Scaling General Relativity
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General Relativity (GR) remains the most successful description of gravitational behaviour within the dense, symmetry-stabilised region of the universe accessible to early
20th-century measurement. However, GR was never designed to scale beyond that
environment. Its foundational assumptions — constant light speed, smooth curvature,
and universal symmetry — were local approximations, not universal truths. When these
assumptions are extended into low-density, gradient-dominated regions of the cosmos,
they generate a series of observational tensions: the dark matter problem, dark energy,
inflation, the horizon and flatness problems, and the Hubble tension. These tensions
motivate a more general framework rather than additional patch terms. The Cohesion
UFT framework meets GR precisely at the symmetry plateau where Einstein measured
it, but extends in both directions: downward into recursion and coherence, and upward
into density gradients and large-scale field structure. This paper argues that GR is
complete within its domain but cannot be universal. Scaling GR requires replacing
symmetry with recursion and replacing constants with density-dependent operators.
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- Why Einstein's Symmetry Layer Cannot Be Universal
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