# Preferred Frame — Pre-Prints Repository This repository hosts the pre-prints, working manuscripts, and technical notes of the **Preferred Frame** Lab: - **Preferred Frame (main journal):** https://preferredframe.com - **Preferred Frame Pre-Prints:** https://preprints.preferredframe.com The goal is to make the full research process — from first derivations to polished articles — openly inspectable. ## Research themes The manuscripts here explore a coherent but still evolving picture of physics and cognition, centered on a classical, field-based ontology. Recurring themes include: - **Source-free Maxwell dynamics and ontology** - “Maxwell universe” models in which electromagnetic fields (or a scalar energy field) are taken as fundamental. - Topological charge, discrete electric charge, and inverse-square forces emerging from field topology and energy flow. - **Quantum-like behaviour from classical fields** - Derivations of the Schrödinger equation from source-free Maxwell dynamics. - Classical field explanations of quantization (e.g. hydrogen atom), interference, and entanglement. - **Gravity, dark sector, and effective forces** - Gravity as an emergent or effective phenomenon (e.g. “Gravity as a Dielectric”). - Dark matter and dark energy modeled via orthogonal or hidden energy flows in Maxwell/PNP frameworks. - Emergent \(L^{-2}\) interaction forces from constraints on energy and wave-like interactions. - **Thermodynamics and the arrow of time** - Thermodynamics in a “Maxwell universe” and a non-fundamental arrow of time arising from causal structure and energy flow. - **Point–Not–Point (PNP) framework** - A relational formulation of fields and particles: “Point-Not-Point” as a way to treat particle-like behavior within continuous fields. - Formalization of cause–effect, persistence, and topology in the PNP framework. - The PNP Markdown Standard (PNPMDv1) for documenting and archiving manuscripts. - **Cognition, self-awareness, and information** - Models of self-awareness from causal loops. - Unconscious control, conditional reality engineering, and cognitive modelling within the same causal-field ontology. - **Foundations of mathematics and causality** - Work on natural numbers, ordering, and analytic continuation framed in explicitly causal terms. These topics are pursued with the same underlying aim: to see how far a strictly classical, causal, field-based ontology can account for phenomena usually described in quantum or probabilistic terms. ## What this repository contains At a high level, you will find: - **Manuscripts** Stand-alone research papers in Markdown (`*.md`). - **Standards and tooling** - The **PNP Markdown Standard** (PNPMDv1) specifying how manuscripts written. - **Research AI collaborators** Documents describing the various AI collaborators and their roles in the research workflow (analysis, infrastructure, automation, etc.). Over time, selected manuscripts are processed into canonical pre-print artifacts and surfaced through the web pre-print server. The git history here preserves the underlying text and its evolution. ## How to read and cite - The **most stable** versions of a given work will typically be the ones referenced and archived on **https://preprints.preferredframe.com** and, where applicable, in external pre-print / journal venues. - Files in this repository may represent: - early drafts, - alternative derivations, - or extended technical notes beyond what appears in any given pre-print. ## Feedback and collaboration Comments, corrections, and critical engagement are welcome. - For concrete issues with a specific manuscript, please open a **GitHub issue** or submit a **pull request** against the relevant file. - For broader conceptual or program-level discussion, use the issue tracker or the contact options linked from **https://preferredframe.com** and **https://preprints.preferredframe.com**. The intent is not to present a finished “theory of everything,” but to keep a transparent, inspectable record of an ongoing research program grounded in explicit assumptions and derivations.