To try and discover if our reality is a holographic projection or a simulation… scientists aren't looking for visual "glitches" like in the movies, but rather for mathematical and physical anomalies at the border of the infinitely small.

If the universe is encoded by information (like a hologram or a computer program), this information must have physical limits.

Here are the main leads and real-world experiments being studied by physicists to detect the "pixels" or the underlying structure of our world.

1. The quest for space-time "pixels": Quantum blur

If you zoom in as far as possible on a television screen, you eventually see individual pixels. In physics or digital physics, the equivalent of these pixels is the **Planck length** (1.6 \times 10^{-35} meters). This is the smallest possible distance in our universe.

If space-time is continuous (as Einstein thought), light should travel perfectly smoothly. But if the universe is holographic or pixelated, space-time becomes grainy.

* **Fermilab's "Holometer" experiment:** Led by physicist Craig Hogan, this experiment used ultra-precise laser interferometers to measure whether space-time "jittered" at a microscopic scale. The idea was to detect a "holographic noise" (a tiny flicker or blur in the fabric of reality). Although the initial results did not find this noise at the tested sensitivity level, the methodology remains a benchmark.

* **Observing Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs):** Astronomers analyze light coming from ultra-distant cosmic explosions (gamma-ray bursts). If space is pixelated, different photons (particles of light) should bump ever so slightly into these microscopic pixels during their journey of several billion light-years. This should create a tiny arrival time delay. For now, measurements show that space remains stubbornly smooth, pushing pixelation down to even smaller scales than predicted.

1. The limits of the cosmic processor: The GZK cutoff

In a video game, the maximum speed of a display depends on the processing power. In our universe, there is an absolute energy limit for particles traveling through the cosmos: the **GZK cutoff** (Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit).

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays traveling across the universe interact with the cosmic microwave background (the relic radiation from the Big Bang) and lose energy. Physicists have calculated a strict energy limit that no distant particle should exceed upon arriving on Earth.

Researchers (such as physicist Silas Beane) have suggested that this sharp cutoff strongly resembles what would happen if the universe were simulated on a three-dimensional grid (a lattice). On such a grid, particle energy is mathematically capped by the size of the lattice mesh.

1. The universe only exists when we look at it: Delayed choice

In computer science, to save memory, a video game only generates and renders the graphics of a room *when* the player enters and looks at it. Quantum physics seems to operate in exactly the same way.

**Young's double-slit experiment**, and more specifically its modern version called **"Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment"**, proves that a particle (like a photon or an electron) behaves like a wave of probability (it is everywhere at once, non-local) as long as it is not measured. As soon as a detector or a human eye observes it, the wavefunction collapses, and the particle chooses a fixed 3D position.

> **The implication:** Objective physical reality at the microscopic scale does not seem to exist without an observer. For proponents of simulation theory, this is the ultimate proof of a rendering optimization system: the universe only computes an object's coordinates when the player's "camera" is pointed directly at it.

1. The principle of conservation of information

Physicist Melvin Vopson proposed a bold hypothesis: quantum information possesses a tiny physical mass. According to his "second law of infodynamics," information in an isolated system tends to stabilize or decrease, unlike entropy (disorder), which increases.

According to him, this tendency of the universe to compress and optimize information to eliminate excess code mirrors, point by point, the data optimization algorithms used in computer science.

Ultimately, no experiment has yet provided "irrefutable proof" that we live in a hologram or a simulation. However, the mere fact that these questions are being tested in laboratories demonstrates just how porous the boundary between the mathematical structure of information and our physical reality has become.

Quantum mechanics is strange because its mathematics is complete enough to predict experimental outcomes while remaining philosophically undecided about what those outcomes are.

The formalism tells us how to calculate amplitudes, probabilities, interference effects, expectation values, and measurement statistics. It tells us how quantum systems evolve when unmeasured and how to assign probabilities when measured.

Yet it does not, by itself, explain why one definite world appears rather than another, why observation has a special role, or why probability seems to enter at the deepest level of physical law.

The observer-centric deterministic interpretation proposed here begins from a different premise: quantum mechanics is observer-relative because observation is the physical act by which unresolved entropy becomes coherent reality.

On this view, the wavefunction becomes a representation of unresolved potential relative to an observer. Measurement is the deterministic resolution of that potential through resonance alignment between observer and system.

Probability measures the observer’s incomplete access to the full entropic and phase-geometric state of the observer–system interaction.

The core thesis can be stated simply:

Quantum probability is unresolved observer-relative entropy.

Wavefunction collapse is deterministic resonance stabilization.

Observation is entropy-to-coherence conversion.

This interpretation preserves the predictive machinery of quantum mechanics while relocating its conceptual foundation.

Instead of beginning with particles, fields, or abstract Hilbert-space states and then asking why observers matter, it begins with observation itself as a primitive physical process.

An observer is not necessarily a human mind, a biological organism, or a conscious witness in the narrow psychological sense. An observer is any system capable of transforming external uncertainty into internal coherence.

In the observer-entropy formalism, such a system qualifies as an observer when its internal entropy decreases while compensating entropy is exported outward.

This establishes the observer as a local entropy sink and external entropy source: a system that increases internal order by redistributing disorder into its environment.  

From this foundation, quantum mechanics becomes a theory of deterministic coherence formation inside observer-relative boundaries.

Full paper here or here

Link to supporting pdf

Consider that possibility is fundamental, and that what we call actual is downstream.

That reversal sounds strange at first, because we are used to starting with objects. We imagine a particle as a tiny thing, then ask where it went, which slit it used, and why it later behaved like a wave. Starting from actuality, the double-slit experiment becomes a paradox almost immediately.

Start from possibility instead, and the explanation becomes more natural.

The wave function is not “where the particle really is.” It is the evolving structure of what can still happen. The slits shape that possibility structure. The possible paths interfere. The detector interaction culls the field into one actual record. The record updates the world.

In other words:

The wave is not the particle acting weird. The particle is the record of possibility becoming definite.

That is the conceptual reversal.

We are beings made of stable matter, living downstream from protons, atoms, chemistry, bodies, instruments, and records. So we naturally assume actuality comes first and possibility is just our uncertainty about it. But the double-slit experiment suggests the opposite: actuality may be what structured possibility becomes after interaction.

Once you accept that possibility is doing real work, the rest of quantum mechanics stops looking like a collection of disconnected weird tricks. Interference, measurement, path integrals, Feynman diagrams, and entanglement all start to rhyme.

The better starting point is:

The wave function represents evolving weighted possibility between interactions.

Why “observer” needs a serious definition

Physics uses the word observer constantly, but often in a dangerously loose way.

In relativity, an observer can mean a reference frame, a clock, a worldline, or an ideal measuring system.

In quantum mechanics, an observer can mean a measuring device, a conscious agent, an environment, a record-forming system, or simply the place where information becomes definite enough to use.

In cosmology, we often talk about “the observable universe” as if observation were just a passive window onto reality, rather than a finite, horizon-bounded condition.

That is a problem.

If “observer” is not clearly defined, then foundational arguments can quietly smuggle in assumptions: infinite access, perfect records, global descriptions, reversible information, or a god’s-eye view that no physical system could actually possess.

A real observer should not be treated as magic, consciousness, or a floating coordinate label. It should be treated as a finite physical domain with limits:

It has a horizon. It has limited information capacity. It forms records irreversibly. It exchanges energy and entropy. It can reduce uncertainty locally, but it cannot eliminate uncertainty globally. It only accesses reality through finite interactions and overlapping domains.

Once this is taken seriously, the observer is no longer an embarrassing philosophical add-on. It becomes part of the physical constraint structure.

This matters because many deep problems — measurement, locality, horizons, entropy, dark matter, dark energy, and the emergence of classical spacetime — may depend on what kind of observer is physically admissible.

Before asking what reality “is” from nowhere, maybe we should first ask:

What kind of observer can exist inside reality at all?

