The Kosmocosm Framework (Paper 1): A Unified Geometric and Discrete-Temporal Framework for an Autonomous Cosmology

The Kosmocosm Framework (Paper 1 of 5) proposes a unified geometric and discrete-temporal architecture that addresses two classes of unresolved problems from a single physical picture: the quantum measurement problem, and the cluster of cosmological anomalies the standard LCDM model cannot accommodate without fine-tuning. The Actual, which is the observable Universe, is the three-dimensional shell of a finite four-dimensional structure called the Kosmosphere. All rest-massive fermions are arranged laterally within this shell, which is exactly one Planck length thick in the radial dimension and advances at constant velocity c, propelled by primordial inertial momentum counteracted by the coherence stress of the spacetime/non-spacetime boundary. As a non-spacetime archive, the interior bulk known as the Quantaverse permanently preserves the particle state of every fermion in layers called Quantiles, with each layer representing one Planck interval. All physical dynamics, particles interacting, fields evolving, the wave function unfolding, occur only on the shell, where quantum field theory and general relativity hold exactly; the archive keeps a static, frame-by-frame record and never hosts the dynamics itself. The architecture is one autonomous process. As the shell advances, a permeation zone opens between it and the Quantaverse; the Genesis Plasma bosons there take on the footprints of the fermions above them, and each completed row is committed as a new Quantile, one per Planck interval; the Crellon is the timing of that completion. This process is automatic and continuous, requiring no observer, apparatus, external trigger, or threshold to cross. The state of the fermion is always definite; what a laboratory instrument records as a discrete outcome is the coarse, time-averaged sampling of that smooth process across an immense number of Quantile formations. The probabilities those outcomes follow are the Born Rule, whose derivation is assigned to Paper 3. The cosmological results follow from the same geometry, and the framework is explicit about where they hold and where they do not. The CMB is not a fossil signal but a present-state thermal emission from the Genesis Plasma, and the cosmological constant problem dissolves without fine-tuning: the vacuum energy density is the Genesis Plasma's already-measured thermal energy at 2.725 K. The gravitational anomalies attributed to dark matter are the shell's dimpled curvature, the geometric consequence of the archive's uneven inward pull; no non-baryonic matter component exists. The framework carries a single Hubble constant, H0 = 72.95 km/s/Mpc, anchored in the local distance ladder and the cosmic age, and reads LCDM's lower CMB/BAO value as a geometry-and-ruler artifact of interpreting a positively curved, constant-velocity shell through a flat, Lambda-dominated distance. That reading is held provisionally: by Etherington reciprocity the angular-diameter distance it uses shares the content of the closed-shell luminosity distance, which was tested directly against the Pantheon+ supernova compilation and does not fit. The framework therefore withdraws its earlier proposal that the apparent accelerating expansion is a projection artifact of closed geometry, accounts for no portion of the supernova acceleration signal, and discloses this as a negative result rather than concealing it. The dynamical dark-energy inference is left open. Paper 2 delivers the mathematical foundations, quantitative derivations, and falsification battery. The Born Rule derivation is in Paper 3. Papers 2 and 3 of the series are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18705241 and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20420126