Geometric Cosmogenesis: A Theory of Everything from Unbounded Openness

We present a unified geometric framework deriving all fundamental physics from a single axiom: unbounded openness exists. The potential for distance actualizes because nothing prevents it. Actualized distance manifests as two opposed poles—positive and negative charges at infinity—and this opposition inherently defines neutral regions between them. When these poles meet, multiple neutralization outcomes occur randomly. This randomness is not caused by external mechanisms but is intrinsic to the meeting process itself: with infinite possible configurations and no reason for one specific outcome over another, randomness is fundamental. Failed neutralization, where poles cannot fully meet, creates ongoing tension manifesting as dark energy. Near-complete neutralization with tiny residuals produces dark matter. Incomplete neutralization with significant residual charge creates ordinary matter and forces. This spectrum of random outcomes naturally explains the observed cosmic energy distribution without free parameters. From the geometry of neutralization spreading perpendicular to the polar axis, we derive three spatial dimensions as a necessary consequence. The sphere represents maximal physical closure—no fourth perpendicular direction exists in physical reality. While mathematics permits higher-dimensional constructs, these cannot physically exist, analogous to wormholes being mathematically consistent but physically impossible. We distinguish physical dimensions, which are ontological and limited to three, from state-space dimensions, which are epistemological and can be arbitrarily high. Complex systems like brains exist as three-dimensional physical objects while possessing higher-dimensional configuration spaces describing their many possible states. The framework unifies general relativity as structuring of the defined field, quantum mechanics as the natural description of systems with multiple random outcomes, and all four fundamental forces as different aspects of neutralization dynamics. Quantum phenomena—superposition, entanglement, uncertainty, wave-particle duality—emerge from the inherent randomness in neutralization outcomes rather than being imposed as separate axioms.