A Reinterpretation of Physical Constants -From Primal Terms to Compressed Reference Values

Abstract This paper reexamines the grammar by which values treated as constants in inherited physics are placed as primal terms of the universe, and instead reinterprets them as compressed reference values left within an observational phase by a deeper generative structure. Existing physics has used such constants as c, G, ħ, and kB as central axes of calculation and theoretical organization, and this strategy has yielded extraordinary calculational success. Yet the starting point of calculation is not thereby identical with the starting point of being. This paper begins from that distinction. The paper does not attempt to deny constants or abolish the effectiveness of inherited equations. Rather, while recognizing the practical and organizational functions constants have fulfilled, it argues that ontologically they may be not primal terms but posterior settled values. To this end, the paper places occurrence and boundary-occurrence as the prior order and arranges time, space, energy, mass, light, and constants as later layers of expression. From this perspective, constants are not absolutely first closed values but stable surface values left behind when a deeper generative structure is compressed into lower-dimensional equations. Preface Modern physics stands upon the language of constants. Values such as the speed of light, the gravitational constant, the Planck constant, and the Boltzmann constant have functioned not merely as numbers but as central criteria that organize the whole of theory. They order unit systems, stabilize relations among equations, and bind unlike physical quantities into a common structure. Precisely because of this success, however, constants have gradually been treated as though they were primal terms of reality itself. This paper begins by reopening that familiar assumption.