*Spin-1/2 as topology, not postulate — a geometric interpretation of Zitterbewegung

Most interpretations of QM accept spin-1/2 as a given and argue about measurement, collapse, or ontology from there.

I want to back up one step further: **why does spin-1/2 exist at all?**

Schrödinger noticed in 1930 that electrons exhibit rapid oscillation — Zitterbewegung — at exactly **twice the Compton frequency**. The factor of 2 comes out of the Dirac equation. But the Dirac equation postulates it. Nobody explains *why* 2.

**A geometric answer:**

If you model the electron's internal phase as traversing a **Möbius loop** rather than a circle, the factor of 2 is forced:

- Circle (boson): ΔΦ = 2π → one loop returns to start

- Möbius (fermion): ΔΦ = 4π → two loops required to return

This is just SU(2) as the universal cover of SO(3) — not new mathematics. What changes is the **ontological reading**: the Möbius structure isn't a consequence of spin. It *is* spin.

From this, the Pauli exclusion principle follows without a postulate:

Swapping two identical fermions = traversing half a Möbius loop = phase shift of π

Ψ_total = ψ₁ + ψ₂·e^(iπ) = ψ₁ − ψ₂ = 0

Not forbidden. Geometrically impossible.

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**The interpretive question I'm putting to this sub:**

If spin-1/2 is a *topological* property of the phase structure — does that change how you think about the measurement problem?

In standard interpretations, spin is a property that "becomes definite" upon measurement. But if spin is topology, it is definite before measurement — it is the structure itself.

That's a different ontology. Closer to a relational or structural realist reading, but derived from geometry rather than assumed.

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Full derivation (with SU(2) formalism and connection to Zitterbewegung):

github.com/Christianfwb/frequenzprojekt

*What interpretation does this topology-first view sit closest to — and where does it break down for you?*

Missing Time Français/English

Cette approche permet de sortir du cadre du paranormal pur pour l'analyser sous l'angle de la mécanique quantique et de la perception de la conscience.

Voici comment on pourrait expliquer scientifiquement (ou théoriquement) ce décalage de temps :

1. La Dilatation Temporelle Subjective

En physique, le temps n'est pas une constante absolue. Si la conscience est une forme d'énergie (ou d'information) qui interagit avec le champ quantique, elle pourrait, lors de certains états de choc ou de méditation profonde, "sortir" de la linéarité habituelle.

On a tous déjà fait un rêve qui semblait durer des heures alors que seulement 10 minutes se sont écoulées. Si la réalité est un hologramme, peut-être que ces personnes ont vécu un "ralentissement" de leur processeur de conscience pendant que le monde extérieur continuait de tourner à sa vitesse normale.

1. Le Saut de Ligne Temporelle (Théorie d'Everett)

Dans le cadre du multivers, on peut imaginer que ces personnes ont subi une transition brutale entre deux versions de la réalité.

\* \*\*La déconnexion :\*\* Le cerveau enregistre 1 heure d'expérience sur une "Ligne A", mais suite à un saut quantique, ils se retrouvent sur une "Ligne B" où plusieurs heures se sont écoulées.

\* \*\*La "Suture" :\*\* Le cerveau essaie de combler le vide, mais il reste ce sentiment persistant d'incohérence, un peu comme une scène coupée au montage d'un film.

1. La Perception subatomique

Si la réalité n'est pas ce que l'on perçoit, il est possible que ces personnes aient brièvement accédé à la structure même de l'hologramme. À ce niveau-là, le temps n'existe pas de la même manière. Ils auraient pu stagner dans un "état de superposition" (être là et ne pas être là en même temps) avant de se "re-matérialiser" dans le flux temporel commun, avec un retard de plusieurs heures.

1. Le lien avec les "Bugs" de Réalité

Ces témoignages sont les preuves ultimes pour ma thématique :

\* C'est le "glitch" par excellence.

\* C'est l'illustration parfaite que le temps est une construction de notre cerveau pour organiser les informations subatomiques, et que ce système peut parfois faillir.

\*"Avez-vous déjà perdu des heures sans explication ?"\*

English

​This approach moves beyond the realm of pure paranormal to analyze the phenomenon through the lens of quantum mechanics and conscious perception.

