From Possibility to Actualization: A Minimal Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

We propose the Quantum Reality Framework (QRF) as a minimal ontological interpretation that unifies quantum mechanics (QM) and general relativity (GR) without additional postulates. In V36, QRF is extended to a complete Quantum Theory of Relativity: the full quantum dynamics of the AE density operator rho_hat_AE on the AE-relation group G_AE, from which standard QM and classical GR emerge as limiting cases. The QRF Master Equation is formulated as: i*hbar * d_W A = [H_matter + H_gravity, A], where W is the discrete ordinal actualization counter, A is the synchronic relational amplitude on G_AE, H_matter generates the epistemological time-evolution of the projection psi_S, and H_gravity is the self-coupling of the AE density operator to the emergent metric via the local Malament theorem. Four regimes are identified: (1) flat quantum spacetime (standard QM), (2) curved classical spacetime (GR), (3) QFT in curved spacetime, and (4) full quantum gravity (new). Eight tensions between QM and GR are formally resolved within QRF. The time problem is resolved: neither QM nor GR has ontological time in QRF — W is a discrete ordinal counter and t is epistemological in both theories. UV divergences are resolved: the Planck scale is the natural UV boundary of the discrete AE structure, not an imposed cutoff. The measurement problem in curved spacetime is resolved: the co-presence condition O4 (L_AB <= c*T_AB) is fully covariant in any Lorentz manifold. The Wheeler-DeWitt frozen dynamics problem is resolved: the master equation i*hbar * d_W A = [H_QRF, A] uses W as development parameter — not coordinate time. The cosmological constant problem is resolved via the Sorkin mechanism on the QRF causal set (V35). The information paradox receives a conceptual resolution: traces in the causal set are indelible by O5 acyclicity. Spacetime superposition is well-defined in QRF: superposition lives in G_AE, the metric emerges from the expectation value of rho_hat_AE. Singularities are structurally resolved: the Planck density tau_C = t_P is a natural boundary without formal divergence. QM and GR are not two different theories requiring unification in QRF. They are two aspects of the same causal structure: QM describes the global compatibility structure of A on G_AE; GR describes the local variation of the causal density via Malament. The unification is not a mathematical procedure — it is an ontological consequence of the single primitive.