Scaling General Relativity

General Relativity (GR) remains the most successful description of gravitational behaviour within the dense, symmetry-stabilised region of the universe accessible to early20th-century measurement. However, GR was never designed to scale beyond thatenvironment. Its foundational assumptions — constant light speed, smooth curvature,and universal symmetry — were local approximations, not universal truths. When theseassumptions are extended into low-density, gradient-dominated regions of the cosmos,they generate a series of observational tensions: the dark matter problem, dark energy,inflation, the horizon and flatness problems, and the Hubble tension. These tensionsmotivate a more general framework rather than additional patch terms. The CohesionUFT framework meets GR precisely at the symmetry plateau where Einstein measuredit, but extends in both directions: downward into recursion and coherence, and upwardinto density gradients and large-scale field structure. This paper argues that GR iscomplete within its domain but cannot be universal. Scaling GR requires replacingsymmetry with recursion and replacing constants with density-dependent operators.