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Research . 2026
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No Timeless Shortcut: Why Completed Block Time Cannot Contain Irreducible Computation

Authors: Chancellor, Shammah;

No Timeless Shortcut: Why Completed Block Time Cannot Contain Irreducible Computation

Abstract

Any continuous completed block time (where all truths co-exist timelessly as actually true) forces consequential outcomes to exist without generative realization creating logical contradiction with threshold computational irreducibility (e.g., Sudoku constraint-resolution work). The proof is domain-neutral and blocks common escapes. We establish axioms about foundational versus consequential truth, derive strengthening lemmas, then prove that continuous completion forces logical contradiction. The result creates a trilemma: one must deny threshold irreducibility, deny completed block time, or accept that the block contains performed computation.

Keywords

Temporal Ontology, Determinism, Philosophy of Time, Presentism, Indeterminism, Block Universe, Eternalism, Contingent Facts, Metaphysics of Time, Temporal Ordering

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