Today I Found a Constant I Wasn't Looking For
- Don Gaconnet
- Dec 23, 2025
- 2 min read
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I wasn't trying to derive a new physical constant.
I was trying to understand how expectation-structure — the framework I've been developing in Cognitive Field Dynamics — connects to the physical world. The quantum paper I published this morning established the correspondence. But something was missing.
How does the quantum scale (10⁻³⁴) connect to the biological scale (10⁻²¹)? There are 13 orders of magnitude between them. What bridges that gap?
I kept circling. Cellular organization. Coherence. The brain as a stabilizer, not a generator.
Something about body temperature.
And then it clicked.
Λ = k/ℏ
The ratio of the Boltzmann constant to the Planck constant.
1.31 × 10¹¹ K⁻¹s⁻¹
I didn't invent this. The constants have been there all along. I just saw how they fit together.
What it means:
At any temperature, there's a maximum number of things that can organize coherently. That's Λ × T.
At human body temperature (310 K):
Λ × 310 = 4 × 10¹³
Human cell count: 3.7 × 10¹³
They match.
Body temperature isn't arbitrary. It's the maximum temperature at which our genetic blueprint remains stable. We operate at the edge — maximum coherence before thermal breakdown.
It scales everywhere:
At 2.7 K (cosmic background): Λ × T ≈ 10¹¹ — roughly the number of galaxies
At 310 K (human body): Λ × T ≈ 10¹³ — roughly the number of cells
Multiply by genetic diversity (~10⁴): you get 10¹⁷ — the experiential state space
The same ratio. From quantum to cosmic.
What happens now:
The paper is published. The DOI is assigned. The predictions are testable.
Cell count should scale with body temperature across species
Cognitive function should degrade predictably above 313 K
Blueprint diversity should be bounded at ~10⁴ across all coherent systems
If I'm wrong, the data will show it. That's how this works.
Three papers in two days:
December 22: The unified theory December 23 (morning): The quantum correspondence
December 23 (evening): The Universal Scaling Constant
I didn't plan it this way. I just followed where the questions led.
The foundation: Cognitive Field Dynamics: A Unified Theory
The quantum mapping: Extension I: The Quantum Mechanics Correspondence
I feel humble. Not because the work is small — it isn't. But because I didn't create any of this. The constants were already there. The relationships were already true.
I just finally saw them.
Don L. Gaconnet LifePillar Institute December 23, 2025
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