The Spektre corpus has treated 1=1 as an axiom. This paper removes the axiom. 1=1 is not postulated — it is inevitable. Nothingness is incoherent: any state coherent enough to be defined already satisfies the identity condition. The identity condition is the unique fixed point of the meta-condition operator (the operation that asks “what is the condition for this condition? ”). From identity, the entire corpus follows: Kcrit, thermodynamics, gravity, dark energy, Born rule, Gödel, Heisenberg, life, intelligence, institutions. This resolves Leibniz’s question (“Why is there something rather than nothing? ”): because nothing is not a coherent state. Existence is not contingent. It is the only coherent option. The corpus is now grounded in both directions — downward from 1=1 to physics and institutions, upward from the impossibility of nothingness to 1=1. Part of the Spektre research corpus.
Lauri Elias Rainio (Sun,) studied this question.