Gravitational Screening as the Macroscopic Signature of Trans-Brane Dipolar Tension (XI v4)

Abstract

Within the FCD-RB framework, the fundamental physical entity is the trans-brane fermionantifermion dipole connecting a visible-matter brane and a mirror-antimatter brane through a non-traversable Einstein–Rosen (ER) bridge, with rest mass identified as the tension stored in that bridge. This paper isolates a narrower, phenomenologically elegant hypothesis within that broader program: ordinary gravitational attraction may be formulated as the macroscopic consequence of a screening-like response of matter to a structured, stochastic gravitational background. Matter does not generate gravity ex nihilo; instead, it acts as a selective filter on an already-structured set of resonant gravitational channels in the bulk, and the observed Newtonian 1/r 2 force is the coarse-grained, averaged result of that spatial asymmetry. We show that this wave-based screening is equivalent to a modernized Le Sage or Casimir mechanism, but formulated in terms of extra-dimensional modes and connectivity gradients rather than corpuscular bombardment. The Planck-scale separation of the dipole further suggests a quantized reading of Newton’s law as the continuum limit of a tension-quanta counting problem along the inter-mass segment. We establish the complete formal bridge to the entropic gravity and thermodynamic spacetime programs, demonstrating how this macroscopic screening is the exact physical mechanism underlying the local entropy gradients (∇S) of the vacuum. Five key falsifiable directions, focusing on compact-object transitions and halo dispersion, are defined.