Expansion, Constraint, and Information: A Unified Structural Framework in Temporal Rate Ontology

Temporal Rate Ontology (TRO) proposes that the primitive structure of physical reality consists of ordered succession among events, from which spacetime geometry, temporal rates, and observable quantities arise as representational encodings. This paper develops a unified structural interpretation of three phenomena typically treated separately: cosmological expansion, gravitational constraint, and apparent information loss. The central claim is that these correspond to distinct regimes of a single underlying quantity: continuation multiplicity, the number of admissible future developments of a given structure over a finite horizon. We formalize continuation multiplicity, introduce constraint-weighted selection…