Relational Origin of Accelerated Metric Drift

We propose a relational framework in which spacetime geometry and physicalscales are not fundamental but emerge from discretely updated relational structures.We show that a finite resolution in the update of relational degrees of freedomgenerically produces a multiplicative drift of physical standards, leading to aneffective exponential evolution of the inferred cosmological scale factor. As a result,the observed late-time cosmic acceleration arises kinematically, without introducingdark energy, a cosmological constant, new fields, or modifications of Einsteingravity.In this picture, cosmic expansion is reinterpreted as a gradual, globally accumulateddrift of relational scales, while all local dimensionless physics remainsinvariant. We derive the basic mechanism leading to accelerated metric evolution,explain why the effect is negligible at early times and becomes observable onlyat late epochs, and show how this naturally resolves the cosmic coincidence andfine-tuning problems.The framework leads to concrete observational consequences, including a mildredshift dependence of the effective equation-of-state parameter approaching w =−1 at late times, and is therefore falsifiable. More generally, the proposed approachshifts the origin of cosmic acceleration from the dynamical content of the universeto the relational and discretely updated nature of physical standards themselves,achieving a significant conceptual and theoretical simplification of cosmology.