{
  "abstract": "[Depreciated and replaced by V3] This pre-V3 paper is replaced by the corresponding V3 clean-room reconstruction: The Quantum Fold Machine - An Exact, Parameter-Free and Machine-Closed Derivation of Reversible and Quantum Computation from Smithian Fold Theory. The V3 source platform is https://github.com/MettaMazza/ernos-labs-sft-platform. The original DOI, concept DOI, version number and files are preserved for transparent historical provenance; this record must not be presented or cited as current V3 work. One axiom. One operation. Zero free parameters. For a century quantum mechanics has been read as irreducibly random — God plays dice. This paper gives the fold’s reading of the double-slit, and there are no dice in it. The interference pattern is deterministic: where two fold paths arrive opposed they cancel to the One and the spot is forbidden (a dark band); where aligned they survive (a bright band), and the bands fall on a discrete standing-mode comb — the fold’s stationary states. What the textbook calls probability is a discrete preimage count (the atomic branch weight 1/8), not a continuum likelihood. The single-shot appearance of randomness is the non-invertible (two-to-one) fold’s self-opacity: a state cannot read which preimage it came from. No probability, no continuum, no dice. The determinism is non-local and survives Bell, which excludes only local hidden variables. Machine-checked; reproduces from one command. A standalone result within the Smithian Fold Theory of Everything (SFTOE). Full corpus, code, and the run-it-yourself VERIFY.md protocol: https://github.com/MettaMazza/Smithian-Fold-Theory",
  "abstract_shown": true,
  "affiliations": [
    "Ernos Labs"
  ],
  "article_type": null,
  "arxiv": null,
  "author_total": 1,
  "authors": [
    {
      "affs": [
        0
      ],
      "name": "Maria Smith"
    }
  ],
  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/136xxvcqspjxg.bib",
  "cited_by": 7,
  "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.21028523",
  "fulltext_url": null,
  "id": "136xxvcqspjxg",
  "issns": [],
  "landing_url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21028523",
  "language": "en",
  "licence": "CC-BY",
  "licence_label": "CC BY",
  "licence_source": "journal",
  "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "metadata_licence": null,
  "native_subjects": [
    [
      "openalex",
      "3107|Quantum Mechanics and Applications"
    ]
  ],
  "openalex": "W7166531803",
  "pdf_url": null,
  "pmcid": null,
  "pmid": null,
  "published": "2026-06-29",
  "publisher": "European Organization for Nuclear Research",
  "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/136xxvcqspjxg.ris",
  "sources": [
    {
      "first_seen": "2026-10-30T13:26:43Z",
      "native_id": "W7166531803",
      "source": "openalex",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21028523"
    }
  ],
  "subjects": [
    {
      "field": "physics",
      "origin": "openalex:3107|Quantum Mechanics and Applications",
      "subfield": "amo"
    }
  ],
  "title": "[Depreciated and replaced by V3] No Dice: Deterministic Interference, Exact Branch Counts, and Quantum Measurement from the Fold",
  "title_text": "[Depreciated and replaced by V3] No Dice: Deterministic Interference, Exact Branch Counts, and Quantum Measurement from the Fold",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-03T13:20:27Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/136xxvcqspjxg",
  "venue": "Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)",
  "versions": []
}