Abstract This breadcrumb paper registers a structural correspondence between the Big Bounce of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) and the Coherence-Decoherence-Recoherence (CDR) cycle of the General Theory of Regulated Stability (GTRS). The correspondence was identified through independent convergence: GTRS was developed from 33 years of pedagogical observation in special education; the LQC Big Bounce was encountered subsequently via a YouTube presentation on non-singular bouncing cosmology. A targeted literature search across five query dimensions confirms that no prior systems-theoretic, regulatory, or cross-domain isomorphism framing of the LQC bounce exists in the published literature; the term "coherence" appears in LQC only in its quantum mechanical sense (dynamical coherent states), which is distinct from its use in GTRS. The paper defines an abstract process class (S₁, P, Θ, M, S₂) that both systems instantiate, maps five specific structural features between the two frameworks, and identifies four invariant relationships preserved across both instantiations: threshold dependence, mechanism intrinsicality, state non-identity, and process directionality. Three tensions between the frameworks — scale, determinism, and decoherence — are examined in detail. Physics steelman verification (Kimi) has substantially resolved two of the three: the determinism tension is addressed through three converging lines of evidence (Misner-variable singular dynamics, primordial black hole formation as sub-horizon terminal decoherence, and Bianchi IX chaos), while the decoherence tension is clarified by recent work on gravitationally induced decoherence of perturbations using Ashtekar variables. A falsifiable test for the cross-domain grammar claim is proposed, with complete protocol materials included. The paper is a trail marker, not a destination.
Smith et al. (Sun,) studied this question.