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Can Finite‑Group Topological Quantum Field Theories Generate Continuous Standard‑Model Gauge Symmetry?
The Standard Model (SM) requires a continuous gauge group $SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ with infinitely many charge sectors, while finite‑group Walker‑Wang constructions provide only finitely many superselection sectors. Existing proposals therefore face a gap: no demonstration that a finite‑group…
Discrete Scale Invariance Without a Universal Factor: Why the Efimov Data Refute Factor-2 Log-Periodicity Across Fundamental Physics
Discrete scale invariance (DSI) — invariance under rescaling by a fixed factor rather than by any factor — is established in few-body quantum physics, Dirac semimetals, and renormalization-group limit cycles. A recurring conjecture holds that the scaling factor itself might be universal, with the…
Fine‑Structure Constant as an Adelically Constrained Cross‑Ratio
The fine‑structure constant α is a dimensionless coupling whose empirical value $\approx$ 1/137 remains unexplained by the Standard Model. This work investigates the hypothesis that α can be expressed as a projective cross‑ratio of adelic invariants and that the adelic product formula…
Wheeler‑DeWitt Zero‑Mode: A Structural Test of the Majorana Analogy in Minisuperspace
The Wheeler–DeWitt (WDW) constraint $\hat H\Psi=0$ yields a stationary “zero‑mode” that dominates minisuperspace quantum cosmology. We test the hypothesis that this zero‑mode can be interpreted as a Majorana‑type mode, which would require (i) a particle–hole (self‑conjugate) symmetry, (ii) a…
Standard Model Particles as Quasiparticles of a Deeper Substrate
The Standard Model (SM) treats the Higgs boson, electrons, and quarks as elementary, yet condensed‑matter physics routinely describes analogous entities as emergent quasiparticles. This gap motivates a quantitative test of whether SM excitations could be collective modes of a deeper substrate. We…
Adelic Constraints on Standard Model Parameters: A Toy Consistency Test
The Standard Model (SM) contains dozens of free parameters whose values are measured but not explained. A long‑standing conjecture proposes that if the fundamental law is defined over the rational numbers $\mathbb{Q}$ and must be consistent under every completion (the real place $\mathbb{R}$ and all…
Finite‑Prime Valuations in Fundamental Physics: An Adelically Demoted Real‑Number Perspective
Precision high‑energy experiments, quantum‑information platforms, and cosmological surveys all express predictions as real‑valued numbers, assuming that the Archimedean field alone captures physical reality. The gap is the absence of a systematic demonstration that finite‑prime ( $p$‑adic )…
Renormalization‑Group Flow Constraints on Charged‑Lepton Mass Ratios from a Unified UV Boundary Condition
The hierarchy of charged‑lepton masses ($m_e$, $m_\mu$, $m_\tau$) lacks a dynamical explanation within the Standard Model, limiting the predictive power of grand‑unified model building. A concrete gap is the absence of a demonstrated mechanism by which a simple ultraviolet (UV) boundary condition on…
Does a CPT‑Symmetric $t=0$ Boundary Force the Majorana Condition? A Derivation of the Cross‑Sheet Conjugation Constraint
Neutrinoless double‑beta decay experiments invest tonne‑scale resources to test whether neutrinos are Majorana particles, a question that currently lacks a dynamical explanation. A proposed dynamical origin is a CPT‑symmetric cosmological boundary at $t=0$ that might enforce the Majorana reality…
The Base State Hypothesis: A Falsification Protocol for a Substrate Capable of Hosting the Standard Model, Audited Against Contemporary Quantum Platforms
The feasibility of a single, explicitly constructible quantum object—a “Base State”—serving as a substrate for the Standard Model is examined. Existing quantum hardware provides only limited quantitative data: the Tianyan‑287 superconducting processor (105 qubits; single‑qubit gate fidelity 99.90 %,…
Adelic Consistency Conditions Across Primes as a Candidate Selection Principle for Physical Constants: Formulation, Negative Control, and Toy Dynamics
The three constants problem—why the fine-structure constant takes its observed value, why charged-lepton masses are hierarchically spaced, and what fixes the absolute mass scale—has no accepted resolution within the Standard Model. We develop a research program, stated as a testable conjecture…
Braid Group Representations and the Uniqueness of Modular Data: The Ising Test Case and General Limitations
We investigate whether the unitary braid group representation carried by a collection of non‑Abelian anyons uniquely determines the modular data—namely the $S$ and $T$ matrices—of the underlying modular tensor category (MTC). Using the Ising anyon theory as a concrete laboratory, we reconstruct the…
Braid Group Representations, Modular Data, and the Classification of Majorana Zero Mode Fusion Rules in Two-Dimensional Topological Superconductors
Majorana zero modes (MZMs) bound to vortices of a two-dimensional topological superconductor (2D TSC) realize non-Abelian anyons whose exchange is described by a projective representation of the braid group $B_N$. The associated anyon theory is encoded in a modular tensor category (MTC) with fusion…
The Boson/Fermion Distinction: Spin-Statistics as Structural Invariant
The textbook dichotomy between bosons and fermions is commonly presented as a primitive classification of nature. This paper argues that the dichotomy is a derived, dimension-dependent shadow of a single structural relation: the exchange phase of identical particles equals their topological spin, R…
The Falsifiability Crisis in Contemporary Physics: LCDM, the Standard Model, and the Measurement-Exercise Trap
Contemporary fundamental physics has become de-facto unfalsifiable through five structural patterns. Proposes the Bayesian delta-log-odds gate as a methodological solution.
