Daniel Burnstein

Indistinguishable in Principle, Distinguishable in Practice: Einstein's Equivalence Principle Reassessed, and the Predictions of Relativity Recovered from Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

General relativity rests on the foundational assertion of the equivalence principle: that gravitational and non-gravitational acceleration are locally indistinguishable. This paper demonstrates, from the first principles of Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD), that this indistinguish...

Indistinguishable in Principle, Distinguishable in Practice: Einstein's Equivalence Principle Reassessed, and the Predictions of Relativity Recovered from Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

General relativity rests on the foundational assertion of the equivalence principle: that gravitational and non-gravitational acceleration are locally indistinguishable. This paper demonstrates, from the first principles of Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD), that this indistinguish...

Behaviorally Free, Ontologically Determined: Consciousness and Decision as Self-Directed Modelling Residual in Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) admits no exception to bottom-up determinism: Axiomatic Localism establishes that every causal succession is exhaustively fixed by local preonic configuration. There is no causal slack and no abstract causal layer through which mental states, inten...

Particle Colliders and the Search for Fundamental Constituents: What QGD Implies for High-Energy Physics

Particle colliders are justified in part by the assumption that high-energy collisions reproduce the conditions of the early universe shortly after the Big Bang, thereby granting experimental access to the fundamental constituents of matter. This paper examines that justification...

The Physicality of Scales: An Emergent Hierarchy from Minimal Axioms in Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

This paper proposes physically grounded definitions of object and scale within the framework of Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) and the Minimal Physically Derivable Theories (MPDT) programme established by the Uniqueness Theorem. Both definitions have been absent from the existin...

QGD / MPDT and Poincaré–Weyl Predicativism: Independent Convergence, and Why Physical Grounding Reaches Further

Physical constructivism — the position that a mathematical object exists only when a physical process has completed its construction, that notation for a never-terminating process is a prescription rather than a name, and that the set of existing numbers is bounded by the physica...

A Reader Guide for the QGD / MPDT Framework: Quantum-Geometry Dynamics and Minimal Physically Derivable Theories

This document serves as the official navigational hub and structural map for the Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) and Minimally Physically Derivable Theories (MPDT) programme. Developed between 2010 and 2026, the complete framework consists of fitty-one papers and one foundational...

A Reader Guide for the QGD / MPDT Framework: Quantum-Geometry Dynamics and Minimal Physically Derivable Theories

This document serves as the official navigational hub and structural map for the Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) and Minimally Physically Derivable Theories (MPDT) programme. Developed between 2010 and 2026, the complete framework consists of fitty-one papers and one foundational...

QGD / MPDT and General Relativity: The Aberration Problem, Compared

Newton's instantaneous gravity was abandoned because it appeared incompatible with a finite speed limit and with the empirical fact that orbits do not destabilize under aberration. General relativity resolves this through velocity-dependent terms, forced by general covariance, th...

The Conceptual Import of Physical Time: Insulation Failure and the Deepest Non-Minimal Assumption in Physics

Every major framework in physics imports physical time as a pre-theoretical assumption. This import is more consequential than the well-recognised import of the mathematical continuum, because it precedes and enables it: if time flows continuously, the mathematics describing phys...

Discrete Space as the Resolution of Algorithmic Incompleteness in Physics: A Quantum-Geometry Dynamics Perspective on the Limits of Axiomatic Theories of Everything

This paper responds to Faizal, Krauss, Shabir, and Marino (arXiv:2507.22950), who argue that any axiomatic Theory of Everything formulated as a computational formal system is subject to Gödel incompleteness, Tarski undefinability, and Chaitin information-theoretic bounds, and tha...

The Gravitational SETI Channel; Why Electromagnetic Observation Cannot Detect Cosmological Civilisations, and What Can

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has operated for decades on the assumption that electromagnetic signals are the natural medium for interstellar and intergalactic communication. This paper argues, from the axiomatic structure of Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD),...

The Physicality of Scales: An Emergent Hierarchy from Minimal Axioms in Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

This paper proposes physically grounded definitions of object and scale within the framework of Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) and the Minimal Physically Derivable Theories (MPDT) programme established by the Uniqueness Theorem. Both definitions have been absent from the existin...

Dissolving the Mentaculus: How Quantum-Geometry Dynamics Accounts for Time's Arrows Without a Statistical Postulate

Albert and Loewer’s Mentaculus is an ambitious unification project that aims to account for the reversibility problem, the thermodynamic arrow of time, the epistemic arrow, the influence and causal/counterfactual arrows, the applicability of statistical reasoning to macroscopic r...

Dissolving the Mentaculus: How Quantum-Geometry Dynamics Accounts for Time's Arrows Without a Statistical Postulate

Albert and Loewer’s Mentaculus is an ambitious unification project that aims to account for the reversibility problem, the thermodynamic arrow of time, the epistemic arrow, the influence and causal/counterfactual arrows, the applicability of statistical reasoning to macroscopic r...

Grounding Quantum-Geometry Dynamics: A Program for the Empirical Derivation of the Framework's Fundamental Constants

Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) is an axiomatic framework for physics built from two axioms: that space is constituted by discrete fundamental volumetric units called preons(−), and that matter is constituted by kinetic preons(+) each carrying constant intrinsic momentum c̃. From...

Simultaneity, Instantaneous Gravity, and the Measurement of Absolute Velocity: A Companion Protocol to Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

Any synchronization scheme that relies solely on light signals cannot test the isotropy of the one-way speed of light. The convention used to split a measured two-way delay into one-way components becomes, by construction, the result of the subsequent measurement. This is the cla...

Grounding Quantum-Geometry Dynamics: A Program for the Empirical Derivation of the Framework's Fundamental Constants

Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) is an axiomatic framework for physics built from two axioms: that space is constituted by discrete fundamental volumetric units called preons(−), and that matter is constituted by kinetic preons(+) each carrying constant intrinsic momentum c̃. From...

The Predictable Equilibrium: Recovering the Second Law's Predictions from Quantum-Geometry Dynamics, Without an Entropy-Increase Postulate

Classical thermodynamics treats entropy as a definitional import: introduced by definition, with the Second Law asserted alongside it rather than derived from it. Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) avoids this. Energy and Heat are each one-step aggregations of a single primitive — a...

A Reader Guide for the QGD / MPDT Framework: Quantum-Geometry Dynamics and Minimal Physically Derivable Theories

This document serves as the official navigational hub and structural map for the Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) and Minimally Physically Derivable Theories (MPDT) programme. Developed between 2010 and 2026, the complete framework consists of forty-nine papers and one foundationa...