REALITY & TIME · EXISTENCE AND THE WORLD WE EXPERIENCE
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Continue from the Reality & Time essays into the existing books, laboratories, source texts and published papers.
Books, source texts and published research
The essays introduce questions and examples. The linked books and papers provide the longer arguments and their original context.
- The Single Monad Model: read the book
- Duality of Time: read the book
- Time Chest: read the book
- Ibn ‘Arabî—Time and Cosmology: edition record
- Futuhat, chapter 59: Arabic source reading
- Quaternionic rank-three readout and dual-time reconstruction · Findings and consequences
- Completion principles and positive-frequency geometry
- Real-commutant phase selection
- Dual-time topological geometry and temporal asymmetry
Studies on clocks, perception and rhythm
- Chou et al.: Optical Clocks and Relativity
- Tse et al.: Attention and the subjective expansion of time
- Stetson et al.: Does Time Really Slow Down during a Frightening Event?
- Konopka and Benzer: Clock mutants of Drosophila melanogaster
- Nakajima et al.: Reconstitution of a circadian oscillation in vitro
- Nozaradan et al.: Tagging the Neuronal Entrainment to Beat and Meter
Each essay explains the particular finding being discussed and gives its full reference.
Studies on quantum theory, cosmology and explanation
- Bach et al.: Controlled double-slit electron diffraction
- Hensen et al.: Loophole-free Bell inequality violation
- Mather et al.: A preliminary measurement of the cosmic microwave background spectrum
- Planck Collaboration: Cosmological parameters
- Cooke, Pettini and Steidel: One Percent Determination of the Primordial Deuterium Abundance
- Lebowitz: Macroscopic laws, microscopic dynamics, time's arrow and Boltzmann's entropy
- Pearl: Causal inference in statistics
- Lorenz: Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow
- Noether: Invariant Variation Problems, published English translation
The essays give the relevant assumptions, worked examples and full references, alongside connections to the books and published SMONAD papers.
Experience, mathematical structure and source reading
- William James: The Perception of Time
- Herzog, Kammer and Scharnowski: Time Slices
- Tsuchiya et al.: No-Report Paradigms
- Shoemake: Animating Rotation with Quaternion Curves
- The Single Monad Model: Ever-renewed Creation
- Futuhat chapter 63: Arabic reading on barzakh and imagination
The connected essays distinguish historical interpretation, proposed perceptual frameworks, exact mathematical examples and physical applications.
Measurement, clocks and material scales
- BIPM: the SI second
- NIST: the principle of a caesium beam clock
- CODATA: the 2022 constants adjustment
- Bothwell et al.: gravitational redshift across an atomic sample
- MICROSCOPE: the final equivalence-principle test
- RFC 5905: network time synchronization
- Shannon: Communication in the Presence of Noise
- JCGM: the vocabulary of measurement
- NIST: combining standard uncertainties
Worked examples connect these sources to clocks, spectroscopy, constants and the physical tests of a generative model.
Life, continuity and emergence
- Hutchison et al.: a minimal bacterial genome
- Turing: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis
- Daeschler, Shubin and Jenkins: Tiktaalik and the tetrapod body plan
- Blount, Borland and Lenski: historical contingency in evolution
- Segel and Slemrod: the quasi-steady-state assumption
- England: statistical physics of self-replication
- Yoshida et al.: evolution and ecological dynamics
- Miller: chemical production of amino acids
- Meselson and Stahl: DNA replication
The essays distinguish reported experiments, original teaching calculations and open questions for a generative account of life.
Space, geometry and possible influence
- BIPM: the SI metre
- Dijkstra: shortest paths in weighted graphs
- Mandelbrot: scale and fractional dimension
- Hatcher: Algebraic Topology
- Einstein: the 1905 relativity paper
- Lieb and Robinson: propagation in quantum spin systems
- Differential geometry and parallel transport
- Haj Yousef: dual-time connections and temporal curvature
The essays connect explicit calculations to measurement, spatial emergence and the separate requirements of a physical account of relativity.
Light, signals and observation
- NASA: event time and reception time
- The light clock and special relativity
- Stenner, Gauthier and Neifeld: optical information velocity
- Kimble, Dagenais and Mandel: photon antibunching
- Englert: visibility and which-way information
- CIE: standard colour-matching functions
- STScI: point-spread functions
- Davis and Lineweaver: cosmological distances and horizons
New worked examples connect propagation, readout and calibration to the existing interference laboratory, the book readers and the published SMM/DTT papers.
