From: Bob Harbort bharbort at gmail.com
To: David Lynch dnl1960 at yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2026 at 12:27:12 PM EDT
Subject: Re: The Apple Remembers: RQM=4T-KUT

Wow! Interesting. Let me know if you get a response.

Bob Harbort, Ph.D.
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Kennesaw (formerly Southern Polytechnic) State University
http://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/rharbort/
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From: carlo rovelli rovelli.carlo at gmail.com
To: "dnl1960 at yahoo.com" dnl1960 at yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2026 at 07:25:17 AM EDT
Subject: Automatic reply Re: The Apple Remembers: RQM=4T-KUT

[Automatic reply -- Français en bas -- Italiano più in basso]
Dear friends, I am overwhelmed by the number of messages I receive
(sometimes hundreds a day). It is great to receive your comments,
ideas, proposals, and invitations, and I am very grateful. Many of
your messages are wonderful and extremely kind, and I would very much
love answering everybody, but there is no human way I could. My
sincere apologies. At present I do not accept invitations to
conferences or talks, new students, new collaborations or projects.
Also, I cannot read papers and ideas you send me (several dozens
everyday), because of the overburden. I am very sorry! And I thank
you for your understanding.
Carlo

[Français]
Chers amis, je suis dépassé par le nombre de messages que je reçois,
qui arrivent parfois à des centaines par jour. C'est beau de recevoir
vos messages, commentaires, idées, propositions et invitations. Je
vous remercie de tout coeur. Beaucoup d'entre eux sont merveilleux et
très gentils, et j'aimerais beaucoup répondre à tout le monde, mais je
ne pourrais le faire même si je passais tout mon temps à ne faire que
ça. Mes sincères excuses. Je n'accepte pas d'invitations à des
conférences ou présentations, ou des nouveaux étudiants, des nouveaux
collaboration ou projets. Aussi, je ne peux pas lire les articles et
idées que vous m'envoyez (plusieurs douzaines chaque jour), en raison
de la surcharge. Désolé! Je vous remercie pour votre compréhension.
Carlo

[Italiano]
Cari amici, sono sopraffatto dal numero di messaggi che ricevo, che
talvolta arrivano a centinaia in un giorno. È molto bello ricevere
tutti i vostri messaggi, commenti, idee, proposte e inviti. Grazie di
cuore. Molti di questi sono meravigliosi ed estremamente gentili, mi
piacerebbe molto rispondere a tutti, ma non c'è modo umano di farlo.
Le mie sincere scuse. Al momento non accetto inviti a conferenze o
presentazioni, nuovi studenti, o nuovi progetti o collaborazioni. Non
posso leggere i vostri articoli o le vostre idee (ne ricevo dozzine
ogni giorno), a causa del sovraccarico. Mi spiace! Vi ringrazio per
la vostra comprensione.
Carlo

--

Carlo Rovelli,

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 07:24 David Lynch dnl1960 at yahoo.com wrote:

From: David Lynch dnl1960 at yahoo.com
To: Carlo Rovelli rovelli at cpt.univ-mrs.fr
Cc: Carlo Rovelli rovelli.carlo at gmail.com; Andréa Morris wordcanteen at gmail.com; Bob Harbort bharbort at gmail.com; Lawrence Silverberg lmsilver at ncsu.edu; Stephen J. Crothers sjcrothers at plasmaresources.com; Fred Partus fpartus at gmail.com; Eric Weinstein generalfeedback at geometricunity.org; Bruce *HS Greyson cbg4d at uvahealth.org; Philip Goff philip.a.goff at durham.ac.uk
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2026 at 07:24:21 AM EDT
Subject: The Apple Remembers: RQM=4T-KUT

Dear Carlo,

I hope this letter finds you well.

There is a YouTube presentation by Andréa Morris titled, "What a Paradox in Physics Could Mean for Consciousness" that talks about Relational Quantum Mechanics.

I am writing to you to share a paper I generated with Gemini 3.6 Flash that is a cosmological blueprint called the Ternary Time, Ternary Trefoil KnoWellian Universe Theory, or the 4T-KUT model. One reason that I leveraged Ai to generate the paper is that most people will not give me the time of day much less entertain the concept of a cosmological model that does not include multiple universes, many worlds, singularities, wormholes, and Boltzmann brains.

In your formulation of RQM, you elegantly demonstrated that the absolute, observer-independent state of the world is a physical impossibility. Bravo! You re-framed physics as a net of partial descriptions—a theory of relative information shared between interacting systems. The enclosed framework takes your relational premise to its logical geometric destination, stripping away the unphysical continuum of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds and replacing it with an active, real-time computational loom.

