The experiment reported by J. M. Obrecht et al. in 2007 provided the first direct measurement of the temperature dependence of the Casimir–Polder interaction between ultracold atoms and a dielectric surface. A nearly pure Bose–Einstein condensate of 87Rb atoms was positioned a few micrometers from a fused-silica substrate, whose temperature was varied while the surrounding environment remained near room temperature. The experiment detected changes in the collective dipole oscillation frequency of the trapped atomic cloud and showed that the Casimir–Polder effect became nearly three times larger when the substrate was heated to approximately 605 K. The results were consistent with the nonequilibrium theory developed by Antezza, Pitaevskii, and Stringari (Obrecht et al. 2007; Antezza, Pitaevskii, and Stringari 2005). This article develops a critical–propositional examination of that experiment in dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO), especially its modal axioms, its conception of boundaries, triangular observation, phenomenic elements, Inducing Effects, cosmogenic theorem, cosmological eras, and its concept of transcendent substance as information or knowledge generated through atomic relations and associated with atomic radiation. Particular attention is given to Absolute Truth I, according to which a logical, mathematical, and eternal Nothingness precedes the universe without being an absolute metaphysical non-being; Absolute Truth II, according to which each existing element possesses its own individualizing magnetic field; and Absolute Truth V, according to which an element possesses logical existence only when it is observed by, or situated within the frequencies of, at least two other elements, observation being understood as physical relation rather than human cognition (Cabannas and Silva 2016, 2018, 2025, 2026f). The central thesis developed here is deliberately restricted. Obrecht et al. do not experimentally verify the modal ontology of the Theory of Objectivity. Their experiment nevertheless provides an unusually productive operational environment for examining some of its proposed bridge principles. Particularly significant are the constitutive role of a material boundary, the measurable influence of electromagnetic fields in the absence of mechanical contact, the relational dependence of the atom–surface interaction on an external thermal environment, and the conversion of thermal and electromagnetic states into experimentally recoverable information. At the same time, major points of tension remain. The quantum vacuum of Casimir–Polder physics cannot be identified with the logical Nothingness of Absolute Truth I. The experiment does not demonstrate that every physical element possesses a unique individualizing magnetic field in the strong sense proposed by Absolute Truth II. Nor does the triadic configuration of atom, substrate, and environment establish that triangular observation constitutes a necessary ontological condition of existence. The equation of radiation, information, and transcendent knowledge also requires an explicit bridge theory not supplied by standard quantum electrodynamics. Accordingly, the article argues that the strongest scientific role of the Obrecht ex- periment for the TO is not retrospective confirmation but prospective operationalization. It provides a model for transforming modal claims into measurable bridge hypotheses. A scientifically discriminating version of the TO must ultimately identify quantitative observables for which its predictions differ from those of quantum electrodynamics and nonequilibrium Lifshitz theory. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; Casimir–Polder force; quantum vacuum; thermal radiation; nonequilibrium physics; Bose–Einstein condensate; modal ontology; boundary; information; triangular observation; quantum electrodynamics; phenomenic elements.
