How Physics Lost its Integrity and Why It Must Be Reclaimed

This paper reframes the Space‑Phase (SP3) argument in explicitly historical terms. It is not
a technical dispute about equations, nor a stylistic disagreement between schools of theory.
It is a narrative about a century‑long avoidance — a sequence of missed opportunities in
which physics repeatedly chose mathematical accommodation over physical honesty.
The consequence of that choice was not immediate failure. On the contrary, it produced
extraordinary short‑term success. But it also produced a slow erosion of explanatory
integrity, leaving modern physics burdened with invisible substances, proliferating
particles, and mathematical formalisms that increasingly substitute for mechanism rather
than describe it.