DRAFT STATUSThis paper presents a meta-ledger framework for emergent physics, structuredas a 16-stage logical scaffold ranging from pre-metric origin to recursive closure.Instead of postulating physical laws as axioms, we derive them as necessary con-sequences of an ‘admissibility audit’ on a neutral substrate. We demonstrate that(1) time emerges not as a background dimension but as a discrete update protocol(beat), (2) metric geometry and the inverse-square law arise from combinatorialGauss closure on graphs, and (3) horizons and observers are inevitable saturationlimits of information density. By strictly separating ‘form’ (invariants) from ‘map-ping’ (units/constants), we resolve fundamental paradoxes—such as the tensionbetween global entanglement and local signalling—without introducing free pa-rameters. The result is a parameter-free architecture where macro-scale laws arerecursive instantiations of micro-scale constraints.