PIUM 1.2 – Phase Interference Universe Model An Interpretive Wave-Field Framework for Matter, Mass, Gravitation, and Detection

This record is archived.The current PIUM release is available here:https://zenodo.org/records/18221734 This record presents the 2025 consolidated formulation of PIUM – the Phase Interference Universe Model, version 1.2. Earlier versions of PIUM emphasized a unified wave-field perspective and were released under exploratory and draft formulations. Those records remain available on Zenodo for archival purposes. The present release represents a clarified and coherent formulation, in which phase interference is explicitly restored as the central organizing principle, and this refinement is reflected in the title and terminology. PIUM proposes an interpretive framework in which observed physical phenomena arise from a single universal wave field, Φ(x,t), whose phase-interference structure governs material organization, stability, and interaction. Within this perspective, matter is not composed of elementary point-like particles, but of phase-coherent, self-closing resonant configurations of the wave field. These closed configurations are spatially stationary yet internally circulating, with internal circulation giving rise to mass, inertia, spin, and structural stability. Different observed physical entities correspond to distinct closure modes of the same underlying wave field. Photons appear as open wave configurations, neutrinos as open phase modes, electrons as fractional or spiral closures associated with spin-½ behavior, and nucleons as stable multi-sector closure configurations. Quarks are interpreted as internal phase-sector bookkeeping within nucleon closures, while gluons represent informational constraints associated with maintaining phase-coherent closure rather than separable mediating particles. Within PIUM, mass is interpreted as internal tension arising from deviation from a null-point reference state of the wave field. Wave–particle duality is resolved as a distinction between open wave modes and closed resonant configurations. Detection is not the transformation of a wave into a particle, but a state change occurring in the material structure of the measuring system, which is selectively resonant to specific phase configurations—analogous to a tuned radio receiver responding to particular signals. On cosmological scales, the universal wave field forms a persistent background whose interference structure is spatially non-uniform. Regions of enhanced interference increase the probability of stable material organization and large-scale clustering. In this sense, PIUM interprets gravitation as a large-scale relaxation tendency toward the null-point state rather than as an independent fundamental force. PIUM is not proposed as a replacement for the Standard Model or general relativity, nor as a competing predictive framework. It introduces no new particles, forces, or constants, and does not modify established computational formalisms. Instead, it is intended as an ontological and interpretive layer placed beneath existing experimental and theoretical results, offering a unified, interference-based perspective through which diverse phenomena may be consistently understood. Future work will further develop the phase-interference interpretation, including more detailed discussion of spatial interference patterns, material clustering, and their relation to large-scale structure. The present release establishes the conceptual foundation for those extensions. Author contact (for clarification or discussion):szabolcs.krehlik@gmail.com