The Totality of Bonding Relationships - A Universal Principle from Quantum Vacuum to Cosmos

ABSTRACT This paper proposes that the universe is not a collection of discrete structures that interact but a totality of bonding relationships that temporarily take the form of structures. At every scale of physical and biological reality — from quantum field interactions through molecular chemistry, cellular biology, ecological systems, planetary dynamics, and cosmological structure — the same generative pattern operates: recognition between compatible structures, attraction, stable reorganisation, and the emergence of a new basin with properties unavailable to either system alone. This pattern, termed the Bonding Principle, is proposed as a universal organising mechanism that operates prior to and…