Keep pulling the thread on Jeff Booth, Jack & Nick.
The paper "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time" posits that Bitcoin is a physical system and its properties can be used to understand fundamental physics, including energy and time.
The concept of a formal boundary, as exemplified by Bitcoin's 21 million supply cap, should be extended to the fields of physics and logic.
The paper "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time" proposes a model where the smallest theoretical unit of time, the Planck tick, is equivalent to a Bitcoin block.
Bitcoin's architecture provides a model where measurement is an objective, internal process (finding a valid nonce) that is distinct from and precedes observation (verifying the block).
The paper "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time" introduces the concept of "time-space" to replace Einstein's "spacetime," positing time as the foundational axis and space as a derivative property.
Bitcoin provides empirical evidence that time may be quantized, with each block representing an indivisible temporal unit.
The paper "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time" posits that the Planck temperature in physics is the conceptual equivalent of Bitcoin's 21 million supply cap, representing a fundamental boundary of a system.
The viability of quantum computing as currently conceived and the validity of Bitcoin's security model are mutually exclusive because they rely on conflicting ontologies of time (continuous vs. discrete).
Both general relativity and quantum mechanics are fundamentally based on the mathematical assumption of continuous time and would require a complete reconstruction if time were proven to be discrete.
If time is discrete, key mathematical operations like taking the derivative in foundational equations like the Schrödinger equation become invalid, breaking the existing formalism of quantum mechanics.
The successful development of a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer would invalidate the thesis presented in the paper "Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time".
Current physics frameworks are unable to determine whether time is continuous or discrete beyond the limit of Planck time.