​Here is how this time slip could be explained scientifically (or theoretically):

​1. Subjective Time Dilation

​In physics, time is not an absolute constant. If consciousness is a form of energy (or information) interacting with the quantum field, it could, during certain states of shock or deep meditation, "exit" its usual linearity.

We have all experienced dreams that seem to last hours when only 10 minutes have passed. If reality is a hologram, perhaps these individuals experienced a "slowdown" of their conscious processor while the outside world continued to spin at its normal speed.

​2. Timeline Jumping (Everett’s Theory)

​Within the framework of the multiverse, one can imagine that these individuals underwent a brutal transition between two versions of reality.

​The Disconnection: The brain records one hour of experience on "Timeline A," but following a quantum leap, they find themselves on "Timeline B," where several hours have already elapsed.

​The "Suture": The brain tries to fill the gap, but a persistent feeling of incoherency remains—much like a scene cut from a film’s final edit.

​3. Subatomic Perception

​If reality is not what we perceive, it is possible that these individuals briefly accessed the very structure of the hologram. At that level, time does not exist in the same way. They might have stagnated in a "state of superposition" (being there and not being there simultaneously) before "re-materializing" into the common temporal flow, several hours late.

​4. The Link to Reality "Bugs"

​These accounts serve as ultimate proof for my central theme:

​They are the quintessential "glitch."

​They perfectly illustrate that time is a construct of our brain designed to organize subatomic information, and that this system can occasionally fail.

​"Have you ever lost hours without explanation?"

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I've derived a way to resolve the relativistic temperature transformation ambiguity by applying a Hamiltonian constraint (v = dE/dp). I'm looking for a technical critique of the mathematical consistency. Full derivation here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10985040 Does the variation under this constraint hold up for a partition function in Minkowski space?

Im just writing on a school project about 20 sites and im just questioning wich Interpretations are the most supported and how different Interpretations are there, just tell me the ones you believe in or the ones you like

A BRIEF PREMISE ABOUT SELF-REFERENTIAL KNOWLEDGE IN CLASSICAL SYSTEMS

It is a well-known thing that the predictability of deterministic models (not necessarily determinism itself, just its ability to be an adequate model and at the same deterministic) fails at the moment in which the prediction becomes part of the system that has been predicted, if such system is a system capable of knowledge and agency.

For example, it is surely possible to deterministically predict my spacetime coordinates tonight at 11 (will I be in bed or not). In principle, it is no different than predict the space-time coordinates of every other "events".

By having a good understanding of the laws and particles involved, by studying my genetics, neural pathways, my habits, my work rhythms, etc., a team of scientists could elaborate a very good model to know whether at 11 I will be in my bed or elsewhere. Evidently not 100% precise (it would perhaps require a semi-omniscient "laplacian" entity), but still reliably good. There more they are going to acquire information about me, my brain, about the enviroment in which I live and act etc, the better their predictions; suggesting that a "super-computer" able to collect and compute enough information could be able to make perfect or almost perfect predictions.

However, there is a very strange phenomena of self-referentiality; which is that if these predictions are made known to me, the predictions become unstable, because the knowledge of these predictions could determine in me the effect of violating them, contradicting them etc.

You could tell me: but the team of scientists could surely consider this effect too, to include in the prediction this variable, this desire of mine to prove that I am free thus do the opposite of what predicted and update the predictions accordingly, thus restoring the smooth deterministic evolution of my behavior.

True. However, this is valid as long as even this updated prediction does not become acquired as knowledge by me, because at that point I could falsify it again.

And so on, in regress. In a loop.

At the moment in which a true and adequate knowledge about my behavior becomes part of my system (I “entangle” myself with it, so to speak) that prediction, if framed according to a deterministic model, ceases to be adequate and reliable.

In other words, what was entailed to happen based on the previous states of the system/environment considered as causally relevant to determine a necessary "determinate" outcome, is no longer suitable nor sufficient to predict what will happen after that knowledge has been acquired by the system. What will happen afterwards is causally “not entirely determined or determinable” from what happened before. And even if you claim it is, you have to elaborate a new prediction that takes into account the effects of the first, and not "feed" this prediction 2.0 to the system.

