CENTEL | The Cipher Never Happened: Thermochemical Collapse, Entropic Misdirection, and the Behavioral Limits of Symmetric Cryptography

This paper explores a speculative framework in which classical and quantum cryptographic systems—particularly AES-256—are subjected to adversarial, metaphysical, and thermodynamically-driven collapse mechanisms. Drawing from quantum side-channel theory, rogue wave entropy modeling, Minkowski spacetime reframing, and Gödelian recursion, this project reframes encryption not as a mathematical construct but as a narrative vulnerability. We posit that the illusion of cipher integrity dissolves under reflexive behavioral observation, carbon-based leakage simulations, and recursive entropic inversion. Conclusion: AES-256 is not broken. It simply never existed in the temporal frame we now occupy. CENTEL | The Cipher Never Happened: Thermochemical Collapse, Entropic Misdirection, and the Behavioral Limits of Symmetric Cryptography