Modern physics rests on two monumental pillars: general relativity, which describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime, and the Standard Model, which governs the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions through gauge field theory. Both have been confirmed with extraordinary precision within their respective domains, yet they speak different mathematical languages. For a century, "unification" has remained the ultimate quest. This seven-volume series presents a novel perspective on unification. The argument rests on one entity already rigorously confirmed by modern physics: the gluon. Space is not an empty stage but a simple cubic lattice medium composed of gluons. Five foundational postulates and discoveries that modern physics treats as independent inputs—the algebraic structure of the gauge group, the number of fermion generations, the invariance of light speed, the gravitational effects attributed to dark matter and the repulsive effects attributed to dark energy, and the entire evolutionary history from a primordial hot dense phase to the present accelerating expansion—are all shown to be independent manifestations of a single underlying entity observed across five distinct phenomenological dimensions. Volume I traces how the first material forms emerged from the gluon ground state. A burst—a globally synchronous gluon phase transition—replaces the singularity explosion. Light nuclei were captured during an extremely brief lattice-emergence window rather than being assembled in a high-temperature environment. A four-stage selection mechanism explains why only very few particle species survive stably in the universe. Volume II demonstrates that light speed is not an initial condition of the universe. It is the propagation velocity of transverse waves in the gluon lattice, locked in once and for all by the medium parameters. The special relativistic postulate of invariant light speed becomes a derived consequence of medium elastodynamics. Volume III establishes the root of force unification. The strong nuclear force, electromagnetism, and gravity are relocated to the strongly nonlinear core region of gluon lattice sites, the near-field linear response region, and the far-field superposition region—they are the elastic response of the same medium observed at different scales, not independent physical entities. Volume IV shows how galactic recession naturally emerges from black-hole matter recycling (without invoking a dark energy hypothesis) and explores its coexistence with the remnant oscillations of the burst (corresponding to the cosmological constant in the Standard Model). Volume V describes the complete physical journey of the universe back to the gluon ground state—from the evaporation of the last black hole, through the decay of residual oscillations to zero, to the restoration of a perfectly uniform synchronous oscillatory state awaiting the next phase transition. Volume VI submits a rigorous emergence proof of the complete gluon property set. Starting from the point-group symmetry of the gluon lattice, without introducing any free parameters, all known gluon properties are derived one by one, establishing the precise ontological correspondence between the entity that constitutes space and the gauge boson of the Standard Model. Volume VII takes all the core postulates and observational facts of modern physics and traces them back to the same set of underlying physical roots, revealing a unified picture that modern physics has repeatedly mapped but not yet recognized.
卓冰 蒋 (Fri,) studied this question.