GR/AVITY (Asymmetric Volume of Intrinsic Time) is an interpretive extension of General Relativity that reframes gravitation as a physical response to asymmetries in the local availability of intrinsic Time, rather than as a force or purely geometric curvature. Within this framework, spacetime curvature in General Relativity is reinterpreted as an emergent geometric description of underlying physical gradients in Time availability caused by differential consumption by matter. Matter does not attract matter directly; instead, matter dynamically responds to local asymmetries in the intrinsic Time medium, producing effects conventionally described as gravitational attraction. GR/AVITY does not modify Einstein’s field equations nor introduce additional forces or fields. It preserves all validated predictions of General Relativity while supplying a physical “why” beneath its geometric formalism. In this sense, GR/AVITY is not a competing theory but a physical interpretive layer consistent with relativistic covariance, equivalence principles, and observational tests. This work formally links GR/AVITY to the broader Physical Time Medium (PTM) framework, providing a unified physical interpretation for gravity, spacetime curvature, and related anomalies while maintaining full mathematical compatibility with established relativistic results. The interpretation explicitly does not imply accumulation, storage, or quantization of Time, but instead describes instantaneous spatial gradients in Time availability arising from asymmetric consumption by matter.
Kirby Proffitt (Thu,) studied this question.