The initial quantum torque was not a linear disruption. It was a rotation—a directional twist within the uniform field of possibility. This torque seeded angular momentum into the vacuum, and the resulting asymmetry caused the vacuum to begin collapsing—not isotropically, but in spiraling formations of phase instability.
Matter, under this model, did not precipitate uniformly across space but unfolded through rotational cascade: a spiraling emergence of particles and fields that organized around local vorticities. This process resembles quantum turbulence, where small rotational instabilities grow into structured, stable vortices.
To describe this mathematically, we define the quantum torque field as:
τ_Q = ∇ × (Ĉ Ψ_vac)
Where:
- Ĉ is the operator representing directional observation (consciousness),
- Ψ_vac is the vacuum wavefunction in superposition,
- τ_Q is the induced torque field.
This torque results in local quantum angular momentum:
L_Q = r × p_Q = ħ (r × ∇Ψ_collapse)
The spatial distribution of L_Q forms spiral structures, guiding vacuum energy to collapse into matter. The collapse propagates through self-similar, scale-invariant patterns—creating a fractal distribution of mass-energy that is reflected in the universe's large-scale structure.
Crucially, this torque also defines a direction of change. Before the torque, the vacuum had no sequence—no cause and effect, no state transitions. But once torque was applied, wavefunctions began to collapse in a defined order. That ordered collapse is the origin of time.
Formally, the vacuum state before torque satisfies:
∂/∂t Ψ_vac = 0
Once torque is applied:
∂/∂t Ψ_collapse ≠ 0
This signals the beginning of wavefunction evolution. Time emerges as the rate of collapse, the ordering of events, and the increase in entropy across successive quantum states. Thus, time is not fundamental—it is emergent, born from the act of observation imposing direction onto a timeless field.
This spiral cascade of structure and entropy defines both the architecture of space and the arrow of time.
