
We introduce Relational Transition Networks (RTN), an atemporal framework for fundamental physics in which time is not treated as a primitive entity. Physical reality is modelled as a small category whose objects are relational states and whose morphisms are admissible transitions governed by local transition programs. Within this framework, temporal order, causality, simultaneity (as incomparability in a partial order), and spatial geometry are proposed to emerge from the relational structure of transitions. RTN admits a quantum formulation based on transition amplitudes and suggests a formal correspondence between an atemporal path-sum construction and the Feynman path integral in the continuum limit, motivated by the Trotter–Kato theorem. A transition cost function defined on the network further induces an emergent information-geometric structure. The framework is presented as a foundational proposal toward an atemporal description of physical reality and identifies several open problems connecting quantum theory, geometry, and quantum gravity.
path integrals, emergent time, category theory, information geometry, quantum gravity, atemporal physics,, foundations of physics, quantum foundations, casual sets, relational quantum mechanics
path integrals, emergent time, category theory, information geometry, quantum gravity, atemporal physics,, foundations of physics, quantum foundations, casual sets, relational quantum mechanics
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