An Extension of Mass as Rendering: Boundaries and Sub-Planckian Existence

This paper presents a focused extension of the "mass as rendering" framework, expanding its process-ontological grammar to its logical phase-space boundaries: the sub-Planckian floor and the non-gauge configurations of the dark sector. By treating the Planck length not as a material barrier but as an absolute structural threshold for localized spatial contrast, we propose that sub-Planckian space represents the domain of the unconfigured substrate where energy exists in a state of infinite positional uncertainty. We demonstrate that this architectural re-reading defangs the 120-orders-of-magnitude Cosmological Constant discrepancy by revealing it to be a category error. Finally, we map the dark sector by introducing the concept of "sterile renderings"—vacuum configurations that satisfy the core criteria of definite macroscopic location and permanent cosmological duration while operating entirely outside Standard Model gauge groups, interacting with the universe exclusively through the global metric tensor.