Energy Filament Theory (Version: EFT 7.0)
Sea-State Fields and Forces
— Gradient Settlement, Rule Layers, and Four-Force Unification
The EFT Manual of the Universe's Underlying Mechanics | Volume 4
By Guanglin Tu
ORCID: 0009-0003-7659-6138 · Original Work DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18757546
This series—
The EFT Manual of the Universe’s Underlying Mechanics—
is dedicated to my children, Yiyi and Tutu,
whom I have never forgotten.
In the years to come,
I will continue to seek the truth of the universe
and search for where you have gone.
Sections
- 4.0 A Minimal EFT Overview and an Introduction to This Volume
- 4.1 Field as Weather: Why the Field in Energy Filament Theory Is Not an Invisible Entity
- 4.2 Revisiting the Sea-State Quartet: Tension / Density / Texture / Cadence (the Field's Control Panel)
- 4.3 Force = Gradient Settlement: The Energy Sea Has No Up, Down, Left, or Right — Only Slopes
- 4.4 Gravity: Unifying Tension Slope and Cadence Readouts
- 4.5 Electromagnetism: Texture Slope, Orientational Coupling, and Radiation
- 4.6 Nuclear Force (Mechanism Layer): Swirl Texture Alignment and Interlocking
- 4.7 Unifying the Three Mechanism-Level Forces: Direction from Tension, Roadways from Texture, Latches from Swirl Texture
- 4.8 Strong Interaction (Rule Layer): Gap Backfilling
- 4.9 Weak Interaction (Rule Layer): Destabilization and Reassembly
- 4.10 Rule Layer x Mechanism Layer: How the Strong and Weak Interactions Cooperate with Nuclear Force through Interlocking
- 4.11 Interaction Channels and Thresholds: Why the Set of Allowed Processes Is Discrete
- 4.12 Exchange Wavepackets and Transient Loads: Photons / Gluons / W and Z as Channel Construction Crews
- 4.13 Locality and Relay: Why There Is No Action at a Distance
- 4.14 Screening, Binding, and Effective Fields: Why the Macroscopic World Looks Like Continuous Field Equations
- 4.15 Energy and Momentum Ledger: A Unified Settlement of Potential Energy, Radiation, and Work
- 4.16 Boundary Engineering: How Walls, Pores, and Corridors Reshape Fields and Propagation
- 4.17 The Energy Filament Theory Version of Four-Force Unification: Three Mechanisms + Two Rules + One Substrate
- 4.18 The Equivalence Principle Under the Tension Ledger: Two Readings of the Same Ledger
- 4.19 How EFT Takes Over Gauge Fields and Symmetry: Returning 'Formal Axioms' to Sea State Continuity and Ledger Closure
- 4.20 Extreme Fields and Vacuum Breakdown: the Schwinger Limit and 'Vacuum Structural Collapse'
- 4.21 The Fine-Structure Constant α: From an 'Empirical Constant' to the Sea's Intrinsic Response Rate
- 4.22 A Crosswalk to the Mainstream Frameworks: GR/QED/QCD/EW Are Languages of Calculation; EFT Is the Mechanism Base Map
- 4.23 Volume Summary: The Field Is Sea-State Weather, Force Is Gradient Settlement, and the Strong and Weak Make the Rule Layer Indispensable