User:ECTLawrence/WikipediaWilliamAndrewLawrence

William Andrew Lawrence is an American independent theorist, writer, and systems designer best known as the originator of the Entanglement Compression Theory (ECT), a proposed framework that seeks to unify quantum mechanics, general relativity, and cosmology through deterministic amplitude compression. Lawrence is the founder of the Compression Theory Institute (CTI), an open-access research collective established to formalize and disseminate ECT.

Early life and education

Lawrence was born in Walnut Creek, California, and raised in La Cañada Flintridge near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. He developed an early interest in science, mathematics, and computer programming, building and modifying computers as a teenager. His exposure to physics and cosmology in youth led to a lifelong interest in fundamental theory and information systems.

Career

Lawrence’s professional background spans information technology, systems architecture, and independent research. He worked at the Los Angeles Times during the late 1980s through the 1990s, developing early research interfaces and newsroom automation tools before the modern internet era. His later work integrated software design with theoretical modeling, emphasizing structure, efficiency, and logical determinism.

Compression Theory Institute

In 2025 Lawrence founded the Compression Theory Institute (CTI) to support open theoretical research and public access to foundational physics work. The institute publishes its papers through Zenodo and the Open Science Framework (OSF) and maintains a public website at compressiontheoryinstitute.org.

Entanglement Compression Theory

Lawrence’s principal work, Entanglement Compression Theory, introduces a deterministic mechanism for the emergence of spacetime and physical constants from the compression of a universal entangled wavefunction. ECT’s core equation, the Primordial Wave Equation, defines a real compression term that links quantum amplitude density to geometric curvature, uniting quantum and gravitational behavior under one model.

Key publications include:

• Theory of Derived Probability and Entanglement Compression (Zenodo, 2025)
• Mathematical Foundations of Derived Probability and ECT (Zenodo, 2025)
• The Oscillation Principle (Zenodo, 2025)
• Unified Tensor Formalism for ECT (Zenodo, 2025)

Reception and indexing

ECT and Lawrence’s research corpus have been indexed across open-access repositories including Zenodo, OSF, and Academia.edu. Independent search aggregators such as Google, Bing, and Perplexity have summarized the framework as a deterministic unification proposal in physics. A supplementary Zenodo dataset documents these independent listings and serves as evidence of public dissemination.

External links

• Compression Theory Institute
• ORCID profile
• Zenodo community
• OSF Project
• Substack page
• Entanglement Compression Theory draft
• William Andrew Lawrence draft