About Mechanical Medium
Mechanical Medium is an exploration of physics through a simple but often overlooked idea: that the vacuum is not empty, but a real physical medium with structure, stiffness, and mechanical response.
Modern physics predicts with extraordinary accuracy, yet its interpretations have become increasingly abstract—fields without carriers, geometry without substance, probability without mechanism. These abstractions work, but they often obscure physical intuition and leave persistent anomalies unresolved.
This site exists to ask whether many familiar laws can be understood more clearly when interpreted through the language of mechanics: stress, strain, flow, topology, and material response.
“Concepts which have proved useful in ordering things easily acquire such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.”
— Albert Einstein
Purpose
The goal of Mechanical Medium is not to replace established theories or dismiss experimental results. Instead, it aims to:
- Reinterpret known physics using continuum mechanics and material intuition
- Treat gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum phenomena as emergent behaviors of an underlying medium
- Use anomalies as diagnostic clues, not as evidence for exotic new entities
- Separate what is measured from how it is interpreted
This is an interpretive project first, and a formal one second. We utilize multiple AI models to formulate a unified interpretation of physics.
About the Authors
We come to these questions from an engineering and systems background, with a long-standing interest in foundational physics. Our approach favors physical intuition and inductive reasoning before formal abstraction.
We do not claim original discovery. The work presented here is best understood as synthesis—exploring whether existing results, many already well known, admit a more mechanically intelligible interpretation. Where formal derivations are needed, they are provided separately in technical papers.
Lineage and Influences
The ideas explored on this site draw inspiration from a long tradition of physicists who resisted treating abstraction as ontology, including:
James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Hermann von Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Walter Russell, and more recent contributors such as Robert Close, Chantal Roth, Robert Laughlin, Yves Couder, and John Bush.
What unites these perspectives is not agreement on details, but a shared insistence that physical phenomena should ultimately belong to something real.
An Invitation
Mechanical Medium is a work in progress.
Each post asks a simple question: What would this phenomenon look like if the vacuum were a physical medium?
Sometimes the answer clarifies things. Sometimes it exposes failure modes. Both outcomes matter.
If this site succeeds at anything, it will be in restoring something physics once valued deeply:
physical intuition grounded in mechanics.