Abstract

Modern physics rests on a single step that has never been justified: it treats length as a physical dimension but the angle as dimensionless. From this one asymmetry follow, in sequence, the external time parameter, the treatment of π as a pure number, the modelling of a line as a continuum of points, and — structurally — the indeterminism of quantum theory and the singularities of general relativity. This paper argues that the asymmetry is a category mistake, that its deeper root is the substitution of a genus for an individual as the standard of measure, and that the remedy is not a new theory of the universe but an honest restriction of physics to what a measurement can be: a rational comparison of two real objects, V_A = x V_B, governed by the single relation π ≡ kT/L between angle and length. The Panvitalistic Theory (PVT) does not claim to model nature; it models the act of measurement, and in doing so it returns to theology and metaphysics the questions of infinity and of the nature of the universe that standard physics has quietly annexed. One consequence cannot be evaded: a measurement must be initiated by a living observer, and a theory of measurement must therefore decide — axiomatically, not experimentally — between a dead and a living universe. We show why this question cannot be left open, and why only one of the two answers is coherent.

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