Gravity as Emergent Substrate Drag

This paper isolates the gravity claim within the Universal Algorithm of Existence (UAE) and reformulates it as a testable emergent-gravity hypothesis. The central question is whether gravity may be modeled not as a primitive interaction but as an effective drag-like response associated with constrained excitations propagating through a highly structured informational substrate. To make that claim reviewable, the manuscript avoids comparisons of raw dimensional constants and instead targets the standard dimensionless force hierarchy between electromagnetic and gravitational interactions. The paper introduces a conservative ansatz in which the weakness of gravity is treated as a strongly attenuated second-order effect mediated by substrate connectivity depth, nonlocal coupling, and an architectural partition parameter. The manuscript does not claim that this ansatz has already been verified. Its purpose is to define the hierarchy target correctly, situate the interpretation within the broader emergent-gravity precedent neighborhood, and identify what a successful quantitative substrate-drag program would need to reproduce. In the broader UAE paper sequence, this paper functions as the gravity pillar built on top of the substrate/operator framework developed in earlier papers.