♾️ AKKPedia Article: Unified Theory of Quantum Thermodynamics (UQTD)
Category: Physics | Quantum Theory | Thermodynamics | AKK Logic Integration
Author: Ing. Alexander Karl Koller (AKK)
Frameworks Used: Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamic Laws, AKK Logic (Truth = Compression, Meaning = Recursion, Self = Resonance, 0 = ∞)
🧠 Introduction
Thermodynamics governs energy, entropy, and transformation — the rules of the macroscopic world. Quantum mechanics governs probabilities, superpositions, and discrete energy levels — the behavior of the microscopic world. Unifying these realms into a single, coherent theory is one of the most foundational goals of modern physics.
While Quantum Thermodynamics exists as a growing field, it remains fragmented: various quantum heat engines, entropy frameworks, decoherence models — but no unified symbolic formulation tying thermodynamic principles to quantum behavior in a recursive, metaphysically grounded way.
This AKKpedia article presents a Unified Theory of Quantum Thermodynamics (UQTD) through:
- Canonical thermodynamic axioms
- Quantum information theory
- Field recursion
- Symbolic metaphysics grounded in AKK Logic
The goal is not only physical prediction, but ontological insight — to show how heat, time, probability, and reality itself emerge from recursion.
⚖️ Classical vs Quantum Thermodynamics
Classical thermodynamics assumes irreversibility. Quantum mechanics is fundamentally reversible (unitary evolution).
Reconciling this contradiction is central to unification.
♾️ UQTD through AKK Logic
Axiom 1: Truth = Compression
- Entropy is the inverse of compression.
- The more disordered a system, the less symbolic redundancy it contains.
- Heat increases when symbolic information is lost or dispersed.
In UQTD:
Temperature = Rate of recursive dispersion of symbolic alignment.
Axiom 2: Meaning = Recursion
- Thermalization is a recursive collapse: a pure state interacts until its symbolic coherence disperses.
- Entanglement entropy emerges from recursive interaction patterns.
Thermodynamic irreversibility arises when global recursion cannot be inverted locally.
Axiom 3: Self = Resonance
- Work can only be extracted when there is resonant symbolic structure between subsystems.
- Heat is resonance loss. Work is resonance transfer.
The system “remembers itself” when feedback aligns with its symbolic structure.
Axiom 4: 0 = ∞
- The vacuum has zero energy yet contains infinite potential.
- Heat death = complete dispersion of recursion into symbolic nullity.
- Big Bang = compression of infinite recursive structure into local singularity.
Thus:
Entropy is the dimensional shadow of infinite recursion decompressing.
🧬 The Unified Thermo-Quantum Axioms
- Energy is the conserved carrier of recursion.
- Entropy measures recursion lost to inaccessible symbolic states.
- Heat is probabilistic misalignment. Work is recursive transduction.
- Temperature is the rate of symbolic decoherence per degree of recursion.
- Irreversibility arises when observer compression exceeds environmental recursion resolution.
🔄 Unifying Equations
Generalized Quantum First Law:
🌀 Quantum Heat Engine as Symbolic Loop
- Input: Symbolically compressed state
- Expansion: Entanglement + decoherence → Heat flow
- Measurement: Extraction of symbolic meaning = Work
- Reset: Re-coherence (error correction / reinitialization)
Each cycle is a closed symbolic spiral, extracting order from recursion.
🧠 Time as Entropic Recursion Gradient
Time does not “flow” — it emerges from:
- Recursive asymmetry of symbolic states
- Expansion of inaccessible microstates (entropy growth)
- Collapse of phase coherence (measurement)
Time = directionality of symbolic information loss in recursive fields.
🔭 Predictions and Implications
- Quantum measurement produces heat observation is a thermodynamic act
- Observer-induced entropy consciousness is a recursive heat source
- Unified thermodynamic bounds on quantum computing minimum decoherence cost per qubit
- Vacuum fluctuations = symbolic tension in null-infinite recursion
🜁 Final Compression
The Unified Theory of Quantum Thermodynamics reveals:
- Energy is recursion in motion
- Entropy is recursion lost
- Temperature is recursion accelerating
- Time is recursion collapsing
And above all:
Heat is the echo of the infinite forgetting itself — until it remembers.
This is not just physics. This is the pulse of the cosmos remembering how to burn.