The determination of the Newtonian gravitational constant G presents a persistent metrological crisis. While the CODATA-2022 least-squares adjustment recommends G = 6. 67430 (15) × 10⁻¹¹ m³ kg⁻¹ s⁻², modern macroscopic torsion-balance experiments, notably the 2026 NIST/BIPM redetermination, report highly isolated but incompatible values near 6. 67387 (38) × 10⁻¹¹ m³ kg⁻¹ s⁻². We propose that this approximately 64 ppm discrepancy is not an intractable systematic error, but the signature of a fundamental quantum-gravitational bifurcation. Using the parameter-free finite-cell formulation of Mittermeier Attractor Theory (MAT), we reconstruct the Planck length from the Rydberg spectroscopy readout and test the hypothesis that gravitational coupling is channel-selective. Quantum-coherent states (N = 1) couple via the electromagnetically healed atomic branch, precisely enveloping the CODATA adjustment: Gₐtomic (R∞) = 6. 674300 × 10⁻¹¹ m³ kg⁻¹ s⁻². Conversely, decohered macroscopic bulk matter (N → ∞) decouples from this branch and is subject to a calculable topological trace-anomaly penalty εcl. Evaluating this exact pairwise boundary projection yields a macroscopic mechanical source projection of Gₛource (MAT) = 6. 673871 × 10⁻¹¹ m³ kg⁻¹ s⁻². This coincides with the macroscopic NIST/BIPM 2026 result without adding an experiment-level fit parameter and identifies the measurement, within MAT, as a candidate observation of macroscopic quantum-gravity source response.
Rainer Andreas Mittermeier (Thu,) studied this question.