Inherited structure
Density operators, POVMs, Born probabilities, Fourier duality, and uncertainty relations are inherited quantum theory [A].
D3 · possible · [A/S/I]
Quantum state
Probability assignment before a particular actual record. D3 is represented by a density operator rho together with a measurement context. It assigns Born probabilities to possible records. Valid D3 states may carry momentum distributions; uncertainty follows from noncommuting observables, not from an absence of momentum.
Claim boundary
No realized D4 event does not mean zero change, zero momentum, or a timeless state. This scaffold does not solve measurement, quantum gravity, or quantum interpretation.
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μ3 · FAILED — reducibility
Verdict source: 48: "μ₂ and μ₃ still fail, on the arguments that actually carried them"
Actual-record aperture
- Saturation proposal
- A probability assignment, even if exhaustively specified, is not itself a particular performed interaction and recorded outcome.
- New capability
- An actual carrier, interaction, event, and receipted record enter the description.
- Lower-level recovery
- Repeated D4 records must remain statistically answerable to the D3 probability model under the stated preparation and measurement conditions.
- Evidence
- [A] probability/event distinction; [I/C] emergence interpretation
- Prediction
- Intervening on preparation or measurement context changes the distribution of D4 outcomes as the D3 model specifies.
- Alternatives
- Everettian, Copenhagen-family, hidden-variable, relational, and other interpretations disagree about actualization while sharing operational predictions.
- Kill criterion
- Conflating a probability scalar with a sampled outcome, or failing the model's repeated-run statistics, defeats the proposed bridge.
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