A shared physical explanation
Explore whether vacuum, matter and gravity can be described together, with compatible predictions at different scales—not a separate adjustment for each observation.
What ITSM means
Three ideas. One programme of physical tests.
Space with periodic connections
The proposed spatial topology is a three-torus, T³: a periodic connection in each of three spatial directions. It is not a claim that the universe is a doughnut embedded in space.
Order through physical exchange
Investigate how a subsystem can develop structure while exchanging energy and entropy with its environment. This does not mean reversing time or abandoning conservation for the combined system.
The vision
Connect the phenomena.
Earn the predictions.
The long-term aim is a coherent account of galaxy dynamics, gravitational lensing and cosmic evolution, grounded in the proposed vacuum physics.
A successful model must also recover the gravity we already test locally, remain stable and make predictions that observations can reject. These are research objectives, not completed achievements.
Read the aims and success criteria →Progress, without the jargon
Research checkpoint:
A controlled dust calculation
The registered short-time linear calculation now has explicit correction terms and certified error bounds. It is a mathematical milestone—not yet proof of a physically viable cosmology.
Keeping the coupled modes in view
The R-tau comparison action now retains all 20 perturbation directions in its initial principal calculation, including the difficult zero-speed and force modes. Its periodic change of variables preserves means. The full time-dependent evolution remains unproved.
What the new result means →Matter coupling and acceleration
The physical validity window, healthy recovery of general relativity and independent matter matching remain open. No numerical acceleration scale has yet been fixed independently of target data.
A separate full-SPARC comparator run now has 157 of 175 galaxies meeting its sampling diagnostics; 18 remain unresolved. Read what this does and does not establish →
Read. Check. Challenge.
The work is open to scrutiny. Start with the concept, read a focused draft, or examine the calculations behind a result.