Putting the physical back in physics

Mechanical Medium

Mechanical Medium explores a simple possibility often set aside: that the vacuum is not empty, but a physical medium with structure and mechanical response. With the power of AI, this site asks whether gravity, electromagnetism, and quantum phenomena are better understood as stress, flow, and constraint within that medium.

“Concepts which have proved useful in ordering things easily acquire such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.”
— Albert Einstein

How to Read This Site

If you’re new here, we recommend heading to the Posts page and starting with Foundation Post 1. This will help lay some basic groundwork for reframing the vacuum.

Always check out our Credits page. None of this model or theory is our own. This is only a synthesis with AI of many other researchers who have done amazing work through the years! They are all geniuses in their own right. We at Mechanical Medium take zero credit and can only encourage readers to explore their amazing work.

This site is an exploration of physics from a mechanical point of view.

It starts from a simple question that modern physics often sets aside:

If waves, forces, and correlations exist, what is being strained, and how does it respond?

Rather than introducing new equations, this site reinterprets existing, successful physics by treating the vacuum as a physical medium—continuous, elastic, and capable of supporting stress and waves. Geometry, fields, and probability are treated as descriptions of behavior, not as causes in themselves.

What This Site Is

  • An interpretive framework, not a replacement for established equations
  • A return to mechanical explanation: stress, stiffness, flow, and constraint
  • A consistent narrative connecting light, gravity, matter, electromagnetism, and quantum phenomena
  • Grounded in continuum mechanics, wave physics, and known physical analogs

What This Site Is Not

  • Not a revival of the 19th-century aether
  • Not anti-relativity or anti-quantum mechanics
  • Not a claim of superluminal signaling, free energy, or exotic propulsion
  • Not metaphysics disguised as physics

All established predictions of modern physics are preserved. What changes is how they are interpreted.

How to Read the Posts

Each post builds on earlier ideas. New terms are defined as they appear, and later concepts are not assumed prematurely. If something feels unfamiliar, it usually means a mechanical assumption is being restored—not that new physics is being invented.

You can read casually, or follow the full arc:

Vacuum → Stiffness → Waves → Defects → Gravity → Atoms → Fields → Constraints → Anomalies → Experiments

A Guiding Principle

Before invoking geometry, probability, or fields as fundamental, this site asks a simpler question:

What is the medium doing?

If that question interests you, you’re in the right place.

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