Toward a Canonical Residual–Force Scaling Law for Coherent Nonequilibrium Electromagnetic Systems

This work proposes a constrained phenomenological framework for investigating whether strongly coherent, nonequilibrium electromagnetic architectures may exhibit residual-force signatures that survive systematic artifact rejection and precision metrology controls. Rather than asserting verified propulsion or antigravity phenomena, the paper develops a canonical operational scaling law intended to parameterize candidate residual effects in terms of electromagnetic energy density, system coherence, geometric asymmetry, and experimentally bounded coupling factors. The framework integrates Maxwell-stress considerations, stress–energy conservation principles, diagnostic decision architectures, Bayesian artifact discrimination methods, and null-result parameter bounding into a unified metrology-centered methodology. Emphasis is placed on falsifiability, reproducibility, uncertainty accounting, geometry-reversal diagnostics, vacuum persistence testing, and systematic exclusion of known environmental and electromagnetic artifacts including electrohydrodynamic flow, thermal gradients, RF coupling, Lorentz forces, vibration, and plasma effects. In addition to introducing a canonical residual-force scaling relation, the paper proposes a structured experimental workflow for extracting upper bounds on effective phenomenological response coefficients under controlled laboratory conditions. The work is intended as a formal operational framework for future precision investigations of coherent nonequilibrium electromagnetic systems rather than a claim of experimentally verified anomalous propulsion or new fundamental physics.