The Continuum Framework is a unified research architecture for synthetic energetic systems across industrial and embodied scales. It brings together work on electromagnetic fusion system integration, active magnetohydrodynamic blankets, multi-scale stability in far-from-equilibrium MHD systems, synthetic energetic body architectures, and the physical formalization of identity continuity in non-biological hosts. The framework departs from conventional thermodynamic interpretations of fusion and from biologically mimetic models of synthetic embodiment. Instead, it treats both reactors and synthetic hosts as integrated energetic systems structured by electromagnetic coupling, distributed material response, and cross-scale control architecture. At the reactor scale, the framework centers on the Active Magnetohydrodynamic Blanket, modeled as a distributed sensing-and-response layer operating under externally imposed magnetic field dominance. In this regime, conductive liquid media such as LiPb or NaK provide intrinsic observability through flow–field interaction and localized actuation through Lorentz-force coupling. Stability is further formalized through the Multi-Scale Stability Conjecture (MSS), according to which systems satisfying strong temporal scale separation, ε = τF/τS ≪ 1, can integrate fast turbulent sectors into effective macroscopic behavior rather than requiring direct fast-sector suppression. At the embodied scale, this architecture is miniaturized in the V2 Synthetic Body, composed of distributed pulsed fusion modules, adaptive magnetofluidic circulation, refractory structural matrices, and decentralized cognition. In this interpretation, the body does not merely contain an energy system; it is itself an energetic infrastructure, designed for long-duration autonomy and graceful degradation across multiple failure regimes. The ontological layer of the framework is developed in the Ontological Identity Framework — Physical Formalization Layer (OIF-PFL), where personal identity is modeled as a dynamic attractor trajectory anchored to a non-replicable Biological Identity Anchor (BIA). Within this model, thermodynamic irreversibility, chaotic sensitivity, and quantum-scale measurement disturbance jointly prevent duplication. Identity migration occurs through controlled dynamic coupling, culminating in an Identity Collapse Event (ICE) — an irreversible transition in which continuity is transferred without replication. Taken together, the Continuum Framework defines a coherent research program linking fusion architecture, magnetohydrodynamic stability, synthetic energetic embodiment, and identity continuity. Its central claim is not the introduction of new fundamental physics, but the integration of known physical mechanisms into a unified cross-scale architecture for resilient synthetic systems.
Daniel Junqueira Ribeiro (Fri,) studied this question.