A Processual Treatise on Emergence: From Quantum Dynamics to Spacetime, Gravity, and Time

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Authors: Jorge Bustos Vargas
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Abstract

This work presents a foundational, process-oriented treatise on the emergence of spacetime, gravity, and time from microscopic quantum dynamics. It does not advance a new physical theory, nor does it introduce novel equations or predictive models. Instead, it provides a structural and methodological analysis of how descriptive regimes arise, saturate, and reorganize under sustained accumulation of energy and correlations. The treatise emphasizes that physical descriptions are valid only within the regimes that render their variables operationally meaningful. Emergence is treated as reorganization under constraint rather than ontological novelty. Within this framework, spacetime is understood as a collective relational descriptor rather than a background container, gravity as a geometric response rather than a fundamental force, and time as an ordering parameter associated with irreversible collective processes. Singularities are interpreted as limits of descriptive applicability rather than physical endpoints. The work is intended for readers interested in foundational questions in physics, philosophy of physics, and regime-based interpretation of physical theories.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Relativity and Gravitational Theory Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
27 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint