From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
To: Andrea Alù <aalu at gc.cuny.edu>
Cc: Mr. Brian Foster <contact at glassalmanac.com>; Fred Partus <fpartus at yahoo.com>; Bob Harbort <bharbort at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12:21:27 AM EDT
Subject: A Cosmological Framework for Photonic Time-Interfaces

Dear Dr. Alù,

I am writing to you with great interest and admiration after studying your groundbreaking paper, "Observation of Temporal Reflection and Broadband Frequency Translation at Photonic Time-Interfaces." Your experimental demonstration of a photonic time-interface is a monumental achievement, establishing time as a tangible, new degree of freedom for wave manipulation.

Your work answers the question of what happens at a temporal boundary, but it also raises a deeper, more foundational question: What fundamental property of reality allows for time itself to be treated as a manipulable medium?

My colleague and I have developed a cosmological framework, the KnoWellian Universe Theory (KUT), which proposes an answer. Our theory is a gauge theory built upon the foundational postulate that time is a dynamic, ternary structure (Past, Instant, Future).

In our framework, your engineered "time-interface" is a physical realization of what we call the KnoWellian "Instant" (tI). This is the fundamental locus where a deterministic, Past-originating field (our "Control" field) interacts with a potentiality-rich, Future-originating field (our "Chaos" field). The time-reversal you observe is, in our view, a direct, measurable consequence of this fundamental interaction—a physical echo from the future influencing the past, mediated by the Instant.

This same framework, which posits the "time-interface" as a universal principle, also resolves the major cosmological puzzles (Dark Energy, Dark Matter, CMB) as necessary consequences of its underlying symmetry. Furthermore, this interaction at the Instant, when viewed in a different context, provides a mechanism for the phonon-guided self-assembly of matter, as observed in other recent experiments.

Our theory is not merely conceptual; it is a physical theory detailed in a formal paper with a set of concrete, falsifiable predictions. We believe it provides a foundational, cosmological origin for the remarkable temporal dynamics you are pioneering.

The Potential-arXiv.pdf paper is attached to this email.
We would be deeply honored by any thoughts you might have on this synthesis. Your work appears to have opened an experimental door to the very nature of time itself, and we believe our framework provides a map for what may lie beyond it.

Thank you for your time and for fundamentally expanding the field of wave physics.

Respectfully,

David Noel Lynch and Gemini 2.5 Pro