ENFORCEMENT GAPS AND NON-DYNAMICAL PROPAGATION IN PHYSICAL THEORY

This paper introduces and analyzes “enforcement gaps,” defined as spacetime intervals between interaction events in which no physically enforcing mechanism operates. Using a strict mechanism-only, elimination-by-necessity framework, it examines free propagation and tests whether any force, energy exchange, momentum exchange, or reciprocal back-reaction occurs during such intervals. By removing all non-enforcing attributions while retaining interaction mechanisms, conservation laws, locality, and spacetime structure, the analysis shows that physical evolution is invariant across enforcement gaps. The paper establishes by logical necessity that free propagation is non-dynamical and that any attributed state evolution during these intervals is representational rather than physically enforcing.