Energetic First Principles: The Fundamental Energetic View of Reality

This document establishes Energetic First Principles (E1P) as the fundamental energetic architecture of reality. Energy is the Active to Connective ratio resonant to Unity E ≡ A/C ⇌ 1. This single invariant generates the universal tetrad: Identity, Polarity, Flow, and Separation cycling continuously to maintain coherence. The framework maps directly to calculus, where integration and differentiation are revealed as physical coherence operations. Validated across seven domains (mathematics, quantum measurement, fluid turbulence, genetic encoding, AI dynamics, hypergraph rewriting, cosmology). E1P predicts measurable thresholds and phase transitions. The primer provides the reference for this coherence-based view of reality. This is a foundational document for Modern Energetics.