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Phase Differential Theory, or PDT, treats phase as the basic stuff of physics. Mass, charge, gravity and measurement all fall out of how phase drifts, locks and interferes. It is one framework, written down in plain mathematics, that recovers standard quantum mechanics in one limit and general relativity in another.

Two audiences. Curious readers who want to understand what the universe is doing without ten years of graduate physics, and working physicists who want to read the equations, check the derivations and test the predictions. Every page on the site is signposted for one of those two paths.

No. PDT recovers standard quantum mechanics in the appropriate limit. It reframes the foundations and adds explicit, falsifiable predictions where the standard formalism is silent. If the predictions fail, PDT fails. Quantum mechanics as you know it continues.

PDT is developed in the open by a single author, with input from a working group that reviews drafts before release. The contact channel is monitored personally. Triage within a working week.

The papers are deposited on Zenodo with permanent DOIs, which makes them citeable and timestamped. Formal journal review is in progress for selected papers. The site lists current peer-review status on the Framework Status page.

Every paper page includes a BibTeX block you can copy directly. Use the Zenodo DOI as the canonical reference. If you cite the framework as a whole rather than a specific paper, cite PTG I and QM I together.

Yes, and that is the point. The three signatures named in QM V are within reach of current cold atom interferometry, precision torsion and force experiments, and entangled photon work. The full phenomenology is published openly so any group can run it.

On this site. Every paper has its own page with the abstract, reader summary, full text, predictions, BibTeX, and a download. The collection lives at the papers index.

It means each paper commits to outcomes that would kill it. Specific numbers, specific experiments, specific signatures. If those numbers do not show up where PDT says they should, the relevant paper is wrong. The Framework Status page tracks every live prediction.

Standard QM is recovered as the small-drift, high-coherence limit of PDT. The wavefunction, the Born rule and unitary evolution all appear naturally. PDT also predicts small departures from QM in regimes that current experiments are starting to reach.

General relativity is recovered as the long-wavelength, weak-drift limit of Phase-Theoretic Gravity. Curvature, Einstein equations and the equivalence principle all emerge. The framework also predicts measurable corrections in strong-field and short-distance regimes.

The primitive object in PDT is a phase rosette with six-fold symmetry. It is not chosen for aesthetics. PTG IV derives it as the unique stable configuration under the dynamics, and the symmetry constrains everything that follows.

PDT recovers a gravitational-like coupling as one regime of a single phase propagator, alongside short-range and Coulomb-like couplings. It is not a finished quantum gravity, but it does produce curvature from phase dynamics rather than postulating it.

PDT proposes that some of what is currently attributed to dark matter is a phase structure effect at galactic and intergalactic scales. This is an open extension, set out honestly as such, not a closed claim.

Three signatures, written out in QM V. A sub-percent coherence floor in matter wave interferometry, a small deviation in short-range Yukawa coupling, and a parity-violating phase signature in entangled photon decoherence. Any one absent at the precision now achievable, and the theory fails.

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