proposition restated in stratified form. The operational-equivalence quotient's necessity is now part of the proposition's own statement, in three strata: necessary where Out_c ≠ 1 at every b₁ ≥ b_σ(G), with b_σ ≤ d(G) at theorem grade; one-dimensional at b₁ = 2 on the fusion-type groups (verified cases); trivial at b₁ ≥ 3 on every verified fusion-type group and at every tested b₁ for word-separation-complete groups (a fourteen-group scan of orders ≤ 31 found no third source). Pre-registered validation preceded the restatement: a stratification-exhaustiveness scan (pass), a new-witness search (no new witness in range, downgrade clause applied as pre-registered), and a zero-conflict audit of the three strata against all archived data. The residual open problem is now precisely located. What remains of multi-cycle completeness: the rare Out_c ≠ 1 groups (54 in the exhaustive range through order 96) above their measured thresholds, the low-b₁ fusion stratum, a general healing theorem, and whether a threshold above 2 occurs. The multiplicity-freeness conjecture's mechanism sentence is corrected with the two regimes stated separately (at b₁ = 2 the shifts do not separate — the blind-pair transposition commutes with every primitive, integer-exact — and reduce the commutant to
Modern theoretical physics rests on two highly successful but conceptually distinct frameworks: quantum mechanics and general relativity. While both theories are experimentally confirmed to high precision within their respective domains, they rely on fundamentally different starting points. General relativity takes spacetime as a primitive geometric structure, whereas quantum mechanics is formulated in terms of abstract state spaces without intrinsic spacetime meaning. Most approaches to quantum gravity attempt to reconcile this tension by modifying, quantizing, or discretizing spacetime itself. Even in approaches where spacetime is said to be “emergent,” it typically remains the primary conceptual backdrop on which physical processes are defined. Despite extensive efforts, there is no consensus on whether spacetime should be regarded as fundamental or derivative. In this work, a more radical starting point is explored. Rather than modifying spacetime or its geometry, we ask whether spacetime can be excluded entirely from the fundamental layer of the theory and recovered only at a later, operational stage. The central question is not how spacetime behaves, but whether the notion of “what lies between physical objects” must be spatial or temporal at the most fundamental level. We propose a framework—referred to here as Super Relativity (SR)—based on a single pre-geometric postulate: the existence of a monotonically expanding set of possible quantum configurations, referred to as the flux. Formally, this flux is represented as a monotone, σ-finite family of capacity measures on a common configuration space (introduced in Section 2). This postulate deliberately refrains from assuming spacetime, time ordering, metric structure, causality, or dynamics. Within this pre-geometric core, two derived, dimensionless notions are introduced: utilization, describing the realization of configurations, and saturation, defined as the ratio between utilized and available configurations. A central structural element of SR is the strict separation between a core layer and an interface layer. In the core layer, all quantities are pre-geometric and dimensionless, and no reference is made to space, time, motion, energy, or interaction. Only at the interface layer are operational notions introduced, including clocks, rulers, and signal propagation. Spacetime, in this construction, is not a dynamical entity but an effective bookkeeping structure that encodes relative rates of change once a calibration to physical units is performed. Within this framework, gravitational phenomena do not originate from spacetime curvature taken as fundamental. Instead, they arise from variations in saturation that, at the interface level, manifest as uniform rescalings of physical processes. When expressed in geometric language, these rescalings reproduce the standard predictions of general relativity, including gravitational time dilation and the equivalence between gravitation and acceleration. The invariant local speed of light is not postulated but follows as a derived consequence, since both clock rates and signal propagation are affected identically by the same underlying saturation mechanism. The aim of this paper is not to introduce new empirical predictions beyond those of general relativity, nor to present a complete theory of quantum gravity. Rather, the objective is foundational: to demonstrate that the mathematical structure of general relativity can be reconstructed from a single pre-geometric postulate without assuming spacetime as part of the fundamental ontology. In this sense, SR should be understood as a reconstruction and reinterpretation of known physics, rather than as a competing dynamical theory. An extended and fully explicit formulation of the framework, including all intermediate steps, is available in a companion preprint (version V12) deposited on Zenodo. The present paper restricts itself to the minimal conceptual and mathematical structure required to establish logical consistency and to demonstrate the emergence of general-relativistic behavior at the interface level.
