Emergent Anisotropic Electrodynamics from Luminous Order Parameter Condensation

We present a complete, ultraviolet-complete quantum field theory in which the photon, the observed value of the fine-structure constant α ≈ 1/137.035999, the existence of a cosmic preferred direction aligned with the CMB dipole, and local modifications of spacetime geometry near compact objects all emerge from a single mechanism: the spontaneous condensation of a conserved global U(1)_L luminous charge Q_L carried by a bilayer scalar system.

Rotational invariance is broken at 400 keV by a massive UV vector field (M_V ≈ 3.2 × 10^10 GeV) that freezes a global preferred axis ê_θ₀. Integrating out the radial mode yields an explicit anisotropic Maxwell action −¼ F_μν G^μναβ(ê_θ₀) F_αβ whose full rank-four tensor G^μναβ is derived in closed form. The same lattice parameters reproduce α to within experimental error via a first-principles string-net calculation (D=8 PEPS, 48×48×2 cylinders). The theory is causal, ghost-free, and satisfies all Lorentz/CPT constraints through plasma screening below 0.1 eV.

The same condensate produces a 210 ± 15 Hz stochastic gravitational-wave background with 14% quadrupolar modulation, black-hole photon-ring asymmetry of 5–8 μas, 48 ± 12 Hz GW echoes, a 13.8% PeV neutrino flavour dipole, quintessence with w(θ) = −1 + 0.030 cos 2θ, and luminous-charged dark matter with a 0.19% relic dipole. All predictions are falsifiable before 2035 by quantum simulators, LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA, ngEHT, IceCube-Gen2, KM3NeT, SKA, and cavity experiments. Confirmation of any two signatures would establish that gauge forces, spacetime, and quantum information are phase-dependent emergent phenomena of an underlying luminous condensate.