Quantum Aesthetics: Painting as Folded Time Mass

Abstract Inspired by Roy D. Herbert’s assertion that “mass therefore becomes a measure of folded time,” we propose a novel framework in Quantum Aesthetics: a painting as temporal mass—a static object manifesting the collapse of creative time into a unified perceptual set. Drawing from quaternionic wavefunction formalism (Bolokhov, arXiv:1712.04795v3), we introduce the symbolic equation:

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2025-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17509421
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Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
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Quantum Aesthetics: Painting as Folded Time Mass

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Quantum Aesthetics: Painting as Folded Time Mass

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Abstract Inspired by Roy D. Herbert’s assertion that “mass therefore becomes a measure of folded time,” we propose a novel framework in Quantum Aesthetics: a painting as temporal mass—a static object manifesting the collapse of creative time into a unified perceptual set. Drawing from quaternionic wavefunction formalism (Bolokhov, arXiv:1712.04795v3), we introduce the symbolic equation:

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