What If Quantum Uncertainty Is Just a Blur in Time?

What if quantum uncertainty isn’t a feature of reality but a limit of perception?

In the Kosmocosm Framework, I propose that every instant of the universe is perfectly recorded at Planck-time intervals within a timeless core I call the Quantaverse. Quantum randomness, then, may simply be the blur of our slow vision through time.

QBism and Objective Reality: A Kosmocosm Perspective

Response to Tim Anderson’s “Quantum theory may be more like Einstein’s relativity than we think” https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/quantum-theory-may-be-more-like-einsteins-relativity-than-we-think-3e71009cce8b "The question comes down to: what happens when we observe something?"

Reading Tim Anderson’s insightful essay on QBism and relativity, I found a deep resonance with my own research into the Kosmocosm Framework, a geometric model that treats our universe as a three-dimensional shell within a four-dimensional hypersphere. Within that greater hypersphere lies a timeless, information-rich core I call the Quantaverse, a domain where quantum states are archived at Planck-time intervals.

The Problem Is Time

Neither a tossed coin, a live-dead cat, nor a particle wave that Alice observes truly exists as a “probability.” At any given instant, the coin is either heads or tails, the cat is alive or dead, and every particle has a definite set of properties.

The issue isn’t uncertainty — it’s time. Our instruments cannot measure events fast enough to capture a particle’s state at a single instant. The smallest possible interval of change, according to physics, is the Planck time. Because we can only measure across much longer durations, every observation becomes a temporal blur. The result is a wave. And a wave necessarily implies motion, history, and expectation. Probability is not intrinsic to matter; it’s a consequence of our temporal limitation.

The Kosmocosm and Its Core

In the Kosmocosm, the universe forms a 3D shell — the space-time boundary of a 4D hypersphere. The core of this hypersphere is the Quantaverse whichis composed of bosonic interference patterns. These are frozen holographic layers of quantum information. This core, I propose, is what cosmologists observe as dark energy.

Unlike spacetime, the Quantaverse is timeless. It represents the metadata of the universe’s quantum wave function (QWF). This ‘snapshot’ is recorded at Planck intervals caused by gravitational collapse consistent with the Diósi–Penrose Objective Reduction mechanism. Each recording is governed by the time-independent Schrödinger equation, producing an archive of reality rather than a flow of time.

Every snapshot, or Quantile, repeatedly encodes the universe’s entire state, one Planck tick at a time. Once recorded, these layers are immutable — a read-only record of the univeerse’s existence.

Nonlocality and Information Access

Because the Quantaverse exists outside spacetime, its stored information is instantly accessible across the entire universe. If Bob’s particle data are archived within it, Alice’s corresponding particle can reference that same data instantly. When observed, Alice’s state updates to reflect Bob’s — but not the reverse. This one-way informational access elegantly accounts for quantum entanglement — Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” — without violating relativity.

A Determinate Universe Beneath the Blur

Within our observable 3D shell, quantum mechanics remains robust. The Born framework still describes the statistical outcomes of blurred observations across Planck intervals. Yet beneath those statistics lies an absolutely determinate reality, a universe recorded frame by frame, perfectly resolved at the Planck scale.

If we could observe the universe at that speed, QBism would dissolve. Every particle, field, and waveform would appear exactly as it is — no collapse, no ambiguity, no subjectivity.

Further Reading

For readers interested in how this geometric-quantum structure connects dark energy, quantum information, and the nature of consciousness, see my recent papers:

• Kosmocosm: A Unifying Cosmic Framework, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16817564(Aug 12, 2025)
• Exploring the Kosmocosm in More Detail, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17010034(Aug 30, 2025)

David Crellen is an independent researcher exploring cosmology, quantum structure, and consciousness through the Kosmocosm Framework.