Fisher-Informational Time: A Causal-Geometric Framework for Emergent Clock Time Physical Distinguishability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03958v1
• Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 16:42:30 GMT
• Title: Fisher-Informational Time: A Causal-Geometric Framework for Emergent Clock Time Physical Distinguishability
• Abstract summary: We develop a Fisher-informational reformulation of physical time in which clock time is not regarded as a fundamental ontological substance.<n>The central statement of the paper is: time is not measured by clocks; clock time is reconstructed from the Fisher distinguishability accumulated along causally ordered physical changes.
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• Abstract: We develop a Fisher-informational reformulation of physical time in which clock time is not regarded as a fundamental ontological substance, but as an emergent calibration of causally ordered distinguishability among physical states. The operational starting point is that clocks do not measure time itself; rather, they instantiate reproducible physical processes whose distinguishable states are correlated with other events. We introduce a causal-informational parameter, denoted by Lambda_F, defined as an accumulated Fisher-geometric distance along a causally admissible trajectory in state space. In classical statistical systems, this parameter is generated by the Fisher information metric; in quantum systems, the corresponding construction is associated with quantum Fisher information, the Bures metric, and the Fubini-Study geometry of projective Hilbert space. The manuscript distinguishes model-dependent Fisher information from quantum Fisher information, clarifies the reparameterization of Schrodinger dynamics, and gives explicit examples involving a qubit clock, an exponential decay process, and a Fisher characterization of clock quality. The proposal is positioned relative to relational time, the Page-Wootters mechanism, thermal time, quantum speed-limit relations, information geometry, and the problem of time in quantum gravity. We do not claim that relational or emergent time is new. The specific contribution is the use of Fisher distinguishability as an operational precursor from which ordinary clock time can be reconstructed. In this sense, the central statement of the paper is: time is not measured by clocks; clock time is reconstructed from the Fisher distinguishability accumulated along causally ordered physical changes.

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