A Geometric Interpretation of the 1/4 Factor in Black Hole Entropy Published
Physics

The 1/4 coefficient in the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy S = kBA/4ℓP2 — computed microscopically by many quantum-gravity programs — is shown to arise purely from the causal geometry of any null boundary in a four-dimensional Lorentzian spacetime. A heuristic accessibility argument is backed by a geometric derivation from the canonical symplectic structure on the cotangent bundle and the causal splitting of the space of null rays; no gravitational field equations are invoked.

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2026 · DOI 10.1088/1361-6382/ae7fe8

One nat per cell Published
Physics

A black hole horizon carries exactly one nat of information per Planck cell. Taking entropy as irreducible uncertainty at the Planck scale and the horizon as a complete scrambler, N = A/ℓP2 independent cells give Ω = eN, so S = N. Multiplied by the kinematic factor 1/4 — the causally accessible fraction of the null phase space, established in the companion CQG paper — this returns the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy SBH = A/4ℓP2.

Published in Europhysics Letters, September 2026 · DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/aea930

📄 6 Review
🔄 5 Revising
✅ 2 Published 2026
🎤 2 Talks
Domain distribution (active work)
Physics (4) Philosophy (5) Computation (2)

Under Review

Operational Measurement of Relativistic Equilibrium from Stochastic Fields Alone Under Review
Physics

First protocol to reconstruct the inverse-temperature four-vector βμ as a unified observable from passive electromagnetic fluctuation correlations — enabling the first direct test of Lorentz covariance of the thermal state.

Foundations of Physics (Springer) · submitted August 2026

Operational Inaccessibility and the Arrow of Time in Chaotic Quantum Systems Minor Revision
Physics

Irreversibility from the intersection of quantum mechanics and classical chaos: chaos amplifies irreducible ℏ-scale uncertainty until time-reversed trajectories fall below quantum resolution and become physically inaccessible, despite remaining mathematically valid.

Scientific Reports · minor revision

Knowledge Without Certainty Under Review
Philosophy

Reconceives knowledge as well-calibrated credence, dissolving Gettier cases and Hume's problem of induction. The epistemic core of the Bayesian-epistemology program.

Analysis (Oxford University Press) · double-anonymous · submitted July 2026

Updateability as Demarcation: A Bayesian Synthesis
Philosophy

A theory is scientific iff it can be meaningfully revised by evidence — an updateability criterion that supersedes falsifiability.

Erkenntnis (Springer) · major revision submitted September 2026

SunBURST: GPU-Accelerated Bayesian Evidence Calculation Under Review
Computation

Sub-linear O(d0.67) scaling through 1024+ dimensions, with a 100–1000× speedup over PolyChord/MultiNest. Reframed around Bayesian evidence computation for a statistics readership.

Statistics and Computing (Springer) · submitted July 2026

ChiSao: A GPU-Native Parallel Optimizer for Multimodal Black-Box Functions Under Review
Computation

A GPU-native memetic population optimizer (Convergence–Halt–Invert–Stick–And–Oscillate) that runs a whole sample batch at once, freezing confirmed modes while the rest escape local traps through a convergence–anticonvergence oscillation. 100% mode recovery across all 42 SFU benchmark functions through d=64 — where CPU baselines collapse at d≥8 — at up to 34–39× speedup, and reliable under likelihood noise up to σ=1.0. Open-source via chisao on PyPI.

Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Elsevier) · submitted June 2026

In Revision & Between Venues

Horizon Thermality from the Inaffinity Eigenvalue Equation Revising
Physics

Coordinate-free derivation of the Hawking–Unruh spectrum from the inaffinity eigenvalue equation alone — no metric, no Kruskal construction. Being recast as a letter, foregrounding its novelty against Israel (1976), now that both companion entropy papers are published.

Rational Polarization: Why the Literature Solved the Wrong Problem Revising
Philosophy

The Bayesian polarization literature asked the wrong question. Common-evidence convergence theorems fail because partisan media ecosystems violate their premise at scale — responsibility shifts from individuals to institutions.

Reality Wins: Why Genuine Machine Intelligence Requires Oracle Access to External Reality Revising
Philosophy

The implicit Turing test: a system is intelligent iff it can detect that its own interpretive frameworks have failed and revise them under world-pressure. Gödel, Turing's halting problem, and the Löbian obstacle become one diagonal argument — external grounding is the only resolution that doesn't relocate the regress. Journal version being re-aimed; conference variant accepted at MoC7 (below).

Boltzmann Brain-Death Between Venues
Physics

Dissolves the Boltzmann brain hypothesis via information propagability and Liouville's theorem. Two horns: ex-nihilo formation is forbidden by symplectic structure; Poincaré-recurrence variants cannot ground the skeptical hypothesis the literature requires.

The Physical Fork of Grue Between Venues
Philosophy

Goodman's new riddle of induction — why project "green" not "grue" — resolved physically rather than linguistically: projectible predicates are those preserved under the symmetries of physical law. Split off from the demarcation paper, where a referee called the argument "very much original and worthy of consideration."

Conferences & Talks

Geometric Entropy: What Any Observer Can Know Delivered
Physics

Talk bundling three results — Loschmidt resolution (Krylov-space proof), 1/4 from symplectic reduction, horizon thermality from inaffinity eigenvalues — into a single geometric story about what any observer can ever know.

SigmaPhi 2026 · Kolymbari, Crete · contributed talk, 9 July 2026

Reality Wins: The Implicit Turing Test and the Architecture of Grounded Intelligence Accepted
Philosophy

Conference variant of the Reality Wins program — focused on the architectural requirements of grounded artificial cognition.

Models of Consciousness 7 · University of Copenhagen · October 2026 · accepted; not attending