The Quantum Gauge Theory of Time: The Majorana Qubit and the Structure of Physical Time

The Standard Model describes the boundary. The Quantum Gauge Theory of Time asks why the boundary has that structure.

This monograph develops a new foundational framework in which the observable world arises from a non-invertible projection of a deeper bulk structure. The boundary is produced by the projection. The kernel left behind is retained as hidden memory, and that memory gives direction to time.

From this starting point, the book builds the projective cell, the Majorana qubit, the boundary metric, the emergence of quantum measurement, gauge readout, global gluing, and the first layers of cosmological interpretation.

The Standard Model and ΛCDM are treated as precise boundary descriptions. QGT asks what must be true before those descriptions can exist.

Rather than placing new objects inside spacetime, QGT constructs spacetime itself as the coherent agreement of finite acts of observability. A single projective cell observes. Many cells agree through gluing. Their agreement becomes geometry.

Every observation is a non-invertible projection. Every projection leaves a kernel. Every kernel preserves a memory. Time is the physical name of that memory when it is read by a boundary.

The book is written for readers with a background in quantum mechanics, gauge theory, and theoretical physics. Its purpose is construction: to derive the architecture of observability from projection, kernel, and readout.

A companion Python simulator is freely available at https://pasqualecamelia.github.io.

This book does not merely describe non-closure; it is built to enact it.

The bulk conserves. The projection loses. The kernel remembers. The boundary measures.