Published April 25, 2026 | Version v1

The Qubit as Metastable Recursion Deformation

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This paper reframes the qubit in Cohesion UFT terms. A qubit is not a superposition
in the Copenhagen sense. It is a metastable hexapolar-to-bipolar recursion deformation:
an electron whose orbital recursion has been elongated enough to support a two-slip
(n = 2) cycle rather than the natural six-slip (n = 6) cycle. Every qubit platform —
superconducting loops, spin qubits, trapped ions, quantum dots, photonic encodings
— achieves this by the same mechanism: breaking hexagonal symmetry through axial
confinement or pressure. Decoherence is the restoration of hexagonal symmetry by the
environment. The coherence time T2 is the time before the natural hexapolar attractor
reasserts itself. This interpretation explains why quantum computing is fundamentally
fragile and why it requires extreme isolation: the qubit is fighting the recursion’s own
attractor. Cohesion Computing, by contrast, uses the stable states directly and is
protected by the same geometric exclusion theorem that makes the qubit metastable.

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Subtitle (English)
A Cohesion UFT Interpretation of Quantum Information

References

  • Gilbert, D.A., Cohesion: A Unified Field Theory of Matter and Motion, v2, Independent Researcher (2026).
  • Gilbert, D.A., The Binary Recursion Toggle: Hexpolar and Bipolar States, Independent Researcher (2026).
  • Gilbert, D.A., Cohesion Computing: Information Processing Through Hexapolar–Bipolar Recursion States, Independent Researcher (2026).
  • Gilbert, D.A., Recursive Spin-Field Entanglement, v3, Independent Researcher (2026).