Irreversibility Without Cause_ The Hidden Non-Determinism of the Many-Worlds Postulate
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Supersession Note — May 2026 This CODES-era work is an exploratory predecessor and is no longer the canonical statement of the author’s program. It has been superseded by the identity-persistence stack: https://zenodo.org/records/20127331. Claims in this record concerning replacement of probability, unrestricted universality, ontology, physics, intelligence, biology, governance, or reality should be read as developmental framing, not as the current formal claim. The current claim is restricted to identity persistence under transformation within explicit admissibility constraints. Abstract: This work demonstrates that the Everett (Many-Worlds) interpretation of quantum mechanics, while claiming full unitarity, introduces irreversibility without cause. Decoherence is governed by the same unitary operator U(t) and its inverse U†(t); treating branch separation as permanent therefore imposes an unmotivated non-unitary constraint. Logical audit shows that the transition from approximate to exact orthogonality re-inserts collapse by assumption. The paper concludes that a genuinely deterministic formulation must permit lawful recoherence, consistent with Structured Resonance Dynamics.
Author: Bostick, Devin
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104648208
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