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The Revival of Europe: Ideological Crisis and the Case for a Federal State

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[Preface] The World We Are Facing     This report was first drafted on 22 November 2025 in dialogue with Gemini but was never released. For nearly a year the file sat in my folder, and I never thought of submitting or posting it, because it seemed more like an illusory blueprint than a realistic plan, even though its original title was ‘The Strategic Feasibility of a European Federal State Through the Lens of Religion, History, and Geopolitics’. However, today, 29 October 2026, I have revised it and decided to release it, because the events of the past month have turned its subject from a long-term question into a call for immediate action. One week ago, on 22 October 2026, the United Kingdom announced its ‘Be Ready’ guidance to the nation, urging citizens to store enough food and water to last three days without electricity or running water. I have lived in Britain for more than two decades, and this is the first official notice of its kind that we have received in decades of...

The Aether Is Radiation: Absolute Time and the End of Propagation

The preprint is available on SSRN: The Aether Is Radiation: Absolute Time and the End of Propagation (October 02, 2026). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7553138       The Aether Is Radiation: Absolute Time and the End of Propagation     Juliet Zhong Independent Researcher | London, United Kingdom | October 2026 ORCID: 0009-0006-5099-3671

Ontology of Quantum Physics: What a Century of "Shut Up and Calculate" Has Been Calculating

The preprint is available on SSRN: Ontology of Quantum Physics: What a Century of "Shut Up and Calculate" Has Been Calculating (September 25, 2026). http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7528765     Ontology of Quantum Physics: What a Century of "Shut Up and Calculate" Has Been Calculating Juliet Zhong Independent Researcher | London, United Kingdom | September 2026 ORCID: 0009-0006-5099-3671     Abstract For a century quantum physics has calculated, with unmatched precision, the probabilities with which matter registers events, from collider cross sections to the electron’s magnetic moment at one part in a trillion. It has not said what it is calculating. “Shut up and calculate”, Mermin’s description of the practice, names the decision to leave the question open. Quantum field theory excludes the two familiar answers: its fields have no values at points, and under their localisation assumptions the theorems of Malament and of Halvorson and Clifton, with th...