Gravity as an Emergent Force Proportional to the Consumption of a Quantum Field and the Number of Particles

This paper proposes that gravity is not fundamental but emerges from the consumption by particles of a substance of the quantum field pervading space; the attractive force is proportional to the intensity of consumption and the number of particles. The hypothesis is placed within the established line of emergent gravity (Sakharov, Jacobson, Verlinde, Padmanabhan), distinguished by identifying the source of emergence as consumption of a substrate feeding the self-replication of dark particles. The model naturally reproduces the equivalence principle: if both force and inertial mass are proportional to particle number, free-fall acceleration is mass-independent. Limits are stated honestly (no derivation of G’s value yet). A testable criterion (link to the cosmic replication rate, H0 = r/3) and a falsification condition are given.