The experiment reported by J. M. Obrecht et al. in 2007 provided the first direct measurement of the temperature dependence of the Casimir–Polder interaction between ultracold atoms and a dielectric surface. A nearly pure Bose–Einstein condensate of 87Rb atoms was positioned a few micrometers from a fused-silica substrate, whose temperature was varied while the surrounding environment remained near room temperature. The experiment detected changes in the collective dipole oscillation frequency of the trapped atomic cloud and showed that the Casimir–Polder effect became nearly three times larger when the substrate was heated to approximately 605 K. The results were consistent with the nonequilibrium theory developed by Antezza, Pitaevskii, and Stringari (Obrecht et al. 2007; Antezza, Pitaevskii, and Stringari 2005). This article develops a critical–propositional examination of that experiment in dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO), especially its modal axioms, its conception of boundaries, triangular observation, phenomenic elements, Inducing Effects, cosmogenic theorem, cosmological eras, and its concept of transcendent substance as information or knowledge generated through atomic relations and associated with atomic radiation. Particular attention is given to Absolute Truth I, according to which a logical, mathematical, and eternal Nothingness precedes the universe without being an absolute metaphysical non-being; Absolute Truth II, according to which each existing element possesses its own individualizing magnetic field; and Absolute Truth V, according to which an element possesses logical existence only when it is observed by, or situated within the frequencies of, at least two other elements, observation being understood as physical relation rather than human cognition (Cabannas and Silva 2016, 2018, 2025, 2026f). The central thesis developed here is deliberately restricted. Obrecht et al. do not experimentally verify the modal ontology of the Theory of Objectivity. Their experiment nevertheless provides an unusually productive operational environment for examining some of its proposed bridge principles. Particularly significant are the constitutive role of a material boundary, the measurable influence of electromagnetic fields in the absence of mechanical contact, the relational dependence of the atom–surface interaction on an external thermal environment, and the conversion of thermal and electromagnetic states into experimentally recoverable information. At the same time, major points of tension remain. The quantum vacuum of Casimir–Polder physics cannot be identified with the logical Nothingness of Absolute Truth I. The experiment does not demonstrate that every physical element possesses a unique individualizing magnetic field in the strong sense proposed by Absolute Truth II. Nor does the triadic configuration of atom, substrate, and environment establish that triangular observation constitutes a necessary ontological condition of existence. The equation of radiation, information, and transcendent knowledge also requires an explicit bridge theory not supplied by standard quantum electrodynamics. Accordingly, the article argues that the strongest scientific role of the Obrecht ex- periment for the TO is not retrospective confirmation but prospective operationalization. It provides a model for transforming modal claims into measurable bridge hypotheses. A scientifically discriminating version of the TO must ultimately identify quantitative observables for which its predictions differ from those of quantum electrodynamics and nonequilibrium Lifshitz theory. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; Casimir–Polder force; quantum vacuum; thermal radiation; nonequilibrium physics; Bose–Einstein condensate; modal ontology; boundary; information; triangular observation; quantum electrodynamics; phenomenic elements.
The experiment reported by Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao, Kunhong Shen, Zubin Jacob, and Tongcang Li in “Observation and Control of Casimir Effects in a Sphere- Plate-Sphere System” constitutes an unusually fertile case for examining the relation between experimentally established quantum-field phenomena and the modal ontology proposed by the Theory of Objectivity (TO). Xu et al. experimentally realized a three-terminal Casimir architecture in which a micrometer-thick cantilever is positioned between two gold-coated microspheres. The arrangement allows the central mechanical element to experience Casimir forces associ- ated with two distinct external bodies, while parametric modulation permits controlled coupling, switching, and amplification of energy transfer among three mechanical resonators. The authors report agreement between measured Casimir-force gradients and calculations based on Lifshitz theory and the proximity-force approximation, as well as resonant energy transfer and feedback-assisted amplification. Crucially, however, in the reported geometry the contribution of genuinely non-pairwise-additive three-body effects is estimated to be negligible. The observed triadic architecture therefore cannot itself be treated as evidence for an irreducible three-body ontology (Xu et al. 2022). This article develops a critical–propositional dialogue between these results and the foundational and recent literature of the Theory of Objectivity. Particular attention is given to three Absolute Truths. The First Absolute Truth maintains that prior to the universe there was Nothingness, yet this Nothingness is not absolute non-being but a logical, mathematical, and eternal essence. The Second states that each existing element possesses its own magnetic field, through which it is individualized. The Fifth holds that an element requires observation—or inclusion within the frequency relation—of at least two other elements for logical existence, “observation” here denoting physical relationality rather than human consciousness. The analysis argues that Xu et al. provide meaningful indirect support for operational bridges associated with the TO, especially the distinction between physical vacuum and absolute Nothingness, the physical significance of boundaries, frequency- dependent relationality, and the dynamical importance of a three-element configuration. Nevertheless, the experiment neither establishes the pre-cosmic logical essence proposed by the First Absolute Truth, nor detects an individualized magnetic field in the sense required by the Second, nor demonstrates that triadic relations are logically necessary for existence as asserted by the Fifth. The article therefore distinguishes empirical compatibility, bridge corroboration, and theory confirmation. A central proposal emerges from this comparison: future experiments designed to enhance and separately measure a genuinely nonadditive three-body Casimir term would provide a substantially more discriminating operational bridge for the triadic claims of the TO. The paper concludes that Xu et al. should be regarded neither as proof of the Theory of Objectivity nor as irrelevant to it, but as an experimentally rigorous platform through which several of its concepts can be translated into better-defined and potentially falsifiable physical questions. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; Casimir effect; quantum vacuum; modal ontology; three-body interaction; relationality; boundary conditions; information; quantum fluctuations; nonadditivity; phenomenic elements; empirical testability.
