Gravity as Emergent from Negative-Pulse Gravitons

We examine a quantum-oscillator-based hypothesis for emergent gravity in which microscopic interactions are represented by directional negative-pulse graviton (NPG) excitations. The paper develops the proposed microscopic interaction, studies the conditions required for a macroscopic inverse-square limit, and compares candidate weak-field corrections with the well-established relativistic perihelion advance of Mercury. A central result of the audit is that unrestricted pairwise summation of an inverse-sixth microscopic kernel does not by itself generate an inverse-square macroscopic law. An additional collective or directional interaction structure is therefore required, and the restricted-measure construction presented here should be regarded as a model assumption to be derived from deeper NPG dynamics rather than as a completed derivation. The numerical material is consequently interpreted as a sensitivity and correspondence study rather than as an independent validation against JPL Horizons. The general-relativistic perihelion formula gives approximately 0.1035 arcsec per Mercury orbit, or about 43 arcsec per century; an NPG model can reproduce this value only after the coefficient of its higher-order correction is independently derived or constrained. Direction-dependent residuals remain a falsifiable possibility, but their amplitude is not yet predicted from first principles. Connections with discrete-spacetime approaches, including loop quantum gravity, are discussed as analogies rather than identifications. The paper therefore defines a testable research program for deriving and confronting the NPG mechanism with precision Solar-System data.