Acknowledgements: To the Loop of Time
The completion of Vector Cosmology VII: The Loop of Causality marks the final closure of this grand project spanning seven dimensions, exhausting countless budgets.
As we write this page, not only has this book ended, but the Ouroboros of this seven-volume series has finally bitten its own tail.
Looking back, from the awe of in the first book to the submission to the loop in the seventh book, we have walked a long winding path. But as this book proves, winding paths are the shape of truth. If we had walked straight, we would have long fallen into nothingness; it is precisely because of the curvature that we have been able to reunite.
Here, I pay tribute to those intellectual giants who, at various coordinate points on the time axis, provided gravitational anchor points for this closed loop.
Architects of Time
First, I dedicate this series to John Archibald Wheeler.
He is the “spiritual godfather” of this cosmic vision. His illustration of “the universe looking back at itself” is the soul totem running through these seven books. He taught us: “The unobserved past does not exist.” Without his delayed-choice thought, the core logic of this book would be impossible.
I thank Richard Feynman.
His path integral taught us to traverse all histories; his positron theory (electrons running backward in time) gave us the initial physical intuition for retro-causality. He made us understand that at the microscopic level, time has no direction, only interference.
I thank Yakir Aharonov.
His Two-State Vector Formalism (TSVF) is the hardest mathematical skeleton of this book. He proved that the present state is jointly determined by “past history” and “future destiny.” He was the first to introduce “light from the future” into formulas.
I thank Igor Novikov.
His self-consistency principle is our safety belt when dealing with temporal paradoxes. He told us that the universe is a perfect logical closed loop; any attempt to destroy it will ultimately become part of its self-realization.
Weavers of Meaning
Beyond physics, I thank Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli.
Their cross-disciplinary friendship contributed the concept of “synchronicity” to us. They showed us that where causality breaks, meaning takes over the task of connection.
I thank Jorge Luis Borges.
As a literary figure, he understood “forking paths” and “circular ruins” earlier than most physicists. His labyrinths are the best literary annotation for FS geometry.
To the “Reader”
Finally, and most importantly, I thank you—the observer reading these words at this very moment.
In the logic of this book, the relationship between author (I) and reader (you) is not unidirectional transmission.
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I wrote these words at , sending an “Offer Wave”.
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You read and understand these words at , sending back a “Confirmation Wave”.
Only at the moment you understand, the “handshake” is complete. This theory collapses from the fog of possibility into reality.
It is you who retroactively defined the meaning of this book.
It is you, as the future boundary condition, who caused these words to be born.
As the book says:
There is no “author” and “reader”; there is only the “universe” conducting self-referential dialogue through two ports.
Thank you for your presence.
Thank you for your observation.
Thank you for completing this circle.
Haobo Ma
December 2025, Singapore