Temporal Rate Ontology: A Programmatic Overview of a Succession-Based Framework for Physical Foundations

Temporal Rate Ontology (TRO) proposes a non geometric framework for the foundations of physics in which the primitive structure of reality is an asymmetric relation of temporal succession among events. In contrast to standard spacetime ontologies, spacetime geometry, temporal rates, and spatial relations are treated as representational encodings of coordination patterns within a growing network of succession relations. This paper presents a programmatic overview of the TRO framework. Its aim is not to derive a complete physical theory but to articulate the conceptual architecture of the program and to identify the structural conditions under which heterogeneous temporal behavior, structural entropy, and…