Inscription, Accessibility, and the Emergence of Physical Law

The Entropic Lattice Ontology (ELO) replaces the inherited foundational assumptionsof standard physics with a single ontological primitive: inscription, the irreversibleselection of one configuration from a continuously structured manifold of potentialstates. From this primitive alone, the framework derives the Schrödinger equation,the Born probability rule, the principle of least action, relativistic time dilation, thehierarchy of fundamental force strengths, and the structural impossibility of gravityquantisation. Each derivation is reviewed against the existing literature, and contactpoints with Jacobson’s thermodynamic derivation of the Einstein equations, Horn-deski scalar-tensor gravity, Wilson lattice gauge theory, and Wigner-Dyson nuclearlevel statistics are identified precisely. A falsifiable experimental programme is pre-sented spanning optical atomic clock measurements, tokamak disruption diagnostics,gravitational-wave ringdown data, and high-energy collider physics. The epistemolog-ical status of every class of claim is stated explicitly: what is independently established,what is derived from the primitive, what is proposed as scientific hypothesis, and whatrequires experimental determination. The ELO does not claim completeness. It claimsthat inscription and the fourth spatial degree φ constitute the correct ontological floorfrom which the foundational open problems of physics — the measurement problem,the quantum-classical boundary, the non-renormalisability of gravity, the force hierar-chy, and the thermodynamic arrow of time — become structurally dissoluble ratherthan technically intractable.