Nomological Stabilization by Recrystallization — A Model of Constant Variation Modulated by Cosmological Density This work develops a speculative but structurally grounded framework in which the fundamental constants of physics are not arbitrary or immutable parameters, but the provisional result of a dynamic stabilization process operating across successive cosmological cycles. Rather than invoking the anthropic principle or multiverse scenarios, the framework proposes a fourth path: physical laws correspond to structures that have progressively acquired robustness through repeated phases of cosmological compression, destructuring, and recrystallization near the Planck regime. The central formalism rests on a cosmological-density-dependent covariance matrix Σᵢⱼ (ρ), in which the structural rigidity of each physical sector derives from a gravitational grooving relation Kᵢ = gᵢ · τᵢ^γ — linking groove depth, scalar-gravity coupling, and crystallization seniority. This resolves the theoretical circularity of earlier formulations. A complementary mechanism, dynamic decoupling, describes how physical sectors freeze into autonomous configurations when the Hubble expansion rate exceeds the inter-sectoral contagion velocity. The cosmological constant Λ is identified as structurally doubly fragile: it possesses neither an intrinsic gravitational groove (g_Λ ≃ 0) nor a gauge shield, which provides a dynamical — rather than anthropic — account of its anomalously small observed value. The framework produces two falsifiable predictions: P1, a positive correlation between structural robustness and crystallization seniority, qualitatively consistent with existing sensitivity data on the Standard Model parameters; and P2, a slope break in the cosmological evolution of the fine-structure constant αem at a critical decoupling redshift zdc, testable by ESPRESSO/VLT and next-generation ELT spectrographs. The heuristic and exploratory status of the framework is explicitly acknowledged throughout. Its contribution is less a definitive solution to the fine-tuning problem than the introduction of a new dynamical principle: observed physical laws may constitute historically stabilized structures rather than timeless givens.
Harold SASSI (Fri,) studied this question.