The experimental observation of the dynamical Casimir effect by C. M. Wilson and collaborators in 2011 constitutes one of the most significant laboratory demonstra- tions of the nontrivial physical structure associated with the quantum vacuum. Using a superconducting coplanar transmission line terminated by a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), Wilson et al. implemented a rapidly time-dependent electromagnetic boundary condition capable of producing microwave photons from an initially near-vacuum field state. Rather than mechanically accelerating a macroscopic mirror to relativistic velocity, the experiment altered the effective electrical length of a transmission line by rapidly modulating the SQUID inductance. The authors detected broadband photon generation and, crucially, two-mode squeezing correlations characteristic of correlated photon-pair production. The experiment therefore supplied empirical evidence for the dynamical conversion of quantum vacuum fluctuations into observable radiation under nonadiabatic boundary modulation (Wilson et al. 2011). This article develops an expanded critical–propositional analysis of Wilson et al. in dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO), as formulated by Vidamor Cabannas and Denivaldo Silva from 2016 onward. The analysis distinguishes carefully between empirical corroboration, conceptual compatibility, operational analogy, and modal demonstration. Particular attention is devoted to the First Absolute Truth, according to which prior to the emergence of the universe there was Nothing, while this Nothing is not absolute nonbeing but an eternal logical and mathematical essence; the Second Absolute Truth, according to which every existing element possesses a field uniquely proper to it; the Fourth Absolute Truth concerning boundaries and interfaces; the Fifth Absolute Truth, according to which logical existence requires relational observation or frequency inclusion involving at least two other elements; and the Seventh Absolute Truth, in which the transcendent element is understood as knowledge or information produced through atomic relations and physically associated with atomic radiation. The central thesis advanced here is that the dynamical Casimir experiment must not be interpreted as empirical proof that physical entities arise from the absolute or logical Nothing postulated by TO. The quantum vacuum investigated by Wilson et al. is already a highly structured physical state presupposing quantum fields, spacetime, electromagnetic modes, material circuitry, boundary conditions, external driving, and energy transfer. Consequently, the quantum vacuum and TO’s primordial logical Nothing belong to categorically different explanatory levels. Nevertheless, the experiment is highly significant for TO because it demonstrates that an apparently particle-empty state cannot be equated with ontological nonexistence; that boundary conditions participate actively in determining physical manifestation; that correlated radiation emerges relationally between complementary modes; and that measurable information about the generation process is encoded in radiative correlations. The article further relates the experiment to the TO categories of phenomenic elements, Expansive Inductive Effects (EIE), Reductive Inductive Effects (EIR), the cosmogonic theorem, the cosmological eras, boundary lines, frequency relations, and the proposed equivalence between transcendent information and radiation. It argues that Wilson et al. provide indirect empirical support for certain operational bridges compatible with TO, especially those concerning boundaries, relational structures, and information-bearing radiation, while leaving the modal axioms themselves neither experimentally proved nor refuted. A final methodological section proposes a transition from retrospective compati- bility to prospective testability: if TO is to acquire independent empirical discriminating power, it must derive measurable quantities or correlations that differ from predictions already obtainable within quantum electrodynamics and superconducting-circuit theory. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; dynamical Casimir effect; quantum vacuum; su- perconducting circuits; SQUID; boundary conditions; vacuum fluctuations; two-mode squeezing; modal ontology; information; radiation; EIE; EIR; quantum field theory.
