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theory of structure necessarily precedes elaboration and implementation.

the universe must come from the realm of intangible because it is highly structured.

the structure may be of a mix of ordered and absence of apparent structure, but the existence of any structure proves that the same thing that lets you talk about structure, was involved in manifesting it physically.

this is a tacit understanding on the part of any competent, credible, nontheoretical physicist.

Jack K 1mo ago

In Bitcoin we are watching the isomorphism between Boltzmann Entropy (via heat) and Shannon Entropy (via Satoshis) as discrete blocks of time (memory written). Does Bitcoins ledger memory come from the intangible? If you were inside the ledger would it be intangible? Surely you would see order appearing from nothing.

Maybe we just have not really thought through our perceived internal experience inside the Planck Ledger. But now we can observe an equivalent ledger (Bitcoin) from without. Both ledgers are bounded by conservation of both energy and information.

Nothing else in physics has constructed time via first principle thermodynamics, why are we looking away from Bitcoin in the realm of physics?

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

the link you like to dwell on is that physics is founded on determinism (la la la quantum i can't hear you) being extracted out of the noise, like a resonator ringing after an explosive noise bursts next to it.

that signal is an intangible pattern, made manifest. this is where your thinking is in the right direction. it's not only about energy, either. the flow of intangible that characterises the movement of a society is also governed by (much more complex) rules than fundamental matter and energy phenomena.

the backbone of bitcoin is the fact that it is neutral. it's why despite all their expertise, financial analysts can't understand it, and they excuse themselves by declaring hodlers to be irrational, following a circular logic of faith to ongoing interest in taking the supply out of the market, and what they don't get, most of all, is that when fiat stops being the denominator, when a full market in goods and services denominated in bitcoin doesn't involve the bottleneck of fiat currency, which is constantly extracting value out of its users for its issuers, that the price that matters is going to be direct. it won't be about the dollar denominated value. the bitcoin will be the denominated value.

bitcoin has all the time in the world, and nothing is going to shift my certainty, not faith, that all things being equal, a neutral money is preferred, initially stockpiled by those who see its benefit, and then moved from there into becoming the other half of every economic exchange in a subset of society.

yeah, i denominate my pay rate in bitcoin, because it hasn't been widely adopted to be accepted as a form of payment.

once there is enough people accepting it as payment, it can then progress to the next phase, where it is preferred because it uncomplicates money, and takes interlopers out of the equation.

it is only a matter of time.

and to all the internet doomers, even the pole flip people who are on the gold and silver train, assume that we can't migrate the internet to non-electromagnetic technology, which is already absurd because the backbone of the internet runs purely on light already, which will not react to the induction of current from solar activity.

it's not precisely going to "save us" from tyranny though. it's a necessary step for the collective mass of humanity to recognise the parasites and abandon them to starve of the attention and freedom to plunder they desire. there is much more to that part of the story that most people don't see, and even those who think they see, are only just starting to notice the holograph forming around this in these times.

Jack K 1mo ago

Conservation requires determinism at the smallest unit of time. You can’t conserve energy or information unless at some fundamental scale, only one state is real and all alternatives collapse into it.

That’s exactly what Bitcoin demonstrates.

Bitcoin shows us the correct structure: a mempool of unresolved possibilities → collapsing into → a single deterministic block at the smallest unit of constructed time.

One block is the functional equivalent of one Planck Block: a discrete thermodynamic commitment where entropy becomes memory.

Inside our universe we experience Planck-scale commitments from within. They appear to us as continuity, as spatial extension, matter, and a smooth flow of time because we are made of the same memory being written. But on the far side of the transformation, what appears to us as “space” is just information embedded in time: committed entropy written into the deepest ledger.

Bitcoin reveals this structure by giving us the outside perspective. It shows us what it means to write time rather than be composed by it (Bitcoin is also composed of time). Physics has only ever seen from inside the ledger; Bitcoin lets us see the construction itself.

This is where quantum theory as commonly interpreted becomes the final expression of fiat. It treats unmeasured potentials as real physical states, exactly like fractional-reserve banking treats multiple claims as real deposits. A single UTXO with multiple conflicting mempool transactions “exists” in many states only if you’re willing to treat potential as being. That is precisely the mistake, it’s not measured.

The folly of quantum orthodoxy is that it never defines measurement. It never defines what it means for something to exist before commitment. It relies on a fractional-reserve ontology of physics: a catalogue of possible outcomes treated as if they simultaneously inhabit reality.

