1. Priority Statement and Scope
This short communication is published to establish priority for a specific interpretive and structural claim within the Unified Scientific Framework (USF) [
1]. The result concerns the status of spacetime curvature when dissipative scale evolution is treated as a primary dynamical ingredient.
We emphasize that “external” and “internal” refer to levels of description, not to a physical observer located outside the universe. “External” denotes a meta-description in which the fundamental evolution parameter is a logarithmic scale/entropy coordinate (an RG-clock), while “internal” denotes the operational description available to observers embedded in spacetime who necessarily employ spacetime coordinates, clocks, and rulers.
Figure 1.
Four-panel schematic contrasting external (scale-space) flatness with internal observer curvature, and the corresponding black-hole representations in the proposed framework.
Figure 1.
Four-panel schematic contrasting external (scale-space) flatness with internal observer curvature, and the corresponding black-hole representations in the proposed framework.
2. Claim: Curvature Is Not Fundamental in the External Description
Within USF, the fundamental evolution is formulated as entropy-controlled scale flow, with dissipation retained explicitly (the omni-term) [
1]. In this representation, the bulk dynamics do not require intrinsic spacetime curvature as a primitive object. Instead, the organizing structure is dissipative evolution along the scale/entropy coordinate toward a balance manifold. In the external formulation, “flatness” should be read as follows:
Flatness is the absence of fundamental curvature-primitives in the external scale-space description when dissipation is explicit; it is not a denial that internal observers can measure curvature.
Operationally, the claim is that curvature contributions are dynamically suppressed in the approach to balance under the external scale-flow dynamics, so curvature is not the mechanism of evolution; dissipative entropy-driven scale evolution is [
1].
3. Emergence: Curvature Appears for Internal Observers via Projection
Internal observers parameterize physics using spacetime coordinates
and local measurements. When the external scale-flow dynamics are
projected into an internal spacetime description, and/or when one imposes boundary conditions or coarse-grains to reduced sectors, residual geometric structure appears. In that internal representation, curvature becomes the natural effective encoding of the projected dynamics, and Einstein-type closure relations arise as the appropriate internal limit [
1]. Symbolically, one may write the internal effective description in the familiar form
with the understanding that this relation is
internal and effective: it applies after projection/coarse-graining has selected a geometric representation in which curvature is the convenient bookkeeping language for the same underlying dissipative evolution [
1].
Thus, the framework supports a strict separation:
Mechanism (primary): dissipative entropy/scale evolution drives dynamics in the external description;
Representation (effective): curvature arises as an observer-relative geometric encoding in the internal description.
4. Interpretive Consequence: Why Relativity is Inevitable
Relativity is strengthened, not weakened, in this formulation. Because internal observers describe projected dynamics using coordinate-dependent measurements, the induced geometric representation (and its curvature) is necessarily observer-relative. Different internal frames correspond to different projections of the external flow. The external description supplies the representation in which curvature is not fundamental; the internal description supplies the representation in which curvature is the correct effective language for embedded observers [
1].
5. Conclusion
We have stated a compact priority result within USF: with dissipative scale evolution retained explicitly (the omni-term), spacetime curvature is not fundamental in the external (scale-space) formulation, while curvature emerges as an observer-relative effective structure under projection to internal spacetime coordinates and reduced representations. Einstein-type curvature language remains valid internally as an effective closure of the projected dynamics, while the external formulation treats entropy-driven dissipation as the primary mechanism [
2].
Conflicts of Interest
The author declares no known conflicts of interest.
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