This record provides the overview and organizing entry point for a research program examining several long-standing “unsolved problems” in fundamental physics. Rather than proposing new particles, interactions, or dynamical laws, this series demonstrates that a number of canonical problems arise from a shared category error. Under finite resolution and internal description, these problems are shown to dissolve structurally and independently. The series establishes a common set of minimal premises—finite resolution, irreversible internal projection, and non-privileged description—and applies them uniformly to multiple domains. Each associated volume isolates a single problem and demonstrates its elimination without cross-dependence on other topics. The following volumes form part of this research program and are linked as related works: Vacuum Energy Hierarchy Problem Quantum Gravity Arrow of Time Dark Matter Each volume is designed as an entry-point paper and may be read independently. Detailed mathematical, conceptual, and phenomenological developments are archived in the cited records under persistent identifiers. Disagreement with the conclusions of this program requires explicit rejection of one or more stated premises. This research program consists of the following volumes: Vol.1 — Quantum Measurement (foundational layer)Vol.2 — Hierarchy ProblemVol.3 — Vacuum EnergyVol.4 — Quantum GravityVol.5 — Arrow of TimeVol.6 — Dark Matter Each volume is archived as an independent record with its own DOI and can be accessed via the related works listed above.
This record provides the overview and organizing entry point for a research program examining several long-standing “unsolved problems” in fundamental physics. Rather than proposing new particles, interactions, or dynamical laws, this series demonstrates that a number of canonical problems arise from a shared category error. Under finite resolution and internal description, these problems are shown to dissolve structurally and independently. The series establishes a common set of minimal premises—finite resolution, irreversible internal projection, and non-privileged description—and applies them uniformly to multiple domains. Each associated volume isolates a single problem and demonstrates its elimination without cross-dependence on other topics. The following volumes form part of this research program and are linked as related works: Vacuum Energy Hierarchy Problem Quantum Gravity Arrow of Time Dark Matter Each volume is designed as an entry-point paper and may be read independently. Detailed mathematical, conceptual, and phenomenological developments are archived in the cited records under persistent identifiers. Disagreement with the conclusions of this program requires explicit rejection of one or more stated premises. This research program consists of the following volumes: Vol.1 — Quantum Measurement (foundational layer)Vol.2 — Hierarchy ProblemVol.3 — Vacuum EnergyVol.4 — Quantum GravityVol.5 — Arrow of TimeVol.6 — Dark Matter Each volume is archived as an independent record with its own DOI and can be accessed via the related works listed above.
This volume is the foundational and mathematical entry point of the global-realism theory tower. Exactly three physical axioms are retained: microscopic ontic definiteness with finite localization, physical reality of a dynamical spacetime–vacuum substrate, and persistent causal retarded source–response coupling. Wave functions, Hilbert and Fock spaces, Born probabilities, gauge groups, Einstein equations, entropy, temperature, particle species, chemical bonds, life, information, and complexity are not additional physical axioms. They enter only as representations, conditional theorems, controlled limits, effective models, computations, observations, or downstream organizational levels. The volume establishes a many-sorted formal language, an anti-confusion type discipline, a theory-layer category, conservative import maps, an acyclic dependency graph, state and parameter certificates, and universal uncertainty and rejection rules. Later parts connect this common spine to finite topological matter, causal historical dynamics, gravitation, quantum representation, statistical reduction, macroscopic projection, observation, and the specialized physics, chemistry, biology, Earth-system, astronomical, and complex-system volumes. These interfaces authorize downstream inputs but do not replace the full calculations owned by those volumes. All nonstandard claims remain conditional on existence, stability, causal realization, independent calibration, standard-theory subtraction, and held-out tests. The purpose is internal architectural closure and empirical accountability, not a claim that three axioms already compute every law or that nature has been shown to realize the proposed history and finite-core sectors. Keywords **Global realism; three physical axioms; finite topological matter; physical spacetime vacuum; causal historical dynamics; quantum representation; gravitation; statistical reduction; acyclic theory tower; uncertainty quantification; falsifiability.** Note on the Two Versions **This paper is available in two versions. Readers interested in the original ideas and the development of the manuscript are encouraged to consult the original version. For a more systematic presentation and a deeper understanding of the complete theoretical framework, we recommend reading both versions.**
