Quantum mechanics, despite its predictive power, lacks a coherent ontology—the "mechanism" its name implies. Wave-particle duality, entanglement, and the indispensability of complex numbers remain mysteries, suggesting the theory may be incomplete in principle. Drawing on the Physical Information Cosmology (PIC) framework—where the universe emerges via a two-stage phase transition from a conserved Physical Information vacuum—we propose that quantum entities are not particles or waves but three-dimensional projections of higher-dimensional "Physical Information Packets." Each packet inherently possesses three superimposed potentialities: informaticity (correlation), energeticity (wave), and substantiality (matter). This triadic structure, which we term the Information-Wave-Particle Triality, is a direct consequence of the recursive partial transitions (information→energy→matter) at cosmic genesis. We demonstrate that wave-particle duality arises from measurement coupling with either energetic or substantial potentials; the uncertainty principle reflects the mutual exclusivity of these observational modes; and entanglement is the informaticity dimension becoming manifest. The complex number structure of quantum mechanics is shown to be the necessary algebraic representation of a system with two orthogonal ontic dimensions (substance and energy). This framework explains why Bell inequality violations are inevitable from a local perspective within a globally structured tetrahedral universe. It offers a parsimonious, testable ontology that unifies quantum phenomena under the same conserved Physical Information from which all reality emerges. In this picture, PIC plays its own dice—the probabilities of quantum mechanics are not a mark of incompleteness, but the necessary manifestation of the information-energy-matter triality rooted in cosmic genesis.
Zhong Wang (2026) studied this question.