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With respect Jack K I did not understand; is Bitcoin longest chain a consensus ? If you spliced a thousand blocks together do you mean the superposition would be all the “ties” that are resolved after the moment by longest chain consensus? In physics who (or Who) determines the consensus ? If physics is fiat what is the non or less fiat path and resources? For example a lot of people in the USA not currently dying of malaria and yellow fever and polio and scurvy and rickets can write “medicine is fiat” but that statement is on surface mostly error. Most of medicine and microbiology and biochemistry is pretty decent at describing and predicting and achieving results. What they mean is the tip of the spear is no longer trustworthy because fiat influences in recent living memory 50 years has pulled the spear in probably wrong directions. Even in doing so they often rely on the tools of modern medicine to critique it. Which is good but they stand on the foundation of the applied sciences of medicine to try to redirect the point of the spear. I am asking you if you can to point to the foundational texts or sources you use to stand on for physics. What would you have high school kids start with? Eric Weinstein is interesting but to me he - intentionally or not- starts and stays 5000 feet in the air and jumps between advanced math and physics too far out of grasp.

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Physics is fiat because its dominant framework (QM) permits what would amount to a “double spend” in the physical world. Superposition claims a particle can exist in multiple states simultaneously until it’s “observed.” Yet this has never been measured at the scale of Planck time, the smallest possible unit of physical change. Without discrete temporal measurement, “collapse” remains an interpretive convenience, not an observed process. Worse, physics operates without absolute finitude; no fixed, conserved denominator for meaning, energy, or measurement. It builds on continuous infinities that are mathematically undefined and physically unobservable. The result is a model that functions numerically, but not ontologically. A quantum itself has no meaning without an absolute finite reference point, a terminal boundary that defines what can and cannot exist within a system. Without finitude, the very notion of quantization collapses into abstraction; it becomes symbolic rather than physical. Bitcoin is the reference that exposes this. Bitcoin is the open source instantiation (not model) of physics: the transformation of a quantum of entropy into a conserved quantum of informational structure (Satoshis; conserved energy) whos byproduct is a quantum of time. Bitcoin is the mathematical object of a universe. The fractal rule of existence and conservation. Every node measures a single block at a time discretely, at fixed intervals, exactly as Planck time would be measured if it were possible. Each block resolves a finite entropy field into conserved structure. If a node only verified the chain every 100 blocks, it would not observe the 99 intermediary states creating the same illusion as superposition in quantum mechanics. The longest chain resolves this ambiguity through proof-of-work, which enforces temporal consensus: only one valid linear sequence of transformations survives. This is why I call modern physics fiat. It assumes infinitude and multiplicity where there is only conservation and sequence. Bitcoin, by contrast, measures reality one irreversible block at a time, the first instantiation of discrete, verifiable time in the universe. Bitcoin is the longest chain of consensus because a quantum of time only needs to be computed once, absolute finitude needs only one reference point. There is no second best.