stance, is not an issue in this proposal). Then GR’s domain of applicabilityis limited by its independent fixing of
c
and
. The early universe, from thisvantage point, is characterised by largely classical behaviour (small
) andlarge scale thermal contact due to a divergent
c
. The quantities
c
and
arequantised, leading to a hierarchy of distance scales labeled by ordinals
N
where
q
=
e
2
πiN
will appear as a fundamental deformation parameter. Or-dinary quantum physics corresponds to a fixed
at
N
= 2. A holographicemergent 3-vector time (or background temperature)
T
is identified withan entropy increasing process
dual
to a contraction of space that occursfor high energy observables. Note that this concept of time is
observer de-pendent
and not tied to fixed foliations of a classical reality. Rather, ourestimates of cosmic time arise from the level of quantum complexity, orHegelian consciousness, that we employ in our observations (ie. at a fixed
). Unfortunately,
mass
appears to require operators that span the entire
hierarchy.Here we wish to investigate a new tricategorical [12] regime at
N
=3 by relating special properties of 3-categories to the dimension of space,colour in QCD, 3 stranded braids, and the number of generations in the lowenergy particle spectrum. This appears to be possible only by attributingto the parameter
N
= 3 an extremely fundamental significance, associatedto unknown axioms for higher toposes and
N
-dimensional multicategories.This approach is therefore quite distinct from other topos theoretic ideas forgravity. The proposal contains 3 sections:1.describes the axiomatic nature of higher topos quantum gravity2.outlines the technical core of the proposed research3.notes connections to a broader research program
1 Higher Topos Quantum Gravity
Ordinary geometry is supposed to emerge from a framework which firstdefines observables for a finite range of input criteria, determined by the ab-stract constraints of specific experimental questions. This discrete languagemust transcend the mathematics of
points
in a classical space.A
topos
is the modern generalisation of the concept of space. It has
N
= 2 levels of arrows, namely objects and 1-arrows. The canonical exam-ple of a topos is the category of
sets
, equipped with the two valued Booleanlogic of set union and intersection. Although not necessarily Boolean, all2
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