Completion, Not Unification: Einstein's Field Program as a Template for Individual Description

Abstract
Postwar physics uses unification for a family of projects that keep the quantum formalism as the form of the
fundamental laws and join gravity, or the remaining forces, to that formalism. Einstein used the same word for
a different project: a complete individual description in spacetime, one field rather than two, particles and
instruments not foreign to the field, and statistical quantum theory demoted to the role statistical mechanics
plays inside classical mechanics. This companion paper separates those projects. The target argued in the
preceding paper is completion of the individual situation, not a marriage of general relativity to the existing
quantum algorithm. Einstein's unified field theory is nonetheless not optional furniture. It is the type of
completion he would accept. One may retire his particular continuum if a better primitive appears; one may
not replace his demand with quantization-as-unification and still claim his program. Contact with already
catalogued quantum statistics is a graduation constraint on any such completion, not an entrance examination
written in Bell's variables.
Keywords: Einstein unified field theory; incompleteness; completion; quantum gravity; Reply to Criticisms;
individual description