The revised paper presents the Entropic Vacuum Pressure Theory (EVPT), a mechanistic theory of gravity in which gravitational attraction is not a geometric phenomenon but a real thermodynamic pressure force exerted on a test mass by gradients in the quantum vacuum field. The mechanism is stated in three postulates: mass reduces the entropy density of the surrounding vacuum as ΔS (r) = αM/r²; this entropy reduction reduces the local vacuum pressure through a thermodynamic equation of state; and a test mass couples to the resulting pressure gradient with a cross-section proportional to its mass. From these alone the paper derives Newton's law of gravitation and identifies Newton's constant as G = P₀αβ/S₀ — a ratio of four measurable vacuum-field parameters. The weak equivalence principle emerges as a structural theorem rather than an assumed postulate. The 44-page revision substantially expands the original framework along seven axes. It provides a multi-channel microscopic account of why mass reduces vacuum entropy, drawing on vacuum entanglement entropy and the area law, vacuum polarisation, modular Hamiltonians, holographic bit-counting, q-deformed statistics, a multi-entropy convergence argument, Landauer's principle, and a discrete Planck-cell derivation. It promotes the equation of state from a postulate to a derived thermodynamic identity, supplies computable microscopic definitions of the entropic cross-section β, and — most importantly — develops a covariant field-theoretic formulation: a Lorentz-scalar field equation □S = − (α/c²) T^μ_μ, a full action principle with stress-energy tensor, and a scalar–tensor (vacuum Brans–Dicke) realisation that closes the principal acknowledged weakness of the original. A dynamical extension endows the entropy field with finite-speed propagation, providing a proper basis for gravitational-wave emission. The theory is then extended into territory the original deferred: cosmology (a κ-fluid dark-energy candidate and an emergent cosmological constant), galactic dynamics (flat rotation curves from vacuum-entropy self-sourcing, without dark matter), the strong-field/black-hole regime, and the quantum-coherence and graviton questions. Seven non-circular routes to the vacuum parameters — anchored in the Planck scale, Landauer's principle, and electromagnetic vacuum constants — replace the original self-referential toy-model estimate. EVPT is positioned explicitly against twenty-one prior and contemporary works (Verlinde, Fiscaletti–Sorli, Jacobson, Padmanabhan, Kibaroğlu–Senay, Atanasov, Rueda–Haisch, Chaichian–Oksanen–Tureanu, Meis, and others), with comparison tables that credit prior art and sharpen what is distinctive. The paper reproduces the four canonical tests of general relativity (now on a covariant footing) and advances seventeen falsifiable predictions — including a Casimir–gravity correlation, entropy screening of gravity with opposite sign to GR, environmental variation of G near magnetars, quantum-coherence enhancement, matter–antimatter gravitational repulsion (currently being tested at CERN), discrete entropic orbital levels, a GRANIT neutron-level shift, and a cavity-resonator clock test. Each vacuum parameter is assigned a unique isolating observable. A full chapter of objections (twelve, including the entropy-flux paradox and the general coherence no-go) is addressed systematically. The open problems — a first-principles derivation of P1, a fully covariant strong-field theory, and the experimental determination of the vacuum constants — are stated without reservation.
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