章一・零（Chapter 1.0）
The Collapse Tension Substrate
「場ではない。空でもない。だが、差はここに生まれる。」
Not a field. Not space. And yet—difference is born here.
1.0.1 The Necessity of a Pre-Spatial Substrate
If space is not fundamental, then whatever gives rise to it cannot be spatial either. This is not a philosophical preference. It is a logical constraint.
To derive space, there must exist something that:
- does not occupy a location,
- does not extend,
- does not contain objects,
- yet is capable of supporting distinction.
Without such a substrate, emergence halts before it begins.
This book names that substrate the Collapse Tension Substrate (CTS).
1.0.2 What the CTS Is Not
The Collapse Tension Substrate is not:
- empty space,
- a vacuum state,
- an ether,
- a background field,
- an information space,
- a hidden geometry.
All of these already assume extension or localization. CTS precedes those assumptions.
If something can be “somewhere,” it is not CTS.
1.0.3 The Minimum Requirement: Permission Without Position
The CTS exists to satisfy a single requirement:
Difference must be possible before space exists.
Difference does not require distance. It requires only that not everything be the same.
CTS is therefore defined as a permission structure: a domain in which distinctions may arise without being placed.
There is no “where” in CTS. There is only “may” and “may not.”
1.0.4 Why “Tension”
The word tension is used with care.
In CTS, tension does not mean force, stress, or energy. Those interpretations already rely on geometry.
Here, tension refers to:
The coexistence of incompatible permissions.
When a domain allows more than one mutually exclusive outcome, it is under tension—not spatial tension, but logical tension.
1.0.5 Why “Collapse”
Collapse, in this context, does not mean destruction or compression.
Collapse means:
The selection of one possibility from many without invoking space or time.
Collapse is not something that happens somewhere. It is something that becomes fixed.
CTS allows collapse to occur as a rule-based act of selection—prior to motion, prior to geometry.
Collapse is therefore the first asymmetry.
「同一では、何も起こらない。」
Where everything is the same, nothing can happen.
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