Thank you for the explanation, Mordred. I think one point needs clarification: whether matter and space are inherently unified—this directly affects our understanding of the metric. My view is that they are indeed one and the same. Only under this premise can we logically explain why the gravitational field generated by mass exhibits spherical dispersion. If matter and space were separate, it would be difficult to understand why gravitational fields maintain spherical symmetry.

Moreover, if matter existed independently and moved through space, its motion would inevitably alter the topological structure of space. Yet, even massive objects like black holes do not distort the topology of space—the curvature of light around them remains smooth. This leads me to believe that matter is an intrinsic part of space, perhaps best understood as a highly compressed, condensed state of localized space.

If we consider space itself as a medium with ground state energy (indeed, the cosmological constant in relativity already implies space possesses vacuum energy), where the speed of light represents the maximum propagation velocity through this medium, while matter constitutes merely an excited state of space through topological homeomorphic transformations - then the non-additive nature of light speed becomes readily understandable.

Certainly. According to General Relativity, within strong gravitational fields, the local spacetime metric undergoes deformation - which can be fundamentally understood as a variation in the density of space's quantum constituents. When this density gradient becomes sufficiently pronounced, it manifests precisely as the gravitational lensing effects we observe.

Indeed, Planck's discoveries appear to hint at space possessing quantized, discrete characteristics—a notion that fundamentally challenges classical continuum spacetime.

Under the metric-variation/elastic spacetime paradigm of General Relativity, I propose that massive matter fundamentally constitutes a compressed condensate of space itself. In this physical picture, what we perceive as mass corresponds to spatially compressed states, while the associated gravitational field manifests as surrounding tensile states of spacetime. This interpretation provides a unified geometric description of mass-energy and its gravitational influence. This physical picture naturally accounts for the spherical symmetry of gravitational fields: The compressive deformation of spacetime (manifesting as mass) necessarily induces radially symmetric tensile strain in the surrounding metric field.

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