Reading path
No physics background. Twenty five minutes. Five steps that take the wall down without watering the work down.
PDT in plain English
The same picture the working physicists get, written without jargon and without losing the bits that matter.
What is phase?
Imagine a wave going up and down. Phase is where you are on the wave: rising, cresting, falling, in the trough. Two waves that rise together are in phase. Two that move oppositely are out of phase.
What is a phase differential?
The difference in phase between two things that are linked. Δϕ. Two clocks slightly out of step. Two pendulums almost but not quite swinging together. PDT says this difference is the most basic thing in physics.
Why does PDT exist?
Standard quantum mechanics never explained why measurements give the answers they do. General relativity never explained where geometry comes from. PDT takes the position that both gaps share a single missing piece, and proposes what it is.
What problems is it trying to solve?
The measurement problem, the quantum to classical boundary, the origin of geometry, where mass and forces come from, and at the edges, dark matter and the early universe. One mechanism is asked to do the work that several disconnected postulates do today.
Why is it different?
It does not add new particles. It does not add new dimensions. It changes which quantity is fundamental, and rebuilds the rest as a consequence. Everything else falls out.
What predictions does it make?
Three specific experiments that current technology can run. If any one of them comes back clean against PDT, the framework is wrong. That contract is the whole point.
Five minutes that put the rest in context. The overview names the single primitive PDT bets on, sketches how the rest of the framework hangs off it, and explains why the theory is built to be killed.
You'll come away withA clear sense of what is being claimed and what is being put on the line.
PTG I introduces the geometric primitive in plain prose. Forget Hilbert space. Imagine a field of coupled oscillators whose relative phases set the geometry. PTG I tells you why that is a sensible thing to do.
PTG I lays the foundation. Strip a manifold down to the bare minimum: a smooth scalar field (the phase), a cone of allowed transport directions at every point, and a torsion-free connection so you can
You'll come away withA picture of geometry that doesn't depend on a pre-existing background.
Once you have the primitive, PTG III shows how it moves. The reader summary explains how curvature, force, and time itself emerge from the way phase resolves. No equations required to get the shape of the argument.
PTG III turns local focusing into a global obstruction. We define transport capacity, a non-negative measure on hypersurfaces compatible with the transport cone, and a notion of transport completeness
You'll come away withAn intuition for how a single mechanism produces the variety we see.
QM I reframes the measurement problem in PDT's vocabulary. QM II recovers Born rule statistics as ensemble behaviour rather than as a fundamental postulate. Together they show how the geometric story becomes the quantum story.
Standard quantum mechanics works, but it sits on assumptions no one has ever justified from a deeper picture. QM I takes a different starting point. It assumes the universe is made of four phase field
You'll come away withA reading of quantum mechanics that doesn't require collapse to be magic.
The reader summaries are not substitutes. They are doorways. The full papers carry the proofs, the figures, and the citations. The glossary is your friend if you want to dip into the technical material without picking up a textbook.
You'll come away withPermission to read at your own pace and confidence the door stays open.