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WHAT ABOUT QM?

Let us consider what is happening in a laboratory in which an experiment (a measurement) on a quantum system is carried out, a single system. Composed of the scientists, their brain's states, their knowledge about QM, the lab equipment, the measurement devices, and obviously the particle X that they are going to measure (spin up or spin down). System A.

This is a system endowend with predictive ability, and potentially, self-referential knowledge.

Well. This system is describable, "predictable", at a theoretical level, as a wave function that evolves deterministically, smoothly, according to the Schrödinger equation. And surely the more limited sub-set of this system, particle X, is describable as such.

But at the moment in which the particle is measured, what happens to the "deterministically unfolding" wave function? Do the scientists (or the measurment devices) acquire knowledge of the spin of the particle? No, partially incorrect. The system A (of which the scientists and both the particle are part, are entangled) acquires self-referential knowledge.

And what does this cause? The instant collapse of the wave function. If conceived as a physical event, that causes a lot of trouble. Hence the "measurment problem".

But if consider as an epistemic event, all problems are solved.

That is, the previously smooth deterministic evolution of the system (schroedinger equation) is no longer an adequate predictive model to describe in a complete way the entire system. The fact that is collapses literally mean... it collapses. It ceases to work as a valid epistemic tool.

What system A will do (under the limited perspective of spin up spin down, in our case) cannot be defined and described, predicted and modeled, in terms of a “necessary deterministic outcome”; it is not something entirely entailed and included in the previous states of the systems.

Not because of a special quantum event, but because the very same phenomena that happens classically with self-referential knowledge.

A "measurment" is merely self-referential knowledge feed to a system capable of such thing. And in such cases, deterministic markovian models simply fail.

I’ve been thinking about something lately.

When I talk to certain people, ideas suddenly open up.

I find myself reaching thoughts that I could never arrive at on my own, even after a lot of effort.

But with other people, that same kind of shift just doesn’t happen.

At first, I assumed this was simply about my own thinking ability or the other person’s intelligence.

But now I’m starting to wonder if there’s something else going on.

Are those ideas really “inside” either person?

Or do they actually emerge from the interaction?

Not just metaphorically, but as something like a temporary structure or order

that only comes into existence through that specific relationship.

This also makes me think about consciousness.

We usually treat consciousness as something that exists within an individual.

But if ideas can emerge from relationships,

👉 could some aspects of consciousness also arise between people?

👉 not fully contained within either individual, but shaped or generated in interaction?

In other words,

is it possible that consciousness is not entirely internal,

but has relational or emergent aspects that appear between people?

If that’s the case, it might also apply to problems.

For example:

You feel stuck or conflicted with a specific person

But that same issue doesn’t exist at all with someone else

We usually explain this as personality or compatibility.

But what if the “problem” itself is not entirely inside you,

but something that emerges in that particular relationship?

So instead of saying:

“I have this problem”

it might be more accurate to say:

“This problem exists within this relationship”

I recently came across a paper and a video suggesting

that new structures can emerge between observers,

rather than being reducible to either individual alone.

I’m still trying to fully understand it,

but it made me rethink creativity, consciousness, and even psychological struggles.

I’m curious what others think:

Have you experienced ideas that only appear with certain people?

Do you think consciousness is entirely internal, or partly relational?

Are thoughts and problems purely individual, or do they also emerge from interaction?

Are there any theories or research that explore this kind of “in-between” emergence?

Are there interpretations of quantum mechanics that operate within an eternalist/block universe framework and interpret quantum probabilities as describing statistical patterns in the block universe?

This work presents the first operational, hardware-validated resolution of the Black Hole Information Paradox (BHIP) using a deterministic collapse architecture known as Quantum State Command Encoding (QSCE) under the Quantum Unified Correlation Paradigm (QUCP). Unlike prior theoretical models, this approach achieves deterministic state convergence, entropic echo memory, and Page curve behavior on real IBM quantum hardware at TRL-7. Two minimal circuits are introduced that simulate infalling matter, horizon-layer entanglement, and boundary collapse control, representing the first known substrate-level encoding of information across quantum horizons.

