Unified Coherence Theory

The Unified Coherence Theory (UCT) proposes that information is the ontologically

primitive quantity from which mass, energy, spacetime geometry, and the hierarchy of

fundamental forces emerge. The standard stress-energy tensor Tμv is replaced by an

Informational Coherence Tensor Iμv derived from first principles within a

bounded-domain calculus (Altered Middle Calculus, AMC), encoding not what curves

spacetime but why — the cost of maintaining coherent quantum states against the

universal vacuum decay imperative. The modified Einstein field equation Gμv =

(8πG/c⁴)(Iμv − Λgμv) recovers all results of General Relativity exactly in the

high-coherence limit and provides structural resolutions to five major open problems:

the vacuum energy catastrophe, the black hole information paradox, anomalous

radioactive decay observations, gravitational lensing anomalies, and the

non-renormalizability of quantum gravity. UCT makes a specific, quantitative, falsifiable

experimental prediction: a 5–30% reduction in gamma-beam phase-noise variance

when a collinear coherent laser field is present, testable at existing facilities (ELI-NP,

XFEL) within 18–24 months. Consistency with JWST early-galaxy detections at z > 10,

CMB hemispherical power asymmetry, and pulsar timing array observations is

demonstrated.