Evidence record

Ocean of Reality: the ocean and its routes

Everything the ocean’s page says outside its questions, claim by claim. A route’s description stands on the questions it links.

If something here is wrong, misquoted or unfair, write to support@unknownoceans.com and give the claim number, which does not change.

The ocean

Claim: What is the world actually made of?

Kind: Framing. Signposting. It asserts nothing a source could check.

Claim: Quantum mechanics, time, information, existence,

Kind: Framing. Signposting. It asserts nothing a source could check.

Claim: and the questions underneath all the others.

Kind: This page’s reading. A judgement the page makes from the evidence. Others read it differently.
Review: A judgement, not a fact. Reviewed for whether it is fairly put and follows from the checked claims. No source can confirm it.

The page’s own description of the ocean. It follows the opening of the question of why there is anything at all, which says every other question on the site assumes a world to ask it about.

Claim 3 · checked 24 September 2026 · AI-assisted audit

The routes

Claim: What a measurement is

Kind: Framing. Signposting. It asserts nothing a source could check.

Claim: The experiments first,

Kind: This page’s reading. A judgement the page makes from the evidence. Others read it differently.
Review: A judgement, not a fact. Reviewed for whether it is fairly put and follows from the checked claims. No source can confirm it.

A description of the route’s order. Its first stop opens on what the experiments have settled; the next three are the Bell tests, certified randomness and the record for interference with large objects.

Claim 5 · checked 24 September 2026 · AI-assisted audit

Claim: and the interpretations last, once it is clear what any of them has to account for.

Kind: This page’s reading. A judgement the page makes from the evidence. Others read it differently.
Review: A judgement, not a fact. Reviewed for whether it is fairly put and follows from the checked claims. No source can confirm it.

The last stop is the page on what quantum mechanics means, which reports that some candidate theories have been ruled out by measurement and that the rest must agree with every experiment the earlier stops describe.

Context
Philosophical Issues in Quantum Theorysection 4.5
Cited · Link answered, 19 October 2026 · The cited passage was read, 24 September 2026 · Reference work
The source reads: All of the above-mentioned approaches are consistent with observation. Mere consistency, however, is not enough

What this does not establish

The first stop also sketches four interpretations; the route leaves the full disagreement for the end, not every mention of it.

Corrected

24 September 2026. Previously: “The experiments first, the interpretations last, which is the opposite of how this subject is usually introduced.” How the subject is usually introduced is a claim about teaching that no source on the route, or any source found, carries. The line now says why the order was chosen, which the stops themselves bear out.

Claim 6 · checked 24 September 2026 · AI-assisted audit

Claim: The bottom of things

Kind: Framing. Signposting. It asserts nothing a source could check.

Claim: Empty space and information, then the smallest length, black holes and time,

Kind: Framing. Signposting. It asserts nothing a source could check.

Claim: where quantum theory and gravity meet and no tested theory joins them,

Kind: What the field holds. The settled view of a field, as a review, a consensus statement or a reference work gives it. Not one study.
Review: Source checked. The cited passage was read, and it says this.

Supports
Quantum-Spacetime Phenomenologysection 1.1
Cited · Link answered, 19 October 2026 · The cited passage was read, 24 September 2026 · Theory · Review of the field
The source reads: In such cases, the pillars of our current description of the laws of physics come in very explicit conflict. On one side, we have quantum mechanics
Supports
Quantum-Spacetime Phenomenologysection 2.2, opening
Cited · Link answered, 19 October 2026 · The cited passage was read, 24 September 2026 · Theory · Review of the field
The source reads: the theory proposals I briefly considered in Section 2.1.4 (all still lacking any experimental success)
Supports
Canonical Quantum Gravity and the Problem of Timeabstract; section 1.2
Cited · Link answered, 19 October 2026 · The cited passage was read, 24 September 2026 · Theory · Review of the field
The source reads: the fundamental conflict between the way the concept of ‘time’ is used in quantum theory, and the role it plays in a diffeomorphism-invariant theory like general relativity. ... one of the deepest issues that must be addressed in the search for a coherent theory of quantum gravity.
Supports
The entropy of Hawking radiationsection 1
Cited · Link answered, 19 October 2026 · The cited passage was read, 24 September 2026 · Theory · Review of the field
The source reads: They also contain a singularity in their interior. It is an anisotropic big crunch singularity, but it is also a situation where quantum gravity is necessary, making it difficult to analyze.

What this does not establish

“No tested theory” means no candidate theory of quantum gravity has an experimental result in its favour, as the smallest-length page reports; there are candidates, and observations bound some of their predictions. For black holes the calculations the route’s page describes suggest information comes out, by a route not yet understood.

Later work looked for

Crossref, 2022 on, "quantum gravity phenomenology experimental status review": the titles returned propose tests or set bounds, and none reports a confirmed result for a candidate theory; the smallest-length page’s latest source, LHAASO in 2024, is a bound.

Corrected

24 September 2026. Previously: “Space, time and information at the scales where the two great theories stop agreeing with each other.” The old line put all six stops at the scales where the two theories conflict. Two are not there: the information page is about the heat released in erasing a bit, measured on a bead and on magnetic bits, and the last stop asks why there is anything at all, which its page says may not be a scientific question. The new line names the stops in order and keeps the conflict for the three stops built around it; “stop agreeing” also became what the sources say, that the frameworks conflict and no candidate theory joining them has experimental support.

Claim 9 · checked 24 September 2026 · AI-assisted audit

Claim: and last, why there is anything at all.

Kind: Framing. Signposting. It asserts nothing a source could check.