What if the nature of structure itself is inherently centripetal?
Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.
These nodes in the larger network would seem foundational to the basic physics. Every form of structure would seem to require an element of focus, a center of gravity, literally. Otherwise it breaks apart and goes Tower of Babel. Blown to the winds.
The signals we extract from the noise are what resonates and synchronizes with our existing concepts of reality and this process is inherently centripetal. A consolidating process.
Even the original notions of gods in the plural, pan and polytheism, were metaphors for the various aspects of existence, for which people tried to distill some core element, that then tended to be anthropomorphized as a way to extend its appeal and understanding across broader numbers of people.
So even this anthropomorphization became a consolidating principle, connecting the original concept to a social focus on the physical human. Projecting the metaphor.
Much of Western, modern science and sociology is instinctively and inherently reductionist. From atoms to individuals, trying to distill out that most basic element, but then, once separated from its larger context, becomes hollow, like the eye of a storm. As all the "noise" is edited out, trying to find the pure "signal," ignoring the fact the signal requires the receiver to tune into it, or it is just more noise.
Keep in mind the colors we see are the light that is radiated off surfaces, not what is being absorbed by them. So it is others "noise" we see.
It is all that larger network, from which the node emerges and to which it dissolves.
What does actually fall into the center of galaxies, that isn't broken down and radiated out beforehand, is shot out the poles as quasars. Which are like giant lasers and lasers are synchronized lightwaves.
So there is this interplay between the ambient and the focus. Black holes and black body radiation.
One of the big mysteries in physics is "Dark Matter." That there is far more gravitational attraction than mass to explain it.
So what if they are looking at it backwards?
That those reductionist, smallest thingies science assumes everything is made up of, atoms, quanta, strings, are just a collection of properties emergent from this dynamic feedback between the radiating nature of the essential energy and the centripetal dynamic of the structures, waves it manifests? That mass is an effect of gravity, rather than gravity an property of mass.
The node is synchronization, the network is harmonization.
"Entangled particles"
The music is more real than the matter.