Gravity in the FM - Fundamentals

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Start with the same field

Begin with the same continuous field.

FM is present everywhere, uniform in its unstressed state.
Nothing is pulling.
Nothing is curved.
Nothing is “attracted”.

There is only a physical medium capable of organizing motion and structure.

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What gravity is not

In FM, gravity is not a force acting at a distance.
Nothing reaches out and pulls on anything else.

Gravity is also not caused by space itself being a substance that bends.

No new entity is introduced.

Gravity arises from how stable structure permanently reorganizes the field.

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Stable structure permanently strains the field

When a stable structure exists —
a vortex system that cannot unwind —

the field around it cannot remain uniform.

The continuous circulation required to maintain the structure
places a permanent load on the surrounding field.

This load does not dissipate.

It creates a strain gradient in the medium.

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What a strain gradient means

A strain gradient means:

• closer to the structure, the field is more strained

• farther away, the field is less strained

The transition is smooth and continuous.

Nothing is sharply defined.
Nothing suddenly “switches off”.

This gradient is what we call a gravitational field.

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Why objects move toward higher strain

Consider another stable structure placed in this gradient.

It does not feel a pull.

Instead, it propagates step-by-step by being locally realized within the field.

Here is the crucial point:

Propagation always follows the field’s existing reorganization.

On the side facing higher strain:

• the field is already reorganized

• circulation patterns are already biased

• less additional reconfiguration is required

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On the side facing lower strain:

• the structure would have to reorganize the field against the gradient

• this requires continuous additional work

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Falling is motion along an existing gradient

The structure therefore propagates into the region of higher strain.

Not because it is easier to exist there,
but because the field is already reorganized in that direction.

Trying to move outward requires continuous reorganization of the field.

This inward propagation is what we call falling.

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Free fall is unstrained motion

In free fall, the structure introduces no additional strain of its own.

It simply follows the field’s existing gradient.

Nothing resists it.
Nothing pushes back.

This is why free fall feels weightless.

The structure is not being forced.
It is moving in the only direction the field already supports.

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Weight and support

Weight appears only when free fall is prevented.

When a structure is held in place:

• the field’s natural reorganization is blocked

• internal circulation must be continuously adjusted

• strain must be maintained artificially

The resistance to this continuous reorganization
is experienced as weight.

A surface does not “push upward”.

It prevents motion along the field’s preferred direction.

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Gravity and acceleration are the same physical strain

Acceleration strains the field.

Gravity strains the field.

They do so in the same physical way.

In both cases:

• the field must reorganize continuously

• internal processes compete for limited capacity

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This is why gravitational effects and acceleration effects are indistinguishable.

They are the same physical situation realized differently.

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Gravity and process rate

Where the field is more strained:

• less local process capacity is available

• internal cycles slow down

• clocks, reactions, and biological processes run slower

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Nothing happens to time itself.

The field simply cannot do as much per local step.

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Why gravity has no cutoff

The strain created by stable structure does not suddenly end.

As long as the structure exists,
the field must accommodate it.

The strain weakens with distance,
but it never abruptly disappears.

This is why gravity is long-ranged.

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Summary

In the Field Medium Model:

• Gravity is not a force

• It is a permanent strain gradient in a physical medium

• Structures propagate along existing field reorganization

• Falling is motion along the gradient

• Weight appears when this motion is prevented

• Gravity and acceleration strain the field in the same way

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Nothing pulls.

The field reorganizes —
and structures move accordingly.