The Absolute Frame Theory: A Systems Architecture Approach to Unifying General Relativity and Deterministic Quantum Mechanics

Version of 17 May 2026: Technically refined preprint incorporating clarifications discovered post-submission. The manuscript is currently under peer review at Foundations of Physics. This preprint version may differ in technical details from the version under review and from the eventual published version. For over a century, theoretical physics has operated under a bifurcated paradigm, wherein General Relativity flawlessly describes the macroscopic continuous space-time, and Quantum Mechanics governs the discrete, probabilistic microscopic realm. The mathematical incompatibility between these two frameworks has led to the proliferation of ad-hoc cosmological parameters, including Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the unresolved paradox of quantum non-locality. This article proposes the Absolute Frame Theory (AFT), a novel unified framework inspired by computational systems architecture. We postulate that the observable 4-dimensional universe (M) functions as a continuous topological embedding on an immutable, N-dimensional (N > 4) underlying substratum: the Absolute Frame (A). By introducing an Interaction Lagrangian (L₈₍ₓ), we demonstrate that gravity emerges not as a fundamental force, but as an entropic tension generated by the Absolute Frames' resistance to local topological deformations. The AFT naturally dissolves the requirement for Dark Matter, physically houses fermionic spin within the embedding's topology, derives quantum probability as a dimensional aliasing effect of a deterministic pilot wave, explains the Big Bang as a systemic boot sequence, and utilizes Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem to define the epistemic boundaries of the observable universe, complementary to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.