Roberto Agostini, II
Independent Theoretical Physicist & Researcher
As a multilingual cross-industry professional, Roberto Agostini, II built a professional career combining two decades of experience across finance, corporate environments and business development with a strong background in communication, research and analytical problem-solving — spanning roles as a quantitative analyst, fund administrator and compliance officer within the Luxembourg banking industry, and, more recently, as an international real estate markets advisor in the UAE. Running alongside that path, largely unseen by it, he has gone through a second, much longer commitment: fifteen years devoted to the independent study of theoretical physics and quantum mechanics. In 2026, that study reached its first public form.
The result is the Multiverse in Vertical Time Theory (MVTT), a research programme addressing one of the genuinely open problems in the foundations of physics: the Wheeler–DeWitt equation’s celebrated absence of a time variable, and the unresolved relationship between the Copenhagen and many-worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics. The framework makes no claim to the status of a Theory of Everything: it leaves the equations of General Relativity and quantum field theory unmodified, and proposes instead a specific and falsifiable mechanism operating upon them — an admissibility operator, filtering the configurations of reality that are physically realized from those that are merely possible — and traces its consequences from the foundations of quantum mechanics through to a long-standing problem in cosmology: the extreme discrepancy between the theoretical and observed value of the cosmological constant.
Two papers setting out this framework have been published on Zenodo, the CERN-affiliated open-access repository. The foundational paper, Informational Admissibility and the Stabilization of the Cosmological Constant (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19630208), lays out the framework’s architecture in full. Within its first months on Zenodo, it has recorded 356 views and 236 downloads to date — a notably high ratio for a work published without the benefits of institutional affiliation, prior publications, or a presence on arXiv or ResearchGate. A second paper, Macroscopic Quantum Coherence at 300 K and Many-Worlds Bifurcation in the Exciton-Polariton Soliton (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21838159), extends the framework to a concrete physical proposal: the NESS (Non-equilibrium self-confined Soliton), a room-temperature macroscopic quantum aggregate offering a direct, laboratory-testable instance of the framework’s central claims.
Work is now underway on the companion Monograph, The Vertical Time Horizon, which will bring the framework’s mathematics to the standard of completeness required for formal peer review. Two further papers precede it: a direct update to the foundational paper, addressing an open question concerning the framework’s relationship to the Born rule of standard quantum mechanics, expected within the coming months; and a paper extending the framework’s admissibility mechanism to the observed matter–antimatter asymmetry of the universe, targeted for Autumn 2026.
This research programme has been pursued entirely independently, without institutional affiliation — a position that has afforded it full autonomy over its direction, and one Roberto now looks to carry into a fully formal academic setting, as the next phase of the same research path.