The hundred-and-twenty-two-order disagreement I cannot resolve
A lattice budget and a holographic budget for the same horizon, differing by a hundred and twenty-two decades. One of them has to give.
physics
21 posts.
The Copenhagen–Everett Bridge
New preprint. Copenhagen and Everett have been treated as competitors for seven decades, with the Born rule as the wedge between them. This argues a conservation law removes the wedge.
The instanton exponent was hiding in plain sight
A numerical coincidence I could not explain turns out to be the standard exponential suppression with the coupling pinned by the central charge.
A table of quantum dimensions that summed wrong
A list of numbers I believed because I never added them. The correction was integers all along.
Paper 16: the competing avenues
An honest map of everyone else working on many worlds, gravity and simulation evidence, with falsification criteria for each.
Paper 12: the unification paper, and what it is allowed to claim
The synthesis of the whole architecture, now carrying a status label on every single entry.
Paper 4: gravity as an emergent connection
Plebanski BF theory, a mass gap from the category, and the honest gap between BF and general relativity.
Paper 1: novelty as an exact resource theory
Making novelty a monotone rather than a slogan, so that no free operation can manufacture it.
Paper 0: why three dimensions and a time
What the dimensionality argument actually establishes, which is admissibility rather than optimality, and why the difference matters.
Causal sets in five minutes
Spacetime as a growing set of events rather than a stage. The only approach here with both a measure and a dynamics.
The cotangent identity on the lens space
A classical trig sum that fixes an eta invariant, and the place where this programme made an arithmetic slip.
Lloyd, Bekenstein and Landauer agree
Three completely different arguments about how much a horizon can compute, landing on the same number. That is worth pausing on.
Instanton actions, from 8 pi squared over g squared to 4 pi squared c
The standard exponential suppression, and what happens when the coupling is pinned by a topological level.
Why the central charge is 7
Three WZW factors, three central charges, and a sum that later turns out to fix the vacuum energy exponent.
The Z6 quotient and 2t + 3n + 6Y
A one-line congruence that every Standard Model multiplet satisfies. It is real group theory, and it is weaker than it looks.
Quantum dimensions, by hand
A worked calculation with the sine formula, and why an earlier table in this programme summed to the wrong number.
Where 2592 comes from
The single number the whole framework rests on, built up from three level-k categories with nothing fitted.
What the Discovery Plateau Hypothesis Actually Claims
The claim is narrow: bounded systems stop discovering. Everything else in the programme follows from taking that seriously.
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