The 4T-KUT model posits that time actively authors space step-by-step at the Planck scale on an aperiodic pentagonal Cairo Q-Lattice substrate. Instead of a single static block universe, reality is generated by a topological interference pattern of three intertwined (3,2) Torus Knots representing the three coupled vector fields of Ternary Time: the left-handed Past Control Depth vector (Solid Ash, moving at -c), the left-handed Liquid Instant Width focal plane (operating near infinity), and the right-handed Future Chaos Length reflux vector (the Apeiron, cascading inward at c+).

Crucially, this model provides an explicit mechanical substrate for the discrete quantum geometries you pioneered in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). In 4T-KUT, space is not a smooth, passive container; it is a discrete, periodic textile actively authored step-by-step at the universal Planck cadence by a Three-Body Trefoil Loom. Where LQG models space as a network of quantized spin loops, 4T-KUT formalizes this fabric as an aperiodic pentagonal Cairo Q-Lattice substrate, woven by a triadic interference pattern of three closed (3,2) Torus Knot solitons. The following link is to an animation that helps visualize 4T-KUT. The "Select & Controls" button contains a selector to change the element being viewed.
https://lynchphoto.com/KronoTrefoilElements

By structuring the vacuum as an asymmetric 2L:1R chiral engine operating across the vector fields of Ternary Time---Past Depth Solid Control, Instant Liquid Width Control~Chaos, and Future Length Vapor Chaos---the model provides non-perturbative solutions to the foundational impasses of continuous physics, deriving matter dominance (+1L), Weak parity violation, and hadronic color confinement directly from lattice geometry.
To ground this model firmly within the quantized domain of Loop Quantum Gravity, the framework isolates a strict series of Tier B physical hardware bounds that dictate the absolute floor of our quantum gravity architecture:

The KnoWellian Length Pixel (K-1): sqrt(hbar * G / c^3) = 1.615705 x 10^-35 meters. This establishes the absolute minimum spatial pixel dimension, acting as the fundamental length scale of the Cairo lattice.

The Chronon Refresh Rate (K-2): sqrt(hbar * G / c^5) = 5.38939 x 10^-44 seconds. The discrete master clock tick governing the real-time frame advance rate of the loom (nu_KW = 1.855 x 10^43 Hz).

The Volumetric Spatial Pixel (K-hat-1): V_E = (l_KW)^3 = 4.217243 x 10^-105 cubic meters. The irreducible 3D spatial cell volume. Because volume cannot contract below this threshold, ultraviolet divergences and 1/r point-mass singularities are entirely eliminated from Coulomb and gravitational equations.

The Ultimaton Density Ceiling (ZFPD 2 / K-76): rho_max = [(11 + 2*sqrt(5)) / 3] x 10^96 kg/m^3 = 5.160344 x 10^96 kg/m^3. The mathematical saturation cap of the pentagonal floor. Under extreme gravitational collapse, space packing reaches this absolute ceiling. At this boundary, the inward convective spatial ether velocity hits light speed, the local clock cadence drops to exactly 0.0 Hz, and the core freezes into a finite, non-singular sphere of Solid Ash in Causal Deadlock.

Furthermore, the model expands upon your Thermal Time Hypothesis by identifying the Cosmic Microwave Background as the live, thermodynamic friction of the past and future threads grinding together as new spatial stitches are rendered at every Planck second.

We have protocolized a rigorous laboratory falsification gauntlet to test these invariants---spanning cryogenic sapphire resonance tracking, phononic metamaterial thermal mapping, and sub-millihertz gravitational wave interferometry. All this with Zero-Free-Parameters. Pure Invariant Geometry.

The complete architecture has been canonically ratified and archived under DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22777771. Given your lifelong pursuit of an interconnected, relational universe woven out of interactions and discrete quantum loops, I believe you will find the mechanics of this cosmic loom deeply resonant with your own view of the world.

I would be deeply honored to receive your thoughts on the text.

Warmest regards,

David Noel Lynch

KnoWell
~3K

The Apple Remembers
https://zenodo.org/records/21694119
With AiArtWork generated from the contents of the paper.
https://lynchphoto.com/The_Apple_Remembers

The Master Unified Field Codex
https://zenodo.org/records/22983183
With AiArtWork generated from the contents of the paper.
https://lynchphoto.com/The_Master_Unified_Field_Codex

Formalizing Topological Entropic Cosmodynamics in Lean 4
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22777283
With AiArtWork generated from the contents of the paper.
https://lynchphoto.com/Formalizing_Topological_Entropic_Cosmodynamics

My collection of papers on Zenodo.org
https://lynchphoto.com/zenodo
(After opening the Lynchphoto Zenodo link, scroll to the bottom for the most recent posts, then press on the graphic to open a link to my website with the paper including AiArtWork, such as https://lynchphoto.com/The_4T-KUT_Cosmological_Model, or press on the title under the image to get the Zendo linked PDF.)