PHYSICAL STATES AND OBSERVATION AS ENFORCED QUANTUM TRANSITION REGIMES

This paper reduces both physical states and observation to their most fundamental quantum-level mechanism. By stripping observers, measurement theory, and interpretation from the analysis, it shows that persistent states exist only as enforced restrictions on otherwise allowed quantum transitions. When such enforced states interact with less-constrained systems, transition suppression propagates, producing what is commonly labeled as observation. The work demonstrates by logical necessity that observation is not a fundamental primitive but an emergent effect of interaction-mediated enforcement, requiring coupling, back-reaction, and dissipation, and introduces no new physics beyond these mechanisms.