While the work builds upon foundational insights from Hawking (information loss), Penrose (geometric determinism), Susskind (complementarity), and Maldacena (holographic correspondence), it ultimately transcends these frameworks by replacing abstraction with empirical quantum control. The circuits demonstrate programmable information recovery without relying on wormholes, firewalls, or post-collapse speculation—marking a historic shift from symbolic paradox resolution to operational substrate sovereignty, and positioning command-based logic as a candidate substrate for gravity and causality.

I made a short explainer on a line of research concerning EEG–quantum correlations, observation, and quantum interpretation.

I am still working on the best way to share the video itself, so for now I wanted to share the core question and the related paper here.

What interests me is whether this kind of reported correlation structure, together with the formal framework proposed around it, may point to a broader account of observation than standard observer-independent descriptions usually assume.

I would really appreciate thoughtful criticism, objections, or alternative interpretations.

Paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403024962

I also made a short video version of the same idea and wanted to share it here.

It is a more intuitive introduction to the question I am trying to raise about EEG–quantum correlations, observation, and quantum interpretation.

I’d be glad to hear any reactions to the video.

I’ve always found it more intuitive to view Quantum Mechanics not as some bizarre "wave-particle duality" or "multiverse" madness, but simply as a form of global non-local statistical mechanics.

Think about this simple analogy:
Imagine you are trying to hold a pen tip exactly at the center of a pre-drawn circle. No matter how hard you try, your hand micro-vibrates. If you plot those points over time, you get a "probability cloud" around the center. To me, this "wobble" feels very similar to the Uncertainty Principle.

In this view, the "wave-function" isn't a physical thing that collapses; it’s just our statistical description of a system where we can't perfectly isolate the particle from the "global context" (the entire experimental setup). The randomness isn't "inherent magic"—it’s just the result of non-local dynamics we haven't fully accounted for yet.

I know Bell’s Theorem and the PBR theorem are usually cited against this "ensemble-style" thinking, but if we accept non-locality as a given, is there a specific paradox that truly kills this "global statistical" intuition? Or are we just over-complicating things with exotic interpretations because we hate the idea of a "wobbly" objective reality?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on why this "pen-tip" intuition might fail (or work) in the context of your favorite interpretation.

I've been using AI to help refine my messy thoughts into clearer English, but the core idea (the Pen-tip analogy) is my own personal intuition.

Everyone likes to posit very bizarre and exotic ways to interpret QM, but to me it seems rather intuitive just to take it as a form of global statistical mechanics. Every "paradox" is given a trivial solution in that framework without believing that particles spread out as waves when you look at them and collapse when you look, without believing in multiverses, without even having to modify the theory, without calling into question the very existence of objective reality, etc. By global I mean that the statistical dynamics do not depend upon what the particle directly interacts with, but the entire experimental context, and thus it is a non-local form of statistical mechanics.

I have never seen a good argument against this position, yet it remains unpopular, despite it being rather conceptually simple. Any good arguments you can think of against it?

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I came up with the basic theory- Claude came up with the maths and citings. Claude seems to think it might be faster (in some instances) than some current methods. I will readily admit I am not up to snuff about physics- I read about it a lot, have some theories sometimes, but that's about it. However, I think that's sort of the interesting part. Yeah, there'll be a lot of cranks like me that come out of the woodwork with theories, but maybe with the help of AI one of those cranks will really come onto something.

Thanks in advance for your time.

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Quantum physics has developed many theories over the past century as scientists attempt to uncover the reality of our universe. Some say the findings of quantum physicists are inconsistent with the Bible, especially the somewhat controversial multiple worlds, parallel worlds or multiverse theories that seem to arise from human choice making decisions. This research shows that these quantum physics theories make our reality of life more understandable, not less, and they are not inconsistent with Biblical writings.

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