General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics as Bookkeeping Projection Regimes

This paper presents an interpretive boundary result concerning the relationship between general relativity and quantum mechanics under a closed admissibility framework. It argues that both theories are best understood not as competing ontologies or incomplete fragments of a deeper unification, but as projection regimes—distinct bookkeeping skins licensed over a shared admissible interior. The analysis is eliminative rather than constructive. It does not propose a unifying theory, new dynamics, or a reconciliation mechanism. Instead, it demonstrates that apparent incompatibilities between GR and QM arise from scope-relative representational commitments, not from ontic conflict. When admissibility, standing conservation, and reference stability are treated as fixed constraints, the demand for further unification collapses: each theory is shown to be internally coherent and mutually non-conflicting within its licensed expressive envelope. No new primitives are introduced. No procedural or operational framework is specified. The result functions as a boundary clarification, blocking a class of illicit inferences that treat representational artifacts as ontological commitments. In doing so, it reframes long-standing unification problems as category errors induced by projection overreach rather than as open foundational gaps. This work is intended as a structural constraint on interpretation, not as a program for further development. It closes, rather than advances, a line of inquiry by showing why certain questions are inadmissible once the boundary conditions of representation are made explicit.