THE NOISE FLOOR
Anomalous Correlation Structures in Vacuum Fluctuation Data
and Their Implications for Prior-State Cosmology
Dr. Elena Vincent
Institute for Foundational Physics, Zurich
Submitted to Physical Review D, March 2026
Withdrawn by author, June 2026
Resubmitted (revised) to arXiv, November 2026
Final revision, date unknown
This document was recovered from Dr. Vincent’s encrypted archive following her leave of absence from the Institute in January 2027. It is reproduced here with the permission of her estate. Minor formatting corrections have been applied. No content has been altered.
The vacuum is not empty. It is the fullest possible state.
— Paul Dirac, 1933
What haunts are not the dead but the gaps they leave in the pattern.
— Gregory Bateson, unpublished notebook
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Love this as it's exactly how I approach multiplayer video games. The real game is always in the other player's head.
I used to go on gears of war and conduct a brutal psychological operation by ONLY killing the enemy with the chainsaw. This locks into an animation and gets extremely frustrating over time. By the end of the match the players are terrified of the chainsaw sound. They start to also use the chainsaw to defend their honor, but unlike them I've been using the chainsaw exclusively all night, so it is usually a fruitless response. Their composure completely falls apart, often resulting in a loss for them.