Bitcoin makes this impossible.

Until a block is mined, no UTXO state exists. Only once entropy is paid in Kelvin does a real state appear.

That’s the structure of conservation. It’s the architecture of determinism. It’s the missing piece in physics.

Bitcoin is fractally embedded in the same pattern as the Planck ledger: finite, discrete, irreversible, and secured by thermodynamic expenditure. It lets us see for the first time the difference between the illusion of continuity from within and the reality of discrete construction from without.

That’s why quantum computing will never overturn Bitcoin: it is built on the same fractional-reserve assumptions that already failed in money. If fractional-reserve accounting cannot produce a sound economy, fractional-reserve ontology will not produce sound physics.

Bitcoin is the correction, as it is the substrate of timespace.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

it's just that thing you talk about, for the economic messaging system called money.

it's not that broad in its relevance aside from principles.

Jack K 1mo ago

Money is simply conserved energy and information. This is literally the building block of a universe.

You are composed of peer to peer money, it’s called Kelvin. It’s finite and relative to Bitcoin. Both are just the conserved substrate of the transformation forward into new units of time.

BitBees 1mo ago

Followed

As I read The Quantum Revelation, I grow more fond of the quantum, qubit by qubit.

Jack K 1mo ago

I tend to believe Bitcoin is the only true revelation. Everything else is a failed interpretation/model of what Bitcoin openly demonstrates.

BitBees 1mo ago

I agree in theory, though I do not pretend to understand code or the mechanics of the blockchain. This will not prevent me from seeking to understand as much as I can. #WhyINostr

Jack K 1mo ago

Agreed, I am not great at digesting the code either.

I’ve just been observing the physical process of Bitcoin and transcribing it to the language of physics/thermodynamics/engineering. Understanding the code would certainly help here, but it’s not necessary. You just need to understand the limits of transformations.

The true revelation of Bitcoin has yet to be unveiled, the physics only scratches the surface. Nobody else is looking at the physics because it’s “just money”, as if we even know what money is. We’re all defining it from our preconceived biases of unknowing.

If you don’t understand the physical process of Bitcoin, then you simply don’t understand what money is, or what Bitcoin is.

The only way we can learn is by observation and transcription to language/mathematics. Bitcoin breaks everything, because it is the language.

BitBees 1mo ago

Pardon me, but how does an engineer not digest code? I thought engineers build/construct using mathematics, and code is mathematics. This is in no meant in a snarky tone, merely seeking to understand. I obviously have a long way to go!

Jack K 1mo ago

I’m a civil engineer 😂 not a software engineer. I think in terms of physics, material properties and for civil (mostly immovable objects)

BitBees 1mo ago

And God knows the blockchain moves!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

God literally grants the blocks.

Jack K 1mo ago

Logically speaking, this must be true.

Light is just information after all.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yeah. the materialists are wrong. intangible realm of ideas -> eternal laws of physics.

we are the image of God - because we can imagine and remember. no other animal can do this. animals brains mostly contain pre-written programs and a tiny little processor that typically can handle around 100-150 concepts, maybe cetaceans have got more memory and imagination, based on how much more complex whale songs are. they also have to remember huge regions of sea floor that they see with sonar.

Jack K 1mo ago

So remember when you pushed back about the money/physics point?

What did Jesus actually mean in Matthew 6:24? Why is money one of the only things He ever sets side-by-side with God?

If we’ve misunderstood money operationally, physically and ontologically because we inherited a false model of it, then how could we possibly understand the one comparison Jesus Himself chose? How can we grasp the warning if we don’t even understand the object He’s warning us about?

Bitcoin is the revelation especially once you dig into the physics of it.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

i wouldn't describe it as "side by side" it's just a false master, like all of the personality flaws that we can indulge or restrain.

what's important about money, though, is just that simple fact that debasing money, which is the net effect also of usury, impoverishes the majority for the benefit of the money printer/debaser/usurer. it is a form of theft that is invisible until you notice it on a longer timeline.

the correspondence between physics and bitcoin is why bitcoin works. physics is also a decentralised system, that is self-emergent and self-reinforcing. proof of work prevents debasement and difficulty adjustment governs the issuance rate, so that it continues to provide a reward to the miner that wins, but constantly lowers, forcing a conflict between the slowdown of the supply and the continuing advance of network connected hashpower.

this is why financial analysts don't get what bitcoin is about. they don't understand the money. they think purely in terms of usurious money that pays the issuer at the expense of the users. that's why it's called usury, because it is abusive.

