On a Unified Three-Clock World Model

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We present a record-based operational template in which observable time, propagation proxies, and effective geometry arise from a typed observation pipeline under finite budgets and irreversible (many-to-one) channels. The core idea is organizational rather than microscopic: a deconfounding step removes reducible clock warps, diagonal clock conditioning selects stable snapshot records at finite resolution, and record formation is modeled as no-record evolution punctuated by exit events. This viewpoint yields a unified language for several familiar motifs: Quantum-measurement features appear as ray selection driven by record formation and by the intrinsic contraction of distinguishability under the pipeline. Relativistic clocking can be represented by hazard/exit clocks whose rate is memoryless per unit proper time in a suitable specialization, preserving a strict causal arrow in the intrinsic no-record clock. Wave-like propagation can be encoded as local two-snapshot transfer laws on the observable slice, with vacuum Maxwell as a canonical transverse update in an appropriate continuum limit. Inference artifacts such as retrograde between-snapshot interpolation arise naturally from endpoint-conditioned reconstruction under asymmetric noise floors, without implying time travel. The framework is empirically testable as a collection of monotonicities and scaling laws: contractivity under coarse-graining, budget-limited resolution floors and plateaus, hazard/survival model selection, and protocol-class cone constraints in transport proxies. Global ontological questions are treated as partially identifiable when distinguishing signatures lie beyond record-reconstructible reach.
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Data may be preliminary. 23 February 2026 V2 Latest version Share on On a Unified Three-Clock World Model Author : Thomas Richter 0009-0007-4180-9817 [email protected] Authors Info & Affiliations https://doi.org/10.22541/au.177153506.63371812/v2 115 views 91 downloads Contents Abstract Supplementary Material Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract We present a record-based operational template in which observable time, propagation proxies, and effective geometry arise from a typed observation pipeline under finite budgets and irreversible (many-to-one) channels. The core idea is organizational rather than microscopic: a deconfounding step removes reducible clock warps, diagonal clock conditioning selects stable snapshot records at finite resolution, and record formation is modeled as no-record evolution punctuated by exit events. This viewpoint yields a unified language for several familiar motifs: Quantum-measurement features appear as ray selection driven by record formation and by the intrinsic contraction of distinguishability under the pipeline. Relativistic clocking can be represented by hazard/exit clocks whose rate is memoryless per unit proper time in a suitable specialization, preserving a strict causal arrow in the intrinsic no-record clock. Wave-like propagation can be encoded as local two-snapshot transfer laws on the observable slice, with vacuum Maxwell as a canonical transverse update in an appropriate continuum limit. Inference artifacts such as retrograde between-snapshot interpolation arise naturally from endpoint-conditioned reconstruction under asymmetric noise floors, without implying time travel. The framework is empirically testable as a collection of monotonicities and scaling laws: contractivity under coarse-graining, budget-limited resolution floors and plateaus, hazard/survival model selection, and protocol-class cone constraints in transport proxies. Global ontological questions are treated as partially identifiable when distinguishing signatures lie beyond record-reconstructible reach. 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