Primer - Coherence, Anchoring, and Emergent Structure

Physics, at its deepest level, is not a game of forces or particles. It is a matter of coherence—how structure holds together, how it breaks, and how it resists disintegration.

This is the starting point of modal dynamics.

Modes

A mode is not a particle or a wave. It is a coherent structure—an entity that sustains itself through internal phase alignment.

Each mode:

• Has an internal coherence profile $\psi (x)$
• Interacts not by force, but by overlapping with other modes
• Fails when coherence breaks (what we call decay or decoherence)

Anchoring

To persist, a mode must anchor itself into the surrounding medium. Anchoring is not interaction—it is bias minimisation.

Anchoring cost depends on:

• How coherent the local environment is
• How well the mode fits with it
• The saturation limit of modal interference

This defines a coherence field, and all motion arises from moving toward regions of lower anchoring cost.

Bias and Motion

No force is needed.
No geometry is required.

A mode moves because remaining still would increase its anchoring cost.
It follows bias, not inertia.

This single principle replaces:

• Gravity
• Force-carrying fields
• Thermodynamic drift
• Entropic loss

Beyond Interpretation

This is not a new interpretation of physics. It is a reconstruction:

• From modal coherence
• From first principles
• With no reference to classical entities

Everything—fields, particles, energy, and entropy—becomes emergent from this structure.

If it is not coherence, it is not real.

Where Next?

• Phase-Biased Geometry Theory — The formal structure
• SM Companion — Replacing mass, charge, and decay
• Appendices — Derivations from the coherence action