The Coherent Universe
Life, Physics, and Meaning in a Relational Cosmos — a coherence-first interpretive monograph grounded in standard physics, dimensional analysis, open-system thermodynamics, and the structural admissibility discipline developed in the Quantized Dimensional Ledger (QDL).
The Coherent Universe argues that many persistent structures in nature—ranging from stable physical systems to organized living processes—can be understood through a coherence-based framework grounded in standard physics. Building on the Quantized Dimensional Ledger (QDL), the book treats dimensional admissibility as a grammar of physically meaningful relationships, clarifying where models are structurally valid, where they rely on hidden assumptions, and where extrapolation begins. Written for physicists, complex-systems researchers, and philosophically minded readers, it offers a disciplined synthesis connecting coherence, open systems, and measurement integrity, without proposing new physical laws or invoking metaphysical claims.
Note: This page summarizes the book’s scope and structure for public reference. For technical background on the QDL framework, see Publications and Framework.
Table of Contents
High-level structure: Foundations → Living systems → Planetary/cosmic → Cosmology/meaning, with Appendix A consolidating QDL definitions.
- Why This Book Exists
- Acknowledgments
- On Terms and Claims (scope + restraint)
- 1. The Hidden Order Beneath Physics
- 2. The Ledger Idea
- 3. Units, Constants, and the Rosetta Stone Problem
- 4. From Maxwell to Einstein to Now
- 5. A Universe Made of Relationships, Not Things
- 6. The Ledger in Action
- 7. Testable Predictions and Falsifiability
- 8. Electromagnetism and Gravity Revisited
- 9. Atoms, Molecules, and Coherent Matter
- 10. Life as Sustained Coherence
- 11. Disease, Disorder, and the Loss of Coherence
- 12. Planetary Coherence and the Earth System
- 13. Stars, Galaxies, and Large-Scale Coherence
- 14. The Coherent Cosmos
- 15. Meaning, Agency, and Responsibility in a Coherent World
- Epilogue — What Endures
- Core definitions and admissibility rules
- Worked examples + failure modes
- Compton-scale minimal dimensional cell
- Applications matrix across domains
Intended audience
Researchers and advanced graduate students in theoretical and foundational physics, complex systems, and precision measurement — with careful, operational use of terms when extending into biology, planetary systems, and questions of meaning.
Preface excerpt
A short orientation statement that anchors the book’s restraint and scope.
Why This Book Exists
This book does not introduce new physical laws. It asks a simpler—and more demanding—question: what follows if existing physics is interpreted through a coherence-first framework?
The Quantized Dimensional Ledger established a structural result: physical quantities that appear independent—mass, charge, energy, momentum, and field strength—reduce to combinations of two primitives, length and frequency. That result did not require new dynamics. It required a different way of accounting.
Here, the aim is not to extend the Ledger technically, but to trace its implications across scale: from particles to organisms, from planets to galaxies, and finally to the universe itself. The answer pursued here is deliberately restrained. No anthropomorphism is introduced. No mysticism is invoked. Where claims exceed standard physics, they are framed as consequences, not assumptions, and bounded by what the Ledger already licenses.
(Excerpted from the Preface; wording may be lightly adjusted in final typesetting.)