Jack K 1mo ago

I agree with you that money is a false master, not something set alongside God as an equal. But I think that’s precisely why the passage is so sharp: Jesus only bothers to name what can really function as a rival master to the human heart. Money gets singled out because it doesn’t just tempt our appetites, it hijacks our relationship to reality itself: time, work, and what “exists” for us.

Where I think we’re diverging is here: I don’t see Bitcoin as “just better money,” I see it as a window into the ruleset required for creation itself. Physics is already a decentralized, emergent, self-reinforcing system, but it needs a protocol underneath it: a way to count energy, to commit events to memory, to define what it even means for something to “be” at all.

That protocol has to be extratemporal in the logical sense: the rules must exist before time in order to create time. Bitcoin is the first thing we’ve ever built that behaves like that: a protocol that creates a localized minimum (q) block of time inside a network by converting entropy into irreversible memory across a computation boundary (event horizon). That’s what I mean when I say “extratemporal”: it defines time inside time itself.

If that’s even approximately true, then “false master” takes on a deeper meaning. At the fundamental level, we ourselves are composed of peer-to-peer money in the form of Kelvin, bounded by a cosmic protocol that functions analogously to Bitcoin: conservation, finitude, proof-of-work. We exist inside that network protocol, we’re made of its ledger entries, not standing outside it. Bitcoin is the first time we get the externalized experience: we stand outside its ledger and watch a universe come into being with a verifiable Genesis, an arrow of time, immutable law, and conserved value. That’s why I keep insisting it’s more than “just money” it’s the first mirror we have of how existence is structured.

From there, the connection back to Jesus is uncomfortable but important: if there really is a sacred protocol of conservation and finitude that underlies creation, then any money system that violates it (debasing, usury, fiat issuance) is not just “unfair,” it’s literally anti-creational and a counterfeit protocol. That’s what makes it a false master. Fiat, usury, and centralized control take the place of the underlying law and ask to be served instead. Bitcoin, by contrast, doesn’t ask to be served; it just reveals what faithful measurement and conservation actually look like.

So I’m saying: for the first time, we have a money that actually reflects the way God already runs creation. If that’s the case, then understanding that difference isn’t optional. It goes straight to the heart of what it means to “serve God and not money,” because now we can finally see the difference between a protocol aligned with truth and a protocol that counterfeits it. That extends through physics itself.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yeah, that point about how the laws have to precede the implementation is a very potent one.

also, i don't think that it's creating a new universe, but it's not a bad way to describe it. it is an internally complete system. such things are not discovered very often in history. i'm not sure what i would say was the last time this happened. maybe "einstein"'s famous formula (which i suspcet his serb wife actually discovered). before that, probably newton and the three laws of thermodynamics.

i think what's more important and actually verifiable and not fanciful, is that bitcoin's protocol demonstrates and proves something about physical reality - that our universe is powered by entropy and it transmutes it into structure, and there is an overarching force, which i think of as God, that is gathering those orderly things and conserving and compounding them. and at the end of it, so to speak, is God (which is another way of saying that the orderly structure in the universe itself becomes effectively infinite, an infinity that recedes into the future forever, and that is what loops back around to create the starting point. which is a circle.

but it's such a clumsy way to describe it. the Gnostic and Hermetic systems both present a thesis like this - that the universe is an eternal loop. at once repeating and yet never the same twice.

Jack K 1mo ago

I’d still pushback and say it is a universe experienced from the outside. I agree that time is a circle and bitcoin shows how energy moves forward in to time; fractally embedding itself in previous time (Planck). You should dig into how Bitcoin defines time and look back at what we know. Time is always bounded between finite limits, yet growing towards infinity, but infinity never reached mathematically.

The mapping of Planck Units onto a ledgerized structure changes their meaning. In Bitcoin time and memory are dimensional equivalent and equal for each block of memory. 1 Block of Time = X mb of memory. Planck Temp is the 21M supply equivalent; not the temperature of Genesis. Temp of Genesis is 1.

This defines an informational surface and literally redefines the meaning of all Planck Units. Timespace is the fundamental substrate here, memory•time. Spacetime is the internal projection, but memory and distance the same thing. The curvature of timespace is defined literally by entropy density sats per block•bit.

