Compression Theory Institute – Q&A

Yes. Both originate from the same compression law that regulates how energy is arranged in the universe. Dark matter marks the regions where compression prevails, shaping structure and curvature. Dark energy marks the opposite phase, expansion driven by residual entropy much like Hawking radiation. They are opposing expressions of one condition, the universe sustains itself through balance between compression and dispersion.

ECT treats causation as a physical process driven by oscillation and compression. The Primordial Wave Equation governs a single global field, the Lawrence Universal Wave Function, and shows how probability, curvature, and effective constants arise from compression. In the linear and weak-deformation limits it reduces to Schrödinger and Einstein, so it extends rather than replaces them.

Deterministic. Probability appears when an entangled system compresses and energy divides across resolvable channels. The observed Born weights follow from energy share in the L² sense, not from axiomatic randomness.

ECT defines an effective quantity c(x) that equals the usual c in uniform regions. Small departures can occur only in strong compression gradients and are tightly bounded by existing tests. In validated regimes ECT recovers a constant c.

The operator uses a regularized logarithmic form that couples amplitude and curvature while remaining differentiable at low density. With ε and δ regularization the evolution is well posed in H¹ for spatial dimensions up to three under bounded time flux.

Gravitational lensing residuals at the microarcsecond scale, pulsar and quasar timing asymmetries, solar-limb propagation checks, interferometer drift floors, and precision cavity or BEC coherence thresholds. Each maps to the small deformation parameters in the theory, so null results restrict the allowed range.

ECT uses a compression singularity concept that reaches a finite coherence limit rather than infinite density. It is a working hypothesis with measurable consequences for accretion timing and wave dispersion. In weak fields ECT matches standard relativity.

It is the global state of all oscillations treated as a single continuous field. Its evolution under the Primordial Wave Equation generates the observed geometry, conservation laws, and effective constants through compression dynamics.

See the open-access papers linked on the site, including the derivation of Born weights, the tensor formalism for curvature from compression, and the mathematical foundations. The Overview page lists the canonical DOIs.

Yes, it ruled out most of them. GW170817 showed that gravitational waves and light travel at the same speed to within one part in 10¹⁵. Any theory that alters the propagation speed of gravity, even slightly, is effectively excluded.

Entanglement Compression Theory is unaffected because it does not introduce additional propagating fields or modified graviton dynamics. Gravitational waves follow the same null structure as light by construction, not by parameter tuning or post-hoc protection.

Some emergent gravity models survive only by carefully enforcing luminality through effective-field-theory constraints. ECT does not require this step, because curvature and geometry emerge from compression of the wave field itself rather than from auxiliary degrees of freedom.