The Physics of Coherence: A Field-Theoretic Framework for Persistent Structure

The Physics of Coherence: A Field-Theoretic Framework for Persistent Structure presents Coherence Physics, also referred to as the Unified Coherence Field Theory, as a recoverability-centered framework for understanding persistent structure across physical, biological, cognitive, social, and artificial systems.

The central claim of the framework is that a system persists when its recovery time remains shorter than its failure time. The book develops this principle through field-theoretic language, memory kernels, identity solitons, coherence entropy, spectral gap closure, recovery-time inflation, collapse thresholds, and falsifiable experimental protocols.

This Scientific Framework Edition distinguishes between derived claims, modeled claims, empirical anchors, predictions, and open frontiers. It is intended as an open technical foundation for readers, researchers, critics, and builders interested in persistence, collapse dynamics, complex systems, artificial intelligence stability, biological resilience, and the measurement of recoverability.

The work is released openly to encourage review, discussion, citation, replication, and further development of Coherence Physics as a research program.