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Substrate Mechanics proposes that space is not an inert void but a continuous elastic medium — the Substrate — whose deformation and propagation properties give rise to gravitation, inertia, and the behaviour of light without requiring exotic matter, dark energy, or modifications to the gravitational constant.

The theory proceeds from three constitutive axioms governing the Substrate’s stiffness tensor, energy density, and propagation modes, deriving Newtonian and relativistic limits as low-deformation approximations of a single hyper-elastic continuum.