A Minimal Generative Framework for Physics: The ψ₀–OCM Foundations Paper

This paper presents the ψ₀–OCM (Osborne Cosmological Model) as a minimal generative framework for physics in which stabilized physical regimes emerge from redistribution dynamics within a primordial substrate ψ₀. Rather than treating constants, particles, spacetime geometry, and conservation laws as primitive givens, the framework interprets them as effective outputs of admissibility, closure, detachment regulation, and boundary-mediated persistence. The paper constructs a minimal mathematical language for the ψ₀–OCM, including a redistribution equation, closure condition, operator formulation, action principle, Euler–Lagrange structure, curvature recovery pathway, quantum path-integral representation, Now operator, closure spectrum, and Noether-type redistribution identity. It also provides explicit recovery logic for standard physical regimes, including quantum-valid unresolved sectors and coarse-grained curvature response. A representative calculational model, concrete testable predictions, and a lead benchmark falsifiability sector involving residual boundary-sensitive exchange in nominally closed high-Q resonant systems are included. The result is a coherent, calculable, and empirically exposed foundations paper establishing ψ₀–OCM as a redistribution-first generative architecture for physics while preserving standard science as an effective stabilized limit.