Published August 5, 2026 | Version v1

The Law of Causality

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This paper states the Law of Causality as a foundational principle of the Cohesion
Unified Field Theory: causality is always intact; cause always precedes effect; no
physical process reverses this order. Unlike frameworks in which causality is assumed
as a background condition or threatened by quantum phenomena, the Cohesion UFT
grounds the law in its foundational axiom. Pressure flows from the containing scale
to the contained scale, never the reverse. The causal order of the recursion cycle —
Tension, Surplus, Torsion, Slip, Acceleration, Maintained Motion — is fixed by the
geometry and cannot run backward. Apparent challenges from quantum mechanics,
including delayed-choice experiments and entanglement correlations, are resolved by
the reflected-signal account of wave function collapse established earlier in the series:
collapse occurs at the return of the measurement signal to its source, preserving forward
temporal order in every case. The law is consistent with all observation: no causality
violation has ever been recorded in any experiment at any scale.

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Cause always precedes effect. No physical process reverses this order.

References

  • Gilbert, D.A., Cohesion: A Unified Field Theory of Matter and Motion, v3, Independent Researcher (2026).
  • Gilbert, D.A., Causality in the Quantum Field: The Reflected-Signal Account of Collapse, Independent Researcher (2026).
  • Gilbert, D.A., Entanglement as Interaction, Version 2, Independent Researcher (2026).
  • Gilbert, D.A., General Ontology: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Cohesion UFT, v2, Independent Researcher (2026).