Structural Stability, Death, and the Scale of Life in a Relational Universe

This paper proposes a unified explanatory framework based on the “relationalcarrying limit” to interpret cosmic and biological phenomena. Within this frame-work, matter, life, time, lifespan, and death are not driven by predefined objectivelaws or purpose, but are determined by whether a structure can maintain its ownstability within a background relational field. We discuss the nature of materialdisappearance, death, the relationship between lifespan and planetary scale, the is-sue of short lifespan in small organisms, and extend the reasoning to carbon-basedand silicon-based life possibilities. This framework provides a novel explanation forthe scarcity of life in the observable universe. The central insight is that all formsof existence—from elementary particles to complex organisms—represent differentlevels of structural stability within a universal relational network, and their per-sistence depends on their ability to match the carrying capacity of their relationalenvironment.