What a universe that becomes changes: Foundational radiance of Time-Actualization beyond hard physics
Time-Actualization (TA) is a foundational interpretation empirically equivalent to quantum mechanics on a causal-set substrate: it makes no new prediction (a consequence, forced by assuming QM, we label P5). It therefore has, by construction, no value in hard physics -- no algorithm, no measurement, no experimental gap. This essay raises a distinct question: if one adopts TA as the correct reading of the world, what does this commit one to outside physics? We argue that TA delivers a coherent package of foundational stances -- a real objective present, an ontologically open future, an objective chance, a non-classical logic of the contingent, a primary becoming -- whose radiance is limited exactly to those domains that are themselves theories of the foundation: philosophy of time, of logic, of probability, of mind, and process metaphysics. We delimit this radiance without evasion: it is conditional (the premise "the universe is TA" is not establishable against its empirical twins), interpretative (ontological clarity, never a measurable fact), and bounded (nothing in the empirical sciences). This is the profile of a foundational contribution assumed as such.
Authors
- Patrick Jaubert (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3114-3550)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-07-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21507410
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Type
- preprint