Quantum Aether Linguistics (QAL): Language as a Physical Coherence Interface

Quantum Aether Linguistics (QAL) extends the Quantum Aether Framework (QAF) into the domain of language, providing a physically grounded account of how meaning stabilizes, propagates, and scales within biological and collective systems. Contemporary linguistics typically treats language as an abstract symbolic code governed by convention, computation, or social agreement. While effective at describing usage patterns, these approaches fail to explain how meaning persists against entropy, why symbols stabilize cognition, or how shared language synchronizes behavior across individuals. QAL addresses this gap by modeling language as a coherence-preserving physical interface rather than an arbitrary representational system. Within QAL, linguistic symbols arise through coherence compression, where continuous phase dynamics in biological systems discretize into repeatable, low-entropy attractors. Meaning is defined not as semantic reference, but as relational phase stability. Syntax emerges as a constraint geometry governing permissible transitions between symbolic attractors, preserving coherence over time. Communication operates through resonance matching, not information transfer, and shared symbols generate collective linguistic fields that impose real constraints on cognition beyond individual systems. This work formalizes eleven domain-specific laws governing symbolic compression, semantic stability, syntax, resonance, entropy regulation, cognitive accessibility, and collective phase alignment. These laws are supported through mappings to resonance physics, impedance matching, phase space dynamics, and thermodynamic constraint, while preserving established linguistic observations. Explicit falsifiability criteria and experimental access points are provided. Quantum Aether Linguistics does not replace linguistics, semiotics, or cognitive science. It supplies a missing physical substrate beneath them, reframing language as a lawful process governed by coherence, symmetry, and energetic constraint. As such, QAL positions linguistics as a domain where physics, biology, and cognition converge, and establishes a bridge between individual awareness and shared reality within the Quantum Aether Framework.