Here you’ll find all ten parts of the Frame-Budget Approach (FBA) as subpages (with short overviews) and as PDF downloads. The recommended entry points are Part I (concepts/grammar) and Part II (proper time/Minkowski). From there you can branch either toward QM/dynamics (III–IV) or toward spacetime/gravity/cosmology (V–X).
Recommended reading paths
- Foundation: Part I → Part II
- Quantum channels & dynamics: Part III → Part IV
- Spacetime & locality: Part V
- Gravity & geometry: Part VI
- Constants & scales: Part VII
- Classical limit, thermodynamics, aging: Part VIII
- Cosmology / TDI: Part IX
- Predictions & falsifiability: Part X
All parts
Part I: FBA-Foundations (sequence, budget, proper time & arrows)
Concepts, minimal assumptions, and the operational “grammar”: frames, minimal events, budget (internal/external), calibration, and first consequences (proper time/front/irreversibility).
Part II: Time, proper time & Minkowski geometry
How a measurable time structure emerges from sequence + calibration: proper time as integrated internal budget flow, light-cone logic, and the connection to relativistic kinematics.
Part III: Quantum kinematics & CPTP channels
Kinematics as a process language: states, observability, composition, and completely positive trace-preserving (CPTP) channels as “admissible updates”.
Part IV: Dynamics, measurement & GKLS (open systems)
Dynamics as budget-constrained families of processes: measurement, decoherence, dissipation, and GKLS/Lindblad generators as the bridge to open quantum systems.
Part V: Spacetime, light cones & local field theory
Local causal structure from budget positivity: signal fronts, locality/no-signalling, and the bridge to local field theory in the appropriate limit.
Part VI: Gravity & geometry from budget flows
Geometry as an effective description of budget flows: time dilation, curvature, equivalence-principle logic in the FBA picture, and contact with GR.
Part VII: Constants, scales & renormalization in FBA
How scales and effective constants emerge from calibration and coarse-graining; the renormalization idea in a budget/process picture.
Part VIII: Classical limit, thermodynamics & aging
Bridge to thermodynamics/irreversibility: entropy, dissipation, and “aging” as an irreversible budget component; the classical limit.
Part IX: Cosmic dynamics, time dilation & inflation (TDI)
Cosmological dynamics in the budget picture: expansion, time dilation, inflation/TDI, and observable consequences on large scales.
Part X: Predictions, falsifiability & bridge FBA ↔ QM ↔ GR
What is testable? Where can the approach fail? Concrete predictions, measurement connections, and a systematic bridge between FBA, quantum mechanics, and general relativity.