Interference-First Reality: A Variational Information-Geometric Framework for Emergent Objectivity, Time, Spacetime, and Gravitation

Abstract

We introduce Interference-First Reality (IFR), a theoretical framework in which physical objectivity is not assumed as a primitive property of the world, but is derived as a stable multi-observer limit of an underlying interference structure. The fundamental object of the theory is a pre-spatiotemporal interference state Ψ defined on an abstract configuration space X, together with a family of operational observer maps projecting Ψ into observer-accessible representation spaces. Agreement between observers is quantified by an information-geometric redundant dispersion functional. Within IFR, objective structures are defined as stable Fréchet-type centers of observer projections, and physical configurations are selected by a variational principle involving interference dynamics, informational curvature, and redundant multi-observer contraction. The parameter λ is not identified with physical time. Instead, temporal order is defined as the ordered succession of stable minima of redundant dispersion, while effective spacetime geometry arises when the underlying information geometry admits a low-dimensional metric representation. The framework derives objectivity, time, space, and gravitation from a single variational structure. Contents of this deposit. Alongside the complete-formulation preprint, the archive contains the consolidated information-geometry module ifr_core, implementing Jensen–Shannon divergence and distance, geometric and arithmetic barycenters, and the redundant-dispersion functional, together with its verification routines, the full set of analysis scripts, and self-configuring ready-to-run launcher packages for Windows, macOS, and a flat code archive. The ifr_core module is byte-identical across all packages and hash-verified, and reproduces all reported JSD/KL values with a maximum numerical discrepancy below 1e-13. The packages are strictly code-only. Data directories contain only .gitkeep or README.md placeholders, and the public re-downloadable datasets used in the analyses, including Planck, GWOSC, JWST/JADES, and PhysioNet, are intentionally excluded from the deposit. Citation. The Concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20528552 is the stable DOI to be used for citation and resolves to the most recent version. Each deposit mints a version DOI for archival versioning only; version DOIs should not be used in manuscripts. Peer-reviewed publication. This document is the complete and unified formulation of the IFR framework, subdivided into six parts for peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics (JAMP). The empirical validation referenced here has been published in Bianchi (2025), JAMP 13, 4355–4378, and Bianchi (2026), JAMP 14, 1627–1674. Part I of the series has been published as Bianchi, M. (2026) Interference-First Reality Theory: Foundations and Objectivity, JAMP 14(7), 2735–2772, DOI 10.4236/jamp.2026.147137. Part II is under peer review; Parts III–VI are in preparation for sequential submission.