Publications

This paper introduces the Radical Continuum: a timeless ontological framework in which the universe exists as one uninterrupted continuum of processes — without past, present or future as fundamental features. Time is not a fundamental quantity but an emergent phenomenon arising from embedded observation.

The framework reformulates determinism as a structural property of the continuum, independent of temporal causality. It offers a fourth route beyond the three classical responses to Bell's inequality — timeless structural correlation — and resolves the measurement problem of quantum mechanics without introducing consciousness as a fundamental quantity.

The paper positions the Radical Continuum in relation to Einstein, Bohr, Bell, 't Hooft, Barbour, Rovelli, Penrose, Hawking, Wheeler, Tononi and Friston, as well as the philosophical traditions of Kant, Spinoza and Whitehead.

Available in Dutch (Het Radicaal Continuüm) and English (The Radical Continuum) via the same Zenodo record.

This dissertation argues that coincidence is not a feature of reality but a construct of limited perception. The central claim is that Einstein was ultimately right in his deterministic intuition — but that neither Einstein himself nor subsequent thinkers fully identified why.

The work examines the long-standing debate between Einstein and Bohr on determinism and indeterminism, and argues that the deadlock persisted because both sides approached the problem from outside the system they were describing. Once the observer is understood as an intrinsic part of the universe, the apparent randomness of quantum events dissolves into a question of limited knowledge, not fundamental indeterminacy.

Coincidence, in this framework, is an epistemic phenomenon: it arises wherever a positioned observer lacks access to the full causal chain. The universe itself operates without coincidence. What we call chance is always, at its root, the edge of what we can see.

This dissertation presents the foundational argument in English, formulating a closed world in which the observer — in whatever capacity, biological or otherwise — does not stand outside the universe but is intrinsically part of it.

Using the thought experiment of the frozen universe, the work demonstrates that time, free will and change are not fundamental features of reality but experiential concepts that arise from within a continuous, directed universal process. If the universe were to freeze completely, these concepts would cease to apply — revealing their nature as perceptual, not ontological.

The dissertation bridges classical physics — from Newton to contemporary quantum theory — and offers a new reflexive scientific method in which reality, perception and causality converge into one closed, relational whole.

The Dutch version of the frozen universe dissertation. This paper formulates a closed world in which the observer does not stand outside the universe but is intrinsically part of it. The central thought experiment — the stationary universe — reveals that time, change and free will do not exist as fundamental features of reality but only as experience.

The consequences are significant: Einstein's block universe can no longer serve as a starting point, the Schrödinger equation and numerous scientific publications come under pressure, and the debate between Bohr and Einstein on determinism and indeterminism becomes largely redundant.

This paper examines the relationship between measurement, probability and physical reality within quantum mechanics. Rather than modifying the mathematical formalism, it investigates whether the probabilistic description of quantum phenomena is better understood as epistemic — a reflection of limited knowledge — rather than ontological.

A conceptual framework of a static universe is introduced, in which all physical states are considered part of a single, fixed totality. Within this perspective, measurement outcomes reveal aspects of an already determined structure rather than generating new outcomes through the act of observation.

This Dutch publication forms the starting point of the broader research project. It explains why scientists — from Einstein and Bohr to contemporary thinkers such as Sabine Hossenfelder and Gerard 't Hooft — consistently regard the observer as an external entity, while they are themselves inseparably part of the universe they study.

The publication introduces the thought experiment of the stationary universe as an instrument to clarify this, and positions the research as a radically new insight: not a correction of existing theory, but a fundamentally different starting point for understanding reality, perception and causality.