Energy, Information, and Time: Structural Unification in the Tenson Framework

The pursuit of a unified description of physical phenomena has long been a central motivation in theoretical physics. However, traditional unification programs often aim at completeness in the sense of reducing all interactions to a single closed set of fundamental equations. Such approaches face persistent conceptual difficulties, particularly concerning time, measurement, and irreversibility. In this paper, we propose an alternative notion of unification within the Tenson framework, based on structural consistency rather than final closure. By treating energy and information as coupled physical quantities and allowing for intrinsic structural incompleteness, we show that particles, fields, quantization, thermodynamics, and the arrow of time emerge as different levels of description of a single underlying structure. The aim of this work is not to present a complete unified theory, but to clarify the structural conditions under which unification remains meaningful without eliminating time, observation, or irreversibility. In this sense, the Tenson framework offers a form of unification without finality, in which physical laws arise as consistent constraints rather than fundamental absolutes.