Gravity as Mechanical Attractor

Gravity has traditionally been described either as a force acting at a distance (Newton) oras the curvature of spacetime (Einstein). Both frameworks successfully predict gravitationalbehaviour within their domains, but neither specifies the generative mechanism by whichgravity is produced. This paper reframes gravity as a mechanical attractor: a dynamicprocess in which motion, frictional correction, and recursive stabilisation weave spacetimedensity. Mass is only one contributor to this density; internal and external motions, togetherwith frictional closure cycles, generate the density gradients that manifest as gravitationalattraction. Within this framework, matter emerges as the stable residue of surplus motionafter cohesive collapse. Gravity generates matter, not the other way around.This paper is an application of the Cohesion UFT (Gilbert 2026, Cohesion 1), whichestablishes the pressure axiom, operator system, and three field equations. The CohesionUFT provides the foundation; this paper applies it specifically to gravity and draws a consequence the general theory does not state explicitly: the generative cadence of gravitationaldensity is motion → frictional correction → recursive stabilisation → cohesive collapse, andthe stable residue of that cadence is matter itself.