REALITY AS A QUANTUM MIST OF NODES OF OSCILLATING FIELDS THROUGH INTERACTION Toward a Copernican Revolution in the Ontology of Science
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This White Paper proposes a Copernican revolution in the ontology of science. The central thesis is that reality is not composed of discrete entities located in a neutral spatiotemporal container, but is a quantum mist of nodes of oscillating fields through interaction. What we perceive as space, time, matter and norms are patterns of resonance that emerge at different interaction scale factors. Reality is not a collection of things: it is a symphony of resonances. The work integrates three converging developments in contemporary science: quantum physics (time emerges from correlations; space emerges from entanglement), cognitive neuroscience (temporal perception is a retroactive narrative; spatial perception is an enactive construction) and complex systems theory (emergent properties are not reducible to components; the topology of interactions is constitutive). The White Paper formalizes the ontology of the mist through operational definitions (mist, node, oscillation, interaction, resonance, scale factor, shimmering, resonance belly), develops a generalized Kubo-Martin-Schwinger evolution equation, and proposes a research programme with testable predictions in physics, neuroscience, social science and law. Ten main criticisms are addressed and discussed (vagueness, panpsychism, non-falsifiability, reductionism, ambition, incompatibility with the scientific method, arbitrariness of the scale factor, causality, consciousness, theory of everything). For each, a structured reply is offered. The conclusion is that reality is not an object but a harmonic process, and science is not a description of things but a score of resonances. The Copernican revolution consists in recognizing that it is not the observer who adapts to a pre-existing space-time, but it is space-time that emerges from the interaction between observer and system. ────────────────────────────────────────────────── Keywords Relational ontology; emergence; quantum mist; resonance; scale factor; shimmering; emergent space-time; narrative; heuristics; complex adaptive systems; ecological jurisprudence; compliance; Copernican revolution.
Author: Cerboni, Alessandro
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7222400987