COSMIC-TIME GENERATIVE PRESENTISM (CTGP)

A Generative Spacetime Ontology Compatible with General Relativity

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ABSTRACT

Cosmic-Time Generative Presentism (CTGP) proposes a dynamic ontology of spacetime in which reality

exists only at an advancing present boundary, generated through continuous causal-temporal

progression in which each present state emerges from the lawful evolution of immediately preceding

states. Earlier states no longer exist as independently real regions of spacetime; the specific

physical organizations constituting those earlier states cease to exist as present realities, while

their causal consequences continue propagating through later physical structures. Present systems

therefore inherit transformed physical continuities, causal records, and distributed consequences of

prior states, rather than preserving those earlier states themselves. Unlike static block-universe

interpretations of relativity, CTGP treats spacetime as a continuously generated structure emerging

through causal propagation governed by physical law. The framework preserves relativistic causal

structure while identifying cosmological time, which on large scales is the proper time of the

cosmic matter flow, as the natural parameter governing the progression of physical reality.

In this model, each present state of the universe arises as the causal continuation of prior states,

while the past remains accessible only through physical information encoded in present systems —

radiation fields, gravitational structures, and cosmological relics such as the cosmic microwave

background. In the emergent geometric regime, CTGP identifies the generative present with the level