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Observation as Participation: The Detection Theory of Energy Quantum Theory

Li, Kaisheng, Li, Longji

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2025

Abstract

A fully revised edition of this book (v2,ISBN: 9798996139453) has now been completed and published on Amazon, with the following major features, improvements, and additions: EQT Detection Theory: From Observational Ontology to Frequency Matching, Tri-State Response, and Falsifiable Predictions is the detection-interface volume of the Energy Quantum Theory (EQT) series. Its central question is not how to build larger telescopes, higher-energy colliders, lower-noise interferometers, or more sensitive particle detectors. Instead, it asks: what forms of physical existence can enter a detection relation? The book argues that detectability cannot be reduced to passive signal reception. A physical structure may participate in energy density, gradient formation, or dynamical evolution without appearing as free-state radiation, collision products, or ordinary propagating signals. A null result should therefore not be interpreted too quickly as non-existence, weak interaction, or insufficient sensitivity. It may also reflect frequency mismatch, inadequate perturbation strength, weak gradient sensitivity, or the inability to distinguish free-state, bound-state, and condensed-state contributions. Within EQT, detection is redefined as a constrained dynamical relation between detector and object within the same energy quantum density field. The detector is not an external passive reader, but a local structure that couples with the target system through frequency matching, perturbative…

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