The Unspoken Acts of Modern Physics — A Deconstruction of Its Unjustified Foundational Assumptions

Modern physics presents itself as an empirical science — one that derives its laws from observation. This paper argues that this self-description is incomplete. Beneath its empirical surface, modern physics operates through a series of foundational acts that are not derived from observation, but imposed as preconditions for observation. These acts are: the Definition of the Ruler, the Assumption of Identity, the Declaration of Symmetry, and the Denial of the Reading Interface. This paper does not claim these acts are "wrong" — it claims they are unspoken. They have never been subjected to the same empirical scrutiny that physics applies to its objects of study. By naming them, we do not refute physics; we invite it to examine its own foundations with the same rigor it reserves for the rest of the universe.