DDIC: Toward a Unified Field Theory

Abstract

This document extends the Density-Driven Internal Contraction (DDIC) framework—previously established for gravity, black hole interiors, and quantum measurement across three companion papers—to the weak and strong nuclear interactions, using standard, well-established techniques from lattice gauge theory. A single connectivity variable, Λᵢⱼ, is extended to carry U(1), SU(2), and SU(3) gauge structure; the resulting plaquette actions reduce in the continuum limit to the standard Maxwell, Yang-Mills, and QCD confinement results. Building on this foundation, six major field equations of fundamental physics—Maxwell, SU(2) and SU(3) Yang-Mills, Einstein, Dirac, and Schrödinger—are derived directly from Λᵢⱼ's own lattice structure. A single, symbolically verified Lagrangian is shown to generate the electroweak and strong matter-coupling structure from one explicit object, Λᵢⱼ = R e^(iθ) H^a C^α, rather than four separately postulated mechanisms. The CKM quark-mixing matrix's mixing angles are derived in full from N_c = 3, with its CP-violating phase left as an external input; a topological argument yields exactly three fermion generations from e/3 charge quantization; and a structural, numerically confirmed parity argument rules out a bare gauge-sector contribution to the strong CP problem, though the problem itself remains open once the fermion sector is included, as in the Standard Model. Nonperturbative Monte Carlo methods are developed and applied to the cosmological constant, gauge coupling non-unification, and graviton unitarity. Five concrete, falsifiable predictions are presented. Several deep problems—exact gauge coupling unification, the absolute values of fundamental couplings, and a fully unified quantum theory of gravity—remain open, consistent with their unsolved status throughout theoretical physics more broadly. This work reports specific, verified partial results toward unification, not a completed Theory of Everything.