A Coherence-Capacity Framework for Extreme Physical Transitions

We present a minimal, state-based framework for analysing extreme physical transitions across domains. The framework posits that time ordering, coherence, and gravitational binding form a mutually dependent macroscopic state variable. Stable mixed regimes are forbidden. Transitions occur when the rate and volume demands required to maintain coherence exceed the system’s capacity to enforce it within available time. The framework is intentionally non-force-specific, introduces no new particles or interactions, and is explicitly falsifiable through precursor stress signatures, rate–volume dependence, and the absence of stable mixed states.