This article develops an expanded critical–propositional analysis of Tatjana Wilk, Si- mon C. Webster, Axel Kuhn, and Gerhard Rempe’s 2007 experiment, “Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface,” published in Science 317: 488–490, DOI 10.1126/sci- ence.1143835, in systematic dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO) developed by Vidamor Cabannas and Denivaldo Silva. Wilk et al. realized a cavity-based interface between a single rubidium atom and individually emitted photons, first generating atom–photon entanglement and subse- quently mapping the atomic quantum state onto a second photon, thereby transferring a relationally encoded quantum structure from matter to radiation. The experiment was explicitly conceived as an elementary architecture for quantum networking in which stationary atoms function as quantum memories and photons function as mobile quantum messengers. The analysis asks whether, and in what restricted sense, this experiment can be regarded as compatible with or indirectly corroborative of propositions advanced by the Theory of Objectivity. Special attention is given to the seven Absolute Truths of the TO, understood within the theory as possessing modal rather than merely inductive necessity. The article therefore rejects a simple inferential scheme in which experimental agreement would “prove” the axioms. Instead, it proposes a layered epistemology distinguishing modal necessity, operational consequence, empirical bridge, observational compatibility, and discriminating prediction. Particular emphasis is placed on Absolute Truth II, according to which every existent element possesses its own individualizing magnetic field; Absolute Truth IV, concerning boundary and differentiation; Absolute Truth V, according to which logical existence requires relational observation or inclusion within the frequency domain of at least two other elements, with observation explicitly understood as non-human and objective; Absolute Truth VI, concerning composition from antecedent elements; and Absolute Truth VII, associated in the TO with a transcendent element identified with knowledge or information generated in atomic relations and regarded as equivalent to atomic radiation. The Wilk experiment is especially significant for the TO because it exhibits an experimentally controlled sequence in which atomic degrees of freedom, electromagnetic interaction, boundary conditions, quantum correlations, and emitted radiation jointly realize a transformation of physically encoded information. In an operational sense, information initially associated with an atomic state becomes correlated with a first photon and is subsequently transferred into a two-photon state. The experiment therefore provides a concrete empirical domain for examining the TO proposition that atomic relations generate informational structures associated with radiation. Nevertheless, a crucial distinction remains: standard quantum theory establishes that information can be encoded in and transmitted by radiation; it does not establish the stronger ontological identity between information and radiation proposed by the TO. The article further examines possible correspondences with the TO’s phenomenic elements, Inductive Effects, Cosmogonic Theorem, and Cosmological Eras. It argues that light, magnetism, electromagnetic interaction, boundary formation, information transport, and relational differentiation provide meaningful operational bridges, whereas direct extrapolation from cavity quantum electrodynamics to universal cosmogony would be methodologically unjustified. The central conclusion is that Wilk et al. provide neither a proof nor a direct experimental confirmation of the modal ontology of the Theory of Objectivity. They do, however, supply an unusually fertile empirical case in which several structures emphasized by the TO—relation, boundary, field, antecedence, atomic transformation, radiation, and information transfer—are simultaneously realized in a quantitatively controlled microscopic system. This makes the experiment particularly valuable for the development of future operational and discriminating tests of the TO. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; atom–photon interface; quantum information; cavity quantum electrodynamics; atomic radiation; entanglement; modal ontology; information transfer; relational observation; quantum memory; transcendent element.
