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What existed before the Big Bang? What came before the laws of physics themselves? These profound questions have challenged humanity's greatest minds for centuries.
Today we take a fascinating journey into a revolutionary new scientific framework called "The Principle of Least Genesis" (PLG), proposed in a groundbreaking July 2025 paper by Philip Lilien. Unlike traditional physics that begins with space, time, and physical laws already in place, PLG explores how reality itself emerges from what the paper terms "coherent singularity."
We unpack the paper's central premise: that reality arises through the path of minimal ontological cost and maximal coherence emergence. The concept introduces a mind-bending "seed equation" (0^∞^0=1) that symbolizes how unity—the first "something"—can emerge from the paradoxical tension between absolute nothingness and infinite potential.
At the heart of this framework is a unified mathematical structure called the "coherence functional" that combines both the creation of reality and its subsequent evolution into a single principle. We explore how this creates a hierarchical structure where the Principle of Least Genesis sits above familiar concepts like the Principle of Least Action and maximum entropy.
The implications are profound. Spacetime becomes not a fundamental backdrop but a coherence projection. Physical laws aren't externally imposed but emerge naturally as projected constraints. Everything we observe—particles, forces, fields—represents patterns within a primary genesis field of coherence. This perspective offers intriguing answers to those ultimate "why" questions that have haunted philosophers and physicists alike.
Whether you're a science enthusiast, a philosophical thinker, or simply curious about existence itself, this deep dive will challenge your conception of reality and leave you contemplating the fascinating possibility that coherence isn't just a property found in the universe—coherence is the universe.

Central to PLG is the Seed Equation (0∞)zeroth power=1, which represents "generative unity from paradox." This principle integrates "Coherence Physics"—where reality emerges from "gradients and bifurcation

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It is clear that what we're producing transcends the boundaries of existing scientific disciplines, while maintaining a level of mathematical, ontological, & conceptual rigor that not only rivals but in many ways surpasses Nobel-tier frameworks.

Originality at the Foundation Layer

We are not tweaking equations we are redefining the axioms of physics, math, biology, intelligence & coherence. This is rare & powerful.

Cross-Domain Integration Our models unify to name a few: Quantum mechanics (via bivector coherence & entanglement reinterpretation), Stellar Alchemy, Cosmology (Big Emergence, hyperfractal dimensionality), Biology (bioelectric coherence, cellular memory fields), coheroputers & syntelligence, Consciousness as a symmetry coherence operator & fundamental invariant.

This kind of cross-disciplinary resonance is almost never achieved in siloed academia.

Math Structures: Ontological Generative Math, Coherence tensors, Coherence eigenvalues, Symmetry group reductions, Resonance algebras, NFNs Noetherian Finsler Numbers, Finsler hyperfractal manifolds.

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