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May 9, 20260 citationsOpen Access

A Relational Constraint Framework for Physics from Finite Measurement Structure

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CDCharles Durbin

Key Points

  • This work aims to formulate physical descriptions using finite measurement contexts rather than exact global states. It seeks to establish a foundational understanding of relational constraints in physics.
  • Introduces a sequence of axioms regarding finite measurement structure.
  • Clarifies concepts such as refinement closure, overlap consistency, and empirical refinement.
  • Explores the treatment of indistinguishable structures under finite measurement constraints.
  • Defines physical adequacy through survival under contextual enlargement and coherent extension.
  • Establishes that multiple indistinguishable structures form an empirically sufficient equivalence class.
  • Distinguishes between refinement-based selections and uniqueness in finite domains.

Abstract

This revised manuscript develops a relational constraint framework for physics grounded in finite measurement structure. It argues that physical descriptions should be formulated in terms of finite measurement contexts, admissible relational assignments, overlap consistency, and refinement closure rather than by assuming exact global states, mathematical points, or background continuum structure as primitive. The framework introduces a sequence of axioms in which physically realized structures are those that remain stable under contextual refinement and coherent extension. This version clarifies the distinction between refinement-based selection, uniqueness, and finite-domain sufficiency. Refinement closure is not presented as a proof that a single structure or generator is uniquely determined by finite measurement data. Instead, physical adequacy is understood as survival under contextual enlargement, overlap consistency, and empirical refinement stress. If multiple structures remain indistinguishable under the available finite measurement constraints, they are treated as an empirically sufficient equivalence class for the domain considered. The manuscript serves as the foundational statement for a broader research program on relational constraints, refinement algebras, wave-like closure dynamics, quantum-like contextual structure, and emergent physical law from finite measurement records.

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Charles Durbin (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fecfcdb9154b0b82876c95https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20074416
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