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by MWells
Tue May 12, 2026 3:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A response to common criticisms of Larson's Reciprocal System after the compact-fiber development
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A response to common criticisms of Larson's Reciprocal System after the compact-fiber development

This post addresses a recurring criticism of Larson's Reciprocal System: that it was a speculative theory of everything with insufficient mathematical discipline, insufficient empirical control, and insufficient reconstruction of the results that standard physics already gets right. Several of those...
by MWells
Wed Apr 22, 2026 10:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Compact Fiber as the Canonical Admissibility Structure for Discrete Scalar Motion
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The Compact Fiber as the Canonical Admissibility Structure for Discrete Scalar Motion

Foundational compact-fiber papers The Compact Fiber as the Canonical Admissibility Structure for Discrete Scalar Motion ("Paper I") The Compact Fiber as the Canonical Admissibility Structure for Discrete Scalar Motion: A Necessity Result for the Reciprocal System. This paper derives the c...
by MWells
Tue Apr 21, 2026 10:28 pm
Forum: RS2-0: Getting Started with the Reciprocal System
Topic: Atomic Displacements in the RS
Replies: 13
Views: 223590

Re: Atomic Displacements in the RS

Still further, I think your recent explanation of DFT would be an ideal starting point for me. Do you have an alternative location for those documents in case this forum has an outage? A caution first: Dual-Frame Theory is not the full Larsonian picture. It is better understood as a reduced , post-...
by MWells
Tue Apr 14, 2026 2:08 pm
Forum: RS2-0: Getting Started with the Reciprocal System
Topic: Atomic Displacements in the RS
Replies: 13
Views: 223590

Re: Atomic Displacements in the RS

A useful clarification here is that a lot of the confusion comes from treating Larson’s notation as though it were the structure itself . Larson uses more than one notational compression. In some forms the photon/reversal base is explicit, while in later atomic forms it is suppressed. So if one pers...
by MWells
Fri Dec 12, 2025 9:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DFT-9a: How RS and RS2 Projection Language Maps onto Dual-Frame Theory
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Views: 70467

DFT-9a: How RS and RS2 Projection Language Maps onto Dual-Frame Theory

The Reciprocal System begins from the premise that the universe consists entirely of scalar motion. In the Natural Reference System (NRS), scalar motion is magnitude-only: it carries no intrinsic coordinate geometry, no built-in direction labels, and no privileged choice of spatial vs temporal expre...
by MWells
Thu Dec 11, 2025 9:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DFT-1: Introduction and Methodology
Replies: 2
Views: 34605

Re: DFT-1: Introduction and Methodology

Thank you for the thoughtful message. I skimmed through the QA paper after reading your post, and I can see you’ve put real structure behind the Witness-based framework you’re developing. The way you formalize distinction-making and map it into a geometric state space is clearly something you’ve tak...
by MWells
Mon Dec 08, 2025 10:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DFT-16c: The Newtonian Gravitational Potential as a Weak-Curvature Projection
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DFT-16c: The Newtonian Gravitational Potential as a Weak-Curvature Projection

The case for gravity in DFT does not begin with force laws or particle exchange. It begins from the structural rule of Dual-Frame Theory: A scalar progression in the Natural Reference System appears, when projected, as both curvature and energy. When the curvature produced by a bound motion is extre...
by MWells
Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DFT-29b: Numerical Reflection of BPG Curvature in the Hydrogen Spectrum
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DFT-29b: Numerical Reflection of BPG Curvature in the Hydrogen Spectrum

The purpose of this supplement is to show that the curvature correction predicted in DFT-29a is not merely conceptual. When implemented numerically using only: Dirac radial states Intrinsic curvature Background Phase Geometry (BPG) the anticipated Lamb shift appears quantitatively with the correct s...
by MWells
Sun Dec 07, 2025 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DFT-16b: Weak-Field Curvature and the Gravitational Redshift
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Views: 54731

DFT-16b: Weak-Field Curvature and the Gravitational Redshift

How projection geometry reproduces the Schwarzschild redshift formula without postulating curved spacetime In DFT-13, we showed that redshift arises when T-frame curvature consumes part of the scalar motion budget, reducing the S-frame phase rate. But DFT-13 did this qualitatively: deeper wells ⇒ le...
by MWells
Sun Dec 07, 2025 7:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DFT-13b: Worked Example: Proper-Time, Lorentz Factor, and the Energy–Momentum Relation
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DFT-13b: Worked Example: Proper-Time, Lorentz Factor, and the Energy–Momentum Relation

DFT-13 showed that relativity emerges from budget allocation between the S-frame and T-frame. DFT-13b now makes that fully explicit using SI-unit conversion and one symbolic worked example. No assumption of Lorentz invariance. No spacetime postulates. Everything comes from: |\Delta x|^{2} + |\Delta\...