Paper 62: Emergent Gravity from Angular Strain in the Holosphere Lattice

In Holosphere Theory, gravity does not come from spacetime curvature. It emerges from coherence transport in a discrete, rotating lattice of Holospheres. Vacancy defects act as the carriers of angular strain. Near mass concentrations, the outward leakage of high-energy defects is suppressed (“pinched”), so the surrounding lattice is bombarded less and becomes more phase-aligned. That asymmetry creates a persistent coherence gradient: motion and light propagation follow the quieter, more coherent corridors as the lattice relaxes, without invoking a fundamental force. Angular strain is tracked by a mismatch tensor built from local phase alignment relative to neighboring averages, and transport is hard-gated by triadic admissibility. The universal percolation exponent β = 3/2 (Paper 24) governs the scaling of viable coherence inheritance and bounds strain accumulation. When defect transport is coarse-grained, an effective potential Φ can summarize macroscopic coherence locking, yielding a saturation-limited field description that replaces singularities with coherence horizons. The model predicts finite redshift plateaus near compact objects, saturating lensing in filaments, underlensing in voids, and characteristic strong-field deviations from general relativity, providing a falsifiable gravity framework grounded in lattice transport and recoherence.