Ontological Discontinuity and the Null Pointer Paradigm:A Conceptual-Mathematical Framework

This paper develops a conceptual ontological model that interprets motion not as a continuous property of objects, but as a process emerging at the active interface between a present state and its subsequent state. Drawing on the principle of Ontological Non-Storage, the study proposes that a system with finite informational capacity must continually replace prior states in order to enable the emergence of new ones, a process conceptually consistent with thermodynamic considerations such as Landauer’s Principle.

Using the Null Pointer analogy from computer science as a heuristic tool, the paper explores the possibility of a boundary condition in which temporal succession can no longer be sustained. In such a limit state, the structural relation that allows one state to lead to another would fail, and motion would cease.

The aim of this work is not to propose a new physical theory, but to provide a conceptual framework for examining the ontological conditions that make motion and temporal succession possible. By bringing together ideas from information theory, thermodynamics, and metaphysical reflection, the study offers a perspective on the structural limits of temporal continuity and the conditions underlying physical change.