Einstein’s Final Question Answered By Persistence Theory

In the final decades of his life, Albert Einstein sought a unified theory that would reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics and account for the structural logic of the universe. He was not content with fragmented descriptions of natural laws; he longed for a generative principle, one that would show why the universe must have structure at all. This paper proposes that the Persistence Equation, a thermodynamic-information-theoretic formulation, offers the very resolution Einstein was seeking. By modeling the stability of structure as a function of entropy, reversibility, and environmental volatility, we derive a universal principle that bridges quantum and relativistic domains, explains the emergence of laws themselves, and resolves the ontological tension between order and chaos. This is not merely a unifying theory of physics — it is a theory of persistence itself.