The End of Physics — Submission Abstract Draft
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Key Concepts: Observer, Field, Invariant
Short Abstract
The End of Physics argues that purely physical theories can be operationally complete while remaining ontologically incomplete. The central claim is that measurement requires outcome identity, outcome identity requires semantic equivalence, and semantic equivalence cannot be defined, interpreted, or canonically reconstructed from physical structure alone. The manuscript organizes this claim into a theorem spine and develops a constructive post-physical architecture based on observer closure, coherence, projection, and epistemic geometry.
Long Abstract
This manuscript examines the foundations of physics through the problem of measurement and the conditions required for a physical theory to apply to outcomes. It begins by tracing physics as a historical search for invariant structure, then argues that measurement cannot be reduced to raw physical interaction because outcomes require identity conditions over signals. These identity conditions are treated as semantic equivalence relations tied to observer closure.
The formal spine of the manuscript develops three barriers: semantic non-definability in a purely physical language, non-interpretability of minimal observer structure inside physical theory, and a categorical reconstruction barrier expressed as a no-right-adjoint condition for recovering observer semantics from physical structure. Under these definitions, the manuscript states the End-of-Physics theorem: purely physical theories may remain operationally valid while failing to be ontologically complete.
The constructive part of the work replaces law as ontological primitive with coherence as the stabilizing condition under which physical laws appear as compressed invariants. It introduces observer monads, coherence classes, projection, KP-Field, Realica, and FQFT bindings as proposed framework extensions. These extensions are presented as formalization and falsifiability targets rather than accepted physics (within negated context). The manuscript closes by identifying falsification routes and proof obligations for external review.
Status
- Source-backed manuscript draft
- Formal theorem spine extracted
- Proof obligations mapped
- External review pending
- Formal verification pending
- Not submitted
- Not accepted