COHERENT CONTAINMENT, MASS, AND PROPER TIME: a critical-propositional analysis of Andrew Lee Johnson's Coherent Containment Framework in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity

Description This article presents a critical-propositional analysis of Andrew Lee Johnson’s The Coherent Containment Framework: Mass and Proper Time as Joint Emergent Properties of Recursively Contained Energy (2026), published on Zenodo, in confrontation with the Theory of Objectivity (TO). The study examines Johnson’s thesis that mass and proper time emerge jointly from recursively contained energy, while light corresponds to the same energetic substrate in a propagating, uncontained, and proper-time-null regime. From the perspective of the Theory of Objectivity, the article evaluates possible compatibilities and points of tension between the Coherent Containment Framework and the modal axioms of TO, especially regarding boundary, recursivity, phenomenic stabilization, radiation-information, and the relation between contained energy and propagating energy. The analysis articulates Johnson’s proposal with the phenomenic elements of TO, the Expansive and Reductive Inducer Effects, the cosmogonic theorem, and the cosmological Eras of the Theory of Objectivity. The article argues that Johnson’s framework offers a promising regional interpretation of the transition between mass, radiation, and proper time, particularly by treating mass as coherent containment and light as released propagation. However, it also emphasizes that the Coherent Containment Framework does not reach the modal foundation required by the Theory of Objectivity, since it begins from already constituted physical categories rather than deriving them from Logical Nothingness, boundary, and ontological necessity. The study concludes that the Coherent Containment Framework may be incorporated as a useful interlocutor for the Theory of Objectivity, especially in discussions concerning emergent mass, proper time, radiation-information, and the transformation between memory-like containment and expansive informational release. This analytical text received analytical support from ChatGPT. Keywords: Theory of Objectivity; Vidamor Cabannas; Denivaldo Silva; Andrew Lee Johnson; Coherent Containment Framework; mass and proper time; emergent mass; emergent time; recursive containment; contained energy; radiation-information; Inducer Effects; Expansive Inducer Effect; Reductive Inducer Effect; modal ontology; Logical Nothingness; phenomenic elements; cosmological Eras; alternative cosmology; foundations of physics; ChatGPT-assisted analysis.