G THEORY – AN INTRODUCTION

Abstract. This document opens the G-Theory series and describes what the reader will encounter. It begins

with a survey of the present situation in fundamental physics — two frameworks, each confirmed to extraordinary

precision, incompatible with each other, and surrounded by a multitude of proposed unifications that share no

common standard of judgment. From that situation it draws the document’s central proposal: a rough guide of

eight criteria against which any theory of everything should be measured — unitary explanation; a unitary symbol

that unpacks technically rather than allegorically; an account of origin as a procedural form; a real and calculable

definition of fields; a direct and verifiable connection of gravity to electromagnetism; quantization without

exception; harmonic structure engaged as a candidate foundation rather than as decoration; and a justified fit of

mathematical tools to domains. It then states the question the series exists to test — whether the physical

universe admits a substantially simpler description than the present formalisms provide — together with the

working constraint the author adopted in pursuing it, a deliberate restriction of the mathematics to arithmetic

and ratio. The document closes with the reading order of the series: twenty-two records on the public record,

each with its digital object identifier. It is a philosophical overview of the work and its standards and practices: it

contains no derivations and no claims of result, and the series it introduces is held to a stricter discipline than any

introduction can be — graded claims, machine-verified arithmetic, and stated falsification conditions throughout.

The series’ exact claims re-derive in a public suite at github.com/thefirsthorstmann/g-theory-verify.