Scale-Dependent Vacuum Coherence and the Physical Time-Rate Field in rCVGT

This preprint develops a scale-dependent interpretation of the vacuum coherence and physical time-rate sector in Relativistic Coherent Vacuum Gravity Theory (rCVGT). The paper introduces the idea that the physically relevant coherence state of the vacuum depends on the scale at which it is probed, averaged, constrained, or dynamically stabilized. The work connects weak-field gravitational time dilation, cosmological evolution, galaxy-scale effective mass, decoherence, collapse-like instability, and black-hole time-rate suppression within a common Q–τ framework. The paper uses a conservative field-theoretic formulation in which the time-rate field is treated as a physical scalar field coupled to vacuum coherence, while also discussing the stronger interpretation in which physical time reflects the local reconfiguration rate of the coherent vacuum. The paper does not present rCVGT as a confirmed replacement for General Relativity or ΛCDM. Instead, it formulates a unified theoretical framework that preserves the weak-field relativistic limit while identifying possible observational and experimental signatures in cosmology, galaxy dynamics, precision clocks, mesoscopic quantum systems, and strong-field black-hole regimes.