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| author | ELLIS-ANDERSON, Kevin |
| author_facet | ELLIS-ANDERSON, Kevin |
| contents | <p>This preprint presents a foundations-level analysis of physical description based on structural dependency rather than dynamical construction. Quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, and relativistic spacetime are treated as effective regimes arising under different structural conditions, rather than as competing ontologies.</p> <p>The analysis identifies persistence under interaction, irreversible constraint accumulation, stable relational structure, and interaction as minimal requirements for physical behaviour. Collapse is characterised as irreversible loss of compatibility between alternative continuations, without appeal to observers, stochastic dynamics, or additional postulates. Time is treated as structural ordering induced by exclusion, rather than as a primitive background parameter.</p> <p>No new dynamics are proposed and no empirically successful theories are modified. The aim is to clarify explanatory dependencies that underlie familiar physical regimes and to dissolve persistent foundational problems that arise when regime-level descriptions are misidentified as foundations.</p> |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
| publisher | Zenodo |
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| spellingShingle | The Informational Foundations of Physical Reality ELLIS-ANDERSON, Kevin foundations of physics quantum-classical transition irreversibility time collapse constraint accumulation structural explanation <p>This preprint presents a foundations-level analysis of physical description based on structural dependency rather than dynamical construction. Quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, and relativistic spacetime are treated as effective regimes arising under different structural conditions, rather than as competing ontologies.</p> <p>The analysis identifies persistence under interaction, irreversible constraint accumulation, stable relational structure, and interaction as minimal requirements for physical behaviour. Collapse is characterised as irreversible loss of compatibility between alternative continuations, without appeal to observers, stochastic dynamics, or additional postulates. Time is treated as structural ordering induced by exclusion, rather than as a primitive background parameter.</p> <p>No new dynamics are proposed and no empirically successful theories are modified. The aim is to clarify explanatory dependencies that underlie familiar physical regimes and to dissolve persistent foundational problems that arise when regime-level descriptions are misidentified as foundations.</p> |
| title | The Informational Foundations of Physical Reality |
| topic | foundations of physics quantum-classical transition irreversibility time collapse constraint accumulation structural explanation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18198420 |