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On the Historical Priority of Raumvektortheorie (RVT) over Metric Invariance Formulations in Teleparallel Gravity Authors: Karasmanis, D. & Karasmanis, F. N. L. Historical Matrix Anchor: Version 1.0 (October 2025) / Formal Extension (July 11, 2026) This paper establishes the absolute chronological and conceptual priority of the Raumvektortheorie (RVT) (Karasmanis et al., October 2025) over recent attempts to derive gravitational dynamics from invariance principles under Minkowski metric transformations, specifically the concept of n-Covariance proposed by Pashilkar (February/June 2026). While recent formulations introduce a dynamical auxiliary tensor field h^α_β to decouple the physical metric from a flat background to replicate teleparallel fields, this exact geometric structure—incorporating an invariant projection framework within a 3D spatial coordinate basis mapped against emergent orthogonal time vectors—was fully developed and registered in the RVT framework months prior. Furthermore, we demonstrate that while subsequent metric invariance theories remain trapped in standard relativistic approximations to artificially reproduce Einstein's field equations, RVT provides a mathematically superior, causal inversion. By treating gravity as a direct non-linear coupling factor f(Z,N,Ebind) of atomic decay processes to the projection field Ξ(r), RVT eliminates the necessity of 4D curved spacetime altogether and yields unique, falsifiable experimental predictions—such as the breakdown of the Equivalence Principle via clock anisotropy in artificial centrifuges—which are inherently absent in passive bimetric or teleparallel reformulations. Consequently, any framework utilizing non-dynamical flat metrics to induce dynamical physical tracking fields without citing the primary October 2025 RVT matrix constitutes a structural and chronological omission that fails to acknowledge the true origin of emergent time physics.