Power Loops: A Proposed Recursive Criterion for Persistent Collective Units

Power Loops (PLoops) proposes a universal, rules-based framework for the ongoing, bottom-up formation of the universe’s building blocks. It investigates whether primitive oscillations can combine into collective waves, waves into persistent particle-like structures, and particles into atoms—with each new structure potentially becoming a building block in the same recurring process. A Power Loop is proposed to form when interacting constituents stabilize one another and become a persistent functional unit. Certain closed, linked, or knotted patterns of interaction may help create this stability. The principle of Mutual Gain suggests that participating constituents generally benefit from their combination, whether through increased stability, access to sustaining energy, or other advantages. The framework distinguishes two types of formation: Interdimensional PLoops, which produce different building blocks within an existing organizational level, and Dimensional PLoops, which establish new organizational levels with potentially new effective degrees of freedom and emergent properties, such as mass or spin. The central question is whether the same underlying rules can repeatedly produce stable building blocks at successive levels. This paper outlines the hypothesis, its mathematical foundations, and five proposed tests. The long-term ambition is to understand whether fundamental particles, including electrons, could emerge from simpler structures such as oscillations or waves—and ultimately whether such particles could be constructed through a controlled process. These possibilities remain speculative. Neither the proposed universal mechanism nor the construction of fundamental particles from simpler structures has yet been demonstrated.