Time as Collapse: The Probalistic Pruning of Potential in QTG and Applications in Quantum Computing

Time as Collapse: The Probabilistic Pruning of Potential in QTG Author: Nazareno Angeli Abstract This paper proposes a reinterpretation of temporal flow within the Quantum-Tachyonic Gravity (QTG) framework. Time is described not as a fundamental dimension, but as the observable consequence of probabilistic collapse — a progressive contraction of the universe’s field of potential states into realized configurations. This process, termed probabilistic pruning, reframes parallel universes as unresolved futures rather than simultaneously existing worlds, aligning the arrow of time with the rate of entropy and information actualization. 1. Introduction Within the QTG framework, the universe is treated as a self-referential field of oscillatory potential, where matter, energy, and inertia are manifestations of field coherence at or below the C-boundary. In this context, temporal progression is not an intrinsic flow but an emergent measure of how rapidly potential configurations resolve into stable, observable outcomes. Time therefore corresponds to the loss of potential — a transition from probabilistic possibility to defined actuality. 2. Probabilistic Collapse and Temporal Flow At any given scale, physical systems possess a spectrum of unresolved configurations, each representing a potential state. When interactions occur, these potentials contract into one realized outcome, while alternative futures cease to possess causal relevance. In this view, the passing of time is equivalent to the field’s progressive loss of potential futures. dΩ/dt < 0 where Ω represents the total measure of uncollapsed or unresolved potential states. The negative derivative signifies that as events manifest, the space of remaining possibilities contracts. 3. Parallel Universes as Erased Potentials Contrary to the Many-Worlds interpretation, this framework asserts that interaction and observation do not spawn new universes, but instead eliminate unrealized configurations. Each collapse event simplifies the global field by removing probabilistic branches that failed to stabilize. The multiverse thus becomes a statistical cloud of hypothetical trajectories rather than a collection of ontologically distinct realities. 4. Entropy and Informational Balance Entropy, within this model, represents the informational cost of pruning — the degree to which potential futures are converted into definitive records. As the field resolves, local complexity increases while global potential decreases, preserving the overall information balance of the universe. The arrow of time therefore emerges naturally from the field’s tendency toward coherence and memory formation. 5. Observers and Self-Reference Consciousness, under QTG, is a localized resonance of the field capable of observing its own collapses. An observer does not stand outside the field, but is an active node through which the field actualizes specific configurations. Each act of perception contributes to the global pruning process by determining which potentials become realized within that observer’s frame. Author's note: in this context, the “observer's effect” is easily explained: overlapping potential states (or superimposed futures) align into a single outcome compatible with the “observer's presence”. 6. Implications and Comparison This perspective aligns conceptually with thermodynamic irreversibility, quantum decoherence, and cosmological entropy, while providing a unified language rooted in field dynamics rather than external temporal metrics. In QTG, the field is self-coherent and timeless; time arises only as the experiential echo of probabilistic collapse. Such a formulation also integrates naturally with metaphysical solipsism: the observer and the observed are reciprocal expressions of the same field, wherein self-awareness is the field’s act of observing its own contraction from infinite potential to finite realization. 7. Conclusion Time, as understood within Quantum-Tachyonic Gravity, is not a container but a consequence — a measure of how the universe forgets its unrealized possibilities. The future is not a set of pre-existing branches waiting to unfold, but an uncollapsed continuum of potential awaiting erasure through observation and interaction. The arrow of time is thus the arrow of loss — the graceful fading of the infinite into the finite, of potential into memory.