Irreversibility Without Cause_ The Hidden Non-Determinism of the Many-Worlds Postulate
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| author | Bostick, Devin |
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| contents | <p class="p1"><strong>Supersession Note — May 2026</strong></p> <p class="p1">This CODES-era work is an exploratory predecessor and is no longer the canonical statement of the author’s program. It has been superseded by the identity-persistence stack: https://zenodo.org/records/20127331. Claims in this record concerning replacement of probability, unrestricted universality, ontology, physics, intelligence, biology, governance, or reality should be read as developmental framing, not as the current formal claim. The current claim is restricted to identity persistence under transformation within explicit admissibility constraints.</p> <p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>This work demonstrates that the Everett (Many-Worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics, while claiming full unitarity, introduces irreversibility without cause. Decoherence is governed by the same unitary operator U(t) and its inverse U†(t); treating branch separation as permanent therefore imposes an unmotivated non-unitary constraint. Logical audit shows that the transition from approximate to exact orthogonality re-inserts collapse by assumption. The paper concludes that a genuinely deterministic formulation must permit lawful recoherence, consistent with Structured Resonance Dynamics.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Irreversibility Without Cause_ The Hidden Non-Determinism of the Many-Worlds Postulate Bostick, Devin Quantum physics Philosophy of Physics Foundations of Physics Deterministic Systems Information Theory Coherence and Decoherence Studies quantum foundations many-worlds everett interpretation unitarity decoherence recoherence determinism reversibility wavefunction collapse tructured resonance dynamics PAS_h lawful coherence phase alignment measurement problem <p class="p1"><strong>Supersession Note — May 2026</strong></p> <p class="p1">This CODES-era work is an exploratory predecessor and is no longer the canonical statement of the author’s program. It has been superseded by the identity-persistence stack: https://zenodo.org/records/20127331. Claims in this record concerning replacement of probability, unrestricted universality, ontology, physics, intelligence, biology, governance, or reality should be read as developmental framing, not as the current formal claim. The current claim is restricted to identity persistence under transformation within explicit admissibility constraints.</p> <p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>This work demonstrates that the Everett (Many-Worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics, while claiming full unitarity, introduces irreversibility without cause. Decoherence is governed by the same unitary operator U(t) and its inverse U†(t); treating branch separation as permanent therefore imposes an unmotivated non-unitary constraint. Logical audit shows that the transition from approximate to exact orthogonality re-inserts collapse by assumption. The paper concludes that a genuinely deterministic formulation must permit lawful recoherence, consistent with Structured Resonance Dynamics.</p> |
| title | Irreversibility Without Cause_ The Hidden Non-Determinism of the Many-Worlds Postulate |
| topic | Quantum physics Philosophy of Physics Foundations of Physics Deterministic Systems Information Theory Coherence and Decoherence Studies quantum foundations many-worlds everett interpretation unitarity decoherence recoherence determinism reversibility wavefunction collapse tructured resonance dynamics PAS_h lawful coherence phase alignment measurement problem |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17568564 |