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The paper presents the observer-first reconstruction of spacetime, gravity, Standard Model structure, cosmology, particles, records, and simulation-theory interpretation.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller", "Alexander Osika", "Kai Xue", "Ben Cassie", "Peter Nguyen", "Mario Poneder", "Kale Arnav Anirudha" ], "keywords": [ "Observer Patch Holography", "OPH", "theory of everything", "observer-first physics", "consciousness-first physical theory", "quantum gravity", "Standard Model unification", "simulation theory" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/observers-are-all-you-need/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/observers-are-all-you-need/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/observers_are_all_you_need.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "The Trigger", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/the-trigger", "description": "High-level public entry point for the OPH claim." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." }, { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "Semiotics and the Physics of Meaning", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/semiotics-and-the-physics-of-meaning", "description": "Meaning, signs, interpretation, and observer overlap as one physical language." } ] }, { "id": "paradise_as_fixed_point_consensus", "title": "Paradise as Fixed-Point Consensus", "short_title": "Continuation paper", "category": "Observer continuation", "description": "The OPH continuation and meaning paper. It reads existence, observer continuation, record consistency, justice, resurrection, and paradise through fixed-point consensus.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller" ], "keywords": [ "observer continuation", "consciousness-first theories", "theory of everything", "fixed-point consensus", "simulation theory", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/paradise-as-fixed-point-consensus/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/paradise-as-fixed-point-consensus/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/paradise_as_fixed_point_consensus.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." }, { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "Semiotics and the Physics of Meaning", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/semiotics-and-the-physics-of-meaning", "description": "Meaning, signs, interpretation, and observer overlap as one physical language." } ] }, { "id": "reality_as_consensus_protocol", "title": "Reality as a Consensus Protocol", "short_title": "Consensus paper", "category": "Simulation theory", "description": "The OPH fixed-point consensus paper. It formulates observer patches, overlap-visible records, repair moves, Lyapunov descent, quotient normal forms, and obstruction classes.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller", "Kai Xue", "Kale Arnav Anirudha" ], "keywords": [ "simulation theory", "consensus protocol", "fixed-point computation", "observer patches", "records", "consciousness-first theories", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/reality-as-consensus-protocol/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/reality-as-consensus-protocol/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/reality_as_consensus_protocol.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "P = NP on the Observer Screen", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/p-equals-np-on-the-observer-screen", "description": "Search, verification, proof of work, and local repair on observer screens." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." } ] }, { "id": "recovering_relativity_and_standard_model_structure_from_observer_overlap_consistency_compact", "title": "Recovering Relativity and Standard Model Structure from Observer Overlap Consistency", "short_title": "Compact OPH core", "category": "Unification", "description": "The compact OPH route to Lorentz structure, the Einstein branch, compact-gauge reconstruction, the Standard Model quotient, color, generations, hypercharge, and branch-scoped Yang-Mills statements.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller", "Kai Xue", "Peter Nguyen" ], "keywords": [ "Standard Model unified with gravity", "quantum gravity", "physics unification", "Lorentz symmetry", "Einstein gravity", "gauge reconstruction", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/standard-model-gravity-unification/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/standard-model-gravity-unification/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/recovering_relativity_and_standard_model_structure_from_observer_overlap_consistency_compact.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." }, { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "The Right String Theory", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/the-right-string-theory", "description": "OPH as a selector for the physically correct string-vacuum representative." } ] }, { "id": "screen_microphysics_and_observer_synchronization", "title": "Screen Microphysics and Observer Synchronization", "short_title": "Screen microphysics", "category": "Screen physics", "description": "The fixed-cutoff OPH microphysics paper. It develops finite overlap-facing patch carriers, record algebras, measurement surfaces, observer backup, synchronization, and hardware-evidence rules.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller", "Alexander Osika", "Kai Xue", "Ben Cassie" ], "keywords": [ "screen microphysics", "observer synchronization", "Born rule", "measurement problem", "holographic screen", "simulation hardware", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/screen-microphysics-and-observer-synchronization/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/screen-microphysics-and-observer-synchronization/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/screen_microphysics_and_observer_synchronization.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "P = NP on the Observer Screen", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/p-equals-np-on-the-observer-screen", "description": "Search, verification, proof of work, and local repair on observer screens." }, { "title": "Causality 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Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/photonic-fixed-point-consensus-sha256d-proof-of-work/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/photonic-fixed-point-consensus-sha256d-proof-of-work/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/Photonic_fixed-point_consensus_for_SHA-256d_proof_of_work.