Structured Vacuum Field Theory: Energy Conservation and the c–G Equivalence

Abstract: Structured Vacuum Field Theory (SVFT) re-frames cosmology by positing coherence as the constitutive principle of the vacuum. From this principle follows a master Cardinal Virtue: conservation of energy. The invariance of the causal speed c, the persistence of gravitational attraction G, and the emergence of Lorentzian spacetime are not independent postulates but necessary consequences of this conservation law. A central insight is that c and G are not separate constants but two faces of the same coherence law, analogous to Einstein’s unification of mass and energy. This constitutive tie yields a unified, testable account of coherence, causality, and persistence. Building on this foundation, SVFT provides structural explanations of key cosmological phenomena: dark matter as stationary coherence fjords, cosmic acceleration as boundary-sourced expansion, and low-ℓ CMB anomalies as shell-memory imprints. It defines narrow “Goldilocks corridors” for matter stability and explains matter–antimatter asymmetry as a structural bias rather than an initial condition. SVFT emphasizes falsifiability. Any confirmed superluminal front, defocusing of gravity, violation of energy persistence, or inconsistency of kernel parameters across domains would falsify the framework. In contrast with ΛCDM, which invokes particle hypotheses or statistical accidents, SVFT derives these phenomena structurally from coherence dynamics, using a small set of interdependent parameters.