The Node-Dominated Universe: A Relational Cosmogenesis: 4 Perspectival Gravity: How Spacing Gives Rise to Orientation

Once relation has learned to space itself, a new phenomenon emerges: orientation.

Where density once erased distinction, the de-densified field now admits directionality, local coherence, and the first semblance of perspective. This is perspectival gravity: the tendency of relational trajectories to align, converge, or diverge in patterned ways, not by imposition but by the intrinsic logic of spacing.

Each emerging trajectory is a negotiation of relation with itself. A node no longer simply condenses; it begins to cast influence, guiding nearby relations toward coherence while permitting difference to persist. The field acquires inclination: vectors of potential that reflect the history of convergence, the memory of nodal density, and the new freedom to differentiate.

Orientation is not absolute. There is no centre of the universe, no privileged vector, only gradients of alignment emerging from the interplay of relational spacing and residual pressure. Perspective, here, is the local articulation of global potential: the first hint of individuation without severing the field that sustains it.

In this early cosmos, structure is relationally emergent. Proto-forms appear wherever trajectories repeatedly intersect, bend, and resonate. These are the nascent geometries of possibility: the scaffolds upon which subsequent matter, energy, and eventually symbolic systems will condense. Each alignment preserves the memory of density, each trajectory carries the imprint of nodal pressure, and each emergent pattern signals the field’s capacity to sustain difference without collapse.

Perspectival gravity is thus the cosmos learning to differentiate while remembering its origin. Where nodes once gathered all relation into indivisible intensity, now relational gradients begin to chart the first contours of experience — the prelude to individuated possibility, the template for every trajectory that will later manifest in matter, life, and meaning.