A Classical Field Theory Equivalent to Quantum Physics: The Ouroboros Lagrangian as the Law of Everything Prior to Gravity

We propose the Ouroboros system — a classical Lagrangian field theory of twocoupled, Lorenz-constrained covariant vector fields over flat (3+1) -dimensional Minkowski space — as a candidate law of physics prior to gravity. The theory is bosonic, superrenormalizable by power counting, and free of point particles. Its elementary particles are chaoitons: stable, time-periodic, localized solutions that evade Derrick's theorem through oscillation rather than topology or a Higgs sector. We present nine lines of evidence that this single Lagrangian accounts for: stable localized particles with positive energy; charge quantization via a mutual Chern-Simons linking number; intrinsic angular momentum with L/Q ratio in the range of the electron's g-factor; electromagnetism exactly recovered in the linear limit; a long-range nuclear force of the type hypothesized by Julian Schwinger and confirmed by Sawada's anomalies; superrenormalizability without fine-tuning; and a natural dark matter candidate — the neutral chaoiton — with a candidate configuration currently being computed in the canonical QA ≈ 0 / QJ ≠ 0 asymmetric-helicity configuration; preliminary mass estimates give m ≈ λ × 0. 511 MeV with zero electromagnetic charge. Independent numerical reproduction of the electron calibration to 0. 30% (Griesi, 2026) supports the framework's calibration robustness; canonical-form verification with the full benchmark ODE is in progress. We state clearly what is proved, what is numerically demonstrated, and what remains to be established, and we invite the community to test alternative Lagrangians against the same criteria using the open-source numerical benchmark accompanying this paper.