This article develops an expanded critical–propositional analysis of Tatjana Wilk, Si- mon C. Webster, Axel Kuhn, and Gerhard Rempe’s 2007 experiment, “Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface,” published in Science 317: 488–490, DOI 10.1126/sci- ence.1143835, in systematic dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO) developed by Vidamor Cabannas and Denivaldo Silva. Wilk et al. realized a cavity-based interface between a single rubidium atom and individually emitted photons, first generating atom–photon entanglement and subse- quently mapping the atomic quantum state onto a second photon, thereby transferring a relationally encoded quantum structure from matter to radiation. The experiment was explicitly conceived as an elementary architecture for quantum networking in which stationary atoms function as quantum memories and photons function as mobile quantum messengers. The analysis asks whether, and in what restricted sense, this experiment can be regarded as compatible with or indirectly corroborative of propositions advanced by the Theory of Objectivity. Special attention is given to the seven Absolute Truths of the TO, understood within the theory as possessing modal rather than merely inductive necessity. The article therefore rejects a simple inferential scheme in which experimental agreement would “prove” the axioms. Instead, it proposes a layered epistemology distinguishing modal necessity, operational consequence, empirical bridge, observational compatibility, and discriminating prediction. Particular emphasis is placed on Absolute Truth II, according to which every existent element possesses its own individualizing magnetic field; Absolute Truth IV, concerning boundary and differentiation; Absolute Truth V, according to which logical existence requires relational observation or inclusion within the frequency domain of at least two other elements, with observation explicitly understood as non-human and objective; Absolute Truth VI, concerning composition from antecedent elements; and Absolute Truth VII, associated in the TO with a transcendent element identified with knowledge or information generated in atomic relations and regarded as equivalent to atomic radiation. The Wilk experiment is especially significant for the TO because it exhibits an experimentally controlled sequence in which atomic degrees of freedom, electromagnetic interaction, boundary conditions, quantum correlations, and emitted radiation jointly realize a transformation of physically encoded information. In an operational sense, information initially associated with an atomic state becomes correlated with a first photon and is subsequently transferred into a two-photon state. The experiment therefore provides a concrete empirical domain for examining the TO proposition that atomic relations generate informational structures associated with radiation. Nevertheless, a crucial distinction remains: standard quantum theory establishes that information can be encoded in and transmitted by radiation; it does not establish the stronger ontological identity between information and radiation proposed by the TO. The article further examines possible correspondences with the TO’s phenomenic elements, Inductive Effects, Cosmogonic Theorem, and Cosmological Eras. It argues that light, magnetism, electromagnetic interaction, boundary formation, information transport, and relational differentiation provide meaningful operational bridges, whereas direct extrapolation from cavity quantum electrodynamics to universal cosmogony would be methodologically unjustified. The central conclusion is that Wilk et al. provide neither a proof nor a direct experimental confirmation of the modal ontology of the Theory of Objectivity. They do, however, supply an unusually fertile empirical case in which several structures emphasized by the TO—relation, boundary, field, antecedence, atomic transformation, radiation, and information transfer—are simultaneously realized in a quantitatively controlled microscopic system. This makes the experiment particularly valuable for the development of future operational and discriminating tests of the TO. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; atom–photon interface; quantum information; cavity quantum electrodynamics; atomic radiation; entanglement; modal ontology; information transfer; relational observation; quantum memory; transcendent element.
This article develops a critical–propositional analysis of J.-C. Jaskula et al.’s 2012 experiment, “Acoustic Analog to the Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Bose-Einstein Condensate,” in systematic dialogue with the foundational and recent corpus of the Theory of Objectivity (TO). Jaskula et al. experimentally modulated the density of a trapped Bose–Einstein condensate by changing the stiffness of its confining potential, thereby modifying the speed of sound and producing correlated Bogoliubov excitations with approximately equal and opposite momenta. Under periodic modulation, the characteristic excitation frequency was observed to be approximately one-half of the imposed modulation frequency, in agreement with pairwise parametric generation. The experiment therefore provides a particularly useful laboratory setting in which boundary conditions, frequency relations, correlation, antecedent physical struc- ture, and the generation of objectively recoverable information appear simultaneously. Jaskula et al. used a condensate containing approximately 105 metastable helium atoms at a temperature of roughly 200 nK and observed opposite-momentum correlations. A comparison with Bragg spectroscopy yielded a factor α = 2.07 ± 0.20, consistent with the interpretation that the imposed modulation generated excitations in pairs (Jaskula et al., 2012). At the same time, the experiment imposes significant limits on any ontological interpretation. The observed excitations were not shown to arise from an unoccupied quasiparticle vacuum. Because of the finite temperature, the relevant modes possessed a non-negligible thermal population. Jaskula et al. further reported neither sub- Poissonian pair-number fluctuations nor a violation of the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality sufficient to demonstrate the nonclassical character of the correlations (Jaskula et al., 2012). The analysis distinguishes the ontological, modal, and empirical levels required by TO. Particular attention is given to the First Absolute Truth, according to which prior to the physical universe there was Nothing, understood not as absolute nonbeing but as an eternal logical and mathematical essence; the Second Absolute Truth, according to which each existing element possesses a magnetic field proper and exclusive to itself that individuates it; and the Fifth Absolute Truth, according to which an element requires relational observation or inclusion within the frequency of at least two other elements for logical existence. In TO this observation is physical and relational, rather than human or conscious observation. The article also articulates Jaskula et al.’s findings with the Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh Absolute Truths, the phenomenic elements, Inducing Effects, the cosmogonic theorem, and the cosmological Eras of TO. The main conclusion is deliberately asymmet ric: Jaskula et al. provide substantial structural compatibility with a relational ontology of boundaries, frequency, composition, and correlation, but they do not empirically establish the primordial Nothing of VA1, the unique individual magnetic field of VA2, the universal existential requirement of VA5, or the TO identity between information and atomic radiation. The experiment is therefore best treated as an operational bridge and as a source of possible differential tests, rather than as direct proof of TO. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; dynamical Casimir effect; Bose–Einstein condensate; Bogoliubov quasiparticles; quantum vacuum; modal ontology; boundary conditions; correlation; information; analog gravity; Inducing Effects; cosmogenesis.
