Aperture–Well Unification TheoryFirst-Principles Unification: Recovering Maxwell and GR, Deriving Confinement and Duality from Pure Geometry

Aperture–Well Unification Theory (AWUT) presents a deterministic, geometry-only model ofspacetime and matter-energy. The medium (“Blue”) is a stitched spacetime fabric with tensiondirections (“rails”) defining propagation axes: one spatial, one temporal. Localized deformationscreate curvature wells: “Red” (initial energetic state) and “Purple” (stretched bubbles fromvacuum suck-back). Purple wells dominate cosmic structure; Red wells seed baryonic debris.The origin is a Ka–Boom event bounded by the Planck–Stop constraint: no curvature tighterthan ℓPS, no collapse to zero, and at most one quantized twist per closed rail loop. From this,two fields emerge: global swell Φ(t) and local stitch angle θ(x, t). Epoch markers (Blue 12.37GHz, Red 9.22 GHz, Purple 9.21–12.36 GHz) are geometric signatures of well dynamics.All constants and scaling laws are derived from AWUT first principles: Ka–Boom ruptureenergy under Planck–Stop, projected through a 5D stitched formalism that yields rail tensionand overlap. Maxwell’s and Einstein’s equations, lepton mass ratios, rotation curves, and hydro-genic spectra follow from one variational form and one transverse kernel. Entropy and the arrowof time emerge naturally from Ka–Boom energy via rail degeneracy growth. The framework iscausal, falsifiable, and reproducible — no new particles, no external fields, no added dimensions— with narrative and equations forming a single audit-ready whole.All data, code, and constants are included for replication and falsification