The origin of mass and gravity
Everything Wants to Expand: One Principle That Replaces Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Explains the Origin of Mass and Gravity JongJin Ma — June 2, 2026 What if the entire universe could be explained by a single sentence? Not a complicated equation. Not a dozen postulates. One sentence: Everything seeks to expand as freely as possible. From this single principle, we derive the origin of mass, the nature of gravity, why galaxies rotate the way they do, why the universe looks like a cosmic web — and why dark matter and dark energy were never needed. This is the Expansion Freedom Principle , presented in full in the preprint available on Zenodo (v6.0)( https://zenodo.org/records/20502253) The Premise: Expansion Is Acceleration Before anything else, one idea must be accepted. It may feel unfamiliar — but once you accept it, everything follows. Cosmic expansion is not just things moving apart. It is acceleration. Hubble’s law: v = H · d . The farther som...