Harmonizing Gravity with Intuition

General relativity provides an extraordinarily successful description of gravitation, yet its geometricformulation often obscures questions of physical mechanism. Why does mass–energyproduce a universal acceleration that cannot be eliminated by a change of reference frame? Whydoes gravity act identically on clocks, rulers, massive particles, and light, while remaining farweaker than other interactions? These questions lie outside the scope of geometry alone. This paper develops a physical–intuition interpretation of gravity that mirrors general relativitywithout modifying its field equations. Matter and radiation are treated as coherenteigenforms (stable wave-supported structures) sustained by continuous redistribution of energyand momentum under finite propagation and coherence constraints. Gravitation is interpretedas a persistent acceleration that arises when such redi stribution cannot relax to inertial equilibrium.In this view, stresses and momentum transfer are not auxiliary bookkeeping devices butthe physical processes underlying gravitational phenomena. In the geometric–optics limit, biased propagation leads naturally to geodesic motion, providingan intuitive origin for spacetime curvature as an effective description rather than a fundamentalontology. Geometry emerges as a compact, coordinate–independent encoding of universalpropagation bias. The stress–energy tensor is interpreted as the minimal rank–two object requiredto represent constrained energy redistribution, clarifying the roles of massive matter andradiation as gravitational sources. The framework is confronted with the parametrized post–Newtonian (PPN) formalism, identifyingconditions required for agreement with standard weak–field tests and articulating potentialfailure modes. No quantitative data analysis is undertaken. The scope of the paper isdeliberately restricted to the infrared, weak–field regime where classical spacetime geometry iswell tested. Speculative extensions and historical context are provided in optional appendicesincluded in the Zenodo version.