Comparative Study of Conventional and Absolute Medium (AM) Explanations of Gravity

Conventional hydrostatics explains the maximum core pressure of a self-gravitating body as the accumulated weight of overlying shells, even though the gravitational acceleration g(r) vanishes at the center by symmetry. This combines a vector field (gravity) that cancels at the center with a scalar quantity (pressure) that sums over layers. The Absolute Medium (AM) Flow model makes this intuitive by decoupling two aspects of the same substrate: (a) a large-scale inward "macro-flow" associated with gravity (vector; cancels at the center), and (b) a fine-scale "micro-flow" whose convergence stores elastic energy as pressure (scalar; accumulates toward the center).