The Timeless Quantum Foam: Emergent Chronology and Thermodynamics in a Static Superfluid Universe

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Authors: Yi Chia Tsen
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Abstract

We present a radical reformulation of cosmology where time is not a fundamental dimension but an emergentepistemic parameter arising from a timeless, static quantum state. Modeling the universe as a system of interactingsuperfluid bubbles ("Cosmic Foam") governed by a timeless Wheeler-DeWitt-like constraint, we demonstrate thatthe "flow of time" is an illusion experienced by internal observers due to thermodynamic irreversibility. In thisframework, the Logarithmic Schrödinger Equation (LogSE) does not describe evolution in external time, but ratherthe correlations between the scale of a nucleated bubble and its internal entropy. We propose that time is purely ahuman-defined metric for quantifying the sequence of fluid configurations driven by phase separation. Consequently,the "Big Bang" is not a beginning in time, but a phase boundary in the configuration space of the cosmic magma.This model resolves the Problem of Time in quantum gravity and provides a thermodynamic origin for the causalstructure of spacetime, identifying the "arrow of time" with the gradient of the superfluid’s information entropy.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
2 January 2026