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Longest chain of work is a bitch for integral path formation.
I would say superpositin the uncertainty of the next future state between the smallest blocks of time (identical to the future state of Bitcoin before the next block is mined). In physics that unit is Planck time, which has never been measured.
The smallest unit of time measured in physics I’ve been able to find is 1 zeptosecond (1 x 10^{-21} seconds)
There are1.86 x 10^{22} Planck Blocks of time in 1 zeptosecond.
In Bitcoin, if I spliced together a thousand or hundreds of thousands of blocks together into a singular “measurement”, I could show you the modern definition of Superpostion in Bitcoin; double spends and utxos existing in multiple states at once. Yet we know this is untrue because we can see the granularity of 1 block.
It’s simply a measurement problem, we have never observed Planck Time.
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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.