Published May 3, 2026 | Version v1

Quantum Gravity as Pressure Curvature Recursion Response

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General relativity provides the successful quantitative description of gravity at astrophysical scales, confirmed by LIGO gravitational wave detections and precision solar
system tests. Loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, and string theory represent
serious approaches to quantising gravity; none yet provides a complete, empirically
confirmed account. This paper develops the geometric substrate from which gravitational behaviour emerges in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory, without requiring
quantisation of curvature or graviton exchange. Gravity arises from pressure curvature
recursion response: the deformation of the recursion medium under inherited pressure
from the next higher scale. Mass is a recursion-rate deficit; curvature is the spatial
structure of that deficit; gravitational attraction is the pressure-driven flow of the
recursion medium toward regions of reduced recursion rate. Gravitational waves are
torsion density ripples in the recursion medium. The framework predicts no gravitons:
gravity is a continuous pressure response, not a quantised exchange. Black holes, time
dilation, and cosmological expansion all arise from the same mechanism. This is the
first account of quantum gravity within the Cohesion UFT framework.

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Subtitle (English)
A Mechanical Unification of Gravitational Behaviour Across Scales in the Cohesion Unified Field Theory

References

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