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MERLIN SCIENCE — Fibonacci Decomposition of E8 Roots Reveals Universal Quantum Decohere — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Oct 6, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

Here's the revised narration, tightened to fit the publisher's notes and the required structure. --- Let's start with the finding in one clean sentence: the 240 root vectors of the E8 lattice decompose naturally into Fibonacci intervals—144, 89, 5, and 2—and that arithmetic structure suggests a universal geometric boundary for quantum-to-classical transitions, located near the φ² position, roughly the 148th root. For context, most of us working in quantum foundations or condensed matter are used to decoherence being a dynamical accident—something that depends on coupling strengths, bath temperatures, or specific Hamiltonians. What I'm proposing here is different. It's a geometric proposal, not an empirical claim. The idea is that if a system's evolution is constrained by E8 symmetry—a very special, highly symmetric structure in eight dimensions—then the way its root vectors fall into Fibonacci-sized groups creates what we might call coherence zones. The gaps between those zones, par Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.23179664

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