Cosmochrony: A Pre-geometric Framework for Emergent Spacetime, Dynamics, and Matter

We present Cosmochrony, a foundational pre-geometric framework in which spacetime, inertia, mass, and interactions emerge from the irreversible relaxation of a single relational substrate. By postulating a principle of ontological poverty at the origin, we derive the expansion of the admissible configuration space as the primary driver of cosmic evolution. A central result of the theory is the emergence of a Born--Infeld-like dynamics from the saturation of relational relaxation fluxes, providing a unified and non-singular resolution of both the initial cosmological singularity and the self-energy of charged particles. Within this framework, the speed of light and Planck's constant arise as complementary limits of projectability: c bounds the maximal admissible propagation of relational flux, while h sets the minimal resolvable granularity of the same underlying dynamics. In such regimes, effective thermodynamic and geometric quantities act as compensatory parameters encoding structural information lost under non-injective projection. We further show that matter and electric charge emerge naturally as stable saturation and chiral-torsional invariants of the -flux, without invoking fundamental gauge fields. Numerical simulations indicate that Cosmochrony reproduces flat galactic rotation curves and provides a structural explanation of the Hubble tension as emergent effects of substrate relaxation, without dark matter particles or a fundamental dark energy component. Finally, quantum indeterminacy and entanglement are derived as consequences of the non-injective projection of underlying -configurations onto effective observables. This mechanism naturally accounts for Bell inequality violations, the emergence of classical behavior in massive systems, and leads to concrete, falsifiable predictions, including precision spectral shifts in the Lamb regime, non-linear saturation in Schwinger pair-production, and signatures in ultra-high energy cosmic rays.