The Obsolescence of Matter: "It from Bit", Occam's Razor, and Reality as a Pure Data Structure
Abstract
Paper 91 does not claim that the full continuum theory, the exact constants of nature, or a complete derivation of the Standard Model have been achieved, and it is not a new experiment. It shows, from the verified benchmark corpus, that (a) the continuum never appears in the data — the substrate's measured geometry is a discrete, fractal, scale-dependent register with a one-edge-per-tick light cone; (b) particles are recurring topological motifs with no identity beyond their pattern, whose every property is computed; (c) mass, forces, laws and constants are readouts of two primitives — a structure and an active local update rule — rather than properties carried by a substance; and therefore (d) by eliminative inference, "material substance" is a zero-residue postulate, and the parsimonious description of the corpus is reality as a pure data structure: *structure plus process, with nothing underneath*.
