Toward a new mechanics based on discontinuous quantum motion: Why objects travel in straight lines and time moves in one direction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new mechanics is developed, extending analytical mechanics by drawing parallels with statistical mechanics. The approach developed replaces the concept of a many-particle system in favor of a “many-observer system” with respect to a single particle in an isotropic and homogeneous universe. Motion is described using the discontinuous quantum motion hypothesis: Space and time changes occur in an alternate and independent fashion. A configuration space is constructed consisting of relative displacements between the particle in question and each “observer.” The results include a description of mass and momentum (analogous to state functions), and the derivation of Einstein's relativistic energy equation (analogous to an equation of state for an individual particle based on its displacement relationships with respect to all other observers). Assumptions of three spatial dimensions and rectilinear motion will not be a priori but shown as emergent. If rectilinear motion is emergent, then I suggest that the arrow of time could be based at a microscopic level. Parallels with Bohmian mechanics are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".