From Particles to DNA: A Closure Based Derivation of Matter, Chemistry, and Life, in the ψ₀-OCM

This paper presents a unified, closure-based derivation linking physics, chemistry, and biology through a forced sequence of structural layers: particles, atoms, chemistry, oxidative niches, RNA, cells, and DNA. Within the ψ₀-OCM (Osborne Cosmological Model), these layers arise as stable closure states of redistribution dynamics under bounded detachment, rather than as contingent historical or environmental accidents. The introduction of oxidative niches formalizes a localized admissibility upgrade within chemistry, in which oxygen-enabled reaction pathways become viable in bounded microdomains without requiring global oxygenation. This layer expands prebiotic chemical reach and provides a lawful bridge between reducing chemistry and RNA-level catalytic closure. A single forcing principle determines why each layer must emerge and persist, and why Darwinian natural selection becomes operative only within stabilized closure domains, after specific closure thresholds are achieved. Established physical, chemical, and biological theories are recovered as reduction limits on these stabilized domains, preserving their empirical validity while situating them within a common generative framework. The result is a law-level connective architecture that explains the natural hierarchy of matter and life while maintaining the autonomy of existing disciplines.