Constitutive Mechanics of the Vacuum III (CMV-III): Core Paper – Establishes the vacuum as a structured elastic medium and shows how gravity, light, mass, and inertia emerge from its constitutive properties. This paper defines the ontology and mechanical parameters used by all companion papers.
Companion Paper I — Strong-Field Gravity & Black Holes: Derives the Schwarzschild metric from vacuum constitutive behavior and interprets event horizons as regions of shear stiffness collapse. Reframes black holes as material failure zones rather than geometric singularities.
Companion Paper II — Quaternion Mechanics to the Dirac Equation: Shows how spin-½ behavior and the Dirac equation emerge from rotationally tethered vacuum defects. Connects relativistic quantum structure to mechanical topology.
Companion Paper III — Atomic Structure as Mechanical Nodes: Reinterprets atomic orbitals as standing-wave impedance nodes in the vacuum lattice. Explains atomic stability without point particles or probabilistic collapse.
Companion Paper IV — Harmonic Topology & Matter Generations: Explores how particle generations arise from harmonic and topological modes of the vacuum lattice. Connects mass hierarchy to geometric admissibility rather than new forces.
Companion Paper V — Viscoelastic Vacuum & the Hubble Tension: Models cosmological redshift as viscoelastic attenuation of shear waves in the vacuum. Provides a mechanical explanation for the Hubble tension without dark energy.
Companion Paper VI — The Resonant Atom: Develops a fully mechanical model of atomic resonance and fine structure. Links atomic constants to lattice geometry and impedance matching in the vacuum.
Companion Paper VII — Tunneling as Shear Strain Propagation: Reinterprets quantum tunneling as evanescent shear strain in the vacuum medium. Removes nonlocality while preserving standard tunneling predictions.
Companion Paper VIII — The Mechanical Higgs: Identifies the Higgs boson as a localized scalar (breathing) mode of the vacuum lattice. Explains mass generation as resistance to volumetric compression governed by the bulk modulus.
Companion Paper IX — Weak Interaction & Neutrinos: Interprets neutrinos as longitudinal constraint modes generated during defect reconfiguration. Explains weak interaction behavior without force mediation or signaling paradoxes.
Companion Paper X — The Strong Interaction as Topological Confinement: Reframes quark confinement as a topological admissibility constraint of the vacuum lattice. Eliminates the need for an increasing force with distance.
Companion Paper XI — Electromagnetism as Shear & Vorticity: Shows electric and magnetic fields as diagnostic descriptions of pressure gradients and rotational shear in the vacuum. Derives Maxwell behavior without treating fields as fundamental substances.
Companion Paper XII — The Anomalies Playbook: Provides a systematic method for interpreting modern physics anomalies as constitutive misdiagnoses. Demonstrates how many “new physics” signals arise from neglected material behavior of the vacuum.
Executive Summary — Vision & Framework Overview: A high-level overview of the CMV framework, its motivation, and its unifying ontology. Intended for readers who want the big picture before diving into technical papers.
