Section 4.0 — Gravity: Inward Coherence

The Pull of Bias

Gravity has long been cast as attraction — masses pulling on each other through empty space. In Rhythmic Reality, there is no pulling across distance. There is only bias in Stillspace. Etherons gather into rhythms, and those rhythms bend coherence inward. Motion follows the path of coherence.

What we call 'falling' is simply alignment with this bias. Objects do not tug on each other; they share a gradient in Stillspace, and the gradient guides them together.

Flow in Stillspace

This bias is not force but coherence flow. A planet bends the etherons around it; smaller bodies entrain to this flow. A galaxy curves Stillspace on a grander scale; stars and nebulae slide inward along the same gradients. At every level, the rule is one: where coherence is denser, motion curves inward.

Gentle Arcs and Harsh Collapse

At ordinary scales, bias leads to arcs. Planets trace orbits, satellites fall and recover in endless freefall, galaxies swirl in spirals. Here, coherence is strong enough to guide, yet not so strong as to strip structures apart.

But bias does not stop. As density grows, so does the steepness of the gradient. Stars collapse when fusion can no longer resist inward bias. Beyond that, at the extreme, even atomic and nuclear closures lose their foothold.

Toward Saturation

At its limit, gravity does not merely bend paths — it dismantles them. The same principle that keeps the Moon circling Earth becomes, at extreme density, the principle that pulls every rhythm inward until none can stand apart.

This is the road to black holes: coherence saturating so fully that every lesser closure is stripped into etherons and folded into a macrostructure. Gravity is not two separate phenomena — gentle arcs here, collapse there — but one bias playing out across densities.

Closing Thought

Gravity is the rhythm of inward bias. At low gradients it guides without breaking. At high gradients it consumes without return. To understand gravity is to see the continuum from orbit to collapse — a single principle that, when taken to saturation, produces the most persistent structures in the universe.