Deterministic collapse mechanism
Introducing the Pieces of Eight (Po8) project, with our objectives, the reasoning for our approach, our achievements, and a brief glimpse of the main ideas.
References
List of References
Origination of ideas
An overview of the history of development of ideas, and comparisons with other authors (2010).
Research warning
A cautionary note from the author.
Mechanism
Deterministic mechanism for physicality has six simple rules
Predictions and inferences
When we follow the mechanism into problems in physics, we find some interesting answers.
Arbitrary decisions
Our goal is to eliminate arbitrary decisions in our working. We list them here.
Simulation engine
What results are we looking for in simulation?
Physicality of matter
How matter is made from fundamental and non-physical waves.
Physicality of matter, foundations
A gentler description of the foundations of our mechanism.
Emergent phenomena
Standard phenomena may be described in terms of our basic mechanism.
Oscillator
Entangled qubits with skew to encode mass.
Boson
A boson shell is a propagating entangled collection of oscillators from the same fermion event.
Quantum entanglement
How entities are entangled.
Fermion Event
A point event where two waves, from at least two different bosons, have phase value −b (are in conserved phase).
Weak interaction
The first interaction after a fermion event, where a wave of the fermion interacts with an external wave and collapses their bosons, changing the potential of the shell.
Quark
A fermion, organised into a tightly-confined structure
Constitution
The elements that make up a fermion, e.g. bosons, or their waves.
Electromagnetism
How a charged particle relates to electromagnetism
Plasma (state of matter)
The process of a plasma, where matter fails to re-constitute consistently, and fermions have no continued identity.
Mass-energy
The intrinsic mass-energy of a wave.
Phase modulation
How mass-energy acts as a phase operator, or field term, on the waves of other overlapping bosons
Degeneracy pressure
Our interpretation of what degeneracy pressure is, and how to overcome it.
Gravitation
The statistical effect that a massive body has on wave collapse.
Black hole
Our constitution for a fermion allows its bosons to independently escape a 'probabilistic' event horizon (not a strict Schwarzschild radius), and for matter to re-encode itself into a form that may escape.
Gravitational waves from black hole binaries
What might happen as black hole binaries merge
Neutrino
A fermion, constituted from two bosons of low mass-energy
Time
An emergent aspect of phase propagation.
Action
The interpretations of the displacement of successive collapse (source) positions for a boson
Synchronicity
How the phase-coherence of bosons can affect matter and energy.
Dark matter
Proposing an emergent aspect of physicality: clouds of temporary fermions in the flux of background radiation.
Space
Space is the generalized background manifold.
Hierarchy
Convenient levels of abstraction, from foundational, through quantum and classical, to conceptual.
Unified field
A description of what is occupying empty space
Vacuum
A description of what is occupying empty space
Blog: Ideals of 'physics foundations'
What are the desirable qualities of a good foundational theory for physics?
Interpretation: many worlds
Our interpretation of the Many Worlds interpretation
Blog: access to science
How we can avoid an undesirable outcome when reforming scientific publishing?
Exclusion
A wave is excluded from interactons if has the same phase as another wave on the same shell
Exclusion (derivation)
A philosophical derivation of exclusion, from information theory and uniquely-identifiable entities
Paper: 2024-1 Simulation
Emergent Vacuum, Gravitation, and Standard Model Structure from Deterministic Mechanics
Paper: 2014 Cosmology
Minimal Deterministic Physicality Applied to Cosmology