Black Holes as Dimensional Ruptures: A Mechanical Framework for Gravity

This presentation deck summarizes the black-hole portion of Black Holes as Dimensional Ruptures: A Mechanical Framework for Gravitation. It presents black holes as finite-area ruptures in four-dimensional spacetime that open into higher-dimensional space, with external gravity arising from a vacuum-pressure gradient across the rupture boundary. The deck motivates the framework through two questions: what happens to matter after crossing the event horizon, and what produces the external gravitational field that remains observable. It then introduces the framework’s three axioms and outlines key implications and falsifiable predictions, including event-horizon oblateness and a suppressed low-mass black-hole tail. Version 2: Adds a Big Mysteries Survey slide highlighting the lack of a majority view on the fate of matter after crossing a black-hole event horizon, and clarifies the dimensional language in Axiom B.