IME Cosmos: A Monograph on the Info-Magneto-Electrostatic Framework: One Medium, Three Levels, and the Physics of the Plenum

Preface This book began as a set of papers. In a series of studies completed in 2026, the author, Dr Satinder Singh Malik, an independent researcher in the foundations of physics and the philosophy of science working in Gurugram, India, proposed that the physical world is the activity of a single medium, the celestial plenum, organised on three levels: an informational grid, a magnetic level of rotating flux, and an electrostatic level of dense, elastic substance. The framework was named for its levels, Info-Magneto-Electrostatic, and abbreviated to IME. The papers applied it to the nature of dimensions, space and time, the birth and shape of the cosmos, the cell of space, light and its speed, the wave and the particle, the quantum below the smallest scale, the mass of the Earth, entanglement, the cause of weight, the equivalence principle, the architecture of the Solar System and the weather. Some were submitted to journals. Each was written to stand alone. Papers written to stand alone repeat one another, and they also drift apart. A concept introduced in one is redefined in the next; a number derived in a third is quoted in a fourth after it has been corrected; two papers make claims that cannot both be true, and neither notices, because neither was written with the other open on the desk. A book can do what a series of papers cannot. It can introduce each concept once, in the place where it belongs, and refer back to it thereafter. It can use one notation throughout. And it can put every claim next to every other and next to the measurements that bear on it, so that contradictions show. That is what this book does, and it has consequences the reader should know in advance. The chapters test the author’s claims against the data, and many of the claims fail. Where a paper computed a quantity that has been measured, and the computation disagrees with the measurement, the book says so, gives the measurement and its source, and records the claim as a [Revision]. There are 104 revisions in the ledgers of the chapters, and Chapter 21 lists the principal ones. They are published here by the author’s decision, in the conviction that a framework that proposes to revise physics at its foundations must be seen to revise itself first. Charles Darwin kept a note of every fact he met that told against his theory, because such facts were the first to slip from memory; the ledgers of this book are kept for the same reason. What survives the testing is smaller than what the papers claimed and harder. It includes a medium whose light-carrying part must be a superfluid; a single geometry for light and matter in weak gravitational fields; a theorem that explains the equality of inertial and gravitational mass; bounds on new physics set from existing data; and three predictions, which no other theory makes, that experiments now possible could confirm or refute: a difference of 7.0 parts in 1010 between vertical and horizontal round trips of light at the Earth’s surface, a violation of universal free fall at −2.410−15 between titanium and platinum, and an absence of frame dragging at Mars. Those predictions are the programme’s claim on a physicist’s attention, and Chapter 21 states the results that would refute each of them. Each chapter opens with history. The questions the IME framework asks are old ones, and most were first asked in India, Greece or Egypt, then asked again in the seventeenth century and again in the twentieth. The histories are told as stories, with the people in them, because the ideas make more sense when one knows who held them and why; short portraits of the scientists and scholars who appear close to each chapter. The ancient sources are treated as sources of distinctions and questions, never as evidence for a physical claim, and the book gives two chronologies for the oldest of them, as explained in “How to read this book”. The book is in six parts. Part I lays the foundations: the medium question, dimensions, space and time, the three levels and the birth of the cosmos. Part II builds the architecture: the fractal hierarchy of tiers, the cell of space, the superfluid plenum, the shape of the cosmos and the flatness of the heavens. Part III treats light, Part IV matter and the quantum, and Part V gravity and the mechanics of the heavens, ending with a chapter on the philosophy of the programme. Part VI is the ledger. The author’s work on consciousness, on the testimony of unidentified aerial phenomena, on the ontology of the Īśvara and the Devas and on the Yuga chronology of the cosmos is reserved for a companion volume so that this book can be judged as physics alone.