We introduce a universal operator-level framework for stabilizing generator-driven systems via protected-mode penalization, establishing the Law of Protected Evolution. Given a baseline generator, we define an upgraded operator that applies a structural penalty to orthogonal modes, proving spectral gap amplification, resolvent bounds, and the exponential suppression of non-compliant evolutionary trajectories. This structural law is completely domain-agnostic, governing quantum field theories, distributed networks, financial manifolds, and thermodynamic flows. Crucially, we demonstrate that this universal transformation resolves the foundational bottleneck of modern artificial intelligence: catastrophic forgetting. We introduce the Omega-Sigma architecture, which translates this spectral upgrade into a continuous learning framework. By reformulating neural network weight updates as a partial differential equation gradient flow on a Riemannian manifold and deploying strict orthogonal projection, we structurally eliminate the thermodynamic collapse of learned representations. Empirical validation across sequential learning tasks confirms a 20.86% reduction in catastrophic forgetting (Baseline: 0.1168 vs. Projected: 0.0924). Instability is no longer mitigated heuristically; it is structurally disallowed at the operator level.
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