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 · 2387 equations · 13 tables · 45316 source words. 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 Tension)
4. 3. Gravity as the Momentum of Absorbed Inflow
5. 4. The Solar System as a Consistency Test
6. 5. Axial Spin and Tidal Locking from the Inflow
7. 6. Galactic Rotation and the Derivation $a₀=cH₀/2π$
8. 7. A Non-Expanding, Lattice-Optics Cosmology
9. 8. ``Dark Matter'' as a Vacuum Deficit
10. 9. The Microwave Background as Present Lattice Emission
11. 10. The Post-Newtonian Sector
12. 11. Gravitational Waves as Medium Perturbations
13. 12. Cosmological Puzzles that Dissolve
14. 13. Light Elements without a Hot Big Bang
15. 14. CMB Anisotropies and the Acoustic Scale
16. 15. Large-Scale Structure and BAO
17. 16. The Honest Ledger and the Falsifiable Predictions
18. Appendix A: Core constants and per-body inflow rates
19. Appendix B: Reproducibility map
20. Appendix C: The two length scales ($D$ versus $a$)
21. Appendix D: Index of imports from the physics volume
22. Appendix E: Conjectures on solar activity (exploratory, textsfHYP/textsfSPEC)
23. Appendix F: Executive summary and the one-page result scorecard
24. Appendix G: Governance: no-tuning, LOCK, gate; the anti-circular chain; falsification
25. Appendix H: Provenance ledger and the five-line reproducibility check
26. Appendix I: Common misreadings and reviewer doubt trails
27. Appendix J: Version history and reclassification log
28. Appendix K: Meta-lessons and epistemic audit

Cross-links

• a₀ = cH₀/2π → §6 — Galactic rotation and the derivation a₀=cH₀/2π
• dark matter = vacuum deficit → §8 — Dark matter as a vacuum deficit
• non-expanding lattice-optics cosmology → §7 — A non-expanding, lattice-optics cosmology