My work defines sub-physical interactions for quanta, with wide emergent coverage. Systems are self-generating and the deterministic mechanism is constitution-invariant.
John S Valentine, 2026-02 preprint 1.0
We explain our mechanics for deterministic physicality, encoded formally as a set of six rules, taking a journey from nothing to dynamic physical systems. On the way, we show how the rules encode many principles we rely upon in physics and philosophy, such as uniqueness, exclusion, propagation, physical reification, and how physical networks emerge from basic dynamics. We also summarise the emergent phenomena, and how we observe them from a human perspective.
I wrote this paper because I wanted to communicate that the six rules I established have justifiable and necessary origin. Since I tightly consolidated those rules,[15] my papers only developed the emergent peoperties, into areas of current interest to researchers in high-energy physics and quantum cosmology.
This paper[18] focuses on the rules themselves, highlighting the principles encoded in them.
The "justifiable and necessary origin" is part of a demand I make of physics: to be explainable in a philosophically tight way. This means transparency and a clear connection of ideas, from the foundations to the human observed experience. This paper starts with the basics of entity, how more than one instance can exist, how they couple or interact, and how systems are physical and dynamic.
It reframes, but does not contradict, some concepts and principles in physics. For example, I think there's a valuable perspective on the interpretation of quantum mechanics, where I show that in the normal process of fermion propagation, the entities are wave-like as bosons, and under special conditions they are point-like as fermions, and that we only observe at the fermions. There are continuous and discrete behaviours inherent to the process, and there is no contention around quantization.
I think I improve on philosophical clarity, by providing a classical deterministic mechanism that shows the behaviours that look random or statistical as quantum mechanics. My hope is that my mechanism is a theoretical layer that can underpin quantum mechanics and other accepted foundations, form a transparent hierarchy of the emergent effects that we recognize, and provide another set of tools to analyse current problems in high energy physics and cosmology.
I'm always open to falsification, so I highlighted any design choices and free parameters in my 2024 paper.[16] As I develop and test ideas further, I hope to impose constraints on these, and gain further insights.