Absolute physics

We present a minimal constructive model in which special- and weak-field general-relativistic phenomena emerge inside a universe whose fundamental dynamics are absolute: fixed Euclidean space, universal time, and massless constituents moving at a single speed (c). Interactions bend only directions (not speeds). Stable circulating bound states (“loops”) behave as massive particles for internal observers, furnishing clocks and rulers whose kinematics enforce Lorentz invariance. A suitable bending law reproduces light deflection and gravitational redshift in an effective curved spacetime (optical metric), while the simulator maintains a force-based description. The construction serves as a proof of concept that relativistic phenomenology need not imply spacetime geometry is ontologically fundamental, thus breaking the barrier between gravity and quantum theory.