This paper introduces a constraint-first framework for physical law based on a single structural requirement: that distinctions and correlations be enforceable without contradiction under finite capacity. Rather than proposing new dynamics, entities, or microscopic mechanisms, the work reframes foundational questions in physics by asking a prior question—under what conditions is physical description itself possible? Central to the framework is the recognition that correlation enforcement cannot be unlimited. From this finiteness follows a notion of admissibility, separating correlation structures that can be jointly realized from those that are structurally incoherent, independent of probability or dynamics. Geometry, time, entropy, and global state descriptions are treated not as universal primitives, but as regime-dependent representations that emerge when enforcement constraints can be smoothly distributed—and fail when they cannot. Within this perspective, long-standing foundational puzzles—such as the arrow of time, entropy bounds, horizon paradoxes, and the breakdown of global descriptions—are reinterpreted as signals of regime mismatch rather than failures of physical law. Apparent paradoxes arise when descriptive tools are extrapolated beyond the regimes in which their enforcement is possible. The paper is deliberately pre-dynamical. It does not modify quantum mechanics or general relativity, nor does it derive specific equations or predictions. Its contribution is structural: to articulate the minimal conditions that any coherent physical description must satisfy, and to clarify why familiar physical structures appear where they do, persist where they can, and fail where they must. This work serves as the conceptual foundation for a companion technical paper that formalizes admissibility and finite correlation capacity as a calculus. Together, the papers aim to delineate the boundary between meaningful physical description and questions that cannot be consistently posed. About the series. Admissibility Physics derives the Standard Model gauge group, fermion content, quantum formalism, Lorentzian spacetime, the Einstein field equations, the cosmological constant, and the neutrino, strong-CP, and dark sectors from a single assumption — that enforcement is finite at every causally connected region — with zero free parameters. The core derivation runs Papers 0–11; the extension papers carry the individual sectors. Each paper's main text and Technical Supplement is deposited separately, and every quantitative claim traces to a named, executable check in the public theorem bank (over 3,800 bank-registered theorems across roughly 450 modules, 48 quantitative predictions). Website: admissibilityphysics.com. Engine and theorem bank: https://github.com/Ethan-Brooke/APF-Engine. Full series and latest deposits: Zenodo community admissibility_physics. The Engine — Admissibility Physics: An Executable Constraint Framework and Constants Map — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18529115. Paper 0 — What Physics Permits: A Constraint-First Framework for Physics — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439523 Paper 1 — The Enforceability of Distinction — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439200 Paper 2 — Finite Admissibility and the Failure of Global Description — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439274 Paper 3 — Entropy, Time, and Accumulated Cost — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439363 Paper 4 — Admissibility Constraints and Structural Saturation — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439397 Paper 5 — Quantum Structure from Finite Enforceability — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439433 Paper 6 — Dynamics and Geometry as Optimal Admissible Reallocation — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439445 Paper 7 — A Minimal Quantum of Action from Finite Admissibility — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18439513 Paper 8 — The Admissibility-Capacity Ledger — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19721384 Paper 9 — The Geometric Substrate as Cost Structure of Comparison Continuations — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20041675 Paper 10 — The Calculus of Finite Continuability — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20041680 Paper 11 — Forced Universality from Capacity-Bounded Admissibility — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684198 Paper 13 — The Minimal Admissibility Core — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18361446 Paper 