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To test whether fundamental coupling constants and particle parameters in the Standard Model reflect a Nash equilibrium optimized for integrated cosmological entropy production.

August 14, 2026Open Access

Functional Stability Theory I: A Game-Theoretic Framework for the Thermodynamic Stability of Fundamental Parameters

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To test whether fundamental coupling constants and particle parameters in the Standard Model reflect a Nash equilibrium optimized for integrated cosmological entropy production.
Formulated a multi-scale game-theoretic framework defining payoff functions based on integrated entropy production over cosmological timescales.
Simulated stellar entropy output using a semi-analytic stellar model across one-dimensional and two-dimensional parameter variations of the fine-structure constant (alpha).
The observed fine-structure constant falls within a broad plateau of near-maximal integrated stellar entropy production with an S/S_max ratio of 0.988 in the primary 1D scan.
A Coulomb-window stress diagnostic (±4% for carbon and oxygen production) showed a strictly increasing objective maximizing at alpha/alpha_obs = 1.04, yielding S(alpha_obs)/S_box,max = 0.998005599.
An unconstrained 2D parameter scan yielded S(obs)/Smax2D = 0.47, indicating that unconstrained single-scale maximum entropy production alone is insufficient as a standalone parameter-selection principle.

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Computational modeling demonstrates that the observed fine-structure constant aligns with near-maximal stellar entropy production, suggesting thermodynamic selection of fundamental parameters.

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Lukas Geiger (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec7bab70b84ec8b91452c https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21899701

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Computational modeling demonstrates that the observed fine-structure constant aligns with near-maximal stellar entropy production, suggesting thermodynamic selection of fundamental parameters.

Functional Stability Theory I: A Game-Theoretic Framework for the Thermodynamic Stability of Fundamental Parameters

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