The following miniseries, “Relational Cuts in Modern Physics,” explores the subtle but decisive shifts in contemporary theoretical practice. It traces a trajectory from theories that generate possible instances without phenomena, through the disciplined exception of quantum mechanics, to the rise of mathematics as surrogate intuition and the eventual disappearance of the perspectival cut that links theory to actuality.
This series is written from the perspective of relational ontology, a framework that distinguishes clearly between:
Systems: structured spaces of potential.
Possible instances: configurations articulated within those spaces.
Phenomena: first-order meaning, actualised through a perspectival cut.
By attending to these distinctions, the series illuminates how modern physics sometimes moves seamlessly from mathematical possibility to implicit claims about existence, and how this drift can be disciplined without curtailing theoretical ambition.
Each post builds on the previous, gradually revealing the conceptual architecture that allows us to navigate the frontier between possibility and actuality. The series is intended not as a critique of physics, but as a framework for thinking clearly about what it means for a theory to be ontologically responsible.
Readers are invited to move sequentially through the series, keeping in mind the central question that animates the discussion:
How can physics explore the frontier of possibility while remaining rigorously answerable to the phenomena that constitute reality?
The posts are:
Theory Without Phenomena
The Quantum Exception
From Anomaly to Ontology
Mathematics as Surrogate Intuition
The Missing Cut
Together, they form a coherent investigation into the relational architecture of theoretical physics, offering a lens through which the distinction between potentiality and actuality, expectation and existence, may be carefully maintained.
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