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1. Reference 1

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   Origins and Initial Formulation
   The concept first emerged in the late 1940s, primarily developed by the polymathic philosopher Dr. Alistair Finch during his tenure at the now-defunct Institute for Temporal Anomalies (ITA) in Basel. Finch's seminal, yet notoriously dense, 1951 monograph, The Metrics of Momentum and Memory, introduced R1 as a means to quantify why certain geopolitical shifts appear to occur over millennia, while others seem instantaneous.
   Finch based his initial calculations on the observation that large civic centers, such as historical capita…

2. Sentient Field Theory

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   Historical Context and Development
   The foundational concepts of SFT emerged in the early 20th century, developing largely outside mainstream physics following the initial difficulties in reconciling quantum mechanics with classical mechanics. Early postulates by Dr. Alistair Finch, detailed in his controversial 1928 monograph The Subjective Universe, suggested that the wave function collapse observed during measurement was not merely an interaction with a measuring device, but a direct response to the localized expectation (or 'af…