Information, records and computation
- Shannon: a mathematical theory of communication
- Landauer: irreversibility and heat generation
- Bennett: logical reversibility of computation
- Shalizi and Crutchfield: computational mechanics and prediction
- Lamport: logical clocks and event ordering
- Chandy and Lamport: distributed snapshots
- The expanded book: equivalent histories and future tests
- The expanded book: hidden variables and memory
Worked finite examples make the observation family, retained distinctions, completion conditions and physical assumptions explicit.
Causality, laws and possible histories
- Pearl: causal inference
- Rubin: causal effects in randomized and nonrandomized studies
- Buchholz: exact and ordinary lumpability
- Gillespie: stochastic reaction dynamics
- Teschl: differential equations and dynamical systems
- Hawking: chronology protection
- The expanded book: reconstruction requirements
- The expanded book: an auditable model
Original finite examples distinguish observed patterns, controlled changes, conditional theorems and open physical identifications.
Observation, measurement and shared evidence
- JCGM: developing and using measurement models
- JCGM: metrological traceability
- Particle Data Group: statistics and Poisson limits
- National Academies: reproducibility and replicability
- Reimer and colleagues: IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration
- Cohen: agreement for nominal scales
- W3C: the PROV data model
- The expanded book: one physical dictionary
- The expanded book: the place of philosophy
Original worked examples separate detector records, model-dependent inference, comparison protocols and the research tasks facing a physical reconstruction.
Mathematics, models and physical reality
- Wigner: mathematics in the natural sciences
- Buckingham: physically similar systems
- BIPM: the International System of Units
- Hatcher: algebraic topology
- Mandelbrot: scale and fractional dimension
- MIT: forward and backward Euler methods
- Teschl: differential equations and dynamical systems
- NIST: 2022 CODATA constants
- The expanded book: the structural recurrence
- The expanded book: from a count to a coupling
Worked examples distinguish mathematical constructions, supplied assumptions, numerical approximations and independently testable physical identifications.
Thermodynamics, memory and temporal direction
- Bennett: logical reversibility of computation
- Landauer: irreversible computing and heat
- Bérut and colleagues: an experimental reset bound
- Tong: statistical physics and thermodynamics
- Spohn: stationary-state entropy production
- Crooks: entropy-production fluctuations
- The expanded book: memory and the arrow of time
- The expanded book: renewal and continuity
Finite examples distinguish preserved information, coarse estimates, physical exchange and the assumptions needed for a thermodynamic interpretation.
Quantum states, records and time
- Preskill: states and ensembles
- Preskill: measurement and evolution
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands: probability amplitudes
- Scully and Drühl: quantum erasure
- Robertson: uncertainty
- Griffiths: consistent histories
- Bassi and colleagues: collapse models and tests
- The expanded book: phase, interference and measurement
Explicit calculations distinguish phase selection, instrument assumptions, complete outcome probabilities and the extra conditions needed for a new physical prediction.
Cosmic history, horizons and creation
- Planck: cosmological parameters and model assumptions
- NASA: COBE instruments and results
- Particle Data Group: nucleosynthesis
- Davis and Lineweaver: cosmological horizons
- Weinberg: the cosmological constant problem
- Bekenstein: black-hole entropy
- Hawking: particle creation by black holes
- Hawking and Penrose: singularity theorems
- The expanded book: cosmological homogeneity and the beginning
Worked calculations connect observable records, expansion histories and gravitational clocks while separating physical predictions from claims about ongoing creation.
Relativity, clocks and the unseen universe
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands: spacetime
- Relativistic signals and radiation
- Ashby: relativity in satellite navigation
- Rubin, Ford and Thonnard: galaxy rotation
- Clowe and colleagues: cluster lensing
- Riess and colleagues: supernova evidence
- Perlmutter and colleagues: expansion history
- The expanded book: clocks and radar coordinates
Worked comparisons distinguish local clocks, signal reception and frame-dependent ordering, then connect gravitational observations to explicit physical models.
