Paper G4 — Gravity from Cohesion Gradients
Paper G4 demonstrates that gravitational attraction emerges as a representational necessity from Cohesion Dynamics substrate mechanics. What is traditionally described as “gravity” is not a force or curvature postulate, but a bias in admissible resolution paths caused by gradients in CIU constraint saturation and closure availability.
Key Results:
- Constraint-dense CIUs (mass–energy) alter local closure rates, creating asymmetric mismatch redistribution capacity
- Precedence-driven resolution follows least-mismatch reconciliation chains, producing availability-gradient flow
- Free fall is least-mismatch reconciliation trajectory; gravitational time dilation is closure-rate variation across CIUs
- Universal coupling arises from substrate neutrality (all CIUs respond identically to availability gradients)
Ontological Status: Gravity does not exist as a force or curvature of space. What exists are discrete closure events with varying difficulty, availability gradients in reconciliation, precedence selection biasing resolution chains, and phase accumulation differences across CIUs. Representationally, gravity is the effective description of motion under closure availability gradients.
Scope: This derivation proceeds exclusively from CD primitives and G1–G3 results (emergent time, distance, geometry). No forces, field equations, or General Relativity structures are assumed. Gravitational effects emerge from closure accounting and precedence selection in CIU reconciliation chains alone. Metric dynamics and empirical predictions follow in G5 or application papers.
Paper ID: CD-G4 | Series: G-series (Gravity and Geometry Derivation) | Status: Draft | Dependencies: A, M1–M4, M7, G1–G3, AX-TOL, AX-COH, AX-REL, AX-PAR, AX-LOC, AX-SEL, AX-MEM; informed by R-DCC