This archive contains a layered independent research project developed by Darren J. Macdonald between 2025 and 2026. The project combines ontology, gravitation reinterpretation, emergence theory, cosmology, systems structure, engineering implications, and selective biological/civilisational continuity modelling into a single structured research stack. The framework is exploratory and interpretive in nature. It does not claim established physical proof or institutional validation. Its purpose is to investigate whether definition-first structure, equilibrium-based gravitation, coherent separation, persistence logic, and boundary-driven organisation can provide useful reinterpretive pathways across multiple scientific and systems-level domains. The archive is organised as a layered architecture: • Ontology establishes definition discipline, dimensional emergence, collapse structure, and coherence logic. • Stress-Balanced Gravitation (SBG) explores gravity and spacetime through equilibrium and geometric stress interpretation while remaining observationally aligned with established physics. • Autogenic Separation Theory (AST) develops persistence, coherence, identity continuity, and regime-transition structure across scales. • Cosmology and boundary-condition documents apply the framework to large-scale universal structure and observational tensions. • Field-First Engineering explores possible downstream engineering interpretations derived from the framework. • Additional implication documents examine selective biological, chemical, and civilisational continuity applications. These manuscripts are released as research-edition documents representing the current public state of the project. Future revisions, evidence expansions, formal mathematical development, and terminology refinement may continue through later archived versions.
Darren Joseph Macdonald (Sun,) studied this question.