P25: Dark Matter: Connecting Galaxy Clusters, Galaxy Rotations, Neutron Star Mergers, W and Z Boson Masses, and Atomic Structure Through One Physical Constant
Year: 2026
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: The converging evidence from seven independent physical sectors spanning forty orders of magnitude in physical scale compels a reidentification of the dark matter phenomenon. It is not a missing particle. It is the Spaticle field: a real, continuous, elastic substrate filling all space, whose intrinsic equilibrium density ρ_s = 5.9 x 10^-27 kg/m^3 is independently constrained across four of those seven sectors. The same substrate density that produces correct W and Z boson masses also explains galaxy rotation curves across 175 SPARC galaxies without dark matter particles or per-galaxy tuning (DME: shape agreement 92.0 percent, flat classification 98.8 percent, median outer relative residual 0.100), and applies the same DME equation to KiDS-1000 stacked weak lensing, recovering the flat M^{1/4} ranking inside one deformation domain. A fourth and independent line of evidence is presented in this paper: the substrate localisation resistance coefficient, constrained by the measured Bohr radius of hydrogen, reproduces the hydrogen ground state energy from first principles. A fifth line of evidence is a necessary condition rather than a further constraint: stable matter itself requires the Spaticle field to exist within a bounded density tolerance, regardless of formation history. A sixth and independent line of evidence follows from the same already-fixed substrate density: ρ_vac = ρ_s·c² independently matches the observed vacuum energy density, once the standard QFT zero-point sum is corrected by treating zero-point energy as a property of organised condensations instead of empty field modes. A seventh follows the same pattern: the Higgs mass, the geometric mean of the top quark and Z boson masses, matches observation to 0.21%. Seven independent sectors converge on one substrate density and one identification. Zooming from galactic megaparsecs down to subatomic femtometres (a fractal zoom across forty orders of magnitude), the same constant holds at every level of magnification. This paper argues that the physical substrate and gravitational mechanism responsible for dark matter effects have now been identified, and predicts that no separate particulate dark matter will ever be discovered. Newton is not modified. Extra gravity is extra organised Spaticle mass under the DME equation of Paper 18: v²(R) = v_b²(R) [1 + a_s R / v_b²(R)]^{1/2}, with a_s = c (G ρ_s / 3)^{1/2}. The dark matter programme correctly detected real gravitational anomalies. Its error was ontological, not observational: the programme was detecting the Spaticle field.
Author: Sharma, Vijay Shankar
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7166707048
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