The Epistemological Interference: Why Physics Cannot Solve Its Own Frontier Problems

We identify an epistemological interference that prevents physics from recognizing the structural limit of its own lens. The interference has a precise historical origin: the partition of domains of the seventeenth century, which assigned to the Church the domain of the absolute (A) and to science the domain of the manifest (T). As that partition fossilized into an ontology, physics came to believe that its theories constitute level A, and that the observable world constitutes level T. This belief is false: theories are also T. A written equation, a paper, a measurement, and the observable world are all manifestations of T. A is absolute coherence manifesting itself as T through the operation of I. The structural result on which this interpretation rests is proved in https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22879288. Here we develop its consequences: the impossibility of T closing upon itself, the necessity of an external operation (I) that produces it, and the reinterpretation of the frontier problems of physics—singularities, measurement, information loss—as symptoms of the interference.This is the English version of the work La interferencia epistemológica: Por qué la física no puede resolver sus propios problemas de frontera, also available in Spanish: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22876848