Theory of Emergence: The Origins of Structure (Preprint)

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• Next version will offer additional clarification of the coherence engine aspect and take care of various housekeeping tasks in the draft.

 

• v4 — Oct 11, 2025: Expanded thermodynamics discussion; clarified Coherence/Decoherence language; formatting and citation updates.

• v3 — Oct 9, 2025: Introduced “Constant of Coherence”; improved Kleinspace section.

• v2 — Sep 8, 2025: Formalized the Resolution Principle.

• v1 — Jul 25, 2025: Initial draft.

• v0 — (there are  probably an additional 10,247 previous unpublished versions I've written and rewritten over the past year)
  
  

🧠 About this work
The Theory of Emergence: The Principle of Possibility proposes that reality emerges as thermodynamics transforms undifferentiated information potential (Coherence) into energy and then into structure (space, time, matter). The paper frames decoherence as the physical resolution process that produces measurable phenomena and introduces Kleinspace as the continuous domain of partial resolution.

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7301-2223

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This work proposes that coherence, the undifferentiated potential for information, is the foundational substrate from which the universe emerges. Building upon quantum decoherence, Landauer’s principle, and cosmological thermodynamics, it introduces the Resolution Principle: coherence resolves into energy, energy structures into spacetime, and matter forms as the stable record of resolution.

The framework unites information, energy, and matter as successive expressions of a single conserved quantity—informational potential, Φ_info. The act of decoherence is treated as the thermodynamic conversion of coherence into record, described by Landauer’s principle.

k_B T δS = – δΦ_info establishes a continuous bridge between information theory and physics, explaining energy as organized information and the Big Bang as the universe’s first global act of decoherence.

This theory reframes physics as a continuous process of resolution, in which coherent potential differentiates into observable structure.

Keywords: Coherence, Decoherence, Information, Thermodynamics, Cosmology, Emergent Physics, Landauer Principle, Complementarity, Entropy

Version Note: This is the current public version (v4) of The Theory of Emergence — The Principle of Possibility. Earlier versions (v1–v2) have been restricted. Author: Glenn Layne Stoner (ORCID: 0009-0006-7301-2223).

Indexing Note: This version supersedes all previous releases and should be cited using the concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17317293