Quantized Aether Dynamics: A Unified Emergent Framework for Gravity, Electromagnetism, Inertia, and Particles

Quantized Aether Dynamics (QAD) revives a discrete, causal aether as the sole substrate of physics.

All forces and particles emerge from one microscopic rule: the full, retarded Amp`ere–Weber force law

of 1820–1846 between current-carrying edges of a Planck-scale lattice, supplemented only by Quantised

Inertia horizon damping and topological twist degrees of freedom. Gravity, electromagnetism, inertia,

wave propagation, colour confinement, chiral weak interactions, and three generations of leptons arise

spontaneously. No Higgs, no gauge fields, no dark matter, and no cosmological constant are postulated.

Numerical evidence is presented in the companion paper