Time, change and retained records
- BIPM: the second
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands: amplitudes in time
- Stepwise dynamics
- Periodic motion
- Shannon: communication and sampling
- The book: hidden variables and memory
- Tests with explicit alternatives
Original worked examples distinguish observable changes, descriptions of time and the assumptions behind a physical reconstruction.
Reality, relations and explanation
- NASA: comparing viewpoints through parallax
- JCGM: calibration
- JCGM: measurement models
- NIST: selecting, fitting and validating a model
- The book: when two histories count as the same
- Distance from admissible comparisons
- Published research: completion principles
Explicit examples connect foundational questions with retained relations, measurement procedures and the conditions needed for a physical explanation.
Time, boundaries and the physical world
- Boethius: eternity and temporal succession
- Aristotle: future contingents
- Ibn al-Arabi: Eternity, translated and annotated by Mohamed Haj Yousef
- Fitzpatrick: the quantum harmonic oscillator
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands: curved space
- The book: what is needed for gravitation
- Vacuum energy and the cosmological term
Historical readings and explicit models distinguish temporal interpretation, boundary assumptions, local sources and the physical meaning of a reconstructed geometry.
Matter, identity and physical description
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands: modes
- Morse: a molecular potential and vibrational levels
- Glauber: coherent and incoherent states
- Hong, Ou and Mandel: two-photon interference
- The book: statistics and the mass gap
- One physical dictionary
- Quantum interpretations and their primary sources
Worked models separate material response, binding, exchange statistics and physical predictions from the additional assumptions of a generative interpretation.
Light, records and reliable observation
- Feynman, Leighton and Sands: quantum behaviour and interference
- Polarization
- Gabor: a new microscopic principle
- NASA: models and simulations
- Deutsch: physical law and universal quantum computation
- NIST: two-way time transfer
- The book: when histories count as equivalent
- A model that can be audited
Explicit optical, numerical and timing examples connect calibrated observations with the distinctions retained by a completed state.
Irreversibility, life and causal explanation
- Joshi: long time response of aging glassy polymers
- Haj Yousef: dual-time geometry and temporal asymmetry
- Horvath: DNA methylation age
- Vaupel, Manton and Stallard: heterogeneity and mortality
- Hume: liberty and necessity
- James: the dilemma of determinism
- The book: entropy requires a physical reduction
- A fair comparison between physical models
Worked response, heating, survival and inference examples separate physical mechanisms, mathematical implications and philosophical questions.
From reading to research
- JCGM: uncertainty and correlated inputs
- Trefethen and colleagues: hydrodynamic stability without eigenvalues
- Feynman: resonance
- National Academies: reproducibility
- Newton: the Principia
- Hume: the Enquiry
- Crossref: corrections and publication status
- The book: a model that can be audited
Worked calculations and source-reading exercises make assumptions, evidence, historical interpretation and research contributions easier to inspect.
Clocks, cosmos and lived time
- U.S. Naval Observatory: calendars and astronomical cycles
- Plato: Timaeus
- Aristotle: Physics IV
- Augustine: memory and expectation
- Leibniz: Third Paper to Clarke
- Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
- Bergson: Time and Free Will
- The book: clocks and radar coordinates
Read identifiable passages, distinguish their questions and test the modern comparisons through explicit models.
Becoming, possibility and explanation
- Whitehead: The Concept of Nature
- Markosian: A Defense of Presentism
- McTaggart: The Unreality of Time
- Markosian: the growing block and its epistemic challenge
- Tong: the Heisenberg picture
- The book: what a reconstruction must contain
Distinguish historical arguments, equivalent descriptions, conditional results and the additional work required by a physical proposal.
Models, meanings and the world
- Van Fraassen: The Scientific Image
- Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
- James: Does Consciousness Exist?
- Spinoza: Ethics
- Peirce: How to Make Our Ideas Clear
- The book: the place of philosophy
Keep a model’s predictive success, the interpretation of its symbols and its claims about reality open to separate examination.
Telling time: language, memory and expectation
- Reichenbach: The Tenses of Verbs
- Núñez and Sweetser: Aymara temporal expressions and gesture
- Aristotle: Poetics
- Wordsworth: I wandered lonely as a Cloud
- Loftus and Palmer: language and memory reports
- The book: moments and present condition
Keep the event, its record and its description distinct; connect new interpretations to recoverable passages and explicit models.

