Approach, scope, and why this is a slow science
- Earl Dixon
- Nov 1
- 3 min read
Updated: 5 days ago
Posted by HSAG Consortium for Resonant Research
When people first encounter Holographic Substrate–Activated Geometry (HSAG), the ideas can sound large very quickly: emergent gravity, resonant spacetime, unification of mass and geometry. Those phrases can easily create the impression that HSAG is being presented as a finished theory or as a challenge to established frameworks.
It is not.
HSAG is best understood as an early-stage research program—one that is being built slowly, numerically, and in full view of its own limitations. This blog exists to document that process as it unfolds.
Who We Are and How We Work
HSAG is being developed under the HSAG Consortium for Resonant Research as an independent, small-scale effort focused on:
Numerical experimentation
Open datasets
Reproducible methods
Direct confrontation with observational evidence
We are not attached to any single outcome. Our guiding principle is simple:
If a model survives careful testing, it earns attention. If it fails, it still teaches us something real.
This site is not a marketing platform. It is a working notebook made public.
What HSAG Is, in Plain Terms
At its core, HSAG explores a single idea:
That both inertial mass and gravitational geometry may arise as different macroscopic expressions of a deeper, resonant spacetime substrate.
In this picture:
Mass corresponds to phase-locked energy modes within that substrate.
Gravity corresponds to the large-scale geometric strain response of the same substrate to energy loading.
These ideas are being tested not through speculation alone, but through concrete numerical comparisons with astronomical data—starting at the scale where gravity is most tightly constrained by observation: galaxy rotation curves.
Our Scope Is Intentionally Narrow (For Now)
One of the most important things to state clearly at the outset is what HSAG does not yet attempt to do.
At present, HSAG is only being explored in the:
Weak field
Low acceleration
Disk-galaxy regime
We are not yet proposing:
A complete relativistic field theory
A gravitational lensing model
A cosmological framework
Those extensions may or may not come later. For now, the question is much simpler and more demanding:
Can HSAG reproduce what the sky is already telling us about galaxies?
Why MOND Will Eventually Enter the Conversation
Anyone who studies galaxy rotation curves eventually encounter Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) and the Radial Acceleration Relation. These empirical results represent some of the tightest, cleanest regularities known in galactic dynamics.
We are fully aware of this body of work.
However, rather than opening with direct comparisons, we feel it is more honest to first make clear:
What HSAG is trying to say physically
How it will be tested numerically
And why its early development must be careful, limited, and falsifiable
In future posts, MOND will appear not as a rival to be defeated, but as an essential benchmark against which HSAG must prove itself. That comparison will be documented openly, with both successes and failures reported.
Why a Public Blog at All?
Science is often presented only after it is polished. HSAG is choosing a different path.
This blog will contain:
Progress updates
Numerical experiments
Conceptual refinements
Dead ends and corrections
Comparisons that don’t always go in our favor
If HSAG succeeds, this record will show how it earned that success.If it fails, this record will show why, and that too is valuable.
What Comes Next
In the next updates, we will begin sharing:
The specific rotation-curve datasets being used
The Newtonian baseline we start from
The first HSAG weak-field tests
And how numerical performance is being measured
No claims of breakthroughs. Just data.
Closing Thought
Big ideas are easy to announce. Careful science is slower.
HSAG is choosing the slow path.
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