The Epistemological Interference: Why Physics Cannot Solve Its Own Frontier Problems

We identify an epistemological interference that prevents physics from recognizing the structural limit of its own lens. The interference has a precise historical origin: the 17th-century division of domains, which assigned the domain of the absolute (A) to the Church and the domain of the manifested (T) to science. As this division fossilized into an ontology, physics came to believe that its theories constitute level A, and that the observed world constitutes level T. This belief is false: theories are also T. A written equation, a paper, a measurement, and the observable world are all manifestations of T. A is the absolute coherence that manifests as T through the operation of I. We rely on a well-known fact from quantum field theory in curved spacetime: vacuum ambiguity. This fact, recognized as an open problem since the 1970s, has a structural consequence that physics has not extracted: the semiclassical system is not self-contained. T is the result of an operation (vacuum selection) that is not in T. We show that the frontier problems of physics—singularities, measurement, and information loss—are not problems awaiting propositional resolution, but rather symptoms of this interference. This manuscript identifies the epistemological interference that prevents science from accessing the functional structure of reality described in the work Human Code: Functional Ontology of Everything available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18650135 This is the English version of the work La interferencia epistemológica: Por qué la física no puede resolver sus propios problemas de frontera, also available in Spanish: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22876848