Advancing the unification of probability, curvature, and quantum emergence through Entanglement Compression Theory (ECT).
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Q&A
Collected questions from readers and researchers. To submit a new question, email contact@compressiontheoryinstitute.org. If you want a credit line, include how you would like it to appear. Credit must be under 100 characters.
Sample questions:
What makes ECT different from standard quantum mechanics and general relativity?
ECT treats causation as a physical process driven by oscillation and compression. The Primordial Wave Equation governs a single global field, the Lawrence Universal Wave Function, and shows how probability, curvature, and effective constants arise from compression. In the linear and weak-deformation limits it reduces to Schrödinger and Einstein, so it extends rather than replaces them.
M. K., Vancouver, BC
Is ECT deterministic or stochastic?
Deterministic. Probability appears when an entangled system compresses and energy divides across resolvable channels. The observed Born weights follow from energy share in the L² sense, not from axiomatic randomness.
Alina P., Berlin
Does ECT claim the speed of light varies?
ECT defines an effective quantity c(x) that equals the usual c in uniform regions. Small departures can occur only in strong compression gradients and are tightly bounded by existing tests. In validated regimes ECT recovers a constant c.
J. D., Phoenix, AZ
How is the compression operator defined and kept well behaved?
The operator uses a regularized logarithmic form that couples amplitude and curvature while remaining differentiable at low density. With ε and δ regularization the evolution is well posed in H¹ for spatial dimensions up to three under bounded time flux.
Sana R., Ahmedabad
What are the clearest empirical targets to test ECT?
Gravitational lensing residuals at the microarcsecond scale, pulsar and quasar timing asymmetries, solar-limb propagation checks, interferometer drift floors, and precision cavity or BEC coherence thresholds. Each maps to the small deformation parameters in the theory, so null results restrict the allowed range.
T. H., Pasadena, CA
Does ECT change anything about black holes?
ECT uses a compression singularity concept that reaches a finite coherence limit rather than infinite density. It is a working hypothesis with measurable consequences for accretion timing and wave dispersion. In weak fields ECT matches standard relativity.
L. Chen, Hong Kong
What exactly is the Lawrence Universal Wave Function?
It is the global state of all oscillations treated as a single continuous field. Its evolution under the Primordial Wave Equation generates the observed geometry, conservation laws, and effective constants through compression dynamics.
R. Silva, São Paulo
Where can I read the formal derivations?
See the open-access papers linked on the site: the derivation of Born weights, the tensor formalism for curvature from compression, and the mathematical foundations. The Overview page has the canonical DOIs.
Emily W., Cambridge, UK
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