16 — Markov Breakdown and the Hard Problems — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684207 Paper 18 — The Electroweak Sector as a Capacity Equilibrium — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684209 Paper 20 — The Enforcement Crystal — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18531732 Paper 24 — The Recruitment-Radius Extension — Foundations — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684211 Paper 28 — Absolute Mass Scales from Electroweak Capacity Saturation — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684215 Paper 29 — Plaquette Representation Dominance and Confinement — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684218 Paper 30 — A Tube Mechanism for the Lattice Mass Gap — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684220 Paper 31 — Osterwalder–Schrader Structure of Lattice Yang–Mills — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684222 Paper 33 — Trace-to-Scheme Export Architecture — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684224 Paper 35 — The Dark Sector as a Two-Role Capacity Decomposition — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684228 Paper 40 — The Thermodynamics of Finite Distinction (Between Symmetry and the Void) — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684235 Paper 41 — The Horizon as a Continuation Ledger — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684241 Paper 42 — The Weak Mixing Angle Is Not Free — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20684245 Paper 43 — The Neutrino Sector — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21194191 Paper 44 — What a Finite Theory Owes the Continuum — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21195874 Paper 45 — What the Vacuum Can Keep — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21194195 Paper 46 — The Strong CP Angle Is Not Free — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21194197 Paper 47 — The Confinement Antecedent Is Not Forced — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21194199 Technical Supplements cross-link to their main paper via isSupplementTo and to the engine via isDocumentedBy. Concept DOIs above resolve to the latest version. Author. Ethan Brooke, Independent Researcher, San Anselmo, California, USA. ORCID: 0009-0001-2261-4682 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ethanbrooke GitHub: github.com/Ethan-Brooke Contact: brooke.ethan@gmail.com
Foundational paradoxes continue to persist in modern physics despite the remarkableempirical success of established theories. These paradoxes do not arise from failed predictionsor mathematical inconsistency, but from recurring conceptual tensions across quantummechanics, gravity, cosmology, and questions of identity, causality, and emergence.This paper examines twenty-four well-known paradoxes spanning these domains andproposes a unified resolution strategy. The analysis is methodological rather than technical:no new dynamics, particles, or forces are introduced, and no modifications to establishedformalisms are required. Instead, the paradoxes are shown to arise from a systematicconflation of descriptive levels, in which constructs native to effective theories are tacitlytreated as ontologically fundamental.By interpreting established theories as projection-level descriptions constrained by domain-specific validity, the paradoxes admit concise and uniform resolutions. Across all cases, themathematical frameworks remain intact; what changes is the interpretation of their ontologicalreach. The recurrence of this resolution pattern across independent and historically distinctparadoxes provides strong support for an ontological distinction between generative structureand effective physical description, articulated here in a deliberately restrained form.The resulting perspective reduces, rather than inflates, ontological commitments whilerestoring conceptual coherence across domains that are otherwise treated in isolation. Withoutspecifying the detailed nature of the generative level, the analysis establishes a unifiedinterpretive framework within which many longstanding foundational problems lose theirforce
This paper does not propose a new physical model or interpretation.Instead, it records a rigidity chain that emerges when a world is described internallyunder three minimal premises: finite resolution, non-privileged representation,and irreversible internal projection. Under these conditions, structures traditionally treated as axioms or free parameters—the Born probability weighting, Schrödinger-type dynamics, and the fine-structure constant α—do not remain free. Each appears as a unique survivor of eliminative consistency requirements. Disagreement with the conclusions requires explicit rejection of at least one premise,with clearly identifiable conceptual costs.This work serves as a challenge paper and an entry point to a larger trilogy(MOF–PFC–Alpha Locking), directing critical scrutiny toward the choice of premisesrather than interpretive preference.
