TDRE flux,mass,gravity

This note reports five calculations that test, in an explicit model, the TDRE picture “the flux crosses matter, is held for a while, and leaves in a different channel” [1]. (1) We construct the stable knots of the field (Hopf solitons) with charge Q= 1, 2, 3 and check their energies against the literature. (2) We compute how a high-frequency flux wave crosses a knot: it is slowed down, not reflected, and the total accumulated delay is proportional to the energy of the knot, i.e. to its mass. (3) We compute the force between two knots immersed in a uniform flux arriving from all directions. If the flux only passes through (even if slowed and deflected) the force is exactly zero. If part of the g↓flux is converted into g↑and stops pushing, an attraction falling as 1/d2 appears. (4) We prove that, for a weakly coupled flux, the proportionality between delay and energy is exact for every knot (virial theorem), and that a conversion respects the equivalence principle only if it is linear, i.e. due to a resonant response with a quarter-period phase lag; a quadratic conversion would violate it by 44%. (5) We treat the knot as a vortex in the etheron fluid: an ideal vortex deflects the flux but cannot absorb it (its oscillations lie below the flux spectrum), and any conversion tied to the object violates the equivalence principle; the conversion must follow the energy density, whatever its form. Finally we state what would be needed to derive the value of G, which these calculations do not fix. The central result is structural: in TDRE mass comes from the delay of the flux and gravity from its conversion. The conversion is not a detail; it is gravity itself. The note explains every step, the methods and the checks, and states precisely what has been derived and what has been assumed.