I am a mathematician and independent researcher working on quantum foundations and the philosophy of time. My work begins from a distinction often obscured in discussions of timeless physics: eliminating an external clock parameter does not establish that time itself is unreal. A clock scale assigns positions or dates to events; it does not generate the process through which those events come about. I call the directed internal organization of such transformations process time.
In quantum mechanics, I develop this idea through the concept of event latency. The wave function is interpreted not as the instantaneous state of a persisting materi…
I am a mathematician and independent researcher working on quantum foundations and the philosophy of time. My work begins from a distinction often obscured in discussions of timeless physics: eliminating an external clock parameter does not establish that time itself is unreal. A clock scale assigns positions or dates to events; it does not generate the process through which those events come about. I call the directed internal organization of such transformations process time.
In quantum mechanics, I develop this idea through the concept of event latency. The wave function is interpreted not as the instantaneous state of a persisting material object, but as the phase-structured temporal organization of possible event manifestations. Measurement is correspondingly understood as event manifestation rather than the physical collapse of an ontic wave function.
The cover image visualizes this perspective. Each clock functions as a local phasor: the orientation of its hand represents phase, while its size represents magnitude. Together, the spatially distributed phasors suggest a complex wave function—not merely a collection of clock readings.
