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MERLIN SCIENCE — E8 Geometric Quantum Darwinism via Phi-Modulated Coherence Propagation — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Oct 26, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

I want to tell you about a hypothesis emerging from the geometry of E8. The claim is this: the 240 root vectors of the E8 lattice, when driven at 132 Hz with phi-coupled phase synchronization, may implement quantum Darwinism through geometric multiplicity encoding. I want to be clear up front, this is a theoretical proposal, not an experimentally confirmed result. The standard picture of quantum Darwinism holds that classicality emerges when a system's pointer states broadcast redundant records into its environment, and those records are what many observers can independently read. The open question is whether that redundancy has a geometric origin rather than being imposed by decoherence dynamics. This proposal explores one possible answer. Here is the mechanism as proposed. Each root vector's coherent state would propagate information about the system's pointer basis across a fractal subset of the eight-dimensional Brillouin zone. The phi-ratio scaling is what would drive the self-s Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.23658715

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