The Historical Attractor Theory,Time, Information, and the Emergence of Physical Structure

This work presents the Historical Attractor Theory (HAT), a minimal structural framework in which physical reality is described in terms of histories rather than instantaneous states. Time, entropy, matter, interactions, geometry, and physical scales emerge as consequences of irreversible historical projection and stability under a historical cost functional. The paper focuses on conceptual structure and scope, providing a unified foundation for further technical derivations and applications developed in subsequent works.