Consilience Between Physics and Number Theory: Convergent Theses from Ostrowski's Theorem to Adelic Quantum Mechanics
We synthesize convergent evidence from physics (quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, zitterbewegung, quantum error correction, the Standard Model mass spectrum) and number theory (Ostrowski's theorem, Tate's thesis, the Riemann zeta function, Bruhat-Tits buildings, the adele ring) into a unified…
Meta-Pattern of Reification in Physics
The practice of physics, like all scientific inquiry, operates through a delicate interplay between the observable world and the conceptual frameworks we construct to understand it. At the heart of this interplay lies a persistent cognitive trap: the tendency to mistake our mathematical models,…
Clockwork Cosmos
Classical physics operates on the foundational assumption that space and time form a smooth, infinitely divisible continuum. Providing the mathematical scaffolding for calculus, this geometric model allowed early physicists to calculate macroscopic gravitational trajectories with high reliability.…
Critical Examination of Spacetime, Mass, and Gravity through Competing Ontological Frameworks
Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO ORCID: 0009-0002-4317-5604 DOI: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers Related Works: - A Critical Examination of Spacetime, Mass, and Gravity through a Meta-Analysis of Competing Ontological…
Geometric Unification Framework
The pursuit of a so-called “theory of everything” (TOE) aims to move beyond phenomenological descriptions of nature, establishing an explanatory framework based on fundamental first principles. Such frameworks derive the observed laws of physics and their associated constants not from empirical…
Hamiltonian Engineering of Topological Deconfinement in Weyl Semimetals
The theoretical existence of the magnetic monopole has long represented a foundational prediction in physics, with significant implications for technology. However, astrophysical constraints (the Parker Bound) render the extraction of cosmic monopoles physically and economically non-viable. This…
Relativistic Topological Superfluid
Standard cosmological models assume a static vacuum energy density, yet this premise conflicts with the renormalization group flow of quantum field theory and the fine-tuning required for dark energy. Simultaneously, high-energy astrophysical observations impose a strict “glass floor” on Lorentz…
Resonant Spinor Topology and the Vacuum Horizon
Standard chemical models assume a scalar accumulation of protons defines periodicity. However, the breakdown of group homology in superheavy elements remains unexplained by electrostatics alone. Here, the periodic table is re-derived as a topological manifold of relativistic spinor modes generated…
THERMODYNAMIC GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL
This paper investigates the thermodynamic viability of the Base State-Disturbance ontology, which posits that the Standard Model emerges from a topological phase transition in the early universe. We hypothesize that the vacuum is the ground state of a Rank-42 Walker-Wang model derived from the…
Superfluid Vacuum Theory
The historical incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics is identified not as a fundamental paradox of nature, but as an artifact of the “binning error”—the methodological fallacy of mistaking emergent topological stability for fundamental discreteness. This paper proposes a…
Standard Model
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics represents the most precise and empirically successful framework devised for describing fundamental particles and their interactions. This rigorous empirical success is intrinsically coupled with severe, formally demonstrable theoretical deficiencies that…
Scale-Divergence Problem
This document provides a rigorous examination of the Scale-Divergence Problem, a fundamental schism in modern cosmology that arises from the antithetical performance of the two leading theoretical frameworks—Lambda Cold Dark Matter (ΛCDM) and Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)—across different…
Proton Football
How the “God Particle” Was Demoted to Just a “Mechanism” in the Standard Model of Particle Physics*** A profound epistemological schism exists at the foundation of contemporary high-energy physics: a systemic conflict between its operational reality as a relativistic quantum field theory and the…
Derivation of SM Gauge Couplings
Objective: To derive the relationship between the Standard Model’s gauge couplings and the Kappa information field (\(\kappa(x)\)) using a self-contained, category-theoretic approach based on the principle of scale-invariant information thermodynamics. This derivation establishes that effective…
Higgs Particle Never Existed
The 2012 announcement of the discovery of a new boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was interpreted as the detection of the Higgs particle, a foundational component of the Standard Model. This document presents a formal proof, derived from the first principles of quantum field theory,…
Not Even Wrong
This document presents a rigorous, multi-faceted mathematical deconstruction of String Theory’s claim to be a physical theory of nature. Quantitative metrics are systematically derived for its empirical vacuum, unfalsifiability, and information-theoretic cost, while acknowledging its significant…
Quantum Fraud
In 1900, Max Planck, desperate to salvage the failing theory of blackbody radiation, scribbled down an equation that would change physics forever—not because it was true, but because it worked. His “quantum hypothesis” was, by his own admission, a “purely formal assumption,” a mathematical trick…
Strange Loop Formal Derivation
This paper presents a rigorous mathematical derivation of the Standard Model of particle physics as the unique, stable solution to a universal fixed-point equation. Starting from the Principle of Informational Stability—the axiom that the universe must preserve information to sustain stable…
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