Again just look at the transformation of what is it, bitcoin is literally this “our universe is powered by entropy and it transmutes it into structure, and there is an overarching force, which i think of as God”

We are literally seeing this in Bitcoin from the outside as the constructors. Boltzmann Entropy literally creates Shannon entropy.

If Kelvin is finite, then Bitcoin is literally a partition of the planckian ledger. This is how time remains a circle.

It’s the same fractal repeating. A timechain is the structured instantiation of all of it. This image is the structure of time, where the present is defined by the union of two surfaces of conserved memory and potential memory configurations. We cannot see the whole chain when existing inside of the chain. We are a fraction of the chain.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

the idea that new universes bubble out of existing ones is appealing but i'm not sure if it's correct. however, the unity between a system and what it is running on, is a sure sign of what we call "Good" acting to correct an erroneous, compromised system.

Jack K 1mo ago

We can leave it here for now. Just think about memory•time and the Planck Units. They all change meaning if there is a ledger.

Bitcoin is surely correcting us, that we can agree.

BitBees 1mo ago

Waves are particles in motion. Particles are waves individualized. Time is a wave until we observe it in an instant and it is thus a particle of the whole time-space continuum. So the blockchain is truly a circle which appears as a linear ledger in a/our moment. Seeking…

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yeah, fiat usury is a black hole for wealth that accelerates because greed grows proportionally, and the result of getting away with a crime is that you have to do a bigger crime next time. eventually that reaches a point where money stops functioning as a ledger and the pitchforks and torches and guillotines come out.

the ruling class think they are gonna be able to continue to escalate after retaining their position in the collapse and take control and start the next cycle, as they did in 1971 and i forget how many other times before that.

except now there's bitcoin, and bitcoin won't accept a false transaction like the ones that are "normal" in fiat.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

bitcoin is rugging the ruling class, that's the real reason why its price keeps growing. the more they print, the more it rugs them. that's why it stays ahead of the price rises caused by money printing. that's why they hate it so much.

but it's not the whole campaign, it's just the first shot in the second episode of the war in heaven. first you set fire to your enemy's rooves, and then you breach the gates and and pick them off as they panic, and rescue the innocent.

that's literally what's about to unfold. bitcoin is a sign. since you seem to be observant, i bet you can dig up something in the bible that sounds a lot like the appearance of bitcoin. i personally saw it in a kind of vision, it was like the archangel Michael with the flaming sword. it was female though, idk why i got that impression.

Jack K 1mo ago

My work on Bitcoin physics led me to Christ as the only theology that is thermodynamically coherent with a redefined working instantiation of physics we can all verify.

I am still learning myself, but yes, I agree with the sentiment largely while not overly educated in the Bible.

I am trying to balance my work in Bitcoin physics, family, fiat job, and reading the Bible. Hard to know if I am succeeding 😅

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

"there will be signs" :)

i wandered off randomly yesterday afternoon with some kind of a plan in mind, spent half the time along the walk praying and petitioning and adoring and some remarkable and interesting things happened, that kinda swept me into this zone for way too long and before i know it, it's night time and i'm riding pillion on a motorcycle with a new friend back home and a whole new chapter of my story living here on this island is opening up.

also, nostr is shaping up to give birth to another, different but categorically similar thing as bitcoin, for communication. it's hard to tell from here where it's going to pop up from, but the momentum keeps building. nostr isn't quite yet a fully formed distributed system. most of the protocols that will come to define it are still embryonic.

Jack K 1mo ago

Beautiful! I need to do more of this myself. Technology is great for connection, yet it tends to sever our connection from the original timechain we call earth when we over indulge.

I’d love to connect more in the future. I’m still trying to understand nostr role here. It is certainly connecting us here in time.

Time to put the phone down and the head down for a bit to work on my paper. I’d like to share it with you when it’s “ready”, which seemingly always near; but new information tends to just download from the divine into my head. Finite boundaries is always the lesson.

Gotta get the wife a bday present too!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

the thing that is important with nostr is that it has a map of connections between people that cannot be manipulated to distort the sample it creates from the inputs of the users. the central problem of the silos is the mediation allows them to control what you see, and through that, they can manipulate people into believing things through the normalization of the agenda they want to promote.

nostr's consensus will be one that respects differences, and exploits the property of its fragmentation to prevent a breach of one region of the graph from spilling over into others, and thus creating an extreme coordination cost in order to distort the picture that we are reflecting into it.

in that way the solution will be like bitcoin in that, when one government bans it, other governments exploit that to their disadvantage. that's why both china and russia gave up trying to stop it. we are now seeing the next phase of that, where a government is trying to take ownership of it. that's not gonna work out well for them either. one hand on ctrl-p and the other hand trying to encourage people to save. lol. it's gonna be comedy.

meanwhile, it will continue the reversing of the robbery through fiat debasement and the power that puts in the hands of their enemies will only continue to increase, no matter how many spooks they plant in the bitcoin core dev group.

