A map of time
Seven physical and operational senses of time above; experience below. The event-and-factual layer between them — when facts arise and become public — is the paper's contribution. It addresses this layer without replacing the other senses of time.
The Missing Layer of Time: A Closure Criterion for When Quantum Possibilities Become — and Remain — Public Facts
Separates evolution time — which parametrizes change — from event time, which indexes when facts become established, and gives a record-based closure criterion for when a quantum outcome becomes, and remains, a shareable public fact. No modification of dynamics, no collapse mechanism.
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Supplement I — Event Layer Formal Supplement
The single formal home for the program's definitions, axioms, and theorems — the Event Closure Theorem and the Axiom of No Certainty Promotion are stated once here and cited by stable name everywhere else.Firewall note: the physical program and the cognitive program rhyme structurally — the same grammar recurs across regimes — but no evidential weight transfers between them. A result in one regime is not evidence about another.
Reference the research program
When a quantum possibility becomes — and remains — a public fact
The foundational paper and its formal supplement are being prepared for release.