What if gravity and social cohesion are the same basic centripetal effect of synchronization?

Being on the same "wavelength."

If the properties associated with "mass" are intermediate effects of this centripetal dynamic, going from the barest bending of the light, to black holes, the vortices at the center, then mass is an effect of gravity, not gravity a property of mass and the issue of dark matter would fade away.

Then, on the human and social side, the signals we extract from the noise are what synchronizes with prior beliefs, going back to earliest childhood, like layers of a pearl added and polished around that original grain of sand.

Or better yet, rings of a tree, where the core might have rotted out, even though the growth ring is still healthy.

As social systems build up over generations, requiring any additional information to be subsumed into the original patterns. Creating these enormous patchworks of "shut up and calculate" generating much GIGO.

Thus galaxies as energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, with everything as feedback loops in the middle.

Which goes to the point I make about time

That this flow from past to future is an artifact of the sentient interface our body has with its situation functioning as a sequence of perceptions in order to navigate.

Yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So the energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated come and go, future to past.

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

So physically, there is only this energy, manifesting the presence. Yet being energy, generates patterns.

While three dimensions of space are a mapping device, like longitude, latitude and altitude, the conceptual basics of space are infinity and equilibrium. Which is implicit in the frame with the longest ruler and fastest clock being closest to the equilibrium of the vacuum, the unmoving void of absolute zero. So zero and infinity.

So the energy radiates out, toward infinity, while the structure coalesces in toward equilibrium, nothing, zero. Being nothing other than expressions of the energy.

Consider anything actually falling into black holes is shot out the poles, toward infinity, as quasars. Which are like giant lasers and lasers are synchronized light waves.

Keeping in mind that consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past......