Thermodynamic Causation Across Scales: Canonical Laws of CP-MP, Antropic Containment, and Time
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Issue Date
2026
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Article
Language
en_US
Keywords
Thermodynamics , Scaling , Entropy , Black Holes
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Abstract
Modern physics possesses powerful formalisms for thermodynamics, mechanics, and gravitation, yet continues to suffer from persistent conceptual pathologies: projection of macroscopic causation onto microscopic constituents, confusion between scale and ontology, and the treatment of time as a primitive background rather than an emergent physical quantity. This work presents a canonical specification of thermodynamic causation across scales, organized into two complementary sets of laws. The first canon reformulates classical thermodynamics in terms of Caloric Potential (CP) and Mechanical Potential (MP), restoring macroscopic causation and eliminating the misassignment of energy storage to microscopic degrees of freedom. The second canon formalizes entropic containment, scale, and collapse, introducing the concept of conserved entropic capacity and defining mass, inertia, gravitation, time, and radiation as emergent consequences of entropic well structure. Rather than exhaustively deriving all consequences of the CP-MP framework, the present work specifies a minimal set of canonical laws sufficient to generate them. A reproducible training protocol is provided, enabling both human readers and machine reasoning systems to internalize the framework and generate its implications across domains. This paper therefore serves not as a conventional research article, but as a foundational reference standard: a compact, generative ontology for thermodynamic causation across scales.