Research works

Competing Effects of Elastic Heterogeneity and Viscous Flow on Interseismic Coupling at Cascadia

Abstract Interseismic coupling maps are important tools for estimating future earthquake hazard at subduction zones. Often interseismic coupling is estimated from surface velocities using a homogeneous elastic Earth model. However, inversions that incorporate viscoelastic mantle...

Standard Model Gauge Groups as Emergent Topological Symmetries of the Higher-Dimensional Embedding Interface in Absolute Frame Theory

Version of August 23rd, 2026, following technical development within the Absolute Frame Theory programme. We show that the gauge structure SU(3)_c x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y of the Standard Model emerges as a topological property of the embedding interface between a four-dimensional obse...

Metacognition: A New Aspect V2

This essay challenges the prevailing assumption that metacognition — the capacity to think about one's own thinking — is a rare, unevenly distributed skill that must be taught. Drawing on parallel emergence of metacognitive markers across separate hominin species in the fossil re...

Analytical solution to the Kronig–Penney model with harmonic oscillator wells: insights to tight-binding

The celebrated Kronig–Penney model traditionally has been formulated with square well potentials representing atomic centres. Here, we use a slightly more realistic potential, the truncated harmonic oscillator, in lieu of square well potentials, and solve the model analytically....

Comment on “The elusive fluid‐and‐crystal coexistence state in simulations of monodisperse, hard‐sphere colloids”

Abstract In a recent article [1], Wang et al. discuss the absence of simulations of monodisperse hard spheres in which a metastable fluid spontaneously nucleates into a stable fluid‐crystal coexistence. Here, we show that such a simulation can be readily accomplished with standar...

Modular flow of celestial conformal field theory

Abstract We first review the calculations for the modular flow and the vector flow of $$\text {CFT}_2$$ CFT 2 , warped CFTs and Bondi–Metzner–Sachs field theories (BMSFTs), and then we present the vector flows and modular flows in Celestial field theory and Klein CFTs. We also di...

A Field-Theoretic Taxonomy of Emotions

Fear is easy to put into words; saudade is not. This paper proposes that emotions are not fixed categories but paths through a few moving parts of one system: six moving parts that generate about 45 distinct feelings, each with its own substrate-path. Abstract. Existing emotion-t...

Local Uniqueness of the Born Rule on Categories with Complex-Weighted Morphisms

I prove a local uniqueness theorem for the Born rule in the setting of quiver-generated categories equipped with complex morphism weights and path-amplitude probability functionals. Given (i) non-negativity, (ii) polynomiality of bounded total degree, (iii) global U (1) invarianc...

Categorical Refinement Dynamics and a Consistency Relation Among Standard Model Flavor Parameters

I develop a framework in which physical configurations form a category 𝐶Ps - a possibility space of structural configurations - whose morphisms carry complex-valued weights encoding transformation cost and geometric phase. The single realized reality Sr traces a path through this...

Fourteen lonely runners: manuscript, gate certificates, and audit code

Manuscript and complete verification package for the paper "Fourteen lonely runners": a computer-assisted proof of the Lonely Runner Conjecture for fourteen runners (thirteen moving runners, LRC(13)), within the finite-checking framework of Sungkawichai and Trakulthongchai (arXiv...

How Modeling Assumptions Shape Predictions of Convective Mixing of Carbon Dioxide

Abstract We investigate how models of fluid properties and boundary conditions influence predictions of convective mixing in confined porous media, with relevance to subsurface carbon dioxide storage. Using high‐resolution simulations at high Rayleigh‐Darcy numbers (O()), we anal...

The Mechanical Framework of Computational Spacetime: Resolving the CMB, Angular Momentum, and Time Dilation via Rendering Latency

The standard cosmological model (ΛCDM) relies on inflationary parameters and hypothetical dark components to reconcile observations with General Relativity. This paper introduces a deterministic, parameter-free mechanical framework operating on the principles of digital physics a...

The Adaptive Filtering of Reality: Biological Constraints and the Emergence of Conscious Experience

Human beings inhabit the same physical environment, yet they frequently experience different versions of reality. This paper argues that experienced reality should not be understood as a direct or complete representation of the external world. Instead, it emerges from a series of...

Identifiability Limits in Experimental Tests of Quantum Collapse

This record contains version 3 of the preprint “Identifiability Limits in Experimental Tests of Quantum Collapse.” It supersedes version 2 deposited under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22071445. Loss of interference visibility does not by itself identify a collapse mechanism. This preprint...

Grooming Detection Without Content Flags: A Trajectory-Based Method for Detecting Progressive Constraint of Receiver Autonomy in Sequential Communication

This paper introduces the Grooming Loop (GL), a trajectory-based method for detecting progressive constraint of the receiver's capacity for independent evaluation in sequential communication. GL is grounded in the evaluation framework of Transmission Origin Diagnostics v206, whic...

Morphotaxonomic verification of the ‘balunos’ vine used in the artisanal budbud salt of Miag-ao, Iloilo, Philippines

Abstract Vernacular names and folk classifications play a central role in how local communities recognize and transmit plant knowledge. The traditional budbud salt from Miag-ao, Iloilo uniquely uses extract from the balunos vine to enhance color, flavor and crystallization, yet t...

Designing female-specific food delivery electric vehicles: a participatory and data-driven approach

Delivery electric vehicles serve as essential work tools in platform-based food delivery, yet satisfaction-related design requirements for female riders remain insufficiently specified and are rarely translated into explicit design priorities with a traceable evidence chain. This...

Subjective Experience as a Meaning-Closing Interface Evolutionary Pressure, Speed Optimization, and the Role of the Other

Subjective experience is often treated either as a qualitative byproduct of neural processing or as a phenomenon primarily shaped by language and narrative. Such approaches tend to obscure its functional role within adaptive systems. This paper proposes a reframing of subjective...

Time as an Interface of Consciousness: Temporal Labeling, Synchronization, and Finitude Temporal Labeling and Conscious Experience: From Time Compression to Déjà Vu

Subjective time is not experienced as a uniform or stable quantity. Moments of threat, uncertainty, or novelty are often reported as temporally expanded, whereas routine and safe contexts are experienced as compressed or rapidly passing. In addition, phenomena such as déjà vu rev...

When More Payoff Information Hurts: Objective Alignment under Endogenous Feasibility

This paper develops a theory of objective information value when payoff information improves but an agent incompletely represents how current actions change future feasibility. For arbitrary finite decision problems, posterior convexity is the benchmark for objective welfare to r...