Treatise on the Proposed Chronology Protection Law Derived from Quantum Mechanics — Second Edition — Revised Introduction with Experimental Proposal

This treatise proposes that Hawking's Chronology Protection Conjecture should be grounded in quantum mechanics rather than remain a conjecture about general relativity. We interpret the measurement process in the double-slit experiment as a manifestation of a chronology protection law: the universe enforces the principle of non-contradiction — that a particle cannot be recorded as being in two places with definite which-path information while also exhibiting interference. We formalize as A_protected(h) = A(h) * exp[-λ * V(h) * S_loop], where V=1 for contradictory histories, S_loop is loop action, λ is protection coupling analogous to G. Unique contributions: (1) Inversion of Hawking — double-slit as laboratory demonstration of protection, (2) Entanglement as retrocausal erasure preserving light-speed limit c, (3) Falsifiable experimental test via P-CTC circuits on IBM Quantum ibm_kingston with tunable paradox strength r. Author: Robert Aaron TseglinDate: 2026-11-03Keywords: chronology protection, closed timelike curves, quantum eraser, P-CTC, double-slit, retrocausality