Temporal Resistance Gravity: A Scalar Field Framework Unifying Weak-Field Relativity and Quantum Phenomena

For over a century, gravity has been understood as the curvature of spacetime. Gen eral Relativity describes how mass warps four-dimensional geometry, and objects follow geodesics through this curved manifold. The theory works brilliantly: its predictions match observations to extraordinary precision. But it leaves fundamental questions unan swered. What is the physical mechanism by which mass curves spacetime? Why does curvature produce exactly the effects we observe? And perhaps most puzzling: what is mass itself?