Author
K. Arisaka
Recent research
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The GRIP on GDOS: GRIP: the Geometric Engine of Symmetry Breaking, from the Big Bang to Mind
Nothing in the universe stayed symmetric. It began hot and nearly featureless, and everything in it now — the particles, the elements, the molecules, the living cell, the mind reading this sentence — is what was left standing after one symmetry broke, and then another, and then a...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Every electron in the universe is exactly like every other: the same mass, the same charge, the same spin. No electron has ever been seen to decay, or to reveal an inner structure. Two heavier copies of it exist — and only two. Every electron has a mirror twin — the positron, of...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
For 2300 years, the ideal of physical science has been Euclid's: a deductive system in which every theorem follows from a few postulates, with nothing left to fit. Modern physics drifted from that ideal — the Standard Model carries some 28 free parameters, general relativity adds...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
The Standard Model is the most successful theory ever built and the most unsatisfying: it predicts experiment to extraordinary precision, yet cannot say where its own numbers come from. Twenty-eight quantities — particle masses, force strengths, mixing angles — must be measured a...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Quantum Mechanics Derived from GG-Theory as Projection from 6D Bulk to 4D Boundary
For a century, quantum mechanics has been the most accurately tested theory ever written — and the least understood. It predicts the electron's magnetism to one part in ten trillion, yet no one can quite say why a measurement yields a single definite result, why outcomes appear r...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Every theory of nature is built on a foundation, yet that foundation is rarely written down. For three and a half centuries — from Newton through Maxwell, Einstein, and the Standard Model — physics has worked beautifully without making its rules of admissibility explicit, relying...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Every system in nature is open. No real system has ever been isolated. Indeed, the very act of observation already presumes that observer and observed are coupled. Yet for three and a half centuries, the foundational theories of physics have been written as if isolation were the...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
The Kaxion: Cold Dark Matter as the Non-Spatial Compact-Angle Pseudoscalar of GG-6
Nearly a century ago, astronomers found that galaxies move as though they hold far more matter than we can see. Stars at the edges of spinning galaxies orbit too fast; the afterglow of the Big Bang bears the imprint of a substance outweighing ordinary atoms five to one. We call i...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Black holes are the strangest objects in nature. Fifty years ago Stephen Hawking discovered that they are not perfectly black: they glow faintly, and over almost unimaginable spans of time they evaporate away. This discovery created the deepest puzzle in modern physics. Whatever...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Physics keeps a short list of questions its own tools cannot close: what happens when a measurement happens; where the Standard Model's two dozen unexplained numbers come from; what launched the Big Bang; what became of the information that fell into a black hole. Their median ag...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Why Three Generations: A Three-Leg Derivation of N_g=3 from BI-6, MSMF, and GDOS Morse Stability
Everything ordinary in the universe is built from the first family of matter particles: the electron, the up quark, the down quark, and their neutrino. Yet nature manufactured two heavier copies of that family — and then stopped. Why three? For half a century the Standard Model h...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Physicists have long believed that things are conserved because the world is symmetric. This review follows that belief through the seven results that built it, in the order they were found: at each step it gives way, and what replaces it is more interesting. Noether's first theo...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The GRIP on GDOS: GRIP: the Geometric Engine of Symmetry Breaking, from the Big Bang to Mind
Nothing in the universe stayed symmetric. It began hot and nearly featureless, and everything in it now — the particles, the elements, the molecules, the living cell, the mind reading this sentence — is what was left standing after one symmetry broke, and then another, and then a...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Every system in nature is open. No real system has ever been isolated. Indeed, the very act of observation already presumes that observer and observed are coupled. Yet for three and a half centuries, the foundational theories of physics have been written as if isolation were the...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
For half a century a quantum anomaly has been described as a flaw that shows up only when a classical symmetry is run through the quantum machine. This paper makes the opposite case: the anomaly is, at bottom, a classical and geometric fact about a higher-dimensional space, and t...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
For forty years the standard model of cosmology, ΛCDM, has described the universe with breathtaking precision and explained almost none of it: a handful of numbers, read off the sky, reproduce everything — yet the theory cannot say why those numbers take the values they do. This...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Why is there something rather than nothing? A universe born even-handed between matter and antimatter should have annihilated to light. And why do the three mirrors of nature — charge (C), space (P), and time (T) — each fail to reflect the world faithfully, while their combinatio...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Gravity is the shape of spacetime. The other three forces are not: they are rules attached on top of spacetime rather than properties of it, and physics has kept these two kinds of law in separate boxes for a hundred years. This paper closes the gap by making them two faces of on...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Quantum Mechanics Derived from GG-Theory as Projection from 6D Bulk to 4D Boundary
For a century, quantum mechanics has been the most accurately tested theory ever written — and the least understood. It predicts the electron's magnetism to one part in ten trillion, yet no one can quite say why a measurement yields a single definite result, why outcomes appear r...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
For a century, "how fast is the universe expanding?" was a question answered by measuring. By 2026 the measuring had split: read from the afterglow of the Big Bang, the rate comes out near 67 (in astronomers' units); read from the local ladder of stellar distances, 73.50 ± 0.81 —...