A Unified Dynamical Origin for Gravity and Particle Masses

Abstract

We present the culmination of our State-Space Paradigm: the identification of the generalized efficiency ueff as the manifestation of a fundamental scalar field, uxμ, the thermal-history field. Its dynamics provide a unified, first-principles origin for both the gravitational constant G and the electroweak symmetry-breaking scale v. The field's non-minimal coupling to curvature yields an effective gravitational strength Geff(u)=8π(MPl2+2ξu)−1. Simultaneously, its vacuum expectation value u=u0 spontaneously breaks electroweak symmetry via an effective Higgs doublet Φeff(u), generating gauge boson and fermion masses. The 125 GeV scalar observed at the LHC is identified not as an elementary particle, but as the localized excitation δu of the u-field. This framework transcends scalar-tensor theories by embedding mass generation within the same history-dependent field that modulates gravity. It predicts correlated cosmic evolution of G and particle masses, and yields distinct, testable signatures in cosmological observations and precision Higgs studies.

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