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ZERO AS A BALANCED STATE

Prasanth Retnakaran-Saraswathy

Published Oct 2, 2026• 0 citations
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The WUCC/BVP concept connects three different levels of description: (i) the additiveinverse in number systems, (ii) phase-opposed wave amplitudes, and (iii) an interpretation of thephysical vacuum as an active, balanced state. The first is an algebraic identity. The second is astandard interference result under specific conditions. The third is a physical hypothesis and does notfollow from the first two without additional definitions and dynamics.The central question can nevertheless be made precise: can a state be nonzero while a chosenmeasurement returns zero? Yes. In any multi-component state space, a linear measurement may havea nontrivial kernel. This paper uses that fact to define a minimal “binary vacuum” constructionwithout redefining the number zero or claiming that standard quantum field theory entails the WUCContology.

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10.5281/zenodo.23097455

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