The Space-Matter Continuum (SMC): Empirical Foundation from the SPARC Triad of Facts

A novel physical concept – the Space-Matter Continuum (SMC) – is presented,based on a statistical analysis of 175 galaxies from the SPARC catalog. Three in-terrelated empirical regularities are discovered, indicating a dependence of the grav-itational response on local matter density. From these observations, a fundamentalaxiom of SMC is derived, leading to the principle of gravitational transmutation.The proposed concept offers an alternative explanation for galaxy dynamics andmay have important implications for cosmology.