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "P = NP on the Observer Screen", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/p-equals-np-on-the-observer-screen", "description": "Search, verification, proof of work, and local repair on observer screens." }, { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." } ] }, { "id": "chi_nu_susceptibility_bounds", "title": "Theoretical Bounds on Chi-Nu Susceptibility in Observer Patch Holography", "short_title": "Chi-nu bounds", "category": "Gravity engineering", "description": "A branch-scoped OPH calculation for chi-nu susceptibility bounds, coherent scalar sourcing, quotient-edge response, and engineering chart values.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller", "Alex Osika" ], "keywords": [ "chi-nu susceptibility", "local gravity response", "dark-sector scalar", "gravity engineering", "coherent matter", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/chi-nu-susceptibility-bounds/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/chi-nu-susceptibility-bounds/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/chi_nu_susceptibility_bounds.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." } ] }, { "id": "fine_structure_constant_derivation", "title": "The Fine-Structure Constant as an OPH Pixel Fixed Point", "short_title": "Fine-structure constant", "category": "Constants", "description": "A focused OPH paper on the fine-structure constant, local screen-cell closure, hadronic endpoint transport, and the fixed-point status of alpha.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller" ], "keywords": [ "fine-structure constant", "alpha 1 over 137", "fundamental constants", "pixel fixed point", "Standard Model constants", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/fine-structure-constant-oph-pixel-fixed-point/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/fine-structure-constant-oph-pixel-fixed-point/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/fine_structure_constant_derivation.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Fine-Structure Constant from First Principles", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/fine-structure-constant-from-first-principles", "description": "Public route into the OPH fine-structure constant calculation." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." } ] }, { "id": "observer_patch_holography_as_string_vacuum_selector", "title": "Observer Patch Holography as a String-Vacuum Selector", "short_title": "String-vacuum selector", "category": "String theory", "description": "A bridge paper connecting the de Sitter observer problem, OPH edge-string effective language, and a heterotic Standard Model representative as a conditional string-vacuum selector.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller" ], "keywords": [ "string vacuum selector", "string theory landscape", "de Sitter observer problem", "heterotic Standard Model", "Bouchard Donagi", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/observer-patch-holography-string-vacuum-selector/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/observer-patch-holography-string-vacuum-selector/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/observer_patch_holography_as_string_vacuum_selector.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "The Right String Theory", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/the-right-string-theory", "description": "OPH as a selector for the physically correct string-vacuum representative." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." }, { "title": "The Trigger", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/the-trigger", "description": "High-level public entry point for the OPH claim." } ] }, { "id": "oph_dark_matter_paper", "title": "Observer Patch Holography and the Dark Matter Phenomenon", "short_title": "Dark matter paper", "category": "Dark matter", "description": "The OPH dark-matter phenomenology paper. It connects finite observer-overlap collars, record-repair load, galaxy rotation laws, lensing, BTFR behavior, and cosmological caveats.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller" ], "keywords": [ "dark matter", "galaxy rotation curves", "MOND", "BTFR", "gravitational lensing", "dark-sector corrections", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/observer-patch-holography-dark-matter/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/observer-patch-holography-dark-matter/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/oph_dark_matter_paper.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." } ] }, { "id": "thinking_as_patch_net_fixed_point_search", "title": "Thinking as Patch-Net Fixed-Point Search", "short_title": "Thinking as patch net", "category": "Consciousness", "description": "An OPH paper on brains as biological fixed-point consensus systems, self-reading observer patches, recurrent repair, qualia, and AGI architecture.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller" ], "keywords": [ "consciousness-first theories", "consciousness", "AGI", "fixed-point search", "brain computation", "qualia", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/thinking-as-patch-net-fixed-point-search/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/thinking-as-patch-net-fixed-point-search/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/thinking_as_patch_net_fixed_point_search.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Semiotics and the Physics of Meaning", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/semiotics-and-the-physics-of-meaning", "description": "Meaning, signs, interpretation, and observer overlap as one physical language." }, { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." } ] }, { "id": "yang_mills_gap_clay_problem", "title": "Explaining the Yang-Mills Mass Gap in Observer Patch Holography", "short_title": "Yang-Mills gap", "category": "Mathematical physics", "description": "A branch-scoped OPH paper on the Yang-Mills mass gap, support-visible compact-gauge extraction, Euclidean consensus, repair completeness, and the exact repair gap.", "authors": [ "Bernhard Mueller" ], "keywords": [ "Yang-Mills mass gap", "Clay Millennium problem", "quantum Yang-Mills theory", "compact gauge theory", "mass gap", "Observer Patch Holography" ], "html_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/yang-mills-mass-gap-observer-patch-holography/", "pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/yang-mills-mass-gap-observer-patch-holography/paper.pdf", "central_pdf_url": "https://floatingpragma.io/oph/papers/pdf/yang_mills_gap_clay_problem.pdf", "related_blog_posts": [ { "title": "Causality Is Repair", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/causality-is-repair", "description": "Causality as exposed mismatch, accepted repair, and record formation." }, { "title": "Everything Clicks Into Place", "url": "https://blog.floatingpragma.io/everything-that-clicks-into-place", "description": "Unification as translation, repair, and stable agreement across domains." } ] } ] }