Complementarity-First Foundational Release I is a ten-record research release consisting of nine technical papers and this overview. The technical corpus comprises 246 date-neutral public-manuscript pages and spans a conceptual-formal primitive, four quantum-foundations studies, a paired-incidence and transport architecture for finite/local gravity, two distinct local Regge descendants, and a source-controlled Unified Dynamics synthesis. This article supplies the release- wide paper map, dependency graph, claim/evidence classification, artifact register, and open-problem ledger. Its organizing principle is anti-flattening: conceptual proposals, conditional theorems, exact countermodels, finite computations, prospective tests, negative results, and source-controlled syntheses are not treated as interchangeable evidence. The foundational paper defines a completed relation with internal role distinction and shows by elementary independence models that the primitive does not itself determine probability, continuity, geometry, dynamics, or complex quantum theory. The quantum branch separates a conditional reconstruction audit from three focused problems: readout of the two-rebit tomographic defect, certificate-relative operational objectivity underanoninjectivepublicinterface, andtheresourcerequirementsforrecordsandfiniteautonomous maintenance without a free thermodynamic arrow. The gravity branch begins only after a rank-two paired-chiral carrier, Lorentzian real structure, orientation, affine displacement sector, and transport law are selected; common-coframe data then arise only conditionally through the admitted simplicity, gluing, and nondegeneracy chain, after which the branch reaches conditional Palatini–Regge structure and exact finite periodic endpoints but not arbitrary-mesh or continuum closure. Two later gravity papers address different questions: descriptor-local H2/H2R transfer and a conditional curved-Regge identity, versus an intrinsic six-sector Reynolds cancellation mechanism for local zero germs. Unified Dynamics organizes controlled quantum and gravity descendants around a finite dual-pair carrier and a common BF-type kernel while retaining a variation-space obstruction, open complement-operation coherence, no absolute scale, and no Level-4 prediction. The strongest defensible conclusion is therefore a disciplined finite/local reconstruction architecture with exact technical advances, explicit failures, and auditable selectors. Release I is not a completed theory of physics, a continuum unification, a derivation of the Born rule or complex scalars from primitive complementarity, a quantized-gravity result, or an externally peer-reviewed and independently replicated corpus.
Articles 1–8 constitute the published core of the reconstruction programme; within the later work, Articles 19 and 20 are also published. The present paper provides a status map of the full working architecture, Articles 1–21. This architecture is not homogeneous in status: some papers extend the core framework, others formulate conditional mechanisms, and some are explicitly exploratory notes. The purpose of this paper is to make these distinctions explicit rather than to present all components as equally established. The paper fixes the primitive hypotheses of the programme, identifies its load-bearing results, separates established statements from conditional mechanisms, and locates the remaining open problems. It is intended as a logical charter for the series: a guide to what belongs to the published core, what is under active development, and what remains exploratory. The established framework reconstructs a number of known structures and possesses a limited but non-trivial prohibitive content: certain classes of universes are incompatible with its closure architecture, while several candidate mechanisms remain conditional. Until recently it offered no distinctive quantitative prediction beyond known physics — numerical predictions arose only in exploratory extensions whose additional assumptions remained unproved. Article 20 changes this. From the established causal foundation — the atomicity of the elementary (length-one) closure of Article 19 — it derives the programme's first distinctive, falsifiable prediction: because admissibility is a decided binary property, its closure is a first-passage time, and the rigidity of first passage forces a decoherence cliff (a threshold loss of interference visibility) in the soft-photon regime, where standard decoherence predicts a smooth exponential. The deviation is derived, not fitted. A refit of the 2004 thermal-emission data places them in a regime where cliff and decoherence coincide, so the prediction is not yet tested, but it lies within reach of existing matter-wave interferometry. The central challenge has accordingly shifted. Of the three routes to empirical distinctiveness — a unique closure principle, a boundary-condition selection mechanism, or a quantitative prediction following from the established framework alone — the third now exists. The open questions are no longer internal consistency, but the experimental test of this prediction and the closure of its single residual freedom: the order-one decision-theoretic cost of resolving the admissibility predicate, conjectured to equal the relative entropy of the resolved branch.
Horizon Monism proposes a unified theoretical framework in which quantum structure, operational time, and spacetime geometry emerge from finite reference horizons embedded within a single, scale-free relational–interaction totality. Rather than treating spacetime, fundamental time, and quantum probabilities as primitive, the framework investigates their possible reconstruction through finite distinguishability, relational compression, and effective projection structures. The paper establishes a strict mathematical hierarchy of finite-horizon resolutions, deriving monotonic distinction deficits and a directed fine-to-coarse order as a candidate foundation for operational time. This construction is extended to multiple reference horizons through order-preserving transport and conditional shared-blindness theorems. Within a conditionally constructed complex groupoid algebra, the minimal noncommutative effective structure is identified as M₂(ℂ). Projection compression is shown to generate noncommuting effective operators, while smoothly varying projections induce connection curvature. Under specified geometric conditions, this curvature reconstructs the Levi-Civita curvature of an emergent Lorentzian spacetime. Explicit de Sitter and nonlinear Green-spectral constructions provide conditional examples of Einstein geometry and stable nonvanishing projected curvature. A further reconstruction of quantum probability establishes that normalized, context-independent, coarse-graining-consistent effect assignments admit a unique density-matrix representation, recovering the Born rule for pure states. The Principle of Minimal Sufficient Realization is additionally applied to a restricted class of Standard-Model-type representations, yielding conditional minimality results for color, fermion generations, and Higgs structure. The framework distinguishes exact mathematical theorems from conditional physical realizations. Its principal unresolved questions concern the microscopic origin of quantum probability consistency, physical state selection, continuum dynamics, and experimentally distinguishable predictions. Horizon Monism is presented as a mathematical and theoretical research program toward the possible co-emergence of quantum physics and gravitation.
