COHESION: Grand Unified Theory

“Pressure exists.” From that single statement, without additional postulates, withoutfree parameters introduced by hand, and without appeal to analogy or approximation,the complete structure of the physical world follows: matter and its mass spectrum,all four forces, quantum mechanics, the Standard Model gauge structure, cosmologicalinflation and dark energy, the resolution of black hole singularities, and the identificationof SO(10) as the grand unified group with a falsifiable proton decay prediction. Thismonograph traces that derivation from its first step to its furthest reach, states everyopen problem with precision, and invites the scrutiny of anyone willing to follow theargument.