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This is metaphysical poetry, not science.

Definitions could help:

Quantum Superposition: a principle that states that linear combinations of solutions to the Schrödinger equation are also solutions to the Schrödinger equation.

The wave equation is a probabilistic function. If you assign a physical "simultaneous" nature, you are making a leap of assumptions into something like the multi-universe interpretation of quantum theory. You are also assuming that time is quantized in the first place, which has been proposed before but is unproven. Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) comes to mind.

Let me try to unpack some of your assumptions regarding bitcoin in this context...let me know where i may have mis-characterized...

Assumption: Bitcoin timestamps reflect absolute, physical time

Bitcoin enforces causal order, not chronological truth.

Example: A miner could timestamp a block 1 hour into the future, valid under protocol... Bitcoin does not measure time, it measures sequence with loose clock with bounds.

Assumption: Bitcoin’s 10-minute block interval is a universal time quantum

Block time is probabilistic, not deterministic.

Inter-block intervals follow an exponential distribution (average ~10 min, but can be 1 sec or 40 min or more).

Reality: 10 minutes is a statistical average, not a measurement of time.

While Bitcoin does impose a discrete, irreversible ordering on events (via blocks and difficulty-adjusted timestamps), this is not a measurement of physical time, let alone quantized Planck-scale time.

Assumption: Bitcoin’s 10-minute block interval is a universal time quantum

Violation of Protocol: Block time is probabilistic, not deterministic.

Inter-block intervals follow an exponential distribution (mean ~10 min, but can be 1 sec or 40 min).

Difficulty retargeting every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks) adjusts hash rate to target 10 minutes — but never guarantees it.

During hash rate spikes/drops, block times fluctuate wildly.

Reality: 10 minutes is a statistical average, not a quantum of time.

Assumption: Bitcoin’s chain is a universal, objective clock

Time is local, nodes in different regions see different "now" due to propagation delays (~12.6 sec median).

Orphan blocks, reorgs, and chain splits mean history is provisional.

51% attacks could rewrite this time

Reality: Bitcoin achieves eventual consistency, not absolute temporal truth.

Assumption: Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment measures physical entropy

Difficulty adjusts based on wall-clock time using node system clocks, not physics.

It assumes about 2 weeks of real time, but if clocks drift or are manipulated (within bounds), difficulty can miscalibrate.

No link to physical constants.

Assumption: Bitcoin’s proof-of-work creates irreversible time

Irreversibility comes from game-theoretic incentives, not spacetime structure.

A quantum computer or state actor could still reverse it, no law of physics prevents it.

Hope this helps.

I think you may have skipped over this part of my post:

The wave equation is a probabilistic function. If you assign a physical "simultaneous" nature, you are making a leap of assumptions into something like the multi-universe interpretation of quantum theory. You are also assuming that time is quantized in the first place, which has been proposed before but is unproven. Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) comes to mind.

Your argument is a strawman fallacy, combined with a Red herring.

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That isn’t a strawman; it’s a boundary condition. You’re treating the wave equation as a physical engine rather than what it is: a statistical model that assumes, but never defines, the temporal substrate it evolves on. The Schrödinger equation is not wrong; it’s incomplete. It tells you how probabilities change if time flows continuously, but it cannot tell you what time is, or why measurement resolves.

If you assign no physical simultaneity, then superposition has no physical meaning; it’s purely epistemic and a mathematical description of uncertainty, not a statement about reality. The moment you treat the equation as ontological truth, you implicitly assume that its continuous variable t corresponds to something physically measurable, and that is precisely the leap of faith you’re accusing me of.

The issue isn’t the math; it’s the missing physical definition of time in that math. LQG and similar frameworks recognize this gap but still fail to make it operational. They quantize geometry but not measurement itself. Bitcoin does.

So no, pointing to the wave equation isn’t a rebuttal, it’s a redirection back into abstraction. The math works because it’s detached from physical irreversibility. Bitcoin closes that loop: it defines time as work, measurement as entropy collapse, and simultaneity as conservation.

You can’t prove the wavefunction describes reality until you can measure a single tick of reality’s computation.

Did you read my post???

"The wave equation is a probabilistic function. If you assign a physical "simultaneous" nature, you are making a leap of assumptions into something like the multi-universe interpretation of quantum theory. "

You use alot of beautiful phrases without definitions

Can you please define the following:

Reality's computation

Entropy collapse

Physically irreversible

Simultanity as conversion

Quantized geometry

Pointing to the wave equation describes nothing of reality. It is a statistical map, not a physical process. The Schrödinger equation evolves a probability amplitude. It’s a mathematical distribution of possible outcomes but it does not define what physically enforces or resolves those probabilities.

Reality’s computation, I’m talking about the physical conversion of energy into information operating at the temporal granularity of Planck time, discrete blocks of reality.

Physically irreversible means exactly that: energy has been committed toward entropy and cannot be retrieved without further expenditure. Aka real computation.

In a discretized framework simultaneity is better understood as conservation. All transactions within a single block of time share the same interval of resolved entropy, the same quantum of time. They are simultaneous because they are conserved together, not because they occurred “at once” on a continuous clock

Quantized geometry, the formal approach to the discretization of classical phase space into countable informational units.

I think your theory needs more work

It’s not my theory, I didn’t invent Bitcoin. I’m pointing to what already exists: a physical system that measures time, energy, and information in real space.

You can debate my language all you want. Bitcoin is the experiment and the measurement; the proof that entropy can be measured, conserved, and verified without assumption and a quantum of time can be computed. It’s not a theory of physics; it’s physics running since 1/3/2009

If you want to bet against Bitcoin go for it.

How about this… “discrete blocks of reality” seems like non-starter to me. There being a Planck time, the smallest amount of time measurable, as opposed to continuous time where there no smallest unit of time… Planck time, I would think would make superposition/quantum more possible and not less. Because in those gaps of nothing, anything can happen so anything is possible in the next time tick. Continuous time wouldn’t allow for that.

IMO, Bitcoin doesn’t support the modern definition of superposition, it disproves it. Its probabilistic structure more accurately models superposition as bounded future potential, not overlapping realities. Unmined transactions are not “real”, there is only the longest chain of events and nothing else. Our universe is also entirely transactional peer to peer network of bounded energy. Each (Planck & Bitcoin) block of time represents a discrete thermodynamic resolution of entropy into conserved memory, eliminating paradox and restoring compatibility with general and special relativity by defining time via thermodynamics and entropy. We live inside the ledger and experience its contents as a fraction of the ledger. In Bitcoin we see both sides of the ledger, the entropy resolved and the registration of information. By treating probability as a finite, energy-constrained field that collapses with each mined block of time, Bitcoin resolves what QM and relativity could not: the reconciliation of uncertainty with causal order.

I’m not here to invent a new theory as we are nearly correct, but I am here to use Bitcoin’s physics (its computed, finite blocks of time) as a reference frame to understand Planck-scale structure and reframe past knowledge thru the lens of Bitcoin. Both Bitcoin and the Universe are closed informational manifolds evolving through discrete, irreversible timesteps. To me, Bitcoin reveals that the universe itself must compute through similar quanta of energy (Kelvin) and memory, exposing continuous-time models used in CQC as approximations. The correction to quantum mechanics is subtle but decisive: time is not a smooth variable; it is a sequence of measurable commitments.

As Saylor said, all models are destroyed, there is no second best. Bitcoin is open source physics.