This document provides a technical review and supplemental material for the poster "A Quantum-Cosmological Picture with Operator-Algebraic Relational Frames", which details an operational framework where algebra is taken as a fundamental physical structure, while spacetime, curvature, particles, interactions, propagation, and gauge-like symmetries are derived from mathematical relationships that can be proven to occur by algebraic necessity. The framework is developed from the bottom-up, using unitary quantum-mechanical first principles, and provides a coherent way to incorporate particles into quantum gravity, yielding an elegant structure where all the pieces fit together.The poster proposes an algebraic origin for matter and interaction, which is based on quantum relational frames. Particle-like objects arise as local non-closure defects, while curvature arises from the related failure of local boundary operations to commute. Fermionic sectors, bosonic generators, particle and anti-particle orientation, and propagator behavior are then placed in the same algebraic setting, rather than being added as independent field-theoretic inputs. The poster's framework treats a physical observer or system as a local frame, defined as finite algebraic state with its own internal history. Other possible histories, future alternatives, and non-local systems are represented through the algebra available to that local frame. In this setting, spacetime is not introduced as a pre-existing manifold. Instead, event coordinates are obtained from observables that are shown to map algebraic histories into a local event representation. This gives a route from quantum-histories to special-relativistic distances and then to general-relativistic behavior through the comparison of local event descriptions. Moreover, the quantum measurement problem (QMP) is resolved at the framework's fundamental level of construction by treating the algebra's quantum frames as ensemble of density matrices constructed on recursive branching channels of quantum information, where a sequence of positive-operator-valued measurements (POVM) updates each local state's history.The first purpose of this review is to validate the poster's equations and clarify their significance. The poster is condensed, so several of its central claims require expansion in order to elucidate how the pieces fit together. In particular, the validation focuses on: how the poster's overall equations are constructed and whether the framework is consistent and coherent (Section 1.2); how the poster's local-frame construction supports its particle/signature claims about SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) gauge symmetry (Section 4.1); and, how its event observables recover the metric distance structure of special and general relativity (Sections 4.2.3 to 4.2.10).The second purpose is to show that the framework's equations lead to several other significant results that form a complete picture. In particular, a generalized form of loop quantum gravity (LQG) is derived (Section 5.9) by passing from algebraic histories to event geometry and then to a dual graph structure of event simplexes. This is significant because the same algebraic framework also supplies matter and propagator structures in that setting, giving a possible first-principles route to fermions, bosonic generators, and propagation within the LQG correspondence. Another important result is the derivation of quadratic quantum gravity (QQG) from the algebra (Sections 3 and 14.9). Because the local curvature operator is represented by a finite commutator, its trace vanishes. As a result, the usual linear curvature scalar is absent at the fundamental algebraic level, and the first nonzero invariant is quadratic in curvature. This gives a curvature-square gravitational functional as a consequence of the operator algebra rather than as an assumed action. Moreover, the review refines the poster's marginal curvature equation (defined within local configuration space) into a reduced curvature (defined as a push-forward into event space) (Section 6.5). This clarifies how the poster's curvature equation should be interpreted and leads to an operator algebraic form for general relativity (Section 12.2). Discussion about black holes (Section 7.1) and their event-space gravitational description (Section 7.2) is provided.The other sections use the operator-algebra framework to study interactions (Sections 2.2 and 9.1); particle-count observables (Section 8); black-hole-like trapping (Section 13.1); anisotropic minimal black-hole support (Section 10.5); and the Green's functions of radiation sectors (Section 13.4). These topics show that the poster's equations are not isolated formulas. They form a unified algebraic framework that can be used to organize several areas of quantum gravity, particle structure, and cosmology from the same starting point. A discussion about how quantum fields (Section 15.1) and particle masses (Section 16.4) may be obtained from the operator algebra is also provided