From Chaos to Convergent Foundations

Paper 1 axiomatizes Successive Collision Theory. The observable universe is treated as a thermalized collision product embedded in an infinite, eternally evolving manifold, replacing the FLRW singular origin assumption with a nested hierarchy of locally rotating, pressurized comoving frames (pockets). It enumerates the founding premises and the intended explanatory scope, the CMB, large scale structure, BBN abundances, galactic rotation, and apparent cosmic acceleration, as downstream consequences to be derived in later papers, and fixes the conceptual and notational foundation on which the series quantitative results rest. No new numerical predictions are made here. The paper's role is foundational and definitional.