Todd J. Desiato · A material account of gravity
Matter tells matter how to scale. Geometry is just bookkeeping. Explore the physical idea through an illustrated story, or follow the complete argument in the main research paper.
The layman’s article · Illustrated introduction
Start with a book, a clock, and a simple question: what changes when we lift something? An illustrated route into OQG’s physical explanation.
Read the illustrated article ↗The ideas in everyday language.
The main theory · V2.3 · Issue 1 cover article
The complete technical argument: electromagnetic exchange, stable quantum matter, clock and ruler scaling, recoverable work, geodesic motion, and gravitational waves.
Read the main paper · V2.3 ↗The derivations and their physical consequences.
Explore the main paper’s results ↓Both articles are free to read.
One connected physical account
This is the central OQG paper. It develops the supporting-power mechanism and brings the material scaling, energy, motion, and wave results together in one derivation.
The corresponding-state theorem preserves stable bound states as dimensions, inertia, and clock frequencies change within the stated family.
Read §4.1 ↗The supporting-power ratio p equals the square of the clock-frequency ratio f: p = f2. The theorem links power exchange to material scaling.
Read §4.3 ↗Lifting changes the complete material energy. Its recoverable storage accounts for gravitational work; the spatial energy gradient supplies the force in the OQG description.
Read §5 ↗The matter-wave Hamiltonian connects the material interaction to geodesic trajectories, consistently with zero proper acceleration in ideal free fall.
Read §6 ↗The stated long-wavelength response carries two gravitational-wave polarizations and positive energy. §4.6 identifies its massless spin-2 quanta.
Read §§4.5–4.6 ↗Independent clock and ruler factors reconstruct the Schwarzschild exterior under the paper’s explicit spherical response conditions.
Read §8 ↗The inferred supporting-power deficit at Earth’s surface, after calibrating the gravitational strength to measurement. The same normalization connects clock shifts, lifting work, and free fall.
The scaling theorems apply to the paper’s stated corresponding-state family. The Earth comparison uses measured gravitational strength; the exact spherical extension retains explicit response conditions. The paper distinguishes these results from the remaining evaluation of the collective nuclear supporting exchange.
Every result above is developed in Operational Quantum Gravity: From Electromagnetic Power Balance to Gravitational Response, V2.3. Section links open the journal’s paper reader; use the indicated section within the manuscript.
Start here · Illustrated introduction
Put a book on a table.
Lift it onto a shelf. Let it fall.
Start with a book on a table. Lifting it, releasing it, and comparing clocks lead into OQG’s proposed material account of gravity. An illustrated introduction to supporting power, stored energy, and the physical things behind our measurements.
The physical idea
OQG’s proposal starts with the things we can measure: field exchange, material energy, clocks, rulers, and moving bodies.
At equilibrium, incoming and outgoing power balance. Equal exchange can continue even when the body’s average stored energy is constant.
Scattered fields interfere with the shared field. The power available to support a material state can change.
The proposed response links dimensions, clock frequencies, electromagnetic coefficients, and recoverable energy.
Lifting changes stored energy. Its spatial variation enters the material Hamiltonian and governs geodesic motion; geometry records the resulting comparisons.
Explore the wider OQG program
The main paper establishes the connected framework. These papers develop particular applications, explanations, and corrections.
Companion · rotation and frame dragging V0.6 · 23 October 2026
Zero angular momentum does not mean zero angular motion. This paper follows how a rotating source changes nearby matter’s energy, motion, and wave phase, extending OQG’s energy-storage description into frame dragging and the Kerr black-hole exterior.
Companion · scattering mechanism V1.1 · 23 October 2026
What is the physical cause of gravity? In OQG, the atomic and nuclear constituents of both bodies exchange energy through a shared field. Their scattering changes supporting power and material storage; its spatial variation governs freely falling motion.
Correction · propulsion claims withdrawn V0.3 · 23 October 2026
Withdraws the propulsion and performance claims of the earlier MEGA analysis after identifying an environmental reaction that was prescribed rather than derived. The correction develops a practical account of work, material scaling, clock and ruler comparisons, and complete energy and momentum balances. It corrects the proposed device application; the OQG scaling and supporting-power theorems remain unchanged.
Selected publications
Read by topic. Read the current OQG manuscripts on their JOATP journal pages, with PDFs and supporting materials together. Earlier research remains available below.
Read together
Read the original supporting-power proposal, the flight-clock and energy constraints, and the correction of the MEGA propulsion interpretation. The journal pages retain the current manuscripts and clearly labelled historical records.
The original JBIS paper
The earlier proposal interprets gravitational clock and length changes through the relative available power of the electromagnetic quantum vacuum. It explores how an increased supporting level could alter material standards in a warp-drive setting.
Presented as the historical proposal, alongside the current constraints and experimental framework.
The constraints paper
What would it take for a moving spacecraft’s clock to keep pace with a clock left behind? This paper connects material energy storage to a proposed 100 km flight, and states the energy and momentum requirements that a propulsion system must meet.
The idealized flight gives a 3.96182 km/s propulsive velocity increment and a 1.46937 ns clock lead during ballistic turnaround. Its Einstein-equivalent clock comparison is a proposed experiment, not a demonstrated propulsion device.
MEGA correction · claims withdrawn
Withdraws the propulsion and performance claims of the earlier MEGA analysis after identifying an environmental reaction that was prescribed rather than derived. The correction develops a practical account of work, material scaling, clock and ruler comparisons, and complete energy and momentum balances. It corrects the proposed device application; the OQG scaling and supporting-power theorems remain unchanged.
