Rebacz, Andrzej: The Missing Lock: Why Relational Time Requires a Coherence Threshold (λ(c)) A Constructive Critique of Carlo Rovelli’s Relationalism

Contemporary relationalism, most notably the program developed by Carlo Rov- elli, posits that time is not a fundamental dimension but an emergent effect of correlations between physical systems. However, this framework faces a significant ontological gap: the problem of insufficient specification of the conditions under which temporal order arises. By treating relations as generative of time, relation- alism does not clearly distinguish between incoherent relational noise and robust, directed t