An Electron-Mediated Absorption–Escape Law in a Sub-Photon Sea: A Momentum-Flux-Deficit Model of Gravitation
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper formulates a conditional kinetic model in which gravitation is represented as a momentum-flux imbalance in a sea of discrete sub-photons. Space itself is not identified with the sea. A free sub-photon has the mass parameter , while an ordinary photon is postulated to be an ordered propagating column assembled through matter-mediated conversion. The central hypothesis, termed the sub-photon–electron–photon absorption–escape law, is that electron-associated degrees of freedom absorb free sub-photons, repeated absorption and re-emission occur inside matter, and ordered photon columns ultimately escape approximately isotropically. In a homogeneous isotropic sea an isolated body has zero mean force. For two bodies, the overlap of their absorption systems produces a directional deficit of free-sub-photon momentum flux. A double integral over their effective mass elements gives an exact pairwise force functional; in the far-field, optically thin limit it reduces to . The product of masses arises from two distinct factors: the ability of body to create a directional deficit and the ability of body to intercept that deficit. The effective coupling is , or under a one-speed closure. Omnidirectional photon escape, neutron response, binding energy, self-shielding, heat deposition, drag, and finite propagation are treated as explicit closure requirements rather than assumed solutions. The resulting inverse-square law is therefore a conditional consequence of stated postulates, not a derivation from established particle physics. The model is presented in a form that can be constrained or falsified by composition-dependent free fall, shielding, state-dependent force measurements, excess force noise, and propagation tests.
Author: zhang, chongan
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7202340559