The session began by confirming that all three gravitational contributions share a single root cause — memion death rate near matter. More deaths means more flow, steeper density gradient, and more noise. They are not independent dials; they are three faces of the same intensity parameter. The interesting question shifts to: which falls off fastest with distance?
Key clarification: the density gradient causes the flow. They are not two mechanisms — the gradient is primary and flow is its consequence. Refraction and flow are two descriptions of one underlying field.
The session used acoustic wave behavior in near-melting metal as an analogy for the memion lattice near high-death-rate matter. At moderate temperatures, sound speed drops with temperature and waves bend toward the hot spot cleanly. Approaching melting, attenuation rises sharply and scattering dominates. The wave loses coherence and becomes diffusive.
The death noise contribution has a self-steepening character: as disorder increases near the source, the refractive contribution becomes more intense but shorter range simultaneously. It compresses spatially while growing in amplitude.
Diffusive attraction was not a concept in the framework before this session. It emerged from the acoustic analogy and became the hinge that connected ordinary gravity to quark confinement.
Past the coherence limit, waves lose directed identity and become diffusing disturbances. Energy still drifts toward the high-death-rate zone — but through statistics rather than steering. Steps toward the sink are slightly more probable because the sink region has lower effective pressure and more available states. The random walk is biased.
Each quark-soliton generates death noise continuously. The region between two quarks receives noise from both. The inter-soliton gap acts as a waveguide — when the gap is narrow, long wavelengths can't fit and the zone stays cool. As the solitons are pulled apart, more wavelengths enter from the sides and the inter-soliton temperature rises, strengthening the diffusive attraction. This is the confinement mechanism: string tension as waveguide cutoff.
Asymptotic freedom was not designed into this picture. It fell out of the waveguide geometry as a direct consequence. The same mechanism that produces confinement at large separation automatically produces weak coupling at close separation — because close together, the gap is below cutoff and the temperature is regulated down.
A wave traveling in a circle that is also moving in a line draws a sine wave. This means the sine wave case and the circular wave case are the same thing from different frames. The attraction mechanism understood for sine waves IS the circular wave attraction seen from the lab frame.
Two responses to a propagation speed gradient: egg deformation (path stretches on fast side, compresses on slow side, center shifts toward mass) and dwell time asymmetry (wave spends more time on slow side). Either way, the soliton translates toward the gradient source. Egg deformation works even when orientation is magnetically locked.
Everything is always moving relative to the lattice. Planetary rotation, solar orbit, galactic orbit — a particle on Earth's surface participates in motion at hundreds to hundreds of thousands of meters per second relative to the lattice. The de Broglie wave mechanism is always operative. This is the primary carrier of gravitational attraction for all particles.
Lattice noise provides a theoretical floor for the hypothetical rest case. But in practice, bulk motion dominates by many orders of magnitude. The noise argument for gravity was revised down from "prerequisite" to "floor."