MACROSCOPIC ENTANGLEMENT, ATOMIC MEMORY, AND RELATIONAL INFORMATION

This article develops an expanded critical-propositional analysis of Florian Fröwis et al.’s 2017 study, “Experimental Certification of Millions of Genuinely Entangled Atoms in a Solid,” published in Nature Communications, in systematic dialogue with the Theory of Objectivity (TO), developed by Vidamor Cabannas and Denivaldo Silva. Fröwis et al. experimentally certified genuine multipartite entanglement involving at least sixteen million atoms in a neodymium-doped solid-state quantum memory. Their method combines the directional collective re-emission of an absorbed photon with the nonclassical photon- number statistics of the emitted field and employs an entanglement-depth witness to exclude decompositions of the atomic ensemble into smaller independent groups. Particularly relevant to the present inquiry is the experimentally grounded role of phase relations among atoms. Following absorption, the collectively imprinted phase stores physically recoverable information concerning the direction and energy associated with the incident optical excitation and subsequently makes possible coherent directional re-emission. The experimental sequence can therefore be represented as radiation, collective atomic relation, physically encoded information, collective organization, and radiation. The article examines whether this relational structure can establish empirical contact with the modal ontology of the Theory of Objectivity, especially VA4, concerning boundaries and interfaces; VA5, concerning relational or triangular observation; VA6, concerning composition; and VA7, concerning the transcendent element understood within TO as knowledge or information generated in atomic relations and fundamentally associated with atomic radiation. The analysis argues that Fröwis et al. provide significant indirect empirical corrob- oration of selected operational bridges compatible with TO, particularly the propositions that atomic relations can encode recoverable information and that this information can participate in transformations between radiative and material collective states. Never- theless, the experiment does not establish the modal necessity of the TO axioms, does not demonstrate an ontological identity between information and radiation, and does not test the specific cosmogenic architecture or cosmological eras proposed by the Theory of Objectivity. Accordingly, the article distinguishes empirical compatibility, indirect corroboration, operational bridge construction, and theory-specific confirmation. It concludes by proposing a research program through which TO concepts could be transformed into quantitative and potentially discriminating experimental predictions. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; quantum entanglement; multipartite entanglement; quantum memory; atomic relations; information; radiation; modal ontology; empirical corroboration; Atomic Frequency Comb.