The Double Slit and the Collapse Geometry of Pi

This paper reframes the canonical double-slit experiment within the Unified Vibrational Field Theory (UVFT) framework, introducing a dropout-based collapse mechanism governed by modal coherence strain. Interference is not lost due to “measurement” or “observation,” but when the accumulated strain curvature of a given path surpasses a critical survival threshold, π. A new dropout tensor Σμν is introduced to model this coherence load, and its failure criterion replaces the conventional probabilistic wavefunction collapse. This framework accounts for delayed-choice and quantum eraser effects without invoking observer-based retrocausality. Figures and formalism demonstrate how UVFT provides a falsifiable, coherence-based interpretation of quantum decoherence through dropout geometry.