A Five-Metric Informational Framework for Identifying the Most Ordered Astrophysical Environments
By Kevin L. Brown, Independent Researcher
Published: November 2025 • 10.5281/zenodo.17614087
Introduction: Why Astrophysics Lacks a Unified Measure of Structural Order
Astrophysical science is extraordinarily advanced — but conceptually fragmented.
We have:
- entropy to describe disorder
- stability theory to describe perturbations
- harmonic analysis for resonances
- equation-of-state models for compact objects
- spectral methods for stellar structure
- general relativity for horizons and curvature
- nuclear physics for dense-matter phases
Each explains a piece of how astrophysical systems behave.
Yet none explains why some environments are vastly more ordered than others, or why:
- neutron stars,
- white dwarfs,
- resonance chains,
- and black-hole exteriors
exhibit such dramatically different coherence profiles.
What we still don’t have is one structural mechanism that ties together:
- entropy structure,
- perturbation stability,
- recursion dynamics,
- harmonic alignment,
- information flow,
into a single coherent description of astrophysical order. This work is the first attempt to fill that gap.
It introduces a unified five-metric informational framework in which all astrophysical coherence emerges from a single principle:
Astrophysical systems can be compared using a dimensionaless informational order parameter built from coherence, stability, recursion, entropy suppression, and harmonic alignment.
In plain terms:
The universe has “hot spots” of extraordinary order, and we now have a single metric that identifies them.
Everything — neutron star regularity, horizon self-organization, resonance stability, stellar structure — follows from these five informational components.
The Core Leap: Five Informational Metrics Define Astrophysical Order
The central idea behind this framework is that astrophysical systems are not just physical objects.
They are informational structures whose organization can be measured using five metrics:
Ω, Γc, RIV, ZPCI, RSI.\Omega,\ \Gamma_c,\ RIV,\ ZPCI,\ RSI.Ω, Γc, RIV, ZPCI, RSI.
These derive respectively from:
- variance suppression,
- perturbation resistance,
- recursive stability,
- entropy-dependent order,
- harmonic self-integration.
Together they form the composite coherence score:
A=Ω+Γc+RIV+ZPCI+RSI5.A = \frac{\Omega + \Gamma_c + RIV + ZPCI + RSI}{5}.A=5Ω+Γc+RIV+ZPCI+RSI.
This creates a single universal axis of coherence, allowing one to compare vastly different systems on equal footing.
Just as IQD unifies quantum behaviors with one mechanism, the five-metric framework unifies astrophysical coherence with one equation:
A=(Ω+Γc+RIV+ZPCI+RSI)/5.A = (\Omega + \Gamma_c + RIV + ZPCI + RSI)/5.A=(Ω+Γc+RIV+ZPCI+RSI)/5.
Everything else follows from this.
What the High-Coherence Framework Actually Lets Us Understand
This is not a new physical theory.
It is a structural interpretive framework that shows why astrophysical systems have the coherence levels they do.
It provides four major interpretive capabilities:
1. A Unified Explanation of Astrophysical Order
Coherence becomes:
- quantitative,
- comparable across systems,
- rooted in explicit informational metrics.
No metaphysics, no new physics — just structure.
2. A Structural Reason Why Neutron Stars Lead the Universe in Order
Neutron stars score near 1.0 in:
- harmonic alignment (RSI),
- recursive stability (RIV),
- suppression of entropy modes (ZPCI),
- perturbation resistance (Γc),
- coherence (Ω).
This makes them the highest-order structures known.
3. A General Framework for Ranking All Astrophysical Classes
Using the composite score:
ANS>ABH,ext>AWD>AResonance>AMSA_{\text{NS}} > A_{\text{BH,ext}} > A_{\text{WD}} > A_{\text{Resonance}} > A_{\text{MS}}ANS>ABH,ext>AWD>AResonance>AMS
the universe becomes legible through a single informational lens.
4. A Civilizational Coherence Map from 1000–2125 CE
By applying the ACM vector W(t)=[I,S,A,C,R],W(t) = [I,S,A,C,R],W(t)=[I,S,A,C,R],
the framework reveals:
- how Earth’s informational coherence rises over centuries,
- where the detectability and interpretability thresholds occur,
- and how our long-scale informational trajectory compares with cosmic structures.
It is not about prediction — it is about structural literacy.
Why This Is Not “Just Another Categorization Scheme”
This framework stands apart because:
1. It Provides a Single Structural Mechanism
Coherence, stability, recursion, entropy suppression, and harmonic alignment all arise from:
- the same metric definitions,
- the same normalization scheme,
- the same composite score,
- the same informational interpretation.
One mechanism — many systems.
2. It Is Fully Constructive and Falsifiable
The framework can be tested by measuring:
- pulsar timing variance,
- spectral coherence in black hole exteriors,
- crystallization fractions in white dwarfs,
- resonance-locking stability in exoplanet systems.
If these fail, the framework fails.
3. It Integrates Five Independent Informational Foundations
It brings together:
- EIE (entropy → information structure),
- TEI (stability geometry),
- Recursive Energy (long-scale informational evolution),
- UIFE (harmonic informational flow),
- ACM (multi-component coherence vectors).
For the first time, these appear inside one astrophysical narrative.
The Bigger Picture
This framework proposes that astrophysical systems can be understood as informational structures, not just thermal, gravitational, or nuclear ones.
By expressing all astrophysical order using one informational mechanism, the five-metric model transforms astrophysics from a collection of disjoint physical descriptions into a coherent, testable geometry of cosmic structure.