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Generative Ontology and Closure Dynamics: A Background-Free Event Theory
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Publisher: Gradient Physics Press
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book develops a generative ontology of physical existence. Its central claim is that the universe should not be understood as a collection of pre-existing objects moving through a pre-given spacetime, but as a process in which events become facts only when they satisfy strict conditions of closure, freezing, and readout. Against the familiar assumptions of continuous time, spatial containers, ontic probability, and self-sufficient entities, the book proposes a layered framework: at the generation layer, there are only events, rhythmic structures, relational differences, closure conditions, and freezing; at the readout layer, the familiar world of time, space, causality, particles, mass, interaction, and probability appears as a finite and lossy reconstruction of already settled generative facts.
The argument proceeds by first suspending the traditional background concepts of spacetime, continuity, and probability, and then rebuilding physical intelligibility from more primitive notions: event, relation, rhythm, phase, direction, difference, closure, and freezing. Closure is treated as the criterion by which a generative process becomes complete; freezing is the mechanism by which such completion becomes persistent and irreversible; readout is the finite interface through which frozen structures are sampled, truncated, and organized into the empirical world. In this sense, probability is not taken as an intrinsic feature of nature, but as the afterimage of readout truncation; interaction is not force, but the mutual prehension of generative constraints; and mass is not an inherent attribute of an entity, but a readout of the freezing budget required to sustain a stable structure.
The book also develops a minimal model-the four-event Y-type condensate-to show how the abstract criteria of generation, closure, and freezing can be implemented in a concrete structure capable of numerical analysis and failure. The model is not presented as a final theory of particles, but as a disciplined test case for the framework. Its treatment of baryon-like structures emphasizes differential robustness rather than absolute fitting: absolute mass is treated as calibration, while mass differences are treated as the meaningful and falsifiable outputs.
Throughout, the book insists that a physical framework must be capable of failure. It therefore marks not only what the theory claims to explain, but also where it remains incomplete: the recovery of Lorentz invariance, the emergence of gauge symmetries, the regularization of ultraviolet behavior, and the full reproduction of Bell/CHSH correlations are treated as open constructive tasks rather than concealed as solved problems. The result is a restrained but ambitious proposal: existence is not a primitive given, but the completed and frozen outcome of generative processes; the empirical world is not the ontological ground, but the readout appearance of such processes under finite conditions.
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