The River and the Whirlpool: A Flowing-Space Reading of General Relativity, with Registered Dark-Sector Forecasts

This deposit is a timestamped priority record of an ongoing independent research program that interprets exact general relativity through a "flowing-space" (river) picture, together with a set of pre-registered, falsifiable forecasts for the dark sector. Contents. The record includes the working paper "The River and the Whirlpool" (Draft v0.4.2); four registered forecast memos that state quantitative predictions with explicit kill conditions — the a0(z) saturating-law redshift scaling, the conditional DESI dark-energy wager, the sound-speed commitment, and Addendum 3 (REVISED), which withdraws an amplitude coincidence as numerology following the program's own pre-deposit red team; a provenance map linking this work to the author's original 2020 publication; and a complete working-record archive. Method. The program operates under a refutation-first discipline. Each headline claim carries an explicit honesty stamp (DERIVED, MOTIVATED, FITTED, UNFORCED, NUMEROLOGY, or FATAL) and is subjected to an adversarial red team before public deposit. One such red team, included here, deflated the program's own amplitude claim to numerology prior to release. What is registered is the falsifiable shape of the predictions, not their aesthetic appeal. Provenance and authorship. The conceptual foundation was first published by the author in 2020 as "The Illusion of Gravity" (Apple Books; see related identifiers, the included provenance map, and the original file bearing 2020 internal timestamps). That 2020 work is solo and was written without AI assistance. The present mature theory and its quantitative forecasts were developed in 2026 with AI used as an analytical and drafting tool; all claims, framings, and honesty judgments are the author's own. Where the mature theory supersedes 2020 placeholders (for example, the early "TyPoe particle," now treated as medium flow rather than a particle), the evolution is documented in the provenance map rather than by editing the original. Status. This is an evolving preprint deposited for priority and open scrutiny; it is not peer-reviewed. Future revisions will be added as new versions under the same concept DOI rather than overwriting this record.