This registration preserves a consolidated, time-stamped version of the principal works comprising the Necessity programme in natural physics. The collection includes *The Necessity of Structure*, *The Necessity of Quantum Structure*, *The Necessity of Natural Physics*, the finite-response master-equation work, and related supporting papers. Taken together, these works develop a necessity-first method for physical theory. Rather than beginning with spacetime, matter, fields, particles, observers, information, probability, or established mathematical structures as unexplained assumptions, the programme asks which structures must exist for a physical world to be coherent, distinguishable, and empirically describable. Each subsequent structure is admitted only where it can be justified by the preceding requirements. The programme proceeds from minimal structural conditions through quantum structure, composition, localisation, interaction, gravitation, cosmology, and finite numerical response. The master-equation work provides a compact mathematical expression of the programme’s finite-response structure and connects the general framework to identifiable physical regimes and numerical tests. The remaining papers develop particular consequences, applications, and consistency conditions. Unlike earlier registrations containing individual works or stages of the programme, this registration preserves the principal corpus as a unified collection. Its purpose is to establish a stable public record of the programme’s scope, internal development, authorship, and contents as they existed on the registration date. Earlier documentary materials may additionally record the historical development of the underlying ideas; those records should be distinguished from the later complete mathematical formulation. This is a registration of an existing theoretical research corpus. It is not a preregistration of a proposed experiment or empirical study.
Description This record contains the revised version of Paper 15 in the Fundamental Being Space (FBS) Theory series. In this revision, the updated contents of Papers 12–14 are reflected, and state formation on the Σ side, state projection to the ordinary-spacetime side, observation-output formation after projection, and the classification of multiple identical projected states are reorganized as distinct stages. The basic relation is organized as follows: internal responses in Σ→ψΣ→ψSi→Xi Here, state projection and observation-output formation are not treated as the same process. The classification of exchange, occupation, and effective projected modes for multiple identical projected states is also positioned as a subsequent stage. On this basis, this paper organizes observability, phase and rotational responses, stabilization and retention, consistency with state projection, and constraint conditions as having distinct roles within the minimal effective action of the interface layer Σ. Furthermore, a finite effective sector is extracted from the broad operator-response structure on the Σ side and connected to a finite-dimensional representation as AΣ→PeffAΣPeff→MΣeff As a specific candidate for this finite-dimensional representation, the 4+3 block structure of a 7×7 response matrix is used. By applying the Schur complement, a general form is shown in which the influence of one finite effective sector remains as a correction to the other effective response through off-diagonal responses. However, the dimension 7 is not regarded as having been newly derived from the minimal effective action or from the selection of the finite effective part. Through this revision, the role of Paper 15 within the FBS Theory research program has also been clarified. The observability structure, spinor-type responses, and classification of multiple identical projected states organized in Papers 12–14 are connected in Paper 15 to the framework of the minimal effective action and finite effective sectors. This provides a bridge to the next stage, Paper 16, where the physical specification of the 7×7 response structure and the connection between quantum-type and gravity-type responses will be examined. This paper does not derive the complete internal structure of Σ, standard quantum mechanics, the Dirac equation, or the spin-statistics relation from first principles. Its purpose is to reorganize the response structures developed in the revised Papers 12–14 under the minimal effective action and to present a finite effective structure that connects to Paper 16. Related Papers The present revision of Paper 15 directly reflects the revised contents of Papers 12–14. Paper 12 — From General Σ Responses to Hermitian Pairing: Born-Type Probability and Observability in FBS TheoryConcept DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20784611 Paper 13 — Spinor Structure and 4π Symmetry as Σ-to-Si Projection in FBS TheoryConcept DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20793474 Paper 14 — Effective Projected-Mode Classification in the Interface Layer in FBS TheoryConcept DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20797474 Regarding Paper 16 Paper 16 will be revised to reflect the updated contents of Papers 12–15. After the revision is completed, a link from this Paper 15 record to the revised Paper 16 will be added. Complete FBS Theory Series Paper 1 serves as the main entry point for the overall FBS Theory series, including the series overview, the position of each paper within the research program, and the latest organization of the series. Paper 1 — General Discussion on the Reality of Fundamental Being Space (FBS)Concept DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18220714 Versioning This preprint may be updated in revised versions as the research progresses. When citing, please specify the DOI and version. Author informationIndependent Researcher, Japanyosihitoookawa@gmail.comORCID: 0009-0006-8294-5738