Daniel Burnstein

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...

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...

Self-Legislating Closure: Why Determinism Is Not an Imposition on the Universe That Instantiates It

Behaviorally Free, Ontologically Determined [1] answers a local version of the free-will worry: a preonic aggregate's Selector sub-configuration lacks access to its own Generator's process, producing a felt openness fully compatible with exhaustive bottom-up determinism. That app...

Self-Legislating Closure: Why Determinism Is Not an Imposition on the Universe That Instantiates It

Behaviorally Free, Ontologically Determined [1] answers a local version of the free-will worry: a preonic aggregate's Selector sub-configuration lacks access to its own Generator's process, producing a felt openness fully compatible with exhaustive bottom-up determinism. That app...

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...

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...

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...