Western Science Meets Eastern Void: The Ku-Ma-Ki Framework as a Bridge Between Empirical Physics and Contemplative Cosmology

Western empirical science and Eastern contemplative cosmology have developed in near-total isolation for three centuries. The current impasse of Western physics — unification of gravity and quantum mechanics, the dark sector mystery, the vacuum energy problem, the hard problem of consciousness — arises precisely from this separation. The Ku-Ma-Ki framework provides a formal bridge: ku (空, void) maps to the physical vacuum with bounded energy; Ma (間, relational gap energy) maps to the dark sector; ki (気, field propagation) maps to the unified electromagnetic-gravitational interface. Eastern thought encoded, in natural language and contemplative practice, direct perceptual observations of physical fields that Western instrumentation has only recently begun to detect. The translation of Eastern void-cosmology into mathematical physics is not a cultural exercise. It is a scientific necessity.