Ralf Riedinger and collaborators’ 2018 experiment, “Remote Quantum Entanglement between Two Micromechanical Oscillators,” represents an important development in experimental quantum optomechanics because it demonstrates entanglement between engineered mechanical systems located on separate silicon chips. The devices were physically separated by approximately 20 cm and connected through an optical inter- ferometric architecture with an optical path of approximately 70 m. Mechanical modes centered around 5.1 GHz were interfaced with photons near the telecommunications wavelength of 1553.8 nm. A heralding protocol based on Stokes scattering created a delocalized single-phonon excitation, while an anti-Stokes read pulse converted the mechanical excitation back into the optical domain for measurement. The reported symmetric mechanical entanglement witness, Rm,sym = 0.74+0.08 −0.05, lies below the separability bound R = 1, leading the authors to report entanglement with confidence exceeding 99.8 percent (Riedinger et al. 2018). This article develops an expanded critical–propositional examination of that experiment in systematic dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO), as developed by Vidamor Cabannas and Denivaldo Silva from 2016 through 2026. The analysis distinguishes three epistemic levels that must not be conflated: modal necessity, empirical corroboration, and analogical compatibility. In the TO, the Absolute Truths are intended to occupy a modal-ontological level: their truth, if successfully demonstrated, would not depend upon contingent experimental confirmation. Experiments nevertheless remain indispensable for testing whether operational consequences associated with those axioms are instantiated in physical phenomena. Particular attention is given to Absolute Truth One, according to which prior to the emergence of the universe there was Nothing, although this Nothing is not absolute non-being but an eternal logical and mathematical essence; Absolute Truth Two, according to which every existent element possesses a field proper and exclusive to itself that individualizes it; and Absolute Truth Five, according to which an element must be observed by, or lie within the frequency relation of, at least two other elements in order to acquire logical existence, with “observation” referring to physical relations among elements rather than human consciousness. The remaining Absolute Truths are also examined insofar as they concern infinity, boundaries, composition, and the transcendent informational element. The Riedinger experiment does not test primordial Nothingness, infinity, the cosmogonic theorem, or the cosmological eras of the TO directly. Nor does it experi- mentally establish that every element has an exclusive magnetic field, or that logical existence universally requires two observing elements. It does, however, establish a highly relevant empirical domain in which physical individuality, relational state forma- tion, loss of which-path information, optical mediation, mechanical storage, conversion between photons and phonons, and nonseparable correlations occur in a controlled system. Especially significant for the TO is the fact that the relevant physical pro- cesses require no human observer: interactions among resonators, optical modes, beam splitters, detectors, and radiation are sufficient to prepare, transform, and reveal the state. The analysis therefore concludes that Riedinger et al. provide neither a proof nor a direct confirmation of the Theory of Objectivity as a whole. They do, however, offer a strong empirical bridge to operational consequences compatible with the TO’s relational and informational ontology. The experiment is particularly fertile for the TO’s treatment of Absolute Truth Five and of the transcendent element understood as knowledge or information generated in atomic relations and associated with radiation. The article proposes a series of more discriminating future tests intended to separate broad quantum-mechanical relationality from distinctive empirical consequences that would have to follow specifically from the TO. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; quantum entanglement; micromechanical oscillator; optomechanics; modal ontology; information; radiation; phonon; photon; nonseparabil- ity; Absolute Truths; empirical testability.