Research Log 02/ Quantum Phase 1 — Unobserved
- junichihakamaki
- Feb 3
- 2 min read
Pursuit for the physics Equation of Love
Quantum Phase 1 is the state before anything is decided.
In classical physics, an object exists in a single place, with a single speed, a single identity. In quantum physics, this certainty does not exist at the beginning. Before observation, a system does not choose. It does not settle. It does not commit to one outcome over another.
This is the unobserved phase.
In this phase, reality exists as a field of possibilities rather than a fixed form. Position, direction, color, and even meaning remain fluid. Nothing has collapsed into a single answer yet. Everything is allowed to coexist.
What matters here is not what is, but what could be.
In quantum mechanics, this condition is described as superposition. A particle is not here or there—it is here and there. Not metaphorically, but physically. Only when an observation occurs does this multiplicity resolve into one measurable state.
Until then, the system remains open.
This openness is not chaos. It is a structure without a conclusion.
Quantum Phase 1 is often misunderstood as emptiness, but it is the opposite. It is the most information-rich state. All potential futures are present simultaneously, layered on top of one another like transparent planes.
Nothing has been lost yet.Nothing has been chosen yet.
In this sense, the unobserved phase is the most generous state of reality.
From an artistic perspective, Quantum Phase 1 is where form has not yet hardened. Edges are soft. Boundaries are permeable. Light behaves like a suggestion rather than a definition. Figures may appear doubled, blurred, or incomplete—not because they are unfinished, but because they are still possible.
This phase resists narration.It resists decision.It resists final meaning.
And that resistance is its power.
In human terms, we encounter Quantum Phase 1 more often than we realize.
It exists in moments before choice, before confession, before departure. In the silence before an answer is spoken. In the pause where multiple futures still breathe together.
Once observed, named, or acted upon, the phase ends. Reality collapses into a path, and all other possibilities fade.
But here—in Phase 1—nothing has collapsed yet.
The works in this phase are not asking to be understood. They are asking to remain unobserved just a little longer.
They are not about the conclusion. They are about the field before the conclusion.
This is where everything begins.
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