Divide and Stabilise: A Universal Operator from Creation to Nuclear Fission

This paper identifies Divide and Stabilise as a universal structural operator that appears across creation, physics, biology, cognition, psychology, economics, sociology, mathematics, and cosmology. The operator describes a two‑step mechanism: systems under tension or undifferentiated coherence divide into differentiated parts, and these parts stabilise into new, lower‑energy or more coherent configurations. The creation narrative presents the operator in its primordial form through the separation and ordering of light and darkness, waters above and below, and land and sea. The same structural pattern governs nuclear fission, DNA replication, mitosis, stock splits, idea branching, psychological fragmentation and reintegration, group fission, mathematical bifurcation, and cosmological symmetry breaking. By unifying these diverse phenomena within a single relational architecture, the paper shows that Divide and Stabilise is a foundational mechanism of generativity across reality, enabling systems to resolve tension, produce novelty, and form new stable structures.