The claimed thrust advantage and associated performance predictions are withdrawn. The current correction explains the unsupported environmental reaction and the complete apparatus momentum balance. Earlier manuscripts and calculation records remain on JOATP as historical material with their status clearly marked.
The vacuum catastrophe
Changing the common zero of energy leaves the normalized OQG response unchanged. The theorem carries this cancellation through the complete response hierarchy under its fixed-measure conditions, while retaining physical vacuum fluctuations and material energy differences.
Operational Quantum Gravity Prevents the Vacuum Catastrophe: A Full Response-Level Theorem for Homogeneous Vacuum Shifts
This addresses the radiative local-source vacuum catastrophe. The separate global cosmological value remains a distinct question.
Black holes and positive extension
Successively smaller quantum states retain positive extension. Exactly zero lies outside the regular, normalizable state space. On the continued regular branch, finite integrable loading cannot reach that endpoint.
Operational Quantum Gravity: Canonical Scale Covariance and the Zero-Extension Boundary of Black-Hole Matter
The result concerns zero extension. It assigns no universal minimum radius or unique black-hole interior, and allows a one-way horizon.
Dark energy and OQG in Practice
Clocks, rulers, free fall, and cosmic expansion are treated as physical comparisons made with matter. A history of changing material standards is fitted to cosmic chronometers and tested against six DESI DR2 measurements without refitting, on a branch with no physical dark-energy density.
Operational Quantum Gravity in Practice: Spectral Stiffness, Matter Scaling, Equivalence, and Cosmology without Dark Energy
A two-parameter model fitted to 32 cosmic chronometer measurements reproduces all six DESI DR2 Alcock–Paczyński measurements without refitting, with χ² = 6.60 and every marginal residual below 1.6σ. This provides a quantitative cosmological application of OQG without a physical dark-energy density.
Dark matter and galaxy rotation
Applies OQG’s supporting-power correspondence to published rotation curves for DDO 154, NGC 2403, and NGC 7814. The reconstructed inner-to-outer power deficits are 0.0632, 0.990, and 4.28 parts per million. A smooth finite power profile fits DDO 154 and NGC 7814 at the retained velocity-error level, while NGC 2403 retains unresolved structure. An interference calculation translates these deficits into equivalent amplitude and coherence requirements. The results specify the supporting-power gradients and collective scattering response that a galaxy model must supply.
Available Power and Collective Scattering in Galactic Rotation Curves
The supporting-power and matter-scaling theorems are the theoretical inputs. This paper reconstructs galactic requirements and tests a finite spatial profile; deriving each galaxy’s profile and parameters from its collective charge and current response remains the next source calculation.
Read further
Extends OQG’s energy-storage description of gravity to rotating bodies. The source calculation reproduces the exterior frame-dragging rate with the existing gravitational coupling. The receiver Hamiltonian explains how zero canonical angular momentum permits angular motion and how opposite azimuthal matter-wave patterns acquire different reference frequencies. The exact Kerr black-hole exterior is expressed through clock rates, directional ruler factors, and electromagnetic storage, with two explanatory diagrams and numerical consistency checks.
Presents the OQG account of scattering as the cause of gravity. Atomic and nuclear constituents in both bodies exchange energy through a shared electromagnetic field; interference changes their balanced supporting power and material storage. The collective power theorem connects corresponding equilibria to recoverable energy, and the material Hamiltonian generates geodesic motion with zero proper acceleration. Two equal planets in a circular orbit illustrate the resulting mechanics on the calibrated conservative weak-field branch, with gravitational strength fixed by measurement.
Proves that a specified common scaling of matter-wave size and transition frequency preserves stable bound states and links inertia, restoring response, electromagnetic storage, and recoverable work. A nuclear bag approximation extends the storage calculation under explicit confinement and adiabatic conditions. The common family recovers leading static weak-field comparisons; the exact Schwarzschild extension retains distinct clock and ruler factors and its additional response condition.
Carries the OQG corresponding-state transformation through nuclear linear response, retaining strong and electromagnetic interactions, continuum strength, and charge–current correlations. Nuclear spectra and matched field profiles connect component storage to permittivity and permeability. The response theorem and numerical checks establish the gravitational correspondence within stated assumptions, with metric-derived factors identified as GR benchmark inputs.
A connected account of vacuum-offset cancellation, cosmic acceleration, positive material extension, and gravity-induced entanglement, with the premises of each result stated.
The conserved-source response and the gravitational entangling phase, with the quantum interaction expressed through matter response.
Journal of Alternative Theoretical Physics
JOATP brings the current manuscripts and supporting materials together in one place. Read freely, submit for an initial editorial assessment, or request optional development help.
Earlier foundations and technical references
The original stress-response framework and detailed appendices remain available here. Begin with the featured journal link above for the current power-balance derivation.
The earlier synthesis of the Standard-Model stress-response framework and its stated long-wavelength gravitational branch.
The static coefficient calculation, including its remaining Yang–Mills observables and Higgs-curvature input.
The normalization and stated response conditions connecting the material stress Hessian to an Einstein-equivalent representation.
Normalization, matching, causal continuation, state comparisons, and detailed checks.
Companion calculations for material standards, equivalence, clocks, rulers, and cosmology.
Earlier engineering investigation · 9 September 2026
Explore the tested control routes, their stated assumptions, and the calculated force and power requirements.
About the author
Independent engineer and researcher in Statesville, North Carolina. OQG develops a material account of gravity through quantum response, electromagnetic energy storage, and the physical standards used to measure motion.