Measurement without a Terminal Context: Recursive Constitution and Quantum Actuality
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: . A physical participant is a continuing relational organization, not merely the facts accessible at one interrogation. I develop this constitutive account through a quantum process in which constituent interactions generate a collective coherent response and physical records determine what an outward interface retains. For the specified pure-record capture family, I characterize preservation of declared sharp tests for every unknown input: omitted records must not distinguish alternatives connected by those tests. Applied to the actual constituent generator, one fixed short continuation followed by basis readout can demand stricter capture than the current fringe. Four of sixteen source captures preserve its current fringe probabilities, but only complete capture universally preserves that future task; an explicit error witness and an exact return-probability example make the difference operational. These results specialize established observability and observable-correction methods to the same generated, failure-aware process. Complete instruments, an all-trial Bell certificate, and an interacting finite parent test the preservation conditions beyond a reduced snapshot. An independently adopted guidance law supplies actual occurrences and faithful memories. The nonterminal cosmological interpretation treats our observable domain as a participant in further physical relations: inward constitution and outward participation are jointly realized, not completed by a higher observer. This interpretation is distinguished from the proved preservation conditions; no cosmic selection law or fundamental amplitude law is derived. The parent’s time and symmetry costs limit its physical application.Status. Author preprint (scientific manuscript v7.4) submitted to Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations on 9 November 2026. Not peer-reviewed or accepted.Research programme. This is the quantum-measurement strand of Bridge Theory. The technical results concern the explicitly specified quantum processes and do not depend upon the programme's other physical applications.Author affiliation. Independent Researcher (unaffiliated), Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaFiles and reproducibility. This Preprint item contains the 19-page manuscript and a 34-page Primary Technical Supplement. The standalone reproducibility code and frozen outputs are separate, in the public Figshare Software item: 10.6084/m9.figshare.34961872.Related research. Kent Nimmo, Objectivity from Within: Recursive Constitution and Objective Common Conditions (October 2026): 10.6084/m9.figshare.34750812.v1.Bridge Theory. This paper belongs to the existing Bridge Theory collection and develops its account of recursive constitution in quantum measurement.Programme reading guideRead Objectivity from Within for the participant/common-domain foundation, then this paper for the generated quantum process and its preservation boundary. One Participant, Three Physical Readings provides the overview of the scale branch: BioBand concerns embodied body extent, OSE concerns identifiable source detail, and Earth G concerns the containing world’s scale and gravity.These are distinct developments of the same recursive account. The quantum preservation results retain their stated model assumptions; the scale papers retain their separate physical assignments and comparisons. The Bridge Theory collection gives the full reading route.
Source: Figshare
Author: Kent Nimmo
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225657160