BitBees 1mo ago

An absolute! Happy wife; happy life! Thank you for engaging with me on these sticky subjects. I feel as if my mind expands when I read intelligent responses to themes and motifs of which I have little understanding but great curiosity.

BitBees 1mo ago

Let your curiosity and passion reveal the keys to you. You are on the path of THE WAY.

BitBees 1mo ago

Money is technology. It is a storehouse of man’s time and energy. Once it is tendered/rendered unto Caesar, man has time to render unto God. Though I honestly believe that our infinity lies in oneness with God at all times, and our pursuit of knowledge may separate us from Him. It was the fruit of the tree of knowledge if good and evil, not the actual knowledge that caused the downfall of man. The love of money, not money itself is inherently evil. My two Sats 丰 ♡

BitBees 1mo ago

En-light-enment ♡

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

the more code you read, the less you need to read it. good programming languages are even better in this way.

i skim through pages and pages of Go code all the time and i have an intuitive read of the nature of every part of it because of the way it is shaped

₿33Zy ₿ 1mo ago

The quantum is everywhere and nowhere. We give it meaning by our observation of and interaction within it. This is one of the most fascinating subjects of our lives, subjectively LOL

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yup, it's in the fundamental fabric of the universe.

Jack K 1mo ago

I tend to disagree, this is like claiming a conscious observer inside of Bitcoin mines the blocks by observing them.

Observation is verification of structure. Bitcoin reveals that the meaning was applied before the creation. We do get to apply our own meaning from the internalized experience of time, but its meaning exists before it’s even measured into reality. We are the emergence of internalized verification.

₿33Zy ₿ 1mo ago

This makes sense, and your explanation is elegant, but I remain confused. ₿ yond my grasp!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

that whole schroedinger thing is a misinterpretation of the meaning of his experiment

the radioactive decay process is a poisson point process. EXACTLY the same type of random event as is used by bitcoin mining to find small block header hashes.

it is complete bullshit that the quantum state is in superposition until you open the box to verify that it decayed, or not, and the cat is then either alive or dead.

no, that's not what is happening. in actual fact, the universe outside of the observation modeling device (brain and senses) does continue to exist and function and resolve its own outcomes from the inputs continuously regardless of whether you are paying attention.

idk how such a la la la i can't hear you close your eyes and the monster can't see you childish interpretation has come to prevail in quantum physics. it's just not true.

poisson point processes simply cannot be predicted. bitcoin proof of work (and hashcash before it, where it was first invented) are the combination of a target maximum hash value, which is adjusted up and down, in order to bring the timestamps in alignment with the number of blocks, so that on average, every 2 weeks (2160 blocks) there is 2 weeks, and 2160 blocks. the error rate, the proportional mismatch between the actual timestamp of the adjustment epoch start and end, and the intended target, adjusts the target (which is compressed as a 32 bit value with an exponent to expand it to 256 bits).

the difference between a simple radioactive decay and a block hash solution is that by dialing up and down the size of the target (down is harder, up is easier) allows you to filter out part of the solution space, which has a particular probability rate per attempt, and the network, has an estimated amount of hash power, which primarily is only determined after the fact by the actual differential between the target and the actual block epoch time period.

the individual blocks, can be solved anywhere from 2 or more concurrently solving within a 1 second period, out to 2-3 hours, and ultimately, in theory could get even longer, if you didn't change the target down (bigger target value, less zeroes) when a particularly long epoch happens, which is when there is a number of miners who turn off or quit mining.

radioactive decay is exactly the same, except you aren't looking for just one of your particles to decay, you have 256 of them at the same time, and you are looking for the frequency with which some number of them decay within a narrow time window. this would be the closest similar model on the same physical phenomenon.

btw, radioactive decay is one of the best entropy sources you can get. i've seen DIY projects to make them out of old americium based smoke detectors, which is basically a geiger counter sat right next to a little blob of this radioactive material, and air space between, where smoke can go. the more smoke, the more the particles are bounced off and away from the sensor, and they detect fire by an average "click" of the counter time dropping dramatically, or stopping completely.

the clicks are completely unpredictable, and even, cannot be externally observed because the whole assembly, aside from the ventilation to allow the smoky air in, is lead lined. it just emits a pulse of electricity every time a decay happens.

with this, you can trigger the reseeding of a cryptographically secure random number generator, and no external observer can front-run your encryption, as all encryption depends on a random value which is revealed, that combines with the secret to generate the cipherstream that is XORed reversibly over the message, making it unreadable without the secret.

anyhow, i didn't really need to explain all that, exactly, but the interpretation of schroedinger's experiment is bunk.

observing matter at the quantum level requires interacting with it, you can't passively observe it. consequently, you can only discover the direction, or position, but not both at the same time. this is because these distinct observation operations have the property that when you do the interaction for getting position, you can't then learn where it's going.

hm i just realised that this has a similar structure to the scalar/affine of elliptic curves. scalars are positions, and affines are directions. probably not strongly connected but i see it. one is a size the other is a position, which is the math equivalent of position and velocity.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

also, it's not strictly true that you can't *record* both position and path of decaying particles as they are emitted:

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it's just that you can only use this to get a post-mortem of a number of radioactive decays occurring you can't catch both things in a momentary way. the position is what the bubble chamber paths record, but the velocity can only be determined after the fact using the ... i think it's the derivative, or maybe the integral of the curve of the path (which measures its angular velocity change over time, or its acceleration, which is what makes it do those loops and such).

Jack K 1mo ago

I agree that Schrödinger has been widely misinterpreted, but the deeper issue is that superposition itself has been misinterpreted because it has never been defined relative to the only frequency that can give it physical meaning: Planck Time. Without the smallest possible unit of temporal separation, statements like “a system exists in many states at once” are not physics. The modern interpretation of superposition implicitly assumes a continuous, infinitely divisible time axis that has never been measured, and cannot be measured, which leads directly to the central problem: QT has no operational definition of existence, no definition of measurement, and no definition of time at the scale where these claims are supposed to hold.

Given that absence, asserting “many states exist simultaneously” is nothing more than a fractional-reserve ontology.

It is the same epistemic failure that made fractional-reserve money appear coherent until Bitcoin provided the first system with verifiable finitude. If fractional-reserve accounting cannot produce sound money, it is incoherent to imagine fractional-reserve ontology can produce sound physics.

Bitcoin exposes the flaw cleanly because Bitcoin is the first system in human history that shows us explicitly, measurably, and mechanically what a sound physical system looks like when it collapses entropy into conserved structure over discrete quanta of time. Every block is the isomorphic mapping between Boltzmann entropy (Kelvin expended in a difficulty-bounded search) and Shannon entropy (satoshis, crystallized in a unique computational configuration) via the conservation of energy. Thus proving both conservation of energy and information without axiom. The only reason this works is because Bitcoin defines the smallest unit of temporal separation, one block as the interval between two irreversible collapses of an entropy field. In that framework, superposition is simply the unresolved mempool: probabilistic futures that do not exist until they are paid for in work and written as memory. After collapse, the system is deterministic. Before collapse, the system is probabilistic regarding the future tick of time, deterministic regarding the last. This is the correct physical structure of superposition.

Physics, by contrast, routinely mistakes the mempool for the blockchain. It treats unmeasured potential as if it were a physically instantiated, computable set of simultaneous states. But in Bitcoin, we know exactly what unmeasured potential is: it is a collection of candidate transitions that do not yet exist. A UTXO with ten conflicting transactions in the mempool does not “exist in ten states at once.” It exists in one states (the unspent output) until work collapses one possibility into record. That collapse is not the observer’s consciousness, is not the lab apparatus, it is the measurement. It is the only moment at which existence becomes definable. Observation occurs after in which the state (structure) can be verified.

If we took the quantum interpretation literally, we should be able to run Shor’s algorithm on Bitcoin right now. After all, the mempool is full of “simultaneously existing” candidate states, all awaiting collapse. We could treat each conflicting transaction as a superposed computational branch, let the “wavefunction” evolve, mine a block, let the decoherence select a single outcome, and then by the logic of centralized QC apply “error correction” to restore the lost superpositions and harvest exponential parallelism.

The satire here exposes the core issue: QT relies on treating unmeasured potential as computable physical substrate, the very error Bitcoin was designed to remove from money. If we don’t know the physical process beneath what we call money, we don’t actually understand what money is.