Rolling the dice for quantum mechanics

This work defines sub-physical interactions for quanta, with wide emergent coverage. Systems are self-generating and the deterministic mechanism is constitution-invariant.

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• Self-quantization: enables continuous waves to localise into unique fermion events;
• Emergent Higgs mechanism, weak interaction, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Z and W bosons.
• Gravitation, in the same mechanism as charge-based interactions (not a unified field);
• A common quantum-chaotic picture for the coherence of black holes and particles;
• A deterministic and solvable representation of vacuum, including quantum fluctuations, gravitation, charge, and other flux effects;
• Asymptote-free, and not an 'effective theory';
• A possible explanation for a matter/anti-matter imbalance during fermiogenesis.

Our deterministic mechanism for physicality has simple rules, from which other detail emerges:

1. Waves are bound in pairs as oscillators (bosons).
2. Quanta propagate radially, with equivalence of phase, distance, and time, $d\phi =ds=dt$, implying only light-speed propagation.
3. Waves are excluded from interactions when they have the same phase and source.
4. A boson's mass-energy is a function of its phases, $\rho =e^{-i\left({\phi }_B-{\phi }_A\right)}$
5. $\rho$ modulates phase $\phi$ of other overlapping bosons.
6. Bosons collapse into a fermion where waves from two different bosons have value $\phi =0$ at a unique point.

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Planck-scale materials from modified deterministic qubit mechanics

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Using mechanics from Valentine, we describe a geodesic default for propagation with a view on entropy, foundations for physical ontology, and exotic phases of matter and phenomena near Planck length on a spectrum towards infinitely-propagating non-collapsing fermions. Wavefunctions, being statistical, lose detail from our deterministic mechanism but can provide insights. At Planck scale, far from their expectation values and reasonable experimental means, they are interleaved combs at Planck intervals with interaction radius starting as small as 6.0e28 eV, or a quarter-Planck-length, with collapse variance like quantum foam. When calculated with vacuum flux and other matter, they exhibit classical distributions at larger scale, expressing as fundamental fields. Our interpretation of gravitation implies that grand unification energy is the same as that for a unified field theory, and we show their encoding and expression within an instance of the mechanism. The Standard Model forces are calibrated with a profile for vacuum flux and two free parameters, for which we provide an upper constraint.

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