Transport Axioms

Only motion exists.

All physical quantities are descriptions of motion under constraint, transport, or observation.

Inertia is motion preserved under transport.

Absent constraint, motion persists unchanged.

There is no separate substance called inertia.

A frame is a bookkeeping device that encodes relative transport.

Frames do not act. They evolve.

All apparent forces arise from observing motion in evolving frames.

Transport is the rule by which motion is carried between frames.

• linear
• rotational
• nested

Transport is not a force.

Transport around a loop does not, in general, close.

Non-closure produces phase residue, apparent curvature, and effective forces.

This is a geometric fact, not an interaction.

π measures phase residue from planar transport non-closure.

π is not geometric. It is kinematic.

Circles inherit π; they do not define it.

Energy is motion measured in a chosen frame.

There is no potential energy. Only constrained motion.

Energy differences encode transport imbalance.

Mass measures resistance to frame-imposed curvature.

Mass is not substance.

It is a transport coupling constant.

Light is unconstrained motion.

Light defines the unbound limit of transport.

All bound phenomena are constrained deviations from this limit.

E = mc and F = ma encode the same bookkeeping identity.

$E = mc$ expresses constrained motion measured against the unbound limit.

$F = ma$ expresses curvature of motion imposed by a frame.

The factor $c$ is the transport scale of unconstrained motion.

Bound motion is incomplete transport. Unbound motion is completed transport.

Escape velocity marks the transition point.

Nothing escapes. Motion simply stops turning.