Gravity, Galaxies, and Cosmology as Vacuum Inflow

This volume reinterprets gravity and cosmology as consequences of vacuum inflow: every particle annihilates vacuum quanta at a fixed rate, driving a permanent inflow whose momentum is gravity. From this one locked input it derives planetary orbits, the galactic scale a₀ = cH₀/2π ≈ 1.08×10⁻¹⁰ m s⁻², dark-matter phenomenology, and a non-expanding lattice-optics cosmology.

Canonical results: a₀ = cH₀/2π ≈ 1.08×10⁻¹⁰ m s⁻².

This volume is derived from the inflow branch of VP Theory, the foundation of the Jamming Physics program. Its foundational constants — most importantly the per-nucleon annihilation rate 3π⁴ — are imported from that volume (see Appendix D), not re-derived here.

This volume reinterprets gravitational and cosmological measurements within the Volume-Particle framework (VP, also denoted AQD), in which the physical vacuum is a space-filling, jammed packing of identical rigid quanta and light is its elastic wave. A single mechanism underlies everything that follows: every material particle annihilates vacuum quanta at a fixed rate, and the resulting depletion drives a permanent inflow of the surrounding medium. From this one premise we develop, with no omitted logical steps and with a runnable simulation attached to every claim, the following Earth- and cosmos-scale consequences: gravity as the momentum of absorbed inflow; planetary orbits and Kepler's laws; axial spin and tidal locking; galactic rotation curves and the acceleration scale a₀; “dark matter” as a vacuum deficit that simultaneously gravitates, lenses, and goes dark; and a non-expanding, lattice-optics cosmology.

28 chapters across 42 topic pages · 66 rendered equations · 27 figures · 14 tables. The inflow-branch volume of the Jamming Physics program; every page carries its own reproducibility strip (DOI + repro/ deep link) and, where the source states one, a graded verdict.

Note: this overview is generated deterministically from the sealed document and its claim ledger; no prose is synthesized.

Chapters

  1. 0. How to Read This Volume
  2. 1. The Single Input: The Inflow Rate
  3. 2. Light as the Lattice Elastic Wave (and its Sharpest Falsifiable Test)
  4. 2.1. Gamma Bursts as Collective Disturbances
  5. 2.2. Back-Calculation: A Broadband Gamma Spectrum
  6. 2.3. The Angle Account: Quasi-Longitudinal Gamma
  7. 2.4. Why Light Need Not Disperse: Goldstone Mode
  8. 3. Gravity as the Momentum of Absorbed Inflow
  9. 3.1. Gate Physics: Saturation and Gating
  10. 4. The Solar System as a Consistency Test
  11. 5. Axial Spin and Tidal Locking from the Inflow
  12. 5.1. Mercury's 3:2 Spin-Orbit Resonance
  13. 6. Galactic Rotation and the Derivation $a₀=cH₀/2π$
  14. 6.1. Why Galactic Rotation Is Distinguishing
  15. 7. A Non-Expanding, Lattice-Optics Cosmology
  16. 7.1. Hubble Tension as Line-of-Sight Averaging
  17. 8. ``Dark Matter'' as a Vacuum Deficit
  18. 8.1. Colliding Clusters: the Bullet Offset
  19. 9. The Microwave Background as Present Lattice Emission
  20. 9.1. Black Holes and Jets as Inflow Objects
  21. 9.2. No Big Bang Singularity; Scope
  22. 10. The Post-Newtonian Sector
  23. 11. Gravitational Waves as Medium Perturbations
  24. 12. Cosmological Puzzles that Dissolve
  25. 13. Light Elements without a Hot Big Bang
  26. 14. CMB Anisotropies and the Acoustic Scale
  27. 14.1. Acoustic Length: Structurally Hard
  28. 15. Large-Scale Structure and BAO
  29. 16. The Honest Ledger and the Falsifiable Predictions
  30. 16.1. Three Falsifiable Predictions
  31. 16.2. Open Problems, Scope, and Closing
  32. Appendix A: Core constants and per-body inflow rates
  33. Appendix B: Reproducibility map
  34. Appendix C: The two length scales ($D$ versus $a$)
  35. Appendix D: Index of imports from the physics volume
  36. Appendix E: Conjectures on solar activity (exploratory, textsfHYP/textsfSPEC)
  37. Appendix F: Executive summary and the one-page result scorecard
  38. Appendix G: Governance: no-tuning, LOCK, gate; the anti-circular chain; falsification
  39. Appendix H: Provenance ledger and the five-line reproducibility check
  40. Appendix I: Common misreadings and reviewer doubt trails
  41. Appendix J: Version history and reclassification log
  42. Appendix K: Meta-lessons and epistemic audit

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