Unified Wormhole Accessibility Model

We present a unified, information-first framework for spacetime traversability in which causal accessibility is a transient, control-limited dynamical phase rather than a permanent geometric property. The central operational question is not whether a wormhole geometry exists, but whether a null signal can propagate across a throat before caustic formation closes the path. Using a control-theoretic reduction of the Raychaudhuri equation, we define an accessibility functional Φ that measures cumulative focusing surplus along a null congruence. Accessibility exists only when Φ remains subcritical for a finite affine-parameter interval exceeding a kinematic floor.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-02-01
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18477113
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Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
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Unified Wormhole Accessibility Model

William Childers
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
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Unified Wormhole Accessibility Model

William Childers
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Abstract

We present a unified, information-first framework for spacetime traversability in which causal accessibility is a transient, control-limited dynamical phase rather than a permanent geometric property. The central operational question is not whether a wormhole geometry exists, but whether a null signal can propagate across a throat before caustic formation closes the path. Using a control-theoretic reduction of the Raychaudhuri equation, we define an accessibility functional Φ that measures cumulative focusing surplus along a null congruence. Accessibility exists only when Φ remains subcritical for a finite